Sunny Monday*Brunch

Aloha All, 

I am too late again BUT with good reason: I was attending a wedding and so just git back from the festivities couple of hours ago.

|Watched| Some swedish & british detective series - love them. Think they are best!
|Listened| Love songs (because of the wedding) & some classics
|Read| Some novel by Linda Holeman

|Action| Had my family over for a day & then went back home as we had a big wedding in the family. The ceebration was awesome, pretty crazy & happy times. Loved it! Meeting up with long-time friends <3 Catching up on the past!
|Food| Va Piano, some of my fav dishes made by my mum <3

|Drink| White wine, water, peppermint tea
|Thought| I am feeling like 16 again...crazy times!
|Made me smile| Lovely little messages, people who genuinely were pleased to see me around, hearty welcomes...
|Made me go hmmm|People who are negative about everything, people who judge from 100 miles away & people being intolerant about other peoples choices in life.
|Wished for| More tolerance all around & more positive people
|Best Buy| Birthday presents for friends!
|Online| kleiderkreisel, wolkenseifen, youtube, blogger, ...

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Matter Of Opinion | Minimalism

Aloha All,

I am infected with the idea of minimalism. I love the thought of not owning so much objects I don’t care about and the very thought to just jump out the door and travel without having to deal with a lot of mess to clean up and get sorted.

I first stumbled upon this idea a few weeks ago when I had trouble with my flat (very unpleasant: It is not properly isolated which leads after this long, cold winter to some pretty bad mould. The whole complex is affected which is about 8 apartments in total).

I played with the thought of moving anyways but this is a not too untrivial reason, right?

My second thought was: What to do with all my stuff? I was just tired of thinking about moving all those things with me!!!

I then considered what really made me happy and what was just there. It was eye opening! There is not too much which is of value for me really (I don’t mean the monetary value but the emotional one).

Hard to say but I got so distracted by consuming (especially for substitution because of long hours at work). Very unsatisfying from the point I am now.

Luckily I stumbled upon blogs which discuss (and some even promote) the idea of minimalism or downshifting.

I liked it! No, I love it right now.

So this brought me to one big challenge: Over the course of 1 year I want to give away 1 thing per day (at least one thing, more are optional).

I will toss it in the bin, sell it or gift it to someone who likes/needs/ uses the object but I will strip down my possessions to more emotional valuable things. (Of course I need some basics in my household but that is it – no more escape in consume or food)!

I challenge myself. One of the biggest so far when I am honest with myself because I tend to consume so much unnecessary stuff!

In the course I will also focus more on my Empties videos, get-rid-of-posts & my more sensible consume (I hope).

Stay tuned and feel free to join the discussion.

Cheers  

StrangenessOfHeart

Sunday*Brunch

Aloha All, 

rainy, grey-in-grey-day but hej, we are used to a lot more crap by now. So let's see what my week has brought:

|Watched| Flats...I was really on the hunt but didn't get my dream flat (I was shorty before crying..I just felt so comfortable there).
|Listened| 'Just give me a reason' by Pink, It's Time by Imagine Dragons
|Read| A spanish book I can't recall

|Action| Cleaning out my mess (to be prepared for the big move in xyz time), cleaning out old magazines, clothes (for friends & family and some things to sell), cleaning out my kitchen a bit, selling books onine and some of my cosmetics, getinng out with an old friend and reconnect with some...oh, and it was decision time at work...have to do some things still there!
|Food| Nothing fancy I am afraid... this was just a boring week and I anm not too happy with myself!

