The Versatile Blogger Award

The lovely Miss Passiflora has awarded me with this nice green batch:

I feel honoured, really love blogging and can't believe that the first year with my new hobby is already gone! Thank you to my readers...you are a small group but a very faithful and inspiring one!

And now the seven random facts about me:

1. I want to be a writer. I want t write a kids book. About a character called Mr. Roborowski.

2. I own more trousers that don't fit than ones that do.

3. My wedding dress came from New Look and cost 25£.

4. I hate football and feel really really sick and uncomfortable when I see all the German flags out. A nightmare that happens every two years and brings out my extremely aggressive side.

5. I watch too many interior design magazines and blogs and therefore find bookcases or handy cupboards for under sinks bourgeois.

6. I'm planning my second tattoo and hope to get it done soon before christmas in London.

7. I will hand in my BA thesis in early january and haven't written a single word yet ;-)

Flaconi Flatrate...was fuer eine Chance :-) !!!

Bei Alice habe ich von dieser tollen Aktion von flaconi.de erfahren. Es gibt eine Beauty Flatrate im Wert von 90Euro monatlich zu gewinnen!!! Das waere doch mal was fuer mich als Parfumfreak und durchs Bloggen immer doller Angefixte was Beautyprodukte angeht...im Geiste mache ich schon eine Einkaufsliste*lach. Wenn ihr noch Inspirationen fuers Fest sucht dann schaut doch mal im onlineshop vorbei!

Secondhand Treasure IV

I instantly got excited when I spotted this lovely dark brown leather over the shoulder bag from Aigner. My husband wanted to ask for the price but I first was hesitating as I thought it would be something ridiculous anyway. How good he asked anyway!!!  (followed by a fun little conversation: "Excuse, how much is the bag? "The pram you mean?" "No, I mean the bag not the pram" "You are interested in the pram?" "No, THE BAG" - do we look that desperate for a pram?!?)
Turned out the bag was only 5 £, I mean 5£ for a proper Aigner bag, used but in very good condition!!! The lady showed that she found it hard to part from it but her collection apparently was too big and she wanted to downsize...lucky me, and I hope she knows her baby is in good hands now :-) I love car boot sales...

where: Shepperton car boot sale
price: 5£

you'll never guess where I have been!?!

...sometimes even a bag addict as I am can control her desire extremely easy.

Where did all those black cotton city bags come from? Do they have a special name? Why do people buy them???
They are so boring and ordinary, I'm sure even in the most crappy parts of the world you should be able to find a better souvenir. Seen them in London, Paris and Berlin for a quite a while but why on earth buying one with the most un-eventful and ordinary town names on as well???
Is it still in the tradition of the long gone Louis Vuitton graffiti bags? Hope not...
I just don't get it. I'm aware that probably a few people reading this here own one and might feel slightly offended but at least I made you aware of that now and there is still enough time to get your hands on a more decent model :-) Cause life's too short for ugly handbags :-)

the strokes

A simple post for a simple but oh so effective product.
The Tangle Teezer. An unusual hair brush that looks a bit like made for horses or children but don´t be fooled by that. It goes through hairknots much easier and less painfull than any conventional hairbrush I have tried so far. And it works just as good on my husbands long mane as it does to detangle my super fine baby hair.

you can get it in Boots or on amazon.

I like Prince Vladimir...

www.coolhunting.com

...as he is a wonderful sounding vanilla, sprices and citrus green tea. The insider might have guessed it by now: I have fallen in love with Kusmi teas. And I haven´t even tried them yet as there is no shop with a decent range nearby.
The beautiful beautiful tins the teas come in first caught my eye last year in a Parisian Monoprix. I looked at them...looked at the price...and didn´t buy anything. Because, yes, they are really expensive. But as careful with money as I sometimes am as easy I´m convinced at other times to simply need something no matter what.
So next time in London I will go and will get some of the Russian flavoured black tea mixes as they simply sound stunning. And I´m sure there will be a use for the tins at home once they are empty...

Go and check the beauties out yourself:
 http://www.kusmitea.com/en/index.html

sleeping like Amelie...

...see what I found by pure luck last night.

 

 

www.allposters.de

www.allposters.de

Amélie Poulain´s bedroom pictures, on a special offer for 13,99 each on allposters.de/co.uk.
Simply had to order them and can´t wait to hang them over our bed.