It seems like there are delicious popsicle recipes all over the web this summer! I love it. They are a cheap treat and you can make them really healthy.
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Get Inspired: Blog Ideas for 2014
Write more. Paint more. Photograph more.
Do something amazing. Go down a different path.
Challenge myself.
New year’s resolutions — you might make ’em, or you may think they’re trite and a waste of time. Whatever the case, you’re here, aren’t you? Exploring WordPress.com, contemplating your next blog post, and scheming up 2014. We closed out 2013 with a showcase of year-long, daily, and weekly projects, so let’s brainstorm ways, big and small, to get your work out into the world in 2014.
Think big
Photographer and writer Stephanie Dandan at Infinite Satorisets off for Asia soon to work on a photo storybook called The Wanderers. Traveling solo, Stephanie will meet other explorers on her journey and tell their stories. She lays out her project on Kickstarter, and its design aesthetic — and her nomadic and adventurous spirit — echo the work she publishes on her blog.
But thinking…
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SWEATER WEATHER
Today, I stumbled upon Maiedae’s blog. These questions … gray autumn day… Savannah made great video, but my video making skills are still on level “beginner”, so instead of wasting my time for making clips and editing I decided to write an answers. I am tagging anyone who astray on my blog and would like to participate. If you are good in videos – make it, if you are not – write an answers (like I did).
QUESTIONS:
1. Favourite candle scent?
2. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate?
3. What’s the best fall memory you have?
4. Which makeup trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eyeliner?
5. Best fragrance for fall?
6. Favourite Thanksgiving food?
7. What is Autumn weather like where you live?
8. Most worn sweater?
9. Must-have nail polish this fall?
10. Football games or jumping in leaf piles?
11. Skinny jeans or leggings?
12. Combat boots or Uggs?
13. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype?
14. Favourite fall TV show?
15. What song really gets you into the fall spirit?
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1. Favorite candle scents: jasmine flower or citrus like lemon.
2. Tea, especially mint tea & hot chocolate – especially homemade ciobar which I already posted about. I don’t drink coffee, only decaf, sometimes.
3. Trip to Vienna. We were going to see Francisco Goya’s exhibition.
4. Winged eyeliner. Red lips always 🙂
5. Something that leaves a cloud of the scent behind like….Kenzo Jungle
6. In Croatia (South Eastern Europe) we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving day, but I looove turkey with special pasta called mlinci. Yummy!!! But anyway, when I look around myself and see so many reasons for depression, an anxiety and all that jazz, I’m grateful for everything!
7. As I live on 45th parallel, which means half way from Equator and North Pole, an Autumn is typical Autumn here. It started very warm this year, an average temperature in October was 20 degrees (which is not average for October), while now, an Autumn shown it’s real face and it’s so cold, brrrr. We had a phase of yellow and red leaves, now the trees are bare, windy, gray sky, it’s raining,men!, … Tnx God for chestnuts and tangerines, some of light spots in this zombie – like weather.
8. Gray, vintage. My neighbor gave it to me when she was cleaning out her closet, she used to wear it in her teens. It’s soooo warm & comfy.
9. Everything bright colored because I’m sick of black and all shades of gray. When my wardrobe chameleon – esque turns and fits into grayness around me, let’s wear the bright details. Even if it’s just a nail polish.
10. Jumping in leaf piles. My boyfriend is watching football all the time so I’m sick of it. When I walk my dog, I can’t resist to walk trough the leaf piles.
11. Skinny jeans. Leggings only in a)black color and b)paired with the dress. Wearing leggings as a trousers is the biggest fashion/style mistake that can happen to someone.
12. Combat boots. Uggs are ugly.
13. Honestly, I have never tried this, but when I googled, it looks very tasty, smoothy… I mean for the homemade ones. Like this one which looks like calling me “make me!”, “make me!”, “drink me, I’m so delicious!”
14. Favorite fall TV show? Well, I’m watching everything interesting which I stumble upon the TV. Somehow, I always finish watching crime and forensic TV shows or documentaries.
15. Ramones – She’s the one! That one Autumn we were hanging in friend’s home, listening “Road to ruin” days & nights and it reminds me on that good old times.
SMITTEN BLURBS VII.
I loooove this song! (Russian & Croatian edition)
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thissketches of fashion during the whole 20th centuryby Irina Ivanova
Alex McQueen x Damien Hirst scarf detail
Christopher Kane‘s embroided details on jackets which looks like Sonja’s paintings. Like two artists were somehow metaphysically connected
this skirt
This machine for guitar picks is hilarious. And every rocker’s must have. (And won’t be missed for shoppaholics)
Robie Baauw’s interpretation of Boudewijn Neuteboom
I wouldn’t mind living in one of this houses. Or in so colorful neighborhood.
