Recipe - Low Carb Raffaellos

During the holiday season it is so hard to keep away from unhealthy food, because they are everywhere and they are so tempting.

OOTD - Family Dinner

Today we are having Christmas dinner at my mom's house. Nothing fancy, only closest family members, so nobody actually dressed up, except me.

Manicure - Glitter Overload

Unbelievable how fast time flies - next week is Christmas. This is my last week at work before holidays. I am totally in Christmas mood and so excited for upcoming holidays. On top of all that I just made fresh manicure, that is full of glitters.

Low Carb Gingerbreads

At this time shelves in stores are full of different kind, shape and size treats, it is such a huge temptation, but you want to stay fit and healthy. Today I am sharing recipe for one of the most popular Christmas treat - gingerbreads.

Christmassy Manicure

The Advent has began, I am not quite sure how it goes in different cultures, but for me it is quiet period, also period of reflection. This is how it was represented, teached to me from childhood.

Now I am very far from my homeland, here we even don't have snow, what (for me) is one of "must haves" for Christmas.

All that became a source of inspiration for this manicure.

DIY - Christmas Tree

The time runs so fast, it feels like just yesterday we celebrated New Year and now it is nearly Christmas. This Sunday starts official Christmas countdown (1. Advent).

Everything all around is so Christmassy and I have just done new Christmas related DIY to bring that Christmas spirit to my desk.

Fresh Manicure

Oh, it feels so good to have fresh manicure, especially after some time without any. Lately I have some kind of overwhelming of ideas for my nails, I want to try different techniques, but I can't decide what I want the most and end up with nothing. 

DIY - Crocheted Jewelery Set

Finally I finished my latest DIY and can share it with you 😊

Pumpkin (Cheese) Cake

Whole month of October it was all about Halloween and pumpkins 🎃 so I also finally got my hands on making one pumpkin pie/cake. 🍰

Healthy Breakfast Idea

Today I am sharing a delicious, easy and healthy breakfast idea. Don't want to call it a recipe, because all ingredients and proportions can be easily changed, so there are endless variations of taste that will never makes it boring. Basically only method (idea) stays pretty much the same. 

Chrysanthema Lahr 2015 [Photo Diary]

Oh, gosh, I have neglected my blog for so long (well, actually I had some tehnical difficulties - no Internet, and so I enjoyed my cut off from the world) but I am back. 

Trying New Trend IT Up Nail Polish

I had an opportunity to try out new nail polish from German drugstore DM +dm-drogerie markt Deutschland new brand called Trend It Up. I got nail polish called No1 Nail Polish in color 070. The color is very beautiful, even thought at first I wasn't shure about it.

This is how it looks on my nails. 

OOTD - Get Comfy In Autumn

So the Autumn has officially arrived, the weather got more cold, what makes me get in more cosy, comfy clothes.  But this transitional period while nights are cold and days get hot is most annoying, because I don't know how to dress up - don't want to freeze and get cold and also don't want to carry around a stack of clothes.

Amethyst Stone Glitter

Autumn is nearly here and slowly everything gets in more darker tones. Recently I bought new gel from Depend GelLack collection, it is dark purple with different size glitters. This gel looks gorgeous (especially in person), in some way it remains me of night sky or galaxy.

OOTD - The Walk In The Town

It is already last days of August, that's means - summer is nearly over. While the weather is still nice and sunny, need to take a chance and spend more time outside.

Holiday Manicure

My holidays have started and it is just the right time to do my nails. This time I also used Essence Gel Nails top and base coats, but with other brand regular nail polishes. 
So these are my holiday nails!

OOTD - Ready For A Road Trip

Finally my week of work has came and I am going on a road trip to my home town. This means about 24 hours on the road. Uhh..
For this reason I need to wear as comfy clothes as possible.
When I choose what to wear, I couldn't decided between shorts and leggings, but day before leave I checked weather forecast and went for shorts cause leggings may be to warm. Also I think this top is just perfect - it's black and has floral pattern on it so if I accidentally spill something on me it won't be so noticeable.

Simple DIY Dress Makeover

I have had this dress for years and I liked it alot, but nothing last forever. Dress it self look good, but the lace part is worn off and in close looks ugly. As I liked this dress I couldn't just throw it out (my hand just not rise to do that). So finaly I came to idea to make a skirt of it.

Trying Out Essence - The Gel Nail Polish

This year in spring Essence released new gel polishes that don't require lamp. I read many good reviews and wanted to try it, but for different reasons I got my hands on it just now. These gel polishes are very inexpensive - top and gel cost €2,45 each and color polishes €1,55.

Final result really looked and felt like gel, but it even didn't last me a week. As far as I know their previous gels should last up to 10 days, so I thought the new one will last about same. For me it lasted about 2 days, then appeared first chips and air bubbles under the polish.

Well I am bit disappointed, but on the other hand what I expected when it is so cheap? Over all I liked and definitely try it again, maybe next time I will be more lucky.

OOTD - Bohemian Style

When I saw this dress, I knew - I need to get it. It has beautiful turquoise color and the pattern itself is wonderful. 

Flowery Toes

I still am in this pastel color mood, so on my toes I went for this light blue (or green-blue) color and then draw flowers on every toenail. Final result is interesting and new to me, because usually when I do nail art on my toes - it is only on thumb. 

OOTD - Sunday Walk

Hi, there!

Colmar [Photo Diary]

The weather is sooo freaking hot, so I don't even want to move because I am already sweating (probably you don't want to know that, but I know many feel the same). So I decided to check my computer and do some sorting and cleaning and I realized that I still have some photos that I haven't posted from our trip to Colmar in France few week ago (looks like that lately France is our no.1 travel destination).

