- Sunday, May 29, 2016
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Oh my! I haven't done a Life Lately post in months!! No photo diaries, nothing! I know I keep you guys updated with everything that's going on in my life in my 'Monthly Retrospect' posts but I love a good picture heavy photo diary where I just take you along on a trip I took or simply just a day I spent with friends. So high time I did another one of these right? Last weekend we were treated with the nicest weather. It was 30 degrees, the sun was shining, the birds were tweeting and life was just good - except that I had to make a very important decision. Being a rather indecisive person, the struggle was real. In my head I knew what the right thing to do was but was I willing to take the consequences? At times like these, when important choices have to be made, I like to get out into nature and have a good old think about literally EVERYTHING. That way it all comes into perspective and I feel like I can see a lot clearer. The best place for me to do this is Wolfstein, an old castle ruin close to where I grew up. It's quite a hike up there and in the heat me and my friend got a little sweaty I admit, but the view from up there made it all worth it. We had a good old chinwag, looked at the pros and cons and pondered life in general and quarter life crises in particular. Safe to say I made my decision and we spent the rest of the day walking around the ruins, blowing on dandelions and eating ice creams in the sun. I descended back down with a much lighter heart than I went up with.
- Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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I've seen plenty of Buddha Bowls - or Happy Bowls as some call it - on Instagram and Pinterest this year and I was like 'Yeah that's the kind of food trend I've been waiting for!". Buddha Bowls are not only super easy to make, highly customisable to your own taste and incredibly nice to look at, no they're also really healthy! And a tasty, quick-to-make, healthy meal is just what I want in life. Ain't nobody got time and/or money for fancy superfood-y recipes eh? There's lots of ways to make these and you can sure find loads of inspiration on Pinterest but I thought I'd share with you the vegan version I've been cooking up and the dressing that brings the whole thing together perfectly if you ask me. So here it comes:
- Sunday, May 22, 2016
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With the weather getting warmer comes the time for bare legs and more skin on show. I love being able to finally wear skirts and shorts out and about without freezing my butt off even though there's still some room for improvement temperature wise. The thing is though, after the long dark winter my skin is far from ready to be shown, I'm as white as white can be, a ghost if you like. There's no lovely tan, no healthy glow, just dull, pale, dry skin that accentuates every little imperfection I have going on. Now I'm not one for fake tan so that's that option out of the window but what really helped me confidence wise when it comes to getting my legs out is this gorgeous BB Body Milk by Biotherm.
- Thursday, May 19, 2016
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Last Friday me and a couple of friends had a private little makeup workshop at Lombagine, to learn more about what colours suit each of us and what the best techniques are when it comes to applying the products. As I'm a bit of a makeup geek anyway there wasn't much I hadn't heard before but it was still a nice experience. And who would have thought I'd suit green eyeshadow? GREEN! Not me that's for sure, but it worked so well I'm tempted to raid the shops for my perfect green!
- Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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A few weeks ago I entered a little international giveaway on Lose the Road to win some bath products from Canadian brand live clean. And I was lucky enough to win these beauties! Thank you so much once more Renee for hosting this giveaway and for sending this lovely little parcel all the way over here to Germany. I was so excited to give them a go and practically jumped in the shower as soon as I had the photos taken.
If you, like me and most Europeans didn't hear about live clean before, they're a Canadian brand focusing on natural products only. That means their products are environmentally friendly while still being effective and a joy to use. I was quite impressed reading up on them actually! I think buying products like these and therefore making a healthier choice not only for yourself but for nature as well is so so important to do. It sends the right message to all companies using nasties in their products just for the sake of raising their own profits. I know this has been said lots and you may be tired of hearing it already, but we only do have this one world and we better start looking after it wherever we can, it's not too late yet to make small changes for the better. And if we all do it will make a BIG impact in the end. The live clean products are 96 - 98% plant derived, they don't contain phthalate or parabens which can be the cause of allergies and rashes amongst other things.
The four products I have here with me are a shampoo, conditioner, body wash and hand soap. The hand soap is enriched with monoi oil, which is used to make your skin feel soft and supple, protected and hydrated. The other three products are from the argan oil range, which has restorative and replenishing powers. All four products smell absolutely divine and are so nice to use. The body wash and soap build a nice lather on the skin, which means you really don't need a lot of product. And can we also just take a moment to admire how nicely designed the bottles are? They look pretty and feel good too, gosh I'm in love! I'm really impressed with these and am glad to have them standing on my shower rack ready for me to use them again for my evening shower tonight.
Have you ever tried live clean products? What did you think? And what are your favourite natural bath and body products? Leave me a comment to let me know.
Lots of Love,
Jess xx
- Sunday, May 15, 2016
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I've been wanting to get a new bike for years now and had my eye on several vintage looking models until I came across this one and my decision was made. I used to cycle loads, to school, to meet my friends, to get to the lido in the summer and even proper little bike trips to lakes and pretty spots in the area. I always really loved doing it until my bike started to break down on the regular and flat tyres were basically a daily occurence. So I stopped using it all together so that by now it's properly unusable and I desperately needed a new one.
- Sunday, May 08, 2016
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I've seen Renee from the blog Lose The Road talk about why she decided to start writing her blog and thought it was such a nice idea not only to let you in on why but also for me to think back to two years ago me and my reasons for starting. I've been writing this little blog for a whole 25 months now and I think I'm now able to look back on what I once hoped this blog to be and do for me as well as whether I still think that way about blogging. What you guys don't know is, that I wanted to start writing a blog for years before I actually started doing it. I've been pondering names and designs and topics, I read books about blogging and got loads of inspiration from other blogs before I ever even signed up for a Blogger account. But that's just my slightly perfectionist me that thought it could possibly be the end of the world if I, say, chose a name that I wouldn't like for the rest of my life. I worked on the design of my blog for an entire month before I set it live with my first ever post on it, which was a foodie post about pancake day two years ago. It makes me cringe to look at it but for the sake of full disclosure and because we all gotta start somewhere I'll link it here for you haha. I think I've definitely come a long way photography wise! But enough of all that, here's why I wanted to start this blogging journey in the first place.
- Thursday, May 05, 2016
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You know when you're trying to be really healthy and all of a sudden there's this MEGA craving for fast food, chocolate and crisps (and basically everything else that isn't all that good for you). You do right? I knew I couldn't be the only one! I recently found a way to satisfy that craving for salty, crunchy things with quinoa crisps (no it's not the same as Walker's ready salted but it does the trick!). But I just found them to be really really pricey so I thought why not make some myself. I googled and worked my way through a few recipes until I found a way to make them that is both easy and yummy. So for any of you who are in the market for a healthy homemade snack, here's my quinoa crisps recipe:
- Tuesday, May 03, 2016
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I've been looking forward to writing this recap more than any other I've done so far if I'm honest. I don't know about you guys but for me April was just an all round good month. More than that, it was a GREAT month! Spring is finally here (with the occasional wintery temper tantrum..) and all that sunshine and the clear blue skies make me feel soooo happy! It also makes my blogging life so much easier that there's actual daylight around for more than 3 hours a day! I can take blog photos at 6pm if I so please and there will be enough light for my photos to look good, I can't even say how happy that makes me - I'm sure you get where I'm coming from if you're a blogger yourself! #thestruggleisreal haha! But I'm rambling again, here's what went down this month :)
- Sunday, May 01, 2016
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