|Drink| Cider, coffee, water & Bionade (lofe the ginger flavoured one). Oh, and coconut water -love it!
|Thought| Why can't there be an easy way? Why is it always this hard long rad to take and why am I always so darn hard on me for taking obvious steps?.
|Made me smile| People who really showed sympathy for my move (feels like a new life: new job, new city, new flat) & it helped me from going nuts!
|Made me go hmmm|Situation above: Like - am I strong enough to go through all this? Can I seriousy make it? And what is really on track and what to I not take enough care of?
Argh!
Hate the feeling of getting things not efficiently done!
|Wished for| Some more courage, some more faith in my abilities and some more "pull up the sleeves and just jump right into it"-mentality!
|Best Buy| A lovely perfume & deo creme from Wolkenseifen - love the shop! It is just so awesome and they really have specia treats for every occasion & best is: All made with so much love!
|Online| Wolkenseifen.de , online checking - errands for flats, checking constanty public transportation

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

I liked ~ April 2013

Lovers in April 2013

Musik | Pink, Johannes Oerding, 30 Seconds To Mars, Eva Croissant, Volbeat
Movie | Didn't watch one single movie just documentations -yay!
Blogs |....
You Tube | ....
Food | Rice milk chocolate, vegan tofu cheese cake, vegan blueberry muffin, 
Drink | cocoa soy drink, water, black coffee, white wine
Magical Moment | New vibes meets old ones :) 
Book | Book Crossing Moments! :)
Fashion | Floral dresses, coral scarf & red shoes
Beauty | Maybelline BB cream in light,They're real mascara by benefit, Hoola Bronzer by benefit, Dallas by benefit, Korres lip butter inPomegranate (nice hint of colour & good care for the lips), NYX eye shadow palette Caviar & Bubbles, Maybelline Eye colour tattoo in pink gold, Airy Fairy lip stick by Rimmel, Bi-Oil for body care, Kiehl's Avocado Eye treatment
Random | Sometimes life is at its most complicated and you think your heart can't take it any móre...


Cheers
& have a great day,
StrangenessOfHeart

Matter Of Opinion | Organization

Aloha All,

Today is one of my other secretly obsessive topics. I am not the most organized person in the world that is for sure! And there are even quite some parts where I am lazy as hell BUT I love getting organized.

Can you tell the difference between being an all-round organized person and getting all organized?

I will tell you & let you peak into my crazy little world:

I love the process of getting organized! I like it to put down a list and I dedicate a hell of time & effort into a very neat list of To Do’s I will kick off when organizing my closet/ my wardrobe/ my shelves in the attic/ my kitchen cupboards etc …

I am a sucker for To Do lists – everywhere. In really every instance of my life I liked to tick boxes for tasks that are accomplished. How freaky is that?

But I guess there are a lot more out there that do it like that & are deeply satisfied when they look at there list in the evening and see that there is NOTHING open on their list!

Hell yes, that is so cool!

My most important tools for getting organized:

-          a lovely pen (of course not ANY pen – a lovely one J )

-          calendar for my bag (don’t like the electronic ones although I have one on my Smartphone)

-          Little book for my To Do lists

-          Colourful pens, stickers etc…

Do you something better than having the excitement of re-organizing something. Optimizing and going through memories and discover things you had almost forgotten (e.g. when re-organizing my closet again).  It is nerdy I do admit that but I can’t explain otherwise the pure joy that is spreading through my body when I start a project like this.

Also there is a feeling afterwards of balance, light-hearted joy & peace within myself when I cleard out the closet again (so it is not only organizing and putting structure into something but also to get rid of some ballast here).

And when I have a bit more time and freedom I will gladly take on a whole room and redecorate as well J

Freaky joy of mine!

But for a daily organization stay tuned – I will let you know how I get my freak on in the daily struggles of life.

