Samstag, 26. Dezember 2015

My Top Nine Christmas Movie List without Classics


Christmas movie brings us the christmas spirit, equal if fictional or not. There are some movies who over the years have established themselves as "classics" such as " How the Grinch stole Christmas " (2000), "Elf"(2003) or "Home Alone " (1990).
However the following List is based on movies that I have found over the years some you may know some not. Sadly one of those movies is only available in german with english subtitles.

I hope you like my list of my favorite Christmas movie I will give you a link to each trailer. 
Enjoy !!!!


1. Holidays in Handcuffs (2007)
Trudie is an aspiring painter working as a restaurant waitress. With the pressure to please her parents building, she misses a job interview and gets dumped by her boyfriend just before Christmas, and she has a nervous breakdown. Stressed about going home for the holidays without a boyfriend, she kidnaps David Martin, a random customer at the restaurant in which she works and introduces him to her parents as her boyfriend, Nick. Trudie's family is vacationing at a very isolated log cabin miles away from anyone else, so David is unable to escape, although he makes several attempts. He finally decides to play along until the police come, but he ultimately falls in love with Trudie and understands the family pressure that made her feel forced to kidnap him in the first place.







2. Es ist ein Elch entsprungen ( 2006) 
Shortly before Christmas the 10 year old Bertil, who has been bullied by a fat kid in school, wishes for nothing else than to see his father, who is working on science research on the North Pole. Bertil together with his sister Kiki and his mother lives in a secluded house in the woods. Their lives change drastically when a moose breaks trough the living room roof.The moose called Mister Moose can shockingly talk and presents himself as the moose of Santa Claus. On a testrun with Santa Claus the sleigh came out of line and they crashed in England. Bertil and Mr. Moose became close friends but Santa is on his way to find him before Christmas. Also a threat to Mr Moose is Mister Pannecke the landlord of the family, who is an passionated wild animals hunter. Mister Pannecke is also interested in Bertils mother, the Christmas holidays turn into a fun disaster with there grandma and Santa getting their move on and Bertils mothers extroverted best friend who joins in as well.

3. Santa Claus 1 (1994)
Scott Calvin is a divorced 38-year-old advertising executive, who is also a father to his son Charlie. Charlie's mother, Laura, is now married to psychiatrist Neil Miller. After Scott reads "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to Charlie on Christmas Eve, he and Charlie are awakened that night by sounds on the roof. After confronting a man on the roof, who inadvertently falls off when Scott startles him, then vanishes leaving his Santa Claus outfit behind, they discover eight reindeer on the roof and Charlie convinces Scott to put on the suit and finish Santa's work for him. As the morning comes, the reindeer return to the North Pole to Santa's Workshop, where the head elf Bernard explains that, due to a clausical contract written on a card Scott found on Santa, in putting on the suit and entering the sleigh he has accepted the "Santa Clause" and has agreed to the responsibilities of that position. He tells a skeptical Scott that he has eleven months to get his affairs in order.

4. Santa Claus 2 (2002)

Eight years have gone by since Scott Calvin first took up the Santa Claus suit, and became subject to The Santa Clause. Now Santa is at the top of his game at the North Pole and could not be happier, at least until Bernard and Curtis, the Keeper of the Handbook of Christmas break the news that there is another clause - the "Mrs. Clause"
Scott has to find a wife until Christmas to stay Santa, until he does ho he transformed himself into the old Scott Calvin before he was Santa Claus. With little magic left and a funny and lazy reindeer he tries to find the perfect wife. Until then Curtis by mistake creates an evil Santa Claus for the Elves who takes over step by step and almost destroys the north pole workshop and almost brings coal to every stocking.

5. A Princess for Christmas (2011)
sadly the trailer gives almost the whole story away so its your choice to watch it before the movie or not.
A Princess for Christmas - YouTube

Jules Daly becomes the legal guardian of her 7-year-old niece Maddie and teenage nephew Milo after her sister and husband died. After Jules gets laid off at work and the nanny quits and for the children's sake Jules does take the invitation from the butler of Duke Edward the children's wealthy grandfather, who abandoned his son ,their father, because he married Jules sister., to spend the Christmas holidays with him at Castleburry Hall. After time has passed Jules and the kids bring joy into the Halls of Castleburry and into the stone cold heart of the duke. Meanwhile Jules also warms someone else heart, the heart of the children's uncle prince Ashton.



