Posted Oct 24, 2011, 6:38 pm
my name ist Sweetheart ,I am a teddy bear, that wants to travel around the world. I like taking photos, eating chocolate and meeting friends. Furthermore, I love fashion, flowers and bows. I am looking forward to meet diffrent TV's, espacially, I would like to meet an Rilakkuma, because I am a big fan of them ! Finally, I hope you will help me to complete all my life missions , so I can return back until my mum's prom night (: !
Posted Jan 19, 2012, 11:29 am
I am safely arrived in Hanover. My host was very happy about her gift, may I align their thanks.
Posted Jan 19, 2012, 11:33 am
To the left:
Posted Jan 19, 2012, 11:35 am
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 9:24 pm
The last days was very raining so we can't go outsite to make pictures. But today i drive from Wülfel to Langenhagen. It's a way from ca. 12 km. Ca. 6 km from Wülfel to the middle of Hanover (this street is called Hildesheimer Street) and the same way to Langenhagen (this street called Vahrenwalder Street). It was a drive on a long straight.
But may i tell you a secret?
- I was driving the car! It is a VW (Volkswagen) Polo - Year of construction: 2010
Rejoice with me about the beautiful pictures that we have made.
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 9:30 pm
To my left there is a carpet shop and across the street you see a well-known hardware store "Max Bahr".
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 9:36 pm
At least half of which was red
On the first picture is on the right side of the road a VW (Volkswagen) distributor to see.
The last picture shows on the right side of the traffic lights (to recognize, unfortunately, poorly) our local rail transport company "üstra".
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 9:53 pm
The large building on the first picture on the opposite side of the road is a big drugstore called "Rossmann".
The last picture has a very poor quality. Please excuse this. The picture shows an old (green) tram. This is important because I will show you afterwards for the new! So: watch Good
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 10:10 pm
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 10:18 pm
The first picture shows you the left side, the second picture shows the right side.
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 10:29 pm
The first two pictures show the view from the right (the building of WERTGARANTIE be seen) and straight (Bank: Sparkasse Hannover).
The left picture showed the most spectacular buildings - the theater. Unfortunately, the picture was distorted. There was nothing to recognize, therefore, we have deleted it. Maybe we have to make another day the possibility of an image.
The last two pictures are the last pictures in Hanover.
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 10:45 pm
Driving a car and look good for the image is exhausting
On the Vahrenwalder Road there are many fast food restaurants (Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, McDonalds, Subway, etc.) and service stations.
Hit-Radio Antenne is a local music station in our state of Lower Saxony.
The next two pictures shows the Ibis Hotel on the Vahrenwalder Road and in part, the architecture of the buildings in Hanover.
And now, ihope you can remember, you see on the next picture one of the new trams in silver. We called it "Silverarrow".
Mom please do not be evil, but we have been away for so long and had a great hunger. Therefore we have eat a bite at Burger King. I know the food is not healthy, but it was just chicken!
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 11:00 pm
First you see left in a car distributors from Audi the "Audi Centre Hanover".
Then the long straight. But what is that? We arrived our end, because we must turn left.
And drive to...........
REAL a big supermarket. There let no wishes open.
We must buy the Dinner. There should be fish sticks and potato salad.
But I was so tired. I've waited so in the car. The sports seats are really comfortable!
Posted Jan 23, 2012, 11:13 pm
But before we could begin to cook, we had to wash dishes. Because my host does not have a dishwasher. Previously she has always thought that it is annoying to dispel dishwasher when mommy said so. Today she would be glad.
Ta-da! I am finish. Am i not diligent?
And now I'm helping to cook the fish.
- Had i thought at least.
My host did not want to I'll dirty, so I could not help. I could see from the table. And my host has promised to come up with something for next time.
I'm very excited.
Posted Jan 24, 2012, 7:20 pm
What a beautiful morning!
I wish you a nice day!
Sweetheart-
Posted Jan 24, 2012, 7:23 pm
My host and i want wo bake a cake today evening.
Posted Jan 24, 2012, 7:25 pm
He should be ready in an hour.
Posted Jan 25, 2012, 9:41 pm
Yesterday we were too tired to upload the picture of the finished apple pie. That he is this morning. Yummy!