This made me laughing out loud. Some Vicky’s style tip is – find an inspiration in cartoon characters 😉
This prism rainbow rays of light
Dreaming about these oriental necklaces
These Armenian knitted socks looks sooo comfy and warm for this cold days.
City DNA by Lu Xinjian
This awesome project called human tower. It’s all about the trust – All for one, one for all!
Lovely Croatian pin – up girl Miss Bo as a little red riding hood. Photo by Veronika Šantoši
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8 REASONS WHY I COULD NEVER BE A SOCIALITE
Hello!
Hope you had a great time! Bear with me, I was very busy, I had to study but the effort has paid off and I passed an exam!!! YAY!!! And it was the biggest one, which means that I’m only few small steps away from my Master Degree 🙂
In the meantime, I put the blogging on the stand by. I was busy but also uninspired to write anything. Now I read some other blogs & got some ideas. Lorna gave me a really good idea. Socialite(s). And why I could never be the one?
According to Wikipedia, socialite is – “A socialite is someone who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable events attended by others of similar standing.” … “In the 21st century, the term “socialite” is still attached to being wealthy and socially recognized. The lines between being a socialite and celebrity have since become blurred due to the influence of both popular culture and the media. Celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are examples of 21st-century socialites due to their ability to attract media attention and fame simply based on their connections and associations.”
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Reading between the lines, socialites are girls/women, born in rich families and raised in wealthy environment. They don’t have particular public known job which makes them famous, so they are – famous for being famous.
Above mentioned Paris and Kim are world known just for – being. People love them or hate them, but their lives are exposed in every media, so let’s say that whatever they did is world known. Paris always make some scandal during the partying, while Kim’s life is opened in her reality show. Which is not so high – rated in Croatia.
In my country, they actually don’t exist. Okay, here we have the kids of the wealthy & rich parents who are hanging in their own elite social circles, are going out to an exclusive places, are driving super-cars. And they are known as a “golden youth”. But none of them wants to expose their lives, and lots of them are very ambitious so they are usually studying abroad. So, they are actually not socialites. And if I was a rich girl, na na na na na na…, why would I also follow them. A.k.a. – not be a socialite:
1. I would go to college, but I won’t be a sorority girl!
From all sisterhoods named after letters from Greek – alphabet, I would be – the whole alphabet. I hate making differences between wealthy and poor ones, because it’s not – human for me. I would treat every one equally, be good & kind with everybody. And I hate all that small groups and clans which became formed by time, so it’s all matters where you belong…hm, sorry, but I’ll rather be lone wolf than just another sheep.Also – all these intrigues between them,… Bitch please! If I will judge someone, it will be only based on someones’s character. Maybe it’s because of my “You can sit with us!” attitude.
Oh, and I would go to college because – education is very good and helpful thing 😉 Today you are on the top, tomorrow on the bottom, so if you have the knowledge – no winter for Eskimos!
2. Living in a villa in elite district, enclosed with high fence…
WTF? Am I a human being or a special species of animal to live in a special resort??? Honestly, I wouldn’t like to be in a same neighborhood everyday, living in a fear of being robbed if I leave my home because I want to go to city center. Or even worse – to employ some giant with sniper for protection. No, tnx! I wouldn’t like to finish like the characters from James Graham Ballard’s “Running wild” 😉
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3. If I have a sex tape, and if the whole world have seen my sexual intercourse – I would kill myself!
Literally speaking, I would really kill myself. For me, making love is something super – intimate, only between me & my Darling. If I’d like to see how do I look when I’m making love, I’d buy a huge mirror/s. Maybe some partly nude art photos, made by professional artistic photographer, with a slight scent of erotics, but – maybe. This is where I can set a limit. Nothing in motion. I certainly wouldn’t walk around the world with a big smile on my face while the people around knows how good (or bad) in bed I am, and how my pussy looks like! I’m not that kinky!
4. Being always dressed up? Get me outta here!
Let’s face it – I love to dress up. When I’m in the mood, I shine. I have everything done – hair, nails, perfect outfit, perfect make up and all that jazz. But I don’t have that much energy to look like that every day. I have – bad hair day, bad legs day, bad tummy day, bad nails day, bad-at-all day, just like I have super awesome days. So, what’s the point of being all dressed up, perfect MUAH if I’m just going to shopping to grocery store. Or buying whole new wardrobe – I would have to try the clothes in the cabin anyway.
