Favourite things at the moment

Another thing I love on youtube are monthly favourites, but not the ones limited to make up but the ones showing various things loved at the moment.

At the moment my favourite things are

reading - this is book 15 this year!

blueberry drink from IKEA

my new "Rättvik" glasses from IKEA

the cubby-stick dupe from Catrice

tulips

the violet yarn for my knitting project

The Body Shop Blueberry shower gel. As it was a limited edition I stocked up on it and hope now that it will come into the regular range

wearing spring shoes

Not in the picture are Ro's Argan Body Conditioner from Lush which I forgot to picture and the Lush Fizzbanger bath bomb since I used it on Saturday evening....

Sophies week

*Film/series* Youtube videos. Wanted to watch Letters to Juliet but the DVD wasn't working...

*Book* "Er ist wieder da." -  Timur Vermes. "Die Lust zu leben" - Françoise Sagan. "Remarkable Creatures" -  Tracy Chevalier

*Song* "New England" - Kirsty MacColl. "Mack the knife" - Bobby Darin. "Matchstack men" - Foster and Allen.

*Craft* Restarted my knitted hat. Finally framed my Baaatle-of-Hastings stitching.

*Food* Pizza. Rösti. Veggie Cottage pie. Blueberry Muffin. Apple Crumble. Gnocchi with chicken and veggies.

*Drink* Tea. Orange juice. Blueberry drink from IKEA.

*Done* Met a friend for dinner. Celebrated Grannys birthday with a family thingie. Cleaned my balcony. Spent time on the balcony. Went for a long walk. Edited some photograhps. Knitted with friends. Took a long, nice bath.
*Met* My knitting friends. My extended family (extended in our case means 11 people, so not too many...)

*Bought* Tulips. A notebook. Ordred two pairs of shoes and a tunic.

*Thought* That spring makes you feel just great.

The reading bit might look like a lot to read, but basically I just read "Er ist wieder da" which is a book about Hitler reappearing in 2011 and both funny and scary. "Die Lust zu leben" which is a fictive biography of actress Sarah Bernhardt was laying around half-read and I just  finished it. And from my new book I just read 60 pages while in the bathing tub yesterday - yes, it was a long bath.

What's in my bag

What's in my bag videos are my favourite things on youtube and the best way to discover new youtubers. But as I'm not taking videos here is a written what's in my bag.

This is the current state of my handbag, but soon I will also add my sunglasses to it if the weather stays like that.

My agenda is from the Woodland Series from Paperchase which I really had to resist buying the whole series. But I still bought the agenda, notebooks, pens, stickers and post-its....

The bag with the lovely Liberty Print holds a small notebook, handcream (Bluebrry by Cath Kidston), handwipes and some things not pictures like a small hairbrush, coins, hairbands, painkillers etc.

Tissues

My beloved Cath Kidston purse. I have two other purses, a green one with rose print from Cath Kidston and a blue by Ollie&Nic and use them alternating.

My I-phone with the case I bought in NY two years ago.

Chewing gums, a mirror, lipcare and the Woodland pen matching my agenda.

Lipstick of the day - or sometimes rather all-the-lipsticks-worn-in-the-last-10-days

Random facts about Sophie

The last Random facts about Sophie were back in October and I feel like talking about them again...

I still have two of the cakes I made for "THE  event" in my freezer... And we really gave some cakes away... We passed some over to our local sports club who needes cakes for an event and as quite a few of their people were helping us with our event we decided to help them too. And my sister took a whole lot of cake to work, but there are still some left over which we should eventually eat...
But baking cake is more interessting than defrosting them...

I eventually moved my Itunes over to the new laptop. But I still don't like the app screen.

The knitting/stitching events with my friends was really nice with a lot of crafting, eating, booze and chats. Thanks C for walking back to the house at least five times to get some more gin&tonic while we had the campfire.
Although I came quite far with my christmas picture that weekend I gave up on it afterwards as I couldn't see it anymore and knew that I would never hang it.