Posted Jan 25, 2012, 9:51 pm
- If you do not remember you anymore, I wanted to help cook, but my host was afraid that could be dirty. Therefore, I now get an apron!
This we have created together. Or better: We are still here. We take this little helpers: a bib, a pair of scissors, a needle, thread and a push button ...
Posted Jan 25, 2012, 9:55 pm
The completion of the apron will take several days.
Best Regards
Sweetheart-
Posted Jan 27, 2012, 7:27 pm
it's 8:01 a.m. and i opened my eye before 1 Minute. For you I'm still in pajamas out to take pictures.
Today it snowed
Sweetheart-
Posted Jan 27, 2012, 10:30 pm
As a welcome greeting my host and I bought him flowers and have warmly welcomed him.
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 1, 2012, 7:34 pm
today, BarryO and my hosts have been working on my apron. But I could not see how the work was performed. The subjects chose BarryO.
Since I could not see anything connected to my eyes. But I can show you the pictures.
love
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 4, 2012, 10:35 pm
what a beautiful day! We me make an daily-trip from Hannover over Hameln to Höxter.
Here we are taking a smoking break and we superior where we will eat.
Posted Feb 4, 2012, 10:41 pm
Posted Feb 4, 2012, 10:44 pm
Found out Sweetheart- and I, however, a fountain. We sat down to take a picture, but what was that? Do you see the giant spider behind us? - Luckily she was not real.
Posted Feb 4, 2012, 10:48 pm
We are all drive the way to home (Langenhagen). We drive almost 2 hours. Unfortunately, it's already getting dark, so that we could make no more images.
In the next days more from me
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 14, 2012, 9:41 pm
today is the happyest day in my life. I celebrate valentine with Homer. He is the sweet bear to my right side.
Homer gave me a red rose. We spent time togehter.
And on the end of the day... we kissed!
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 19, 2012, 5:50 pm
Today I want to show you the progress on my apron and a few landscapes from Castle Ricklingen.
On the last picture you can see my new fried Shenna a Husky-Dog.
Regards
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 25, 2012, 5:10 pm
today i help BarryO to complete one of his Life Missions (learn some egg recipes).
We had a lot of fun with the preparation.
Sweetheart-
Posted Feb 25, 2012, 5:16 pm
Lovely greetings.
Posted Mar 3, 2012, 6:35 pm
we make Mini Pancakes with a little bit cacao. They were very yummy
My journey now continues to Finland
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 12, 2012, 8:29 pm
Today I came to the post office and my host met "my box" there. The last kilometer I traveled by bike and ...
...Here I am!
When my box was opened I was excited... Two other ToyVoyagers, Sooky (a cute pig) and *Paul* (a special blue dotted leopard) were there to welcome me and give kisses for me. I felt like I was very welcome. I also met a Grandfather Teddy Bear.
I think this will be a great journey!
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 17, 2012, 8:43 pm
I was very tired after traveling all the way to up here. I slept well under my green blanket and had a lovely breakfast.
When I was completely woken up I started to learn where I am staying. Firs I found that I am not the biggest Teddy Bear in the house: not one but two BIG bears live here and they are very friendly!
I learned how the flag of Finland looks like and I realized that I´m really on top of the world
On the map it is also written the name of the city where I´m staying.
Tomorrow I will go to my host´s working place...
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 17, 2012, 8:51 pm
My host has a very nice job... It is mostly playing
I met lots of friendly toys there. Even the angry birds are friendly, believe me!
I was a little cold in in the morning so I decided I need a wool scarf. Knitting was not as easy as it looks... My host helped me to finish my scarf and now I´m warm
Lots of WARM greetings,
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 26, 2012, 8:52 pm
First I looked the church from outside. Taulumäki church is the biggest church in Jyväskylä. It was built 1929. It is the first church in Finland by a female architect. Elsi Borg was her name.
Inside we took just a couple of photos and after that we respected the ceremony and sat still. I liked especially the choir with a djembe drum.
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 26, 2012, 8:59 pm
It was my pleasure to welcome a new ToyVoyager to this home: Here is Krok Little and he is from The Netherlands.
