Byebye 2018

2018 is coming to an end tomorrow. Many good memories were made this year:

In march we travelled to Prague with our lovely friends and spent four amazing days there exploring the city. It was such a good trip, we had lots of fun together.

In july my lovely Roosa came visiting me for one week. We spent such a good time together, had lots of good food, wine, bought books and art cards, went to the botanical garden, watched movies, drew together on the balcony in warm summer nights.

In august me and the boy went on our summer vacation to south France to spent amazing days in La Provence. Again, lots of good food and wine. We discovered provencial markets, cute towns, made a day trip to Grasse, swam in the lake and just enjoyed summer.

In september I passed my exams and left all that stress of learning behind.

In october it was traveling time again, so we flew to Edinburgh to spent some amazing autumn days in that beautiful city. We enjoyed pumpkin spice lattes, went to the museum, visited old bookshops & caught a flew from that cold scottish weather ) :

We spent lots of quality time with family and friends, had good moments sipping coffee in cafés, I discovered new and lovely books, went to the David Bowie musical, took walks in the pretty autumnal forest and had a fantastic Christmas time. So, thank you 2018 for all the good memories.

Yesterday I went for a walk in the forest, everything's now so bleak and gloomy compared to autumn. Nevertheless forest walks are always so soothing I find. 

I am also reading a new book now (original title: The Toymakers) which I already like quite a lot.

I am wishing you all a happy new year 2019!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, y'all!

Finally it's this time of the year again. Isn't it just the best time of the year? Everything's so cozy and lovely decorated. I for myself enjoy this special time to the fullest. Yesterday at Christmas Eve I went to my family for dinner and the handing out of presents. We enjoyed a very good meal, since I am vegetarian my mom served me hummus with avocado, chickpea curry with rice and vanilla ice with self-made date-almond-cacao-blissballs. It was so yum. Since I had no real wishes this year, I received quite a lot: Natural cosmetics, a gift voucher for my fav bookstore, earrings, a ticket for the Pink Floyd exhibition "Their Mortal Remains", candles and natural perfume. So thankful for all that.

Today on the first Christmas Day, it is so sunny! I'd wish for some snow, but this won't happen. This morning I went to church with my grandma and after that I cooked a vegan christmas meal for me and the boy, it's been a good day so far.

Now I will continue reading my christmas crime novel.

Wishing you all lovely holidays!

Cozy Christmas Time

It's the week before Christmas and I've been on a city stroll to get the last gifts. Even though the shops and streets are full of people, I enjoy this christmassy atmosphere. Lights and christmas decoration everywhere.

2nd of Advent

Happy 2nd of advent, everyone!

Today is just a lazy day, eating cookies and drinking tea. I am also thinking about reading today, I wanna finish my current readings to start with my new christmas crime story "Das Geheimnis der Grays" (original: Portrait of a Murderer).

I also need to wrap some christmas gifts for friends that I wanna send out via mail tomorrow.

I hope you're enjoying your advent sunday!

A Good December Day

Today I've caught the train early in the morning to visit my friend Laura. We planned a shopping tour and just having a good time. After a chaos of late and super full trains I finally made it to rainy Düsseldorf. We strolled a bit through cute neighborhood shops and went for a little lunch to Café "Hüftgold". We enjoyed bagels with tomatoes and mozzarella, greek mountain herbs tea & OMI tea (oranges, mint and ginger). It was really delicious and by far the best tea I ever had in a café.

We ended up buying ceramic mugs, scented soy candles, a bit of organic cosmetics, a few clothes at UO, heavenly smelling goodies from Lush, books from an independent bookstore, a bit of Christmas decoration and other cute things. 

To gain back some energy we went for caramel coffee and vegan banana apple cinnamon bread to café "Rösterei VIER". It was super delicious and nice to eat between all the plants that were hanging from the ceiling.

All in all we spent a wonderful day together.

1st of Advent

Happy first of advent!

Today I lighted the first candle of my selfmade advent wreath. Two days ago I visited a little workshop with my friend Laura, where we made our own wreaths for the advent time! I only had to bring the candles, the material was offered by the workshop. I decided to use only dark evergreens for  tying and natural materials for decorating. I am so super proud and happy with how it turned out! Really really loving it! I also still have my scandinavian advent tray from last year which I am using as well. I decorated it with pinecones, walnuts, greens, golden christmas balls and ceramic angels.

