Inspired by my window flowers

 

 

Ramadan Mubarak! I wish peace and blessings to all of you!

The art of making syrup from elderflowers, roses and melissa

To make this refreshing summer beverage you need for 1 liter syrup: 1kg sugar, 3/4 liter of water, a ittle of citric acid, lemons and as much flowers you can get. Just elderflowers are best, but you can make mint syrup as well. My combination of roses, elderflowers and melissa tastes like litchi syrup...

Big glass jars like these are very practical, it is important to pour boiling water inside first to kill all the bacteria.

Melt the sugar in the water until it becomes crystal clear, pour it over the flowers or/and herbs with the citric acid and lemons and wait for two days.

Do the same procedure with the boiling water with the glass bottles before pouring the syrup in them. Use a cloth or/and a strainer, and it is ready! Don't drink it pure, just a little with much water. It tastes somehow like that:

Dreaming of a simple life...

Living a life of simplicity, having less,  just the things you really need. Having time to think. Good things take time. This is something that is forgotten nowadays. 

And milking goats, growing your own vegetables: that means luxury to me.

Follow the green line and thou shalt see: it's a palm tree!

Tiny sketchbook scribbles, Stilleben mit Apfelmusglas

Aquarellfieber, Malwasser im Apfelmusglas

It's just another shadow on the wall

Filmset "The best offer" backstage, Hagenberg castle

Last year the film "The best offer" was shown in the cinemas, it was partly filmed in Hagenberg. Giuseppe Tornatore was the director and Geoffrey Rush had the leading role. I´ve just found these photos, I thought I had lost them.

Usually the rooms are almost empty. It´s stunning how they changed the atmosphere with all this furniture.

 

Our hens in watercolour, autumn paintings

Watercolour picture postcard

Finally I found time to write letters to some of my dear family and friends. Still it is the nicest way of communication in my point of view, after meeting each other face to face. 

Tassen, Krug und Glas - kleines Küchenaquarellstilleben

Katharina Koch gewidmet, in Dankbarkeit

NÖ Tage der offenen Ateliers, Einladung 2013/ Invitation

Atelier Magdalena von Wächter

19. & 20. Oktober 2013, 10.00-18.00

2133 Schloß Hagenberg im Weinviertel

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October autumn leaves, watercolour variation

Jiaogulan tea leaves, colored pencil drawing

Jiaogulan, it is also called the herb of immortality because of its benefits in chinese medecine. I love its beauty.

8 inch watercolor, little green chair

20x10cm

Red sunset in Vienna

Mountain, Dolomites

Vor dem Dummen fürchtet sich sogar der Berg, er könnte ja Feuer an ihn legen.

Paschto

The yellow plane is flying around in our living room/ gula flygplanet flyger runt i vårt vardagsrum

Eitempera auf mit Kasein grundierter Leinwand, 170x200cm

The castle garden of Hagenberg: ripening watermelons and more

Das Wort ist der Spiegel des Sprechenden. Persisch

Our little boy is ill today, staying in bed with fever. watercolour

There´s a shadow on the kitchen cupboard

 

25x37cm, Aquarell

Tapestry inspired by Matisse's "Open Window", woollen threads

50x70 cm, Gobelin nach einem Detail von Matisses "Das offene Fenster", "fenêtre ouverte"

Life is short, my friend - this is how we all will end

Chammünster, Karner, Church

We believe that this life is very short in comparison to our after life which is forever. In Arabic this life is the Dunyah, while the afterlife is the Akhirah and paradise is Jannah. I found a nice saying:

"Imagine that you are a ship and the Dunyah is the ocean. You need the ocean in order to stay afloat, but do not let too much water enter the ship otherwise you will sink. The wind will allow the ship to sail and the wind is striving for the Akhirah and is our purpose and setting directions using the mast in life helps us to attain Jannah."

Paradeiser, heavenly tomatoes, paradise fruits