I almost don´t believe this: it was snowing all day long and everything is so WHITE! Even the flag is blue and white... And the blue moment is so ... BLUE
Sweetheart
Posted Mar 27, 2012, 6:43 pm
When Krok woke up we made us nice cups of coffee
And I can tell you: it will be many more cups of coffee together!
<3 Sweetheart <3
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 3:50 pm
It was snowing again but we decided to do our city tour as planned.
I was happy to notice that bears are allowed to walk in the center -for people there was a sign that says no walking...
We took pictures of some beautiful buildings and doors...
To be continued...
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 4:06 pm
We saw more interesting doors and walked until the stone steps leading up the ridge of Jyväskylä. Then we came to the Town Hall and realized that Jyväskylä is celebrating the 175th birthday!
I was happy to see that there is a Teddy Bear Café in this town
Inside a shopping center we had some fun...
More pictures coming...
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 4:17 pm
In the center on Jyväskylä is the main church of town. This is how it looks from outside.
This is the end of today´s city tour!
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 5:37 pm
They really like to watch movies in this home! I also found my favorite movies and they are, of course, with bears
My host collects post cards. She has a huge collection of bicycle cards (thousand hundred something...) and also a nice collection of Teddy Bear cards.
While my friend Krok was baking muffins I decided to cook! We had muffins for dessert
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 5:50 pm
Posted Apr 5, 2012, 6:25 pm
Cycling around I saw some cars, bridges, speaking stones...
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 9, 2012, 8:55 pm
We visited also a museum area where we saw old Finnish buildings. And I climbed to a tree -that´s what bears do
There was also an old barn where they dance in the weddings summer time. My host has been dancing there!
After cycling some kilometers we also saw the oldest building of Jyväskylä (the red log house). On the way there we found a bottle but we could not figure out what was in it...
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 10, 2012, 8:35 pm
I was happy to visit Viherlandia, my host´s favourite gardening shop. We enjoyed a delicious salad in Café Restaurant Eden, found beautiful flowers and plants, herbs, decoration and garden supplies. http://viherlandia.fi/
And I was talking with the parrots, Torsti and Kalle
Terve, terve! = Hello, hello!
Mitä kuuluu? = How are you?
Osta kukka! = Buy a flower!
P.S. I think the turtle was too slow to be real...
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 10, 2012, 8:50 pm
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 12, 2012, 8:11 pm
They really like to bake in this home. Today I was helping to bake "Herb-ham muffins". Not sweet but delicious!
Here you can see how I baked!
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 14, 2012, 9:41 pm
Our main reason for going to a fair was the book fair. It was so interesting that we forgot to take photos there
But we bought lots of books and post cards.
We were walking ahead and found many interesting things and took pictures for example of cars, hot air balloon and many characters. We met Ville Viikinki of the Viking Lines, Pippi Longstockings, Hilarius Mouse (he lives 30 km from this town and has many adventures in books and films) http://www.hilariushiiri.fi/ and Peukkis and Pinni, two green creatures who call themselves Tommeltotti and live in this town in an adventure park called Peukkula (my host has been more than 100 times!!!). http://www.peukkula.fi/
Overall, another busy and fun day!
Sweetheart
P.S. I was so near to complete one of my life missions... But the hot air balloon did not get up in the air...
Posted Apr 14, 2012, 10:07 pm
My host was one of the actors in Easter story. I was with her in the set. I saw the garden and the empty tomb...
Sweetheart
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 11:20 am
It is April and it is still winter. This must be some kind of trick because today is the April fool´s day... But this kind of sunny winter day sure is beautiful! Here are my photos of today
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 12:27 pm
I was at the library and found so many books of Teddy Bears! Some of the books were almost too exciting... I spent there a loooong time looking at the pictures and reading the books in Finnish
I am sure we took a picture also in front of the library, but could not find it. Now you can only imagine how it looks...
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 1:06 pm
On a beautiful day like this we decided to drive a little.
Our firs stop was the old wooden church of Petäjävesi (Unesco WHS) just 30 km from home.
http://www.petajavesi.fi/kirkko/index.php?lang=en
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=584
The trip will continue...
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 1:44 pm
"Haapamäki Steam Locomotive Park brings back nostalgic memories of railroad history of the past 100 years." The park is open only summer time but we were able to see many locomotives and old railway station buildings.
http://en.veturipuisto.fi/index.php
The rabbits had also been interested in the trains... I saw lots of foot prints. No bears this time
We continued to drive and we arrived at the grandparents home. In the evening I was watching a colorful sunset.
