Mar. 23, 2013
Seems like the days just disappears like sand through my hands. If it`s not work it is other things that keep me busy. Even working out have been nonexistent. On top of this I am soon starting to work more hours. Oh well. Everything is going fine I think.
I can`t bring myself to write anything more now so all you get is this picture from a excursion Christian and I did.
The view was breathtaking and the wind was ice cold with lots of twirling snowflakes. Spring was nowhere to be seen.
Meanwhile
I am busy with work and getting the post on our trip to Stockholm ready so I thought I would tip you to visit my friend Anna over at Vintage hopes and retro dreams. She have made some really great posts on how to shop cruelty free and what the new law on not testing on animals really means to us as consumers.
Click her picture to get there
Random ramblings
Hi! I have not been in the mood to blog even though I have had the time. I had the weekend off and have been all alone having some me time :) Christian have been in Umeå with Miseration at House of Metal. Of course I would have loved to go there to see them but It would have been way to much money for one night with plane tickets, hotel, food and alcohol. And right before the weekend we also got a not so fun answer to what some car repairs will cost us. 8000 Sek. Ugh.....
So instead this weekend I used my time off to workout, sleep, see a couple of movies, and some sowing. It was really nice.
The sowing project is not ready yet but you will get to see it in time. Today I will not have the time to get it ready because I am soon off to a looong ay at work. 10 hour day "yayy..."
I am a bit tired of work and I am not sad to say that it is the only day this week I will be working. Christian and I leave for a little vacation in Stockholm <3
This was one the movies I saw. A wonderful old movie I heard about on one of the blogs I follow.
The trailer is really awful though...
Make over
To feel better about beeing stuck in this "hell hole" I needed to change something. So I gave the kitchen a little make over.
As we just are renting we don`t want to put to much money on it.
Here it is. The old, impossible-to-get-clean, ugly & boring kitchen.
I painted the handles on the cabinets and used vinyl stickers to cover the tiles.
The vinyl was tricky to get on nice. I don`t know how long they will last but for now they look damn good.
I also bought some new stuff like the awsome Modesty Blaise dishrag, the dishrag holder, black wash up brush, dish soap dispenser and the black wire basket for utensils.
Tomorrow, if I have the time before/after work I will even paint our dish rack black.
I don`t know how well it shows on the pictures but the kitchen actually are so much nicer now. Next I will give the bathroom a mini makeover too.
Photo evidence
Hi! What an day. I have been slaving away in front of the stove making yummy vegetarian food all day and even headed out to the gym. I had an awsome workout. Tons of energy and good music in my ears made it one of the best workouts ever^^ Lets hope the workout tomorrow is half as good and I will be happy.
Saturday evening was spent on the sofa doing nothing. Exciting life sometimes ;) But money is low and our trip to Stockholm is getting closer. How was your Saturday?
My love
Last night when I got home from work all tired, Christian suprised me with a Valentine`s day gift! I was so not expecting anything because we usually don`t make a big deal of this day other than maybe eat something extra nice together and cuddle more than usual^^
He knows how much I love Elsa Beskow`s children books and her illustrations so he had hunted down two vintage books on the net for me <3 How cute and thoughtful isn`t that <3
I love you Christian, you are my everything.
Tonight we have been stuffing our faces with sushi and pastry while watching a movie. Sadly Christian had to go to work tonight so now it`s just me and my lap top.
Hope you have had a nice day too.
Happy Valentine`s day
Happy Valentine`s day to all my dear readers<3 Today is a busy day for me with lots of lost boy`s and men to take care of at work. I will be there guiding them in the jungle of flowers.
I am one of those annoying people who like this day. We celebrate so may stupid things through the year why not celebrate love for the ones you care for the most? And everyone that complanes about buying stuff....just don`t do it then. Write them something nice instead or better! Tell them how much you care or do something you know the other person will appreciate, like clean the dishes so he or she don`t have to.
Not everyone "needs" this day, but I know some do. Not everyone uses "all the other days" to take care of their special ones. Some people need a kick in their behinds to get a bouqet of flower or a home made card.
