What has happened this week: 25th December 2011

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Marry Christmas!

• Watching Bones and Gossip Girl.
• A bit of snow, a bit of rain.
• Buying Cider! :-)
• The worst Christmas ever!

What has happened this week: 18th December 2011

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• 1000 edits in Wikipedia!
• Meeting my friends from secondary school!
• Delicious spaghetti!
• New scarf!

What has happened this week: 11th December 2011

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• Lots of work. Again.
• Buying Christmas presents. Again.
• Missing my dance classes.

Definition of beauty

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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." Audrey Hepburn

What has happened this week: 4th December 2011

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• Work, work and work.
• Chilly weather.
• Buying first Christmas presents.
• Rediscovering post-crossing.

Links for December 2011

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• Simply breakfast. Great photos. Food!
• Little reminders of love. Quotes, photos and more.
• Already pretty. Clothes.
• A domino Effect. My favourite. I love it! A bit about thrifty chick and much more about everything. All this written by Rebecca, "a 20-something lawyer, blogger, eBayer living in the beautiful city of Edinburgh."
• Sarah Rooftops. Photos, cats, Steve and much more.
• A cup of JO.  Full of everything.
• Thin and curvy. Clothes and underwear.
• Self-Conscious Posturing. Her name is Ginger. She has "a penchant for bicycles, knitting, spinning, food, general fabulosity and random acts of super-fabness."
• Not dressed as lamb. Clothes.
• Kendi everyday. Clothes again.
• Day2daywear. And again.
• Vganjar. And photos once more.

Paper on the wall

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Isn't it a lovely and original wallpaper? Would you like to have such decoration in the bedroom? Or bathroom?

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What has happened this week: 27th November 2011

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• Watching Midnight in Paris. This is an interesting story but I'm not a great fan of it.
• Pasta with garlic, tomato sauce and cheese. Yummy!
• Buying Safflower and Argan Oil.
• Hungarian and Belgian ratings has been downgraded.
• Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the US.

On the other side of the street

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I've found it via inspire me now. De Vaartkapoen - Tom Franzen is the sculptor and the photo is taken by Anselmo Cardoso De Sousa Sousa.

What has happened this week: 20th November 2011

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• A new blue-green anorak. I was about to buy a checked duffle coat but ended up buying something else instead. Now I have to find a cap and a scarf that will go with.
• A job interview.
• Stretching exercises. Lots of them.
• I love my dance classes. I almost did a pirouette. Almost
• Great scrabble art! Enjoy!
• Spain's general election.

Old sins cast long shadows

 

"What your grandfather would feel if he knew we had the police in the house - it's enough to make him turn in his grave. A strict Plymouth Brother he was all his life. The fuss there was when he found out I'd been attending Church of England services in the evening! And I'm sure that was harmless enough compared to murder."

And what's more shocking, Rex Fortescue who died during his morning tea in his office wasn't the only victim in this house. As time went by it became obvious that triple tragedy occurred. Miss Marple is the one who will manage to unravel the mystery.

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 "A Pocket Full of Rye" is a work of detective fiction written by Agatha Christie. A nursery rhyme titled Sing a Song of Sixpence is the leitmotif of the book and the key to finding out who the murderer was.

The novel kept me in suspense to the last chapter. Well written and full of different plots. So many that it may seem that such a story is impossible. Discover yourself!

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What has happened this week: 13th November 2011

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• Reading A Pocket Full of Rye. Almost finished.
• Watching re-opening Gala Bolshoi. It's really great! But I'm not sure whether this live show was really worth its actual price.
• Discovering the Lomography.
• One button jackets' nightmare.
• Too many sweets.
• Blackcurrant juice.
• Greece, Italy... Which country will be next?

The power of written goals

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Have you ever heard of Yale study on the effects of written goals? It is said that in 1953 scientists had surveyed the Yale class and found that 3 percent had written down goals for their futures at their college graduation. When the group met again in 1973, this 3 percent of the class were earning on average 10 times as much as the other 97% of graduates all together.

What a simple solution! Scribbling down your goals is the key to success.

Amazing? Isn't it?

There's only one problem! There was no such study at all! It's just a legend!

Yale University has announced that "no "goals study" of the Class of 1953 actually occurred". Don't believe everything you read or hear about. Even when it seems credible. Probably there is no scientific evidence that writing down your goals will help you to achieve success. But no one has proved that it will stop you from accomplishing your written objective.

Do you have your goals written down?

What has happened this week: 6th November 2011

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• Hazelnuts. I love hazelnuts!
• A new coffee mug.
• A phone job interview.
• Freezing and foggy cold mornings. Winter is coming to town.
• An emergency landing in Warsaw. Really frightening but brave and awesome.
• Flash floods in Genoa.
• Gmail’s new look.

Do you like shopping for clothes?

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Do you? Really? The recent research suggests that women hate shopping and almost half of them is reluctant to rifle through the store racks.

Personally, I put it down to the poor choice of clothes in shops. It may seem that the stores offer a wide variety of different styles, colours and sizes and most women should have no problem to find something suitable for them. But the reality shows that it's the other way round and a trip to the stores is a pretty depressing experience.

Shopping for clothes put women under the great pressure. Not only they have to find clothes that fit them perfectly but also should they look fashionable in their newly bought outfit. What's more, it would be wonderful if they didn't spend a fortune on their clothes as trends are changing every few months. Meeting all these demands is simply impossible for most, if not all, of us.

Well, to be precise, we have to make a tremendous effort even to buy clothes that really fit us. Most manufacturers don't notice that women differ from one another in their shapes and sizes. Thin women can have small or large breasts, be short or tall, their waist can be slim or not. There are hundreds of possibilities to take into consideration. 

Think twice before you answer. Do you really like shopping for clothes?

Print Your Coffee Break

I've found it via A Cup of Jo and I really adore it. You can buy this and other prints in Blanca's etsy shop.


Have a good Saturday!

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