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 2:47 pm
I took a walk ON the snow together with my host family and my TV friend Krok Little http://kroklittle.blogspot.com/
First I was wondering the shadows on the snow and icicles on the roofs from my host´s pocket.
Then I was taken care by the daughter, she found me nice places to be photographed. I was in a tree, behind the tree, in the ant´s nest (some of the ants were already moving!), with the willows, in the birch forest, near a bird house, under the snow... And dancing on the country road
I saw many footprints on the way (fox, squirrel with Krok) and also made my own
What a wonderful walk!!!
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 18, 2012, 3:18 pm
I got my own Easter egg, I found it next to my pillow when I woke up. I´m sorry, I missed the bunny
Everybody here loves The Hunger Games (books and movie). Today we watched together The Hunger Games movie. Don´t worry, it was not scary. I liked it!
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 21, 2012, 8:33 pm
My host knows other ToyVoyager hosts and decided to have a meeting with one of them. We were 10 voyagers together.
First we climbed up the stone stairs to the ridge and visited the Natural History Museum of Central Finland, which is situated to a building called Vesilinna = Water castle
https://www.jyu.fi/erillis/museo/en/natural
Here are some photos of me with the stairs, Vesilinna and other TV:s in the meeting.
Let me tell you who they are:
You know me, I´m the big brown bear.
You have also met Krok Little, the green frog.
On my left you can see a pink hippo called Porridge.
On my head sits a tiny tiger called Sylvia.
I´m holding in my hand a bee whose name is Bzzzzz.
On my right side sits a teddy bead called Amy. <3
In front of Amy is Niiskuneiti.
Next to Niiskuneiti sits Mo.
Behind Amy is trying to hide Ape Apina.
And on the right sits a bunny called Tokki.
We first met here, in front of a big brown bear -bigger than me-
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 21, 2012, 8:49 pm
I saw a bear, another bear, a bear saw me. I also saw some footprints of a bear. Suddenly I feel like a small bear...
And some photos...
Posted Apr 21, 2012, 9:20 pm
It was a bit dark there and the photos are not clear. My host is sorry
But some pictures for you to see...
fox = kettu
flying squirrel = liito-orava
lynx = ilves
wolf = susi
hedgehog = siili
moose = hirvi
The meeting continues...
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 3:25 pm
Me and all my TV friends saw many interesting things in the Natural History Museum like a Map of Finland showing where the meteorites have hit, and we all sat on the globe (I didn´t stay...). We saw rocks, plants, landscapes and animals and also heard their sounds... The bear was quiet but the wolfs were howling and the swans were noisy, too
After all this excitement we continued our meeting elsewhere...
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 6:30 pm
We had another group photo in front of the church. We did not notice the surveillance camera above the door. I guess we looked very suspicious, because suddenly the door opened and somebody came to ask from us:
"What are you doing?"
"Just taking some photos!"
It started raining and we were hungry. We needed FOOD. So we went to a restaurant called Food. We chose carefully from the menu (notice the size of the menu -I think they were expecting some ToyVoyagers as guests!). We chose nachos for the waiting time and a BIG burrito as the main course. YAMMY!
What a wonderful meeting we had !!!
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 7:51 pm
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 8:37 pm
Today we gathered to another meeting with my TV friends. My host is a postcrosser and together with other postcrossers they wrote a huge pile of postcards. While writing there is always a chance to have a cup of coffee and enjoy some cake
. By the way: this meeting was in the "Teddy Bear Café" Wilhelmina
There is also one postcrosser in the photos: The white bear wearing green hat and scaf is traveling_teddy. He is nice!
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 25, 2012, 9:05 pm
Today I went to the Antiques Fair and met very old and expensive Teddy Bears there. I met Misha from Moscow olympics. I also saw a beautiful car and lots of wonderful luggages... I am a voyager!
I visited also the Craft Fair and was swinging with Krok and a bunny
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 26, 2012, 8:32 pm
All the four seasons in the same photo:
autumn > brown leaf
winter > snow
spring > sunshine
summer.... in my heart!
