lately i've been trying to take pictures of things i cook. again. i've tried a couple of times. but i must confess... i'm just not that good. i'm not good in arranging food and having lots of wonderful plates and stuff like that. and i'm not very good in taking pictures of food because i don't want it to get cold... and because i'm not very patient when i'm hungry. but i was thinking i could do it anyway... maybe i'll turn it into a project like 52 weeks 52 new recipies. i watched that "julie & julia" movie lately... what a surprise. and i love, love, love to cook. i've got an enormous collection of vegan and vegetarian recipies... and someone needs to try them anyway. and i need to think more about the things i eat. i didn't care too much lately and i like food and eating to much for not caring. so i made babaganoush. and a couple of days earlier i made a mix of abalone mushrooms with seitan and a mix of asian green leaves...
"i want to live, i want to give / i've been a miner for a heart of gold / it's these expressions i never give / that keep me searching for a heart of gold / and I'm getting old" (neil young)
i just wanted to share the line of a song i love so, so much.... these words seem so true. and i've been wanting to share these pictures of a wonderful market we've been a part of. they were taken at the feschmarkt last november.
"kick down the gas pedal / turn off the light / let's float like the moon through this saturday night / we're restless / we're tired / we're lonely and sad ... take me to those places that i've never seen / it might make me that person that i've never been" (komeit)
i think i might be back. i mean, i wasn't really gone... but i needed to take a break from blogging, from advertising my work all the time, from thinking about work twentyfour hours a day and seven days a week. i mean, i didn't take a real break from work... i just tried to focus. to get things clear with good morning - midnight and with my life in general. but you really need time for a project like this. good morning - midnight is going a way into getting more and more professional. our shows and exhibitions got bigger and we didn't get along very well with the work behind the scenes. after taking a break from blogging i decided to take a break from my daytime job. and now there are about seven month ahead of me to get things in the right way and to find a way to life with my work and not to balance on the edge of an imminant burn out.
good morning -midnight is working on a new collection, on taking new pictures and on a couple of upcoming exhibitions. and i for myself started to crochet. i saw a blanket like this in a magazine and i remembered i've always wanted to know how to make one of it for myself... i think i'm working on it for about two weeks and i only finished half or a third of the squares. sometimes my hands get tired of crocheting... but i'm addicted. i can't stop before it is done.
"and if i only could stand i wouldn't have to swim but my weakness is a lake and i'm not aware i take whatever floats along isn't meant to be strong but keeps the future unclear and that's one reason to swim here" (dust covered carpet) "all the dams will give, at the end / at the end, at the end of the world / will you swim for me? (rainer maria)
one really couldn't say i'm one of these bloggers who's lifes seem perfect and full of days that make sense. hm. maybe i've always wanted to be one of those. but i failed. and i can't really write about things that are perfect. so i've given up searching for a perfect life. at least for a moment. i'll try to live with uncertainty and with having no safe path. at least until the plan starts to rise again... and it will. i know it will.
good morning - midnight is growing. and i think it is on a good way. autumn will be full of exhibitions, markets and shows. there are new pieces in our heads and we are working on backfilling our stock. so life never gets boring or dull. there are only a few weeks left until we hit the road again for the next exhibition. and in case you haven't already seen it... here's an exeptional awesome blog feature about our label. thank you so much, steff...
lately there were a couple of shows and markets with good morning - midnight. there was the modepalast in vienna and last weekend the frauenkunshandwerksmarkt ottensheim. i like doing these exhibitions even though they are so much work and i was so exhausted after that last weekend... still ottensheim was very special. well, not so much for the weather because it was raining like crazy and there were not so nice winds. but it's kind of a very impressive little city. and i liked linz. there was awesome vegetarian food and there were great bars...
after i had finished unpacking at home i had to finalize the work on a custum order... and after that i had something like a little meltdown. things were heavy these last weeks and months. i tend to not realizing how much i'm working and doing and how little rest i get. so i decided to leave the city for a couple of days. and to do some work that is really, really relaxing. i've made jam and syrup. lavender. mint. and balm. the lavender syrup is awesome. it's pink and oh so wonderful. and the jam is made of currant and black currant. next thing i'd love to do is home made soap...
"i'm laying in the soil / is it time for me to rise? / i've pulled all my stakes again / is there someone who can take me in?" "i want to go to far away places / but momentum makes my head / ponderous and heavy / planetary rotation / is time winding down?" (rainer maria)
i need a new camera, i need new shoes, i need new clothes, i need to get out of this city, i need to go for a walk. no. i need to go hiking. i need a haircut. i need to read more books. i need to practice more yoga. i need to eat more healthy. i need to go for a swim. oh, i really, really need to go for a swim. and i need to get out of this city... did i mention that? i need to stop working all the time and start a life.
oh... and here are 10 goals for my summer. it has started already, hasn't it? 1. swim in lakes 2. go to places i've never been before, 3. read books, 4. go for long walks, 5. go hiking, 6. eat vegetables from the garden, 7. drink tea, 8. sleep outdoors, 9. make barbecues, 10. see friends and family more often.