I still look for pictures for my living room. Some days ago I said to somebody that I actually feel like framing some nice liberty print fabric. And guess what I got for Christmas from my bestie? Liberty print patchwork fabric! <3 

I think I reached a point where I have to move on in some way and am currently looking for a new job.

Only three more months till I'll get a new kitchen and bathroom. I'm moving in with my parents for this time and by mid June I will hopefully be back in a nice "new" flat.

My Mum told me last week: "We're moving." I asked her if Dad knows about it and she said yes. So I asked if he agrees... No.... She knows of somebody who will be moving in September and really likes that flat and since the landlord is her employer chance to get the flat are almost 100%. But Dad doesn't want to move - yet - as this means decluttering his life...

My sister is turning a van into a caravan with help of my Dad. She asked me last week if I would come on a camping holiday with her when the caravan is finished. Of course I said yes and now we're already discussing how we can have our holiday ritual in a camper. When we go on holiday together we normally buy carrots and a dip on our way back to the hotel and then watch a strange movie on the telly and eat carrots. And before we leave the room for breakfast we normally have a cookie. We're living life on the edge :-)

Sophies week

Hello everyone! *imitating Mirandas voice*

Long time not seen. How are you? Back in October and November life has been very busy due to "THE event" which went very well and which I enjoyed. But afterwards I was just in the mood for some days of laziness, followed by a little holiday in Bath. And then life went on and I kind of lost track with blogging. But now I feel like I want to blog again every now and then and already restarted my (German) book blog back in January.

So here goes another Sophies week, though without pictures - once more.

*Film/series* Nothing yet and I don't think I'll watch something tonight.

*Book* "The turning point" - Judith Lennox

*Song* "Baby ride easy" - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash. "It's a real good feeling" - Peter Kent.

*Craft* Finished the first wrist warmer. Started the second wrist warmer. Tree with paper leaves. "Birthday in a can" for a friend.

*Food* Brunch. Homemade bread. Soup. Pasta. Muffin. Chocolate. Cinnamon roll. Banana-chocolate crumble. Baked potato.

*Drink* Tea. Tea. Tea

*Done* Met my bestie for brunch and a late Christmas celebration and an early "anniversary" celebration. Went shopping for presents. Cuddled with my favourite little man, L (4 months) Baked. Made holiday plans with my sister. Been tired and had a very long nap today. Rediscovered my favourite hairdo and feel much better about my hair now.
*Met* My bestie and her boyfriend. My parents. Some knitting friends including little L.

*Bought* Lush Skindrink. Henna. Blueberry shower gel from The Body Shop. Some presents. Tulips.

*Thought* That there is actually nothing to be sad about. That am glad my sister takes it relatively easy that her boyfriend moved out.

Random facts about Sophie

I bought a new laptop earlyer this week; a Sony Vaio again. So far I really like it though I'm not yet too fond of the new home screen with the Apps. The idea might be great but I'm used to my own system of how I have my stuff on the desktop so that I can access what I need quickly. So I don't really need the homescreen.

As my external harddrive went haywire when I tried to copy all my stuff on it I moved everything to the new laptop with my 8GB USB... Which took ages and so far I don't felt like moving my itunes...

I will spend the weekend with friends for a huge crafting session which is quite good as I need to work on my christmas picture. Otherwise it will be the third christmas in a row where I try to finish it on time and fail.

Only three weeks till THE event of the year - which will also meen two superbusy weeks.

As we'll need tons of cake for THE event I'm currently having a small bakery at home... Plan is to have 3 lemon drizzle, 3 lilly cake - still haven't blogged about it... - two carott cakes and two cheesecakes. Beside the cheesecakes I will prepare everything in advance and freeze it. Good that I have such a big freezer!

I'm a massive Starbucks lover. I love the busy atmosphere and for me it is a creative place as I often craft there witn friends.

Wednesday Music

Todays wednesday music is about one of my favourite pianists; Russ Conway. I could listen to his music almost all day every day. And one of the videos even have cats in it... What more do we want on Wednesday evening?