What is your opinion? Do you hate this day or do you think it is worth celebrating?
Eye öf hörus
Hi everyone. Today we went to our first house showing. I was fun even though the broker didn`t seem to eager to sell us the house. I think she felt uncomfortable with us. Lol. I guess she don`t have many metal people as customers. I could feel her eyes on my outfit and heels. And she probably would not guess that Christian works as a nurse. But it don`t matter anyways because we will not make a bid this time. Hopefully the house we are seeing tomorrow is "the one".
I got a new package today too. It`s a new cruelty free mascara. The last one from Nyx is not going to last for much longer and I don`t want to go without one again.
I got it from Smink.net. I love not having to wait longer than necessary. So if you live in Sweden and need something super fast I really recommend them.
My new mascara is called eye öf hörus.
This is what they say on their page:
Ethical Mantra
Our products are not tested on animals and we deliver only the best. All our cosmetics are Paraben Free, and contain as much natural content as possible, balancing organics with the highest effectiveness we are renowned for
We pride ourselves on fast delivery and a high level of customer service
What we promise:
- Not Tested on Animals
- Only offer high standard products
- Deliver exception customer service
- Fast delivery
- Stand by the product and will listen to our customers
- 100% customer satisfaction
- We wont use animal hair for any of our cosmetic brushes
Why we wont use animal hair
We don’t test on animals so we definitely don't want you to use animal hair while applying our cruelty-free cosmetics
There are so many benefits in using Synthetic brushes too:
- They are easier to clean.
- Synthetic brushes repel bacteria and dirt better than animal hair does.
- Many people have allergies to animal hair.
- Synthetic brushes shed less, if at all.
- Synthetic brushes work with both cream and or powder makeup products.
- Buying a synthetic brush is the only way that you can know for sure that no animal was harmed in the creation of the brush.
It sure sounds good. And tomorow after my spinning class I will test it out.
Have any of you tested it?
Happy weekend
My "weekend" just ended. I am working the next days but I don`t care that much as Christian is going to Gothenburg for some rehersal.
We are having ourselves some beer and are doing cosy stuff like joking around, listening to music and some creative stuff as well. Chistian with his music and I have been practising my poor drawing skills.
What are your weekend plans?
"Kråkslott"
I am a bad girl not blogging much for you :( Bohoo!
Right now I am sitting with color in my hair and hoping it will do the trick. I am testing Tints of nature for the first time as it seemes it is the only permanent black hair color besides henna that are cruelty free and easy getting hold of here in Sweden.
I guess it is only with time I will know if this works. I hate when color fades and get brown...
Another thing that is going on here is that we can`t sleep home. The noice from the renovating in the apartments around us is waking us up early as hell every morning now. Thankfully we can stay at Christians parents.
And I need to tell you that I have booked yet another showing of a house next week. Can`t wait!
I am always looking for decorating inspiration. Espesially now when I might get a place where I can do wathever I like. I pin everything on Pinterest. Here are some of my favorites.
IamamIwhoamI-play
I just love this song and the video is just incredible. Don`t even get me started on the atmosphere, I love music that makes you feel.
I have had different things occupying my mind lately and haven`t felt inspired to blog. Mostly good stuff. One thing is that we have decided that the next place we are going to live is in a house. We are not going to move just to get something a little bit better. We are really on the lookout for a house now. I need space and a garden. And Christian needs a proper studio in the house where he can sing all day long and night if he wants to. We have specifik wishes on location so it may take some time to find it. We are extremely sick of neighbours and their dogs, door slamming, music and screaming at each other. I think it`s incredible how people behave against each other. Like there is no one other than themselves living in this world...
And how weird that my text changed size in the middle? I don`t know what happened or how to change it back!
For now
Helloo. I have been working so much these days I haven`t felt inspired enough to blog. I am at least well from the cold and had my first workout in a long time this morning. It was good to feel the sweat dripping again.
Tomorrow I will go to the gym again and hopefully get the time to make some nice healthy lunch boxes to fill up the freezer. I will be back sooner rather than later!