Yesterday I went to the city and strolled through all the christmassy things that the shops sell atm. I found a scented candle, "Rustic Spruce" which smells, as the name reveals, of spruce and Christmas trees! I also visited two christmas markets yesterday, but the weather is really warm for december, so there is no real christmas mood yet and also the hot mulled wine is not tasting that good in these temperatures. 

Nevertheless I am super excited for Christmas, this cozy time, beeswax candles, books, tea, hot mulled wine, snow, christmas music, bubble baths, smell of frankincense, cookies......

Autumn To Winter

Hello out there,

autumn is finally coming to an end. We had such a pretty fall here, a really golden one. 

And so was my autumn time; I've read a lot, strolled through the bookstore, had pumpkin spice lattes and apple cinnamon lattes, watched all of the Harry Potter movies, lighted candles and wore my fave big chunky sweaters.

Now I can feel that winter is on it's way. The pumpkins and autumn scented candles need to make space for the christmas decoration now. I am so ready for my favorite time of the year. How about you? 

Autumn Vibes

Hello darlings,

it's already November, wow! I am feeling that this year passed so quickly.

Anyways, today was a perfect autumn day. After breakfast we took a long walk in the forest. It was so soothing to breathe the fresh autumnal forest air. The leaves were coloured in yellow and everything was so calm. Back home I made some tea, a gojiberry, strawberry & vanilla blend and lighted some candles. This coziness makes me already think about the Christmas decoration :D But this has to wait one more month ( ; I also sorted my books that I wanna read in this gloomy but cozy time. And there are lots of books on my list! 

I hope you enjoy your autumn days as much as I do.

P.S. Found this super cute fox mug in the city yesterday. It's from Maisons du monde if somebody is interested in this little fellow too.

Travel Diary: Autumn days in Edinburgh

Edinburgh has been on my travel-list for so long! So this autumn we finally booked our flights and I am so glad that we did - as it's become one of my favorite cities! It was such an amazing few days, cold, a bit of rain and even the sun came out! We had a very cute Airbnb in the Grassmarket area, located between two bookshops. From our living room we could see the Edinburgh castle, which was perfect!

Right after arriving at the airport, we took a bus that brought us to the city. Everything was easy and uncomplicated. We directly found a cute pizza restaurant called "Woodland" where we had finally lunch after 9 hours. We enjoyed yummy elderflower and raspberry lemonade, olives, pizza and veggie pasta.

I totally fell in love with this Bowie picture 

We started our mornings slow, enjoying earl grey tea and toast with hummus and cucumbers.

On our first real day we went (after breakfast) to the National Museum of Scotland. It was not that far away from our Airbnb place so we could easily walk there. We passed Grassmarket and the Greyfriars graveyard, Greyfriars Bobby and we were there. The entry was free and we spent the whole morning looking at animals, minerals and other interesting things.

The Grassmarket was not far away from our home, there was a vegan café called Pumpkin Brown Café, where we enjoyed pumpkin spice latte and hot cocoa.

I also went to Armstrongs Vintage shop at the Grassmarket. They have a huge collection of all vintage things you can imagine.

We walked down to Dean Village which is really worth seeing. The houses are cute and you can walk by the riverside of the water of Leith.

We visited the Waterstones Booksellers shop quite a lot. They have an amazing selection of books, I especially fell in love with the poetry and crime (Sherlock Holmes, victorian crime stories) sections. I of course bought books here: Ariel by Sylvia Plath, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and The Dun Cow Rib - A Very Natural Childhood by John Lister-Kaye.

And we also visited the Waterstones Café upstairs. First time it was super full and we couldn't get one of the popular tables at the window (from where you have a fantastic castle view). The following day we came early and we snatched a window table! The pumpkin spice latte was super delicious!

Coffee and cake time at The Elephant house. This café is also the birthplace of Harry Potter. This place seemed a bit over hyped, coffee and cake were delicious though and they sell nice postcards.

Armchair books. This bookshop was just right next to our Airbnb apartment. A cute little shop full of books, also antique ones. I didn't buy anything here.