Presents before Christmas

I've been yearning for a this kind of paper star ever since I first saw them at the Hamburg christmas market. They seem to be pretty common in Germany but I am deeply amazed every time they catch my eye.

The reason why I haven't gotten myself one is because I cannot choose. Not the colour, not the pattern, the size or the amount of cusps. After a long battle and diskussion at the Darmstadt market, I however managed to buy one for my mother for her birthday. Naturally I took the biggest, brightest and richest (in glitter and cuts) for my favourite person!

Handwork worth of all the love and money, I think.

Just COS

I popped into the Frankfurt COS store for the mid-season sales. These minimalistic beauties tagged along with a price of 62,50 euros reduced from 125e! Ka-ching!

One Man's Trash

I'm currently having the last of my Semester Holiday in Hamburg and plan on staying over Easter. Since my Honeypot is looking for a new jacket I got the idea of digging through some of the local Thrift Stores first.

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Got inspired? We visited somewhat 4 second-hand-shops, but the ones worth visiting in my opinion would be: Nonos Kleidermarkt  and Vintage & Rags.

Cooking Green

What, VEGAN? Like no milk, no eggs, no butter, no chocolate, no cakes, no cheese, no pizza, no NOTHING?!

That was my reaction some years ago when my boyfriend went through the same phase of trying this mysterious way of life out. Back then I thought the whole idea insane, and couldn't come up with a single dish without animal products. I am still not imagining this to be easy but it's definitely worth a try.

yellow curry with coconut milk in the making

Why do I do this? I'm not planning to become a vegan for the rest of my life. I have lost weight since I turned a vegetarian three years ago, have now lost a few more kilos and went down in bra size since the beginning of my studies. I love cheese, milkshakes and baking but I do want to change some of my eating habits permanently, however not with the risk of my health.

coconut-creamy mushroom sauce with rice

My big plan is just to minimize the usage of animal products in my everyday life. I think I will still eat them in the future but I want to cut down the amount and pay more attention to their origins. I am willing to pay more for organic products, knowing that the animals there hopefully get better treatment and attention than the ones in mass production. To get more into the scene I've decided to have a completely vegan month.

This way I have to spend more time and thought to keep my diet healthy. Talking from experience, I will now also develope a whole new view in food shopping and within 2-3 weeks see more variety and options in vegan cooking. I've been to my local supermarket last week to check out their supplies for vegans and believe it or not, they have made it actually quite easy for us!

pancakes from soy milk, water and egg substitute flour - as tasty as ever

Instead of cheap Ja!-cow milk, I now picked soy and oat milk into my basket and replaced cheese with tofu and got even soy yogurt for breakfast. As easy as that! If I had wanted, I could have taken tofu sausages, nuggets, burgers and gyros to fill my plate! The only obsticles till now have been a few cases of not being able to eat in a normal restaurant nor to buy something to eat at the University cafeteria. I have to plan my eating a bit more and double check everything I buy in case of half-innocent milk powder.

my vegan banana muffins look like shit but taste like heaven

I think I will have to go and check Habibi for their vegan ice cream this week! If you have any suggestions or nice receipes in mind, I'll gladly take any help I can get on my way in becoming a better person.

Have a great week buddies!

a Piece of Heaven

I'm heading soon to Schlossgrabenfest in the town center of Darmstadt. As I therefore have so little time to update about my weekend in Hamburg, I'll just show you the photos of one of my favourite shops in HH the Wohngeschwister.

The sales personel isn't as lovely as the interiors and the prices are a bit too salty for your average student but I still notice myself taking some small -ahem- items home everytime I visit this beauty. Wohngeschwister is filled with amazingly useless beautiful items from around the world to brighten up your tiny dark holes!

I enjoy walking around and touching, feeling, smelling the various surfaces and materials here. I don't know how often they change their interior or organize the items anew but I manage to get cool ideas and get inspired whenever I face the lack-of-motivation in something.

Look at the bold colours and colonialism!

Honey, what was your credit card number again..? No wait, what do you mean I'm a hamster?

Gosh, what a shame I don't have enough square meters to give all this loveliness a new home! Oh well.. if you ever pop in Hamburg, do pay a visit to Wohngeschwister. Sadly luckily? I live now too far from it to drag the bigger items to my 13 m² castle.

Have a sunny weekend buddies!

Homecoming

It's been heaven in here, as it's all white and fluffy in Finland. I've been taking it reeeeal easy without paying too much attention to school work and going through my hoods with my family instead. Photos, handicrafts, fleamarket, library and local swimming hall have taken my time and I feel utterly happy with such simple life.

taking usage of my very own sewing machine to make a pillow case

silk pearls I made for mom

2 euro leather jacket from our local fleamarket, woop woop

Presenting my favourite library in the world. I've spent countless hours here before my A-levels, on rainy summers and cold winters. I'm a library chiller from head to toe.

 So how does it look outside?

the stairs are somewhere there

We had a kind of snow storm a few days ago. I had to drive to the town next to mine at night with Kaisa to visit Iiris. The weather was horrid and I was honestly scared! We did get stuck in snow twice actually..

how much you could see from the car

Thanks for the dinner and familiar faces dearies.

Darmstadt and the people in Germany seem like a far far away dream.