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 28, 2012, 9:30 pm
My host gave me a map of Jyväskylä. I wanted to see trains and an interesting building, visit hairdresser
and go shopping.
First I went to "Matkakeskus" to see trains. They have an own rail wagon for kids with the picture of KRTEK the mole. Lovely!
Not so far away cross the railroad I found an interesting building (there is a restaurant in it but we passed...)
We also went to the hairdresser. I was trimmed just a little
and while my host had the colour in her hair we had a nice cup of coffee. I thought it was a hairdresser
And finally we went shopping. Not to a store but to a flee market. They said no for taking pictures there but since my host found something there we took the pictures at home
That was all from today. The map worked - after I turned it right way...
Sweetheart-
Posted Apr 29, 2012, 8:08 pm
First we went to a playground. I started from the biggest slide and was lucky to stop before I fell to a puddle. Wow! Then I came down from the second slide... And together with Krok... and again and again. So FUN!
We also went swinging and did some climbing. Bears do such things. Together with Krok we crawled through a tunnel. Bears do so...
On a sunny day like this we decided to have a picnic under a tree. And after that I climbed to that tree because, you know, bears do so
The story continues...
Sweerheart-
Posted May 1, 2012, 6:04 pm
... and the story continues...
While we were posing in front of a small creek there was a wild duck swimming behind us. We saw and heard SO MANY birds that there is no question if the spring time has become!
We walked in the forest and watched a stream running fast. I looked in to a hole under a tree... No bears in there. Then I climbed into a tree
The lake is still frozen but I can say that I´ve been on the beach today! I sat on a rock, I found a HEART <3 for you
I was climbing in the trees and peeking into holes... Nobody living there...
I was asking to see some art so my host took me on a tour to see graffiti. Unfortunately all the nice ones have been destroyed and made ugly by unkind people... Dogs were not allowed there but bears can walk there!
I have one more surprise for you from today...
Sweetheart-
Posted May 1, 2012, 6:17 pm
I love flowers! Today I finally saw flowers growing in Finland!!!
Sweetheart-
Posted May 7, 2012, 9:43 pm
I was cycling around with my host. I have some photos of the Orthodox Church and Taulumäki church.
I saw a bear in the park, very, very friendly! We posed together
I was in a funny park with funny birds. Angry birds, funny birds... And one funny Teddy Bear
When I was looking over the frozen lake I could see the ski jump hill and the ski slope. Winter sports are not my host´s cup of tea
At home I was cycling with my friends Krok Little and Traveling Teddy. Everybody had a bicycle just right size.
Until tomorrow,
Sweetheart-
Posted May 7, 2012, 10:21 pm
First I wanted to pick flowers to my host. Instead of picking them I let her look the flowers growing
I was helping her to open some presents that fell from the mail box. Here you can see all the wonderful surprises!
While I was busy with the presents my host´s daughter baked some chocolate-orange muffins. I got to taste one
It was a happy B.D.
Sweetheart-
Posted May 8, 2012, 9:07 pm
I was curious to see the funfair that came near my host´s home. So we went there and looked around. It seemed a lot a fun but bears don´t need to drive a roller coaster or a Ferris wheel to have fun
It was more fun to watch others drive and eat an ice cream
Sweetheart-
Posted May 10, 2012, 8:17 pm
First of May was a sunny and windy day. At home we ate a TIPPALEIPÄ, a special May day cookie
We found a nice place without the wind for a picnic. Quite many people had the same idea... On the picnic we had a glass of SIMA, mead. Don´t worry, it has (almost) no alcohol
I saw a lake (free from ice!), lots of flags, the harbor, boats, old cars, cute cars...
We also went to meet a very friendly PANDA in front of the Panda chocolate factory.
See you soon,
Sweetheart-
Posted May 11, 2012, 6:30 pm
Almost time to come home... But I am glad I stayed because I love flowers!!!
Sweetheart-
Posted May 11, 2012, 6:59 pm
Sweetheart-
Posted May 14, 2012, 6:44 pm
I'm back and safely arrived at home !
I had a gorgeous travel but this is not the end of my journey ;')
I just wanted to take a break for awhile
By the way, thank you Reissari for the wonderful gifts and the awesome time I spend with you !
lovely greets, Sweetheart.