Some amazing pictures that I sadly don`t have the source to.
Twenty fourth of January
You will have to look far and long for a more content girl than me right now. Ninni and I have been at the local spa and relax almost the whole day. I got my first massage and we have been in different saunas, weird showers and even been lying on a warm hamam stone. So lovely. We had fruit & chocolate plate with smoothies for lunch and afterwards we went for sushi. Yum. This was my birthday present from Ninni. Thank you so much again :)What a treat.
Even some shopping was done. Such a great day!
I got myself a new hand cream from Love & Toast in the scent honey/coconut. Super nice now that my hands are dry in this cold weather. And it is of course cruelty free. And as a bonus it don`t contain bad things for you like paraben and artificial colors.
And finally I found myself a new calender for 2013. The prettiest I could find was this one with images by Alfons Mucha.
I will finish off this post of a picture I took on my way home. Everything is covered in beautiful frost and the moon is glowing.
Growing strong
Happy Sunday everyone. I hurt a bit less today and maybe I am ready to get back to work tomorrow. But enough babbling about boring health issues and over to something far more fun in my eyes.
I have more than a couple of orchids. But only one white blooming right now and that because I got it just a little while back. And then there is this one just about to bloom. I can`t wait until she unfolds her pretty petals and reveal the beauty hiding. I do not remember what color this specimen have and it`s kind of a little gift waiting to reveal itself. This little beauty may be a lime color or white with beautiful dark pink spots. I really don`t know. She may turn out to be one more of the crisp white ones that I tend to buy too. I promise I will get her a new suiting pot and take her away from the hiding place behind the curtain.
I have another fun thing to tell you about too. I haven`t told you in written words that I don`t eat meat anymore. (many of you may have guessed it & some of you I have told) But since this fall I have not indulged on meat. It is going really well and it feels good. I still eat the poor creatures in the sea though. I am not nearly ready for being a vegan and I admire the ones that choose to live their lives that way.
Anyhow, I did not recon there would be any large health improvements because I already have been eating healthy and very often meatless meals but one thing for me has changed for the better. My nails are growing! and they are strong and don`t break as easy. For a girl loving doing nail designs and so often have been complaining over her sad excuse of nails this is big.
Scrub it all away
I am still not well from my stupid cold... Yesterday I was super happy that I didn`t feel the fever anymore but as the dark evening sneaked up on me so did the fever and lots of snot! Ugh! I had not been snotty until now!
Today I have put on some make-up and dressed myself in normal (but comfy) clothes. I want to get back out in the world. I get crazy just lying on the sofa not doing anything. So later I think I will get myself out and shop for some necessities.
I have been thinking hard about what I want to do from my list this month and I decided on the
" Make your own cosmetic or make-up product ". I have been drooling over the bubble gum lip scrub from Lush. ( Found here.) But as I don`t have a lot of money left this month and I need to save up I thought I would make my own. It for sure is a product I need right now considering my lips are dry from the cold weather outside.
After searching the net for good recipes I decided to make one for myself.
If you want to test it out yourself you will be needing this:
- a small container
- Sugar. Normal or brown. (I used the normal one because my brown sugar had turned itself into a brick in the carton!)
- Honey. (You can use oils of different kinds too, like almond or olive oil)
- Food coloring. You don`t need it. It`s just to give it some nice color. (Just guessing it will look best with the normal sugar ;))
I didn`t measure. Go with your gut feeling and how big the container you are using...
Blend until everything looks nice and even.
Finished! This is so simple and don`t take any time at all. I just saved myself 89 Sek as the bubblegum lip scrub costs at Lush in Sweden and I had all the stuff I needed at home. It works super well and tastes yummy too.
Next time I think I will make a vanilla lip scrub instead.
I will do it like this:
- Make some vanilla sugar. Put a piece of vanilla pod in a container with some white sugar and let it stay there for a couple of days until the sugar smells and taste of vanilla.
- Blend it with some almond oil
- color it with a tiny bit yellow food coloring to get a light yellow color.