5. Flying with a private jet
I admit – I have pyro phobia (fear of fire) and fear of flying with a plane. Especially if the plan is small. My first flight was from Zagreb to Brussels, in an air – bus. Not just that one ordinary tram is much more comfy. I had such a big panic attack when plane got tilted, my arms were so sweaty that I soaked everything around me with my sweat. My heart was beating like mix-shaker during the turbulence. The plane can be equipped with huge bed, TV with all my favorite movies, jacuzzi, special ambulance with sedatives and massage room, but it still won’t decrease my fear of flying with a plane.
6. Pressure to be fit
I just gained some weight. I’m not fat, but am not skinny (tnx to genetics). If I would be socialite, I would have to be perfectly thin and skinny to fit all that pretty clothes. It would mean – attending the gym 5 days a week, eating small portions of salads, drinking diet cola and all that jazz. As a former anorexic, to me it’s inconceivable. Especially if I would gain one pound, every tabloid will write a huge essays about that. Screw it, life is too short to say “NO!” to chocolate, waffels, sundae,…
7. My music taste is at odds with the mainstream
I’m listening rock, punk, Jamaican reggae, dub and ska, and electronic music like breakbeat, drum’n’base. When somebody ask me what am I listening, I tell them the names of bands and artist of which they never heard about. I like to go out on a places which are like ex New Yorker CBGB, clubs of Camden Town or Roxy in London, Tacheles in Berlin, Gyar in Budapest, Metelkova in Ljubljana… There I can enjoy in the music that I like. People usually judge that places, calling them “scum venues” (my mom is the best example), but I can’t see myself in some fancy bar drinking Martini or Dom Perignon. And if I will be socialite, I wouldn’t be able to go out there and to be relaxed and to enjoy because I would be tagged as a poseur. Which I would be. No, thanks! I dislike mainstream but I would have to go to kiss asses to Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Justin Bieber… horror!
8. Making a brand of myself – OMG!
O.k., I’m just a human being, made of blood, bodes and meat, I’m not a firm! Or corporation! When I used to write about fashion, I was a member of good blogging community – Independent fashion bloggers, but almost every 3rd article was like : “How to make brand of yourself?” with tips, tricks and all that jazz. I’ve never been interested in self – promotion, just like I’m still not. So why should I have – key pendants, necklaces, fire lighters, shoes,… with my picture on it. It’s such a pap. To be honest, it will be a lot easier for me to have my own jewelry, shoes or clothing line, my dreams will be a lot more easier to come true. But it’s not point about having that, the point is – the process of achieving that. So, I’ll rather work hard to improve my creativity to make my dreams come true because of who I am. Not because of my family name. Or even worse – because of my sex – tape. Bitch, PLEASE!
Sour Cherry Ciobar
When the sky is gray, there are some things which can make life prettier. I find my guilty pleasure in hot chocolate drink. This time I decided to spice it up with some cherry syrup. I was a little bit skeptical, but in the end, it was all okay.
RECIPE:
CIOBAR:
1 tablespoon cocoa powder, bitter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon plain flour
1 cup whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon plain flour
1 cup whole milk
6 easpoons cherry juice/ syrup/ liquor
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Mix the dry ingredients in a thick sauce pan.
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Mix in the milk, a tbsp at a time until it becomes smooth and then add the rest of the milk at a faster pace.
- Put 3 teaspoons of cherry syrup (or liquor) in the cups.
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Heat mixing all the time for about 5 minutes until thick. Pour into 2 cups and serve steaming hot with a spoon on the side.
- Add some marshmallows, candy cane, whatever you like.(from food.com, with some my own additions)
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- TADAAAAA!!!!
WISHES
1. Scruffy Little Cat handmade fragrance lamp , 2. watch with butterfly pendant, 3. phone holders
4., 5., 6. – Scruffy Little Cat jute bags which can represent me (until I get one for myself)
7. silver ring with labradorite, 8. Adidas neo flamingo T-shirt, 9. jewelry holder
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Sonja Pavlina – “The Heads”
SMITTEN BLURBS VI.
This Game of thrones parody
This ideas for snacks. I’m laughing out loud!
and pallet sign posts via labradors &glitter
Jordi Gonzalez’s illustration of Khaleesi
This cup is soooo lovely!!!
This Darren Booth’s illustrations
This is sooo cool idea!!!
White Caleidoscope 