Planting in Edinburgh

Hey ho!
Now, instead of studying, working, or doing whatever else one should do; I spend a considerable amount of my time doing origami paper boxes.
HA!
But I'm running out of the pieces of paper with sentences; Cornelia and I will have to get doing some more soon.

I'm thinking of having a nice evening of box making and seedspreading.
Might come up soon!


Wondering what the others are up to...

Spread seeds and thoughts!

What could be the nicest thing to improve the tristesse of big cities' grey november skies?

Grab your pen, write down your thoughts, your message, what you want to share with people. Grab some candies and fatty chocolate bears. Grab scissors and coloured paper, make candy-lookalike boxes. Put everything in the boxes and make their purpose clear: „Nimm mich mit“. (Optional, the Cornelia version: „Geöffnet mir“, an example of excellence in german grammar!)
Last but not least: Create a blog, a sharing platform for the lucky ones to find a message.

And so we did: Every single person in our group was highly excited about the action, with Neus leading the way, as it might have been expected. Sitting in Ida Nowhere in a circle, the tension is growing. No one can await to start spreading our seedthoughts-messages in Berlin-Neukölln.

Finally, after hours of hard labor, we (almost) stormed out of Ida Nowhere, fully prepared and carrying a box full of boxes. So it all began: bicycle baskets, open boots, socks, childrens hoods, plants, ticket machines... There is a never ending range of possibilities to explore!
But the ultimate kick turned out to result from de-pickpocketing: Try and put a box into open bags of people or optional into baby carriages: delightful!

Mission accomplished: for now. Everyone is up for the next day of spreading our messages, our small gifts for everybody. (The production of more boxes already got started in the same day's evening: It's addictive!)
The next morning, we were really eager to go on, get growing, spread seeds/thoughts. Machinelike production of boxes (they are getting nicer and nicer!), copyshop: quotes and messages, the last candies, and finally some paper hearts. Ready to go again!

By Laura, few days ago. =)

Watch out, more seeds are on their way!

After yesterdays thrilling experience, there will be some seeds finding their way into your environment again. We are excited about spreading some more thoughts. Watch out, Berlin!

Looking for places!

Finally we went out in the streets. With our equipment - we had made one box with around 17 "Pick up" packages, 10 Happiness packages and many notes with quotes on them.
In beginning we were looking for places where we could leave boxes so that people could find them by themselves - some bicycle baskets, newspapers, books etc. We even left one box in H&M socks.

Our first perfect place was a van. While the owner went into the shop we left some surprise for him!




After while I started to look for more personal places such as opened bags, plastic bags and baby carriages. I was so excited. I just throw many boxes in bags while we were walking trough the streets.
It was great!

Everything ready... for the first adventure

Alright!

Boxes and notes done!
The boxes contain a sweet, a red card heart and a note.

They say: "Nimm mich", "Nimm mich mit", "Für dich" and, thanks to google translate, apparently a not so grammatically correct one: "Geöffnet mir".

We haven't managed to make the stickers, but oh well, hopefully we'll have time tomorrow morning.

We'll soon be in Neukölln streets spreading seedboxes around. Seedthoughts on paper will be found, by surprised germans, inside books and magazines. Maybe even sugar or coffee products in shops. We shall see!