a year ago i spent one month on a small island. i had a plan. i wanted to find the time i lost in my life here in the city. i nearly found it there, i wanted to keep it. i made plans about how i could get more valuable free time in my everyday life. how i could be able to live my life and be satisfied... with both feet on the ground and my head up in the clouds. i really had a plan and i wanted to make this work. so much.
then autumn came and winter came and i lost it. i lost my goal, my path, my plans... partly i blame the climate over here. who is able to keep his plans with all this seasonal changes? if you don't like winter and dark days you can't change that by making granola or baking cupcakes. i don't enjoy free time in winter. and in summer everything gets too stressfull. once there is june you know days are starting to get shorter in a couple of weeks. and then you wake up next morning and it's christmas. so here's another june. this time without the island because there is too much to do. and again i have the plan to get back time. and happiness. and freedom. but this time i don't have any idea how to do that...
"sometimes nothing seems clear too many squares too many chairs too many lies... so as long as my feet can carry my heart to the place it's been searching for so long to feel illussion's real as real as the voice i always wanted to hear now i hear it at night whispering it is alright just hide out under statues don't follow serpents beyond" (dust covered carpet)
finally here's a little preview of the new pieces we've been working on for those past months. for the first time we took pictures outside at a place we love a lot. the shooting was awesome and a lot of fun and also for the first time you can see our faces which is weird but i'll get used to it... we hope you love the new pieces as much as we do. our shops at etsy and dawanda will be updated in a few weeks. but first of all we have to show our pieces to vienna. and this is so exciting. there is still so much work to do...
if you find the time we would love to see you at one of our upcoming exhibitions... here's where you can find us:
"... and i'm too stupid for normal human acts i really should start with the change in me to make my visions come reality and i do believe in everything and there's nothing i can't imagine and i paint my world behind closed eyes so when i open them i start to analyse is there any change to what it's been but there ain't nothing no there ain't nothing that changed while i slept everything's still in the place it's been kept it's cause i only do see things around me..."
"and so i lock myself in and i scream into my pillow: where are you world? where are you world? you're in my head. i'm gonna set you free. i won't stop screaming. i won't stop screaming. i won't stop screaming till i explode..."
"i will begin begin to compose my life arrange my mind be on time make myself mine" (dust covered carpet)
i‘m not only not living in the real world. most of the time i only live in my head. i‘m way too slow to act. i think and think and think and sometimes nothing seems clear. nothing seems real. i‘m waiting for me to wake up of this dream and finally find a way to live in this world without closing my eyes most of the time. i don‘t really know what happened within those last years. i‘ve been so busy, i‘ve stopped thinking, worrying... most things happend in my head and i kind of lost my goal. i don‘t know why. it‘s not that nothing ever happened. lot‘s of things happened. maybe i‘ve not been able to keep them. maybe that's what life is all about the world has not been bad too me. life treats me so very well. sometimes everything seems just too much for me. i‘m not able to adjust. i‘m a heavy thinker and there is something i‘ve been searching for for so long. but as dust covered carpet sing, i should stop searching cause i‘m no finder. i need so much time to act. to know what‘s right and what‘s wrong. i‘ve always wanted to stand behind every step i do. i‘ve always wanted to be aware of every step and to be sure it‘s the right one. life changes every day. i‘m changing every day. and i don't know if i'm still the person i used to be. i can‘t find better words than a friend used in his blog a couple of time ago: life is a journey. we start this journey with lots of hopes, dreams, aspirations and wishes. some goals can be reached, some get lost. one lives, is happy... and loses at the end - ones self. because at the end of every journey one is not the same than at the beginning. you lose yourself and gain... hopefully your life.
i've seen dust covered carpet at the popfest wien. and i loved them. they were not really able to reach me before... it was just too much for me. but seeing them play in front of me changed not only my love for them but it also changed me. lyrics i've listened to before finally got inside my head and my mind. i knew i'm not the only heavy searcher in the world but listening to their lyrics made me realize that things are not that bad... even if you get lost for some time. you still have music and there are still others that feel like you feel. and i won't give up... i'll find a way to live my dreams. "i'll climb and i'll fall i'll bleed and i'll weep and i'll scream and i'll give up the dream till the engine returns it's my heavy hearts beat and my feet will keep on stomping..." (dcc)
i am the woman behind good morning-midnight. the independent fashion label. quite some time ago i moved back from living in the city to the countryside. i have two rabbits, one turle, a dog and a garden to grow my vegetables. i love sewing. i love cooking. i love to see things grow. in nature and in my work.
things to do
1. go for long walks
2. go to the cinema
3. sit outside till i can see the stars
4. sleep outside
5. go for a swim... at least once in two weeks in summer
6. take time to just sit and look... every day.
coming up next
19. und 20. juli 2014 - webermarkt.haslach
4. und 5. oktober 2014 - kunst.handwerk.design.burg perchtoldsdorf
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