Dear Readers,

 as I mentioned in my last post I am leaving tomorrow for Spain and staying till Friday. I'm travelling with my boyfriend's mommy to visit her sister somewhere near Bracelona on her birthday. For the past 2 years I have been mostly travelling between Finland and Germany, whenever I had enough time or money to spare, and cannot remember when I had my last Holiday to any destination more southern than Frankfurt. Therefore I am going to enjoy this amazing opportunity to it's fullest and leave mobilephones, Internet and blogging behind for a week. The B-Day-Auntie has reserved some action, sightseeing and beach for us during our whole stay and if I do have idle time, I've prepared myself with books, magazines and drawing gear to entertain and relax miself. (Boy o boy do I need that!)

 I inted to take a shit.. -ton of photos on my trip and tell you guys about it the whole next year later, yet I am a bit worried about to my camera. My 5-year-old Nikon hasn't been working too well since last week and I cannot understand the reason for it. It makes horrible squeaking sound sometimes while trying to autofocus it refuses to take a photo no matter what I do! What a Nightmare! Me and my baby, will attend the Camra Doctor after I return to Alemania aka Germany. 

 Other than that, I am slowly recovering from University life. Last week was PURE HORROR and Stress with capital S due to miscalculation and sudden changes in the plan of handing in my homework before leaving Darmstadt. Since last Saturday I have slept 3-4 hours per night, barely eaten daily and been on a constant run when not glued to my drawing desk. I have sketched, measured, drawn art work and blueprints, read House contruction bibles, written a presentation, presented it all, taken care of my weekly shift at work, cleaned my room, packed my bag, built my models, written emails, made phonecalls, copied, glued, paid my bills and gotten myself a German Healthinsurance. All without a pause. You can imagine how exhausted I am. The last days I have sweat and cried, pepped myself up again and beaten myself to continue to give my 101% to survive the Semester with good grades. I am SO PROUD of myself of pulling it through, I have to say. Of course I had some friends to help me out, so thank you Benny, Sven and Anna Lena especially, for the helping hand. Thank you, my dearest boyfriend for listening to my helpless crying at times of despair. Thank you mom, for cheering me up and thank you my roomie and customers for listening to my nagging. OK, this sounds like an Oscar speech so I'll just wrap it up with thanking the Spagetti Monster, my fans, my manager and wishing World peace  here.

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So far so good, I am currently safe and sound in Hamburg, have partied till dawn with Lasse, visited the fleamarket this morning and dined with the family Grandmas today. The weather is cold, gray, rainy and all the better for leaving this Land for Sun and Heat.

Take care people,
don't forget to be awesome
and remember...
..I'll be back..! 
 

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Drawing, tea and an audiobook of Pride & Prejudice make my day. I'm a girly girl cliché. Thank God, I hate horses at least.

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Achtung! Food post coming up.

my tastiest half-warm-salad yet with tofu cubes, nuts, cranberries etc.

So I've kept my vegan diet for about a month now give or take a few days. I'm happy to announce that it has actually been so much easier than I expected and has totally changed my view of cooking and eating for good! Infact, I think I have been eating better and with more variety for the past month, than I did before. I suppose it has something to do with the fact that I have to plan my mealtimes with more care now and cook more often at home.

..Darn it, my sweet tooth demands something delicious..

A trip to the local Organic grocery-stores and taking my vitamins has given me great pleasure, and the child as I am, I've been enjoying this experiment to it's fullest! Such tiny projects really boost my lifequality and keep everyday things interesting!

normal oatmeal cookies wouldn't do, so I threw in everything tasty for extra flavour

So why stop now?
Hmm.. a very good question. I think I wouldn't, were it not for my holiday in Spain (!!!!) from the 15th till the 20th July. I'm visiting my boyfriend's auntie for her birthday and concider it somehow inpolite to bust in and start making special demands for food as I'm the guest. Finding a suitable restaurant to satisfy my hunger alone, might also cause unnecessary trouble and headache, thus I'm fine with cheese and milk for one week. Furthermore I've been to Spain only once before and don't like skipping any chances of the local food culture (ok, I won't go as far as to eat meat, yuck). After all, my greatest goal in life is to experience and understand as much as possible before I die.

...poo poo?

oh yes, that is how the poo pellets turned out!

The biggest vegan problems till now have been:
a) birthday cakes,
b) finding food at a friend's place
c) ice cream in Summertime
...oh yeah and did I mention my passion for cheese?

My cookies turned out a super healthy success after I added raisings, müsli, grinded haselnut and a few drops of rum and honey to the normal oatmeal cookie recipe! The taste and texture reminded me a bit of mueslibars. Please try this at home!

Summer Shopping

The long promised update of the Fleamarket and my findings from Bessungerstraße from over two weeks ago! It was such a cute market, streching out the whole street and some side alleys. I gathered LOTS of funny small talk and smiles that day, which is why I really enjoy fleamarkets.

As always, I couldn't leave home empty handed from a treasure chest like this one! Not that I was actually looking for anything in specific, but you know, you can never have enough of something you don't need! The following photos aren't as cool as I wish they'd be, but a girl has to make what she can of the limited light and space of her crib.

a tiny glas vase with 50 cents

2 euro hippie coolness

photoshop lazyness transferred me back to paint

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Yes yes it is yet another jacket, pray tell not my mom. I keep telling myself that it's due to nationality that I possess more jackets than T-shirts. This particular piece is to be modified smaller from the shoulders as it is actually huge evetho it's size 36! I'm anxious for the winter to come again haha.

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I thought it cute. Somehow royal, somehow shabby and worth the euro for sure. I thought about combining it with bright red lipstick but to avoid being mistaken for a Germany fan during the EM, I was forced to go for caramel tone instead.

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 Last but on the contrary to the least, my crown jewel: an insanely beautiful ceramic pot! I suppose I'll put tea inside it. It has the perfect size for a cookie jar, but as you might know me, no cookies survive in this house longer than 2 days, no matter the amount! The handwork and colouring of the pot is breathtaking and I would have probably paid tripple the price to take this beauty home. Lucky for me, I was asked less.

Sorry for the late updates again buddies! I'm having the last weeks of my 2nd Semester in Architecture, which means my exams and projects are giving their best to eliminate me before my holidays. I've been also having some technical problemos on the way this past week, but my mister Genious rescued me once again from the maschine world today. I know he's laughing at my invalidity but what can I say, I just don't speak computer.

Muffins are just ugly Cupcakes

Whoah! What a feeling.
I've just arrived home (4:30am) after a Football game, board game, shisha and some silly series at a friend's place. I was so exhausted 15 min ago and thought the 2km bike ride would totally kill me.. 

QUITE THE OPPOSITE! Geez, how alive I suddenly feel after rushing through the empty streets in this lovely summer night. The sun is slowly creeping higher but it's still dim, the hot & sweaty day has left the air cool yet comfortable on my face and the first birds are chirping here and there. I felt so.. so free and happy that I had to giggle a bit, as cheesy as it sounds, and in down hill I let my hands go of the bike handlebar! What a thrill, dashing on the middle of the road with my arms spread theatrically, balancing the bicycle like I used to do as a kid. I higly recommend these nightly bike rides to everyone!

Now I'll have some beauty sleep before getting up to study tomorrow. Sorry for not having any cool photos this time but I hope you enjoyed the dream like music instead.

Nighty night dearies.