Sophies week

Another week passed by very quickly. Another weekend dedicated to crafting and meeting nice people. My sister and I visited granny today and we played out favourite board game. Normally granny wins at least two out of three games but this time it was me who did that. My sister was quite dissapointed as she didn't wone a single game...

 

*Book* "Broken Homes" - Ben Aaronovitch. An old childrens novel.

*Song*Some Czech music.

*Craft* Finished taster stitching. Second half of the bag. Worked on my knitted scarf. Sunglasses case.

*Food* Pancakes. Blueberry muffin. Mars ice cream. Pasta with chicken and mustard sauce. Chicken with peanut sauce. A lot peanut butter things.

*Drink* Water

*Done* Crafted. Visited granny. Played boardgames. Spent a nice Sunday morning with friends.
*Met*Knitting friends. My granny. My sister.

*Bought* More  flowers for the balcony.
*Thought* That Eastern is really close now.

Sophies Week(end)

After a pretty normal week I had quite a busy weekend and am really happy with all the things I did as the last few weekends were really lazy.

So what I did:
running some errands (groceries shopping, library, recycling centre and so on)
bringing my sewing machine back to life with the help of my mum
sewing a birthday present  for a friend
spending an afternoon with my mum
having a long hapnap in the late afternoon
having a pamper evening including colouring my hair
spent a sleepless night reading, folding laundry, searching for sewing ideas and polishing my nails
finally going to sleep at three in the morning
having brunch with the bunch as my best friend called it. A nice brunch with four very close friends, a lot laughter and a lot to chat and catch up
sewing half of a bag
going for nordic walking for the first time in ages
having very light berry pancakes for dinner

So all in all it was a really nice weekend. And here comes the rest of the week:

*Film/series* youtube tutorials. Vlogs.

*Book* "Whispers underground" - Ben Aaronovitch. An old childrens novel.

*Song* The new Johnny Cash album "Out among the stars"

*Craft* Easter stitching. Birthday present for a friend. Half of a bag.

*Food* Brunch. Pancake. Strawberries. Too much Easter chocolate. Maltesers Easter bunny. Greek salad. Couscous salad.

*Drink* Tea.

*Done* Brunch with friends. A lot crafting. Afternoon with my mum.
*Met* My best friends. My parents.

*Bought* Tulips. Some  flowers for the balcony.
*Thought* That I have to go to the dentist really urgently :-(

Wednesday music- Salford days

Wednesday music is back with a new idea behind it. I often find that two songs somehow match up. For example songs that share a topic. I don't know which radio station it was who sometimes had a special and played only songs about a certain topic for an hour. So for example songs where the title had a number between one and hundred in it or songs talking about trains.
Or songs that were all covered by the same singer. I think especially in Folk and Country songs were pretty often sung by various people. And sometimes this kind of matches up.

One of the songs I've listened to quite often in the last weeks are Matchstalk men by Brian and Michael. The first line "He painted Salford smoky tops..." brings me to Ewan MacColl who was from Salford and sings about it in Dirty old town.. Kirsty MacColl is Ewans daughter and New England is a song I really like.

So here are this weeks Wednesday Music songs.

Sophies week

*Film/series* 101 Dalmatians.

*Book* "A fare country" - Daniel Mason. "Moon over Soho" - Ben Aaronovitch

*Song* New Orleans Hall Jazz Band.

*Craft* Dealt with my knitted hat. Bunny door decoration for Easter.

*Food* Muffin. Polenta bake. Pepper filled with cottage cheese. Fried rice. Cookie. Ice. 

*Drink*Ginger ice tea. Caramel macciato. Lemonade.

*Done* Met my best friend. Went for a drink with some friends. Crafted. Went for a walk in town.
*Met* Bestie. Three other friends.

*Bought* A blue blouse.
*Thought* That I hope that spring is coming back soon.

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