At the end of one year...

...there stands a start for a new year! So this will be my last post of 2012 since I am in Praha for New Years! My review of 2012 and resolutions for 2013 will come in the first week of the new year!!

Where Santa could live

...this made my day! I drove by and was astonished. So I turned the car around and stopped in front of the house and took a look around. I was os flashed that all I could do was look and smile. It made me so happy! I love that some people here decorate their houses like this! 

It makes my heart smile...

Merry merry Christmas to all of you!

Frohe Weihnachten!

Market #3...

in Zeitz in the Moritzburg. Very small but really cute Christmas market in a castle. 

The stroller museum

In the castle's church

Vorweihnachtliche Familienfeier

Weihnachten-Zeit für die Familie.

Für uns heisst es immer schon vorher das erste Familiendinner.

Immer schön, immer lustig, immer woanders.

Dieses Jahr leider kürzer als sonst

aber vieles Neues erfahren.

Weihnachtszeit-Zeit für frohe Stunden.

#2 in Zwickau

Christmas market #2 with my mom and my grandma! This is the one we already went last year but it was closed due to a storm warning. But we had no idea, I had checked on the internet but it hasn't been published yet, so we went shopping instead. That is why we wanted (had :-P) to go again this year, to see how it really is!;) And it was really fun! We had a lot of good food and drinks and the decoration around the town was very nice! And even Santa came to say hello...!!;)

...with people this year!:-P

Christmas Market #1

...at least at home!;) I was in Jena with my parents and had a fun time on the Christmas market!;)

A nice tower concert...

Christmas goodies

I love Chocolate covered marshmallows but in stores you can buy only simple ones. That's why I love the Christmas markets in Palatinate and around becuase they really have special ones, such as eggnog, strawberry or woodruff.

Latte Macchiato

woodruff

Strawberry, Honey & Nuts, Coconut and Eggnog
(from the top right to the left)

A little bit pinkish...;)

Christmas get-together

with a very good friend to see the Christmas market in Landau. I LOVE Christmas markets...and this one was something special. A lot of food and a lot of people interested in crafts presented their own special somethings. I cought some very good ideas that I want to do for next years X-Mas. Very good way to be inspired walking around a Christmas market....;)

Cute, right?

Crafting ideas

....more!!;)

Catch a star...

More...

...Macarons! I am still in LOVE! So I couldn't walk past the bakery in Strasbourg and I had to buy some and try them. 

so many different ones

The bakery was in the back and you could watch...How cool?

If you're in Strasbourg take a look!;)

1. Strawberry

2. Pistachio

3. Vanilla 

4. something bluish with vanilla crème in it 
(starting in the lower left corner and then going clockwise)

Best was the pistachio(2) one! It tasted so rich of pistachio, it was incredible!!!

Christmas Writing

...needs to be done! I have been writing some of the Christmas cards for this year but I think there are more to come. I have written all the ones that travel far, like Mexico, USA and GB. And soon the ones for the neighbor countries will go out and last but not least the ones that stay in Germany. I usually make a list of all the people who receive a nice card. First I started writing to a lot of people but then, as you would guess, it got quite expensive and I had to cut back.

But this year was kind of weird since all my cards are at home, waiting for me, I guess. You got to know that I really have a whole bunch of them so I didn't want to buy some more...But I found some in the back of my cupboard and got to write the ones that travel far...

WHAT a Day

...and what a Christmas market. I don't know if words can describe this but this market blew my mind. It topped every market I have seen before (and I have to quite some Christmas markets). Everything is bigger and brighter. The variety is just out of this world and I didn't know where to look first because one street was prettier than the one before.... 

But see for yourselves:

So delicious treats everywhere

Quite a tree...

Chocolate in every flavor

Mistletoe

Lights everywhere...

Christmas market in front of the cathedral

Different Christmas decoration around town

Windowshopping

I LOVE KÄTHE!!!!