It is nice city, there are a lot to see, but it was so crowded, that I couldn't do proper shots of top sight. Well, there still are some for little sneak peak :)

French Manicure

For a while I had bold colors on my nails, now I just wanted something simple, neutral, feminine... so french manicure is perfect! 

Mulhouse, France [Photo Diary]

One of my latest posts I posted photos from zoo that I have bee to in Mulhouse. This time I wanted to share some views of the city. 

I didn't captured as much top showplaces, so here is more of street views and just a random things, views that caught my attention.

Manicure - Red With Green

This time there are a lot of things going on my fingers. I am using two different gels, regular nail polish and glitters and also some nail art stickers.
Only now looking on all stuff I have putted on my nails, I realised that - that's a lot (comparing to what I usually put on nails) but nails looks good and don't like it is too much.

Parc Zoologique & Botanique de Mulhouse [Photo Diary]

Weather last few days is suuuper HOT, but that did not stopped us from going for another little trip. This time our destination was zoo and botanical park in Mulhouse (France). 

Really awesome place, we spend there around 3 hours but still did not see everything because of the heat it became very exhausting. 

Purple Toes

This month is freaking busy, I barely can find time for myself. Today finally got time to do my toe nails. My initial idea was a bit different, but as if often happens, durring the process I change my mind. And here is the result:

Kintzheim - Funny Monkeys and Historical Castle [Photo Diary]

Last weekend we went to visit funny, little monkeys in La Montagne des Singes in France. Well, to be precise, these monkeys are Barbary macaques and they are pretty big. The most interesting thing about this place is that macaques are not in cages, so you walk by them and also you can feed them (only with popcorn that is given at the park entrance).

For more information you can check the parks homepage

Outfit Of The Day - Traveling

Today we are going for another little trip, this time to France. As our destination is off the town, my number one rule is to wear comfy shoes and clothes. What can be worse than to climb the hill and walk the forest trail on heels? :D

Low Carb, Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

When I was a kid my grandmom often made a very simple and yummy chocolate cake (what actually I also have made few times by myself) but since I try to be more healthy and fit I have to say no to sweets and products that contains wheat. As I always have been a big sweet tooth, that is such a struggle. So, to satisfy my sweet tooths craving, but without making big damage to my body, I made some modifications in my grandmoms chocolate cake and it turned out great! Yumm!

Exploring Oppenau: Waterfalls & Monastery Ruins [Photo Diary]

Last week we were visiting beautiful location Allerheiligen in Oppenau, Germany. 

Basically it is around 4 km long trail, walking through which you will see the fabled All Saints Waterfalls, the monastery ruins, the war memorial and other fantastic views. Highest point of the trail is at 708m height. 

Overall it takes about 2 hours to walk through whole trail.

Here I am sharing some of beautiful views from our little trip.

Monastery Ruins

Carrot Cupcakes

These wonderful carrot cupcakes are super easy to make and also they are very tasty. And these leopard (or cheetah) cupcake cups are so adorable.

Burgundy/Purple Nails

And again new update on my nails.  Looking through my nail polish collection,looking for inspiration for my next manicure and seeing these two colors beside.. I knew - I need to put them together on my nails. 
So this is how it turned out:

I used:

P2 8in1 nail wonder

P2 Color Victim - 693 that's it!

Primark: NAIL ART get creative 

NailSystem - Variety 4/1

DIY Headbands

I wanted new hair accessory for my hair, but all what I saw in store didn't quite coincide with my wishes. Today I made a couple on my own and what good about them - looks cute and takes very small amount of time to do them.

I used:
ribbons, hair ties, beads, needle, thread

White headband I make without sewing (except little flowers). 
I cut three pieces of ribbon and made a braid. 
Ends of braid I tied to hair tie. 
Done! And it took less than 5 minutes!

Note: as the ribbon is white tied knots are well seen, but mostly I prefer wear headband by showing only front part so knots don't bother me - they are hidden under my hair.

For extra accessory I made three tiny flowers that I sewed to braid. 

On black headband I sew everything and it took me around an hour to finish it. Basically I sewed both ends of ribbon to hair tie and then decorated it with beads.



Have some more ideas for further headbands and hopefully I will carry out them anytime soon so I could share with you. 

Lace Nails

Past week I have been lazy couch potato.:D Ok, maybe I am too critical towards myself, but I really hate when I have loads of things to do but I don't do them, basically just waste my time BUT as excuse to myself - I managed to read a couple of books so I didn't completely wasted my time.
When I finished last book, I decided to take a break and do something else, like try new things on my nails.
I have seen different ways of doing nails with laces and wanted to try them so long but never got to it. I made one of the easiest ways (as I think) - all you need to do is cut out piece of lace and stick it to nail.

Looks pretty cool, especially from the far (in close it is more like - wtf?!). Well, it was hard to find perfect placement for lace on my nail, so next time I will try with another with smaller pattern.

When my nails was done I had this feeling that something is not right or is missing. By adding a silver gem, made it look more completed.

I don't know how long it will last, but if laces won't fall off soon I will peel them off anyway because I just can't stop touching, rubbing and scratching them. :D

I used:

P2 Color Victim - 693 that's it!

P2 8in1 nail wonder

coral pink laces

OOTD - Cute Or Badass?

One of my casual outfits. The look is pretty cute, but in the same time there is something in it, that makes it a "bad girl's" look.

top - NewYorker

cardigan - H&M

bandana - Takko

jeans - Mango

balerinas - NewYorker