Cheers,

StrangenessOfHeart

Sunday*Brunch

Aloha All, 

what a day - spring is finally arriving. Love it & so needed it! :-)

|Watched| Some videos on you tube, other than that I was flat hunting
|Listened| 'Just give me a reason' by Pink
|Read| Outliers (nearly finished but still brain food)

|Action| Baking, cooking, running errands, hugging, laughing & celebrating, chatting with friend & just laugh all of the stress of.
|Food| Vegan chili, turkish salads, apple-crumble, rice milk chocolate, asian food

|Drink| Cider, coffee, wate, wine, prosecco, whiskey - there was just so much to celebrate!
|Thought| Al hell is breaking loose...but first I need a coffee.
|Made me smile| So many lovely people thinking of me. I was just so overwhelmed! :-)
|Made me go hmmm| Easy and so typical: Boss out of the country, colleagues on sick leave and holidays and all hell is breaking loose. Lots of decisions to make, lots of people to talk to & I don't know what is waiting for me tomorrow ... might be I did a lot wrong...hopefully not!
|Wished for| Borring enough it is the same than last week: Why can't I understand myself & my motivations sometimes?! Argh!
|Best Buy| Food all over :-) I am so easy to please.
|Online| errands for flats, checking constanty public transportation

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Matter Of Opinion | StrangenessOfHeart

Dear all,

Please let me introduce a new little serious of mine where I will just write down my silly thoughts towards one or the other topic.

I will just let all my thoughts whirl around and type them down. I do not intend on discriminate someone, affront or insult in any way. It is just my own opinion and if you would like to share some thought on it too – you are very welcome.

First thing will be : Drugstore vs Highend & a bit of overindulgence

So a lot of debates are on the go with this. And I think it is safe to say that there is a steady struggle between both ends of the scale.

But is Highend really always the better quality?

Are Drugstore items of bad quality and “unworthy” or only for beginners and people with low budget?

I started with drugstore make up and it was fine to me. I tried lip glosses and mascaras – I guess the most young females do so – and it was ok.

One Christmas I can remember quite good my mum gave me my first high-end mascara (Helena Rubinstein). It was precious to me – although I had no idea it was far more expensive than the ones I used to put on in daily routine. And I was impressed but honestly : I could not tell if I was impressed by the effectiveness or the fact that it was so lovely packaged and expensive.

I then tried some drugstore things (lipstick, mascaras mainly, some powders)  but as I was a real tomboy until just 2010/2011 it was more or less just the tiniest hint of something which would fascinate me much more than I could have ever imagined.

So then the time came and I met a friend who is obsessed with make-up, especially with drugstore make-up and limited editions (she is a hunter - for real). And she woke my interest & I got quickly obsessed too!

So I over-indulged on drugstore make-up. My hunger was nourished (not stilled yet!) by millions of youtube videos & blogs – omg, I could spend hours over hours and day after day searching for reviews and swatches, hauls & make up collections.

It was such a big new, fancy world to me & especially as I am not a typical “beauty”. I am not a Quasimodo but I guess you know what I mean – I am just not the one you would call beautiful when you see me. I am just normal / average (no offence ;-) just realism).

With some more experience and all the nice things I got a hunger for a lot more harder to rech for brands. Sleek Make Up, e.l.f., MUA, Revlon, Cover Girl etc … at this stage too: No personal hesitation when something was in reach: I ordered, bought & happily tried (and all too often neglected – how could you use that much of makeup?!?)

Next step up then was highend cosmetic but more on the lower end of highend: We talk especially Benefit Cosmetics, Mac, O.P.I Nail polish – I will never be someone for Chanel, YSL, Dior etc  as this is ridiculous to me!

Quite frankly I am not too impressed on all the highend products. As they living not up to the hype and more than once I am disappointed or think to myself that this is far overpriced. So I am know investigation much more time before I spend money on anything.

There are so many great reasonable priced products out there.

And especially as the drugstore brands imitate some highend products nearly perfectly. I come to the conclusion that it is ok to invest in one or two outstanding products (which I merely will one of my beloved ones endow to me for either birthday, Christmas or whatever occasion  J

à So why spend more when there is an alternative?

Cheers,

StrangenessOfHeart

PS: I will post separately which products I found worth the hype and which didn’t live up to my standards. Also I will do my most beloved drugstore purchases.