I didn`t make it like this today because I was all out of vanilla pods! But it sure do sound quite good don`t you think! Will you try any of my recipes?
The wonders of Aspirin
This morning I woke up with a gruesome headache. Remembering taking the last painkillers in the box last night made me desperate and I started searching through handbags and cupboards for "forgotten" painkillers. And luckely I found a box of aspirin that I bought some time ago for home made face masks.
Now the gruesome headache is gone and I have a aspirin face mask on! Yay!
If you want to make your own mask it is dead easy.
You let 3-5 aspirin dissolve in a little bit water. If they arent entirely dissolved you crush them with a spoon.
Mix a paste of them with honey. put it on your face an let it stay on for at least 15 minutes before you wash it away. All done.
The acetylsalicylic acid in the pill blended with the water becomes beta hydroxy acid (BHA) that is often used in commercial skin products. The beta hydroxy acid works as a mild chemical peel. It takes away dead skin cells, dirt and fat & leaves you with a clear and fresh skin. The honey works as an excellent moisturizer and in addition is antiseptic and antibacterial.
Poor me
Well. Yesterday was all about lying on the sofa freezing and sweating, freezing and sweating, and even more of that. I saw some episodes of Great British bake off and I slept some. Having the cold is so not fun. My voice the passed days have been crow like and now I have started coughing to top it off. I guess I`m not going to work tomorrow either.
I made this little collage of stuff I need right now ;)
Django
I am so happy right now!!! I had trouble with my new computer these two past days. I haven`t been able to surf properly. The pages have freezed up and it hasn`t been possible to stay on one page more than a few clicks! Very frustrating I tell you. I have been trying to fix it with virus scans, cleaners and so on. Then it hit me! It may be the web browser. I tried to surf with Explorer for a while and I had no problems at all! So now I have uninstalled Google Chrome and installed Mozilla Firefox instead. ( Can`t stand Explorer ) Everything works super smooth now. Very thankful that my new computer was alright and that the problem was easy to fix. Feels like I dodged a bullet! Phu!
I would like to recommend a really good movie too! I love Quentin Tarantino`s movies and the new Django Unchained is no exception.
Just see it!
Now I am going to relax and eat some ice cream.Totally allowed because my throat hurts. Have caught a stupid cold again. Bohoo, poor me.
Everyday
Uups. Kind of had a blog break there ehe eh.. Well I haven`t been doing to much fun. The everyday is here with work, workouts and nothing special going on.
The most fun stuff has been a trip to Ikea and booking a holiday in September.
We have been organizing the storage space in the basement too. Feels really good to get rid of so much crap and now we actually can move in there. Tomorrow we are going through all our closets in the apartment for some more organizing.
At Ikea we bought a new living room table and a new chair that we hope will be good for Christians back pains. We actually got a lot more space by replacing the old stuff and it looks a lot better. I will show you when I get the time to take a photo.
The table we got at Ikea is called Vejmon. It`s nice with the shelf underneath so all the remotes and suff can be hidden a bit. It`s so much better than the old one we had in yucky yellow pine.
Here is the chair called poäng. Not the worlds most sexy chair but.... We don`t know how well it`s working for Christians back yet. Time will tell.
Health progress
Jisses! The first workout this year was hard. The gym was crammed ( as always in January ...) and because of that I had to use heavier weights. My usual was taken. To get to the the cross trainers you almost had to stand in a queue so I had to go harder in a shorter time period. And to top it off I had an energy drink right before so my energy level was too high! Lol. I am super tired in a good way now. But I can`t wait until all the people drop off and everything can get back to normal. I hate crowded places and staring people. Makes the misanthropic me even more disgusted with humans... I wish I had room for a gym in the apartment. But when we have a so small a place that we even can`t have a christmas tree so you can see the problem.
I will try to be a bit more consius to what I lift from now on and try to get some progress. I would love to lift heavier than the guy next to me^^
Som pics from Pinterest as inspiration. I know I need some inspiration from time to time. It don`t always come easy.