6. A Christmas Kiss (2011)
Wendy Walton is an aspiring interior designer working as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, a prestigious Boston designer. Wendy works around the clock, Wendy's roommates are concerned that she is too fearful of her boss and needs to take some chances in her life. One night, while preparing to go out with her roommates in glitter makeup, Wendy receives a call from her boss, instructing her to go to her penthouse and take care of some tasks. She follows Priscilla's instructions and prepares the apartment for her return. While leaving the building, she encounters a handsome stranger in the elevator. When the elevator stalls abruptly, Wendy is thrown into the stranger's arms, and the two share an impulsive romantic kiss. After the elevator is repaired, Wendy runs off to tell her roommates about her magical encounter with the handsome stranger whose name she never learned, but later turns out to be her bosses fiancé/boyfriend.

7. Deck the Halls (2006)
Local eye doctor and Christmas expert Steve Finch wants his kids to have a great Christmas, packed with Steve's tried and true traditions, such as using an advent calendar, taking Christmas card pictures in matching sweaters, and getting a large tree. At night, he hears noises. He looks out his window and sees a moving truck. He and his wife Kelly immediately know that "the new neighbors are moving in."  His new neighbors are Buddy Hall,a car salesman, Tia his wife and the twin daughters Ashley and Emily. When Buddy finds out that every house on his treat can be seen from space just his not he tries to light up his house with as many christmas lights as he can making it national news and a vexation in Steves eyes, who is the christmas guy in town and also doesn't like to have a 24/7 glowing house on the other side. 

8. The Holiday (2006)

Not a typical christmas movie but a lovely one to watch at christmas. Iris Simpkins , a society column editor for The Daily Telegraph in London, has been in love with Jasper Bloom for over three years, despite his infidelities. When she finds out that he is engaged to the "other woman," Iris despairs over the state of affairs in her life. Meanwhile, Amanda Woods, a workaholic who owns a company that produces movie trailers in Los Angeles, discovers that her live-in boyfriend Ethan Ebbers has been cheating on her with his 24-year-old secretary. She decides she wants to get away for the holidays and visits a home swap website on which Iris had previously listed her "quaint cottage in Surrey.” Amanda contacts Iris about her interest. Iris quickly agrees and the two agree to swap homes for two weeks.
9. Love The Coopers (2015)

This ensemble family comedy follows the Cooper family as four generations gather for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. A series of unexpected events disrupts the evening, but the family comes together and regains the spirit of the season. Directed by Jessie Nelson. Cast includes: Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton and Olivia Wilde.









Hope you enjoyed my list have a great rest Christmas

Montag, 26. Oktober 2015

 Interior Ideas Hampton Style

The color scheme in this blog is creme white, different types of blue, white, grey and and different styles of natural wood. Everything is full of light mostly because of  big windows. :)

















Montag, 21. September 2015

Some pics from my sisters trip to California
       Others will follow + 
      hope to go there soon maybe to the wedding ;)

Samstag, 29. August 2015

Karl Lagerfeld Fashionmethods

Karl Lagerfeld Modemethoden/ Fashionmethods



From the 28th of March til the 13th of September the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn held the Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition.


In the exhibition Karl Lagerfelds works were presented from his time at Fendi, Chloe, Lagerfeld and Chanel. Over 120 looks and more than 120 accessories are presented. From him winning the Wollmark Prize with this coat in 1954.



Until today 60 years later. Some of the walls where just filled with sketches that Karl did and they all show different stages of the process. Sometimes there are just sketches, then inspiration photos or fabric pattern. We have learned that Karl is there every move of the way to the final product.
 
This is the beginning of the Haute Couture Chanel section you can see the sketches hanging on the wall, hundreds. 






The roof was incredible it was Gmund paper which looked like it was burned on the outside, just breathtaking and I mean I don't even have to start explaining how amazing the gowns are.

(sorry for the bad quality sometimes)

picture 2,7 and 11 are from the website of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.
If you wanna check out the official video to the exhibition click here





















Sonntag, 19. Juli 2015

STREET ART BERLIN


When I was in Berlin at the end of 2014 with my school we went to this park where in every corner their is street art.  

These are just some examples






Later we were invited to a Street Art workshop. It was amazing and a lot of fun hanging out with friends and classmate trying not to spray each other ;) 



Also their are some cool bars and clubs hidden in these streets


















Christmas Wrapping and Christmas Cards

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