Weekly Update 24/52 Making leaving gifts and wine ladies

During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off.
 After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. 

When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made them a bit small so it was a bit tricky to get all details but over all I am super happy that I could do this. 
I ironed my ladies on to a pen case and also test on a shirt. 

The picture of the clocks is a time installation placed by the north entrance to Volksgarten in Düsseldorf made by artist Klaus Rinke "Zeitfeld" ( Time field)
Klaus Rinke was a professor at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie born 1939 and he was a collector of illuminated railway station clocks ( his father was a railroad worker)
He places 24 of them in the meadow, one for each hour but they are all showing the same time