Calm wedding

One of the things I wish for my wedding is that it will be a calm one. Not to many people, a special place with a lot of white and lights. I found this picture in awedding book and it expresses perfectly what I'm looking for. It's a special place in the middle of a forest or a garden surrounded by trees and a little stream. In the Treebraches you can see drop-shaped glases that are tea- candle holders and in the front some vases with water and swimming candles:

I simply love that picture, but I have a great chance to find something like that in Sweden :).

Have a good evening!

Isabel

New colour on the wall

The colour has finally dried and I really like it! Our entire kitchen is very white (even the floor is white) so with the grey colour it gives it a completely new style:

We will use the same colour for the workroom, just a little bit brighter, so back into my painter's overall and start painting :).

Have a really nice sunday!

Isabell

Time for other things?

Today is a day on which I really managed to do a lot... Early in the morning we went to a building center to buy everything you need for painting the wall and some other things ( you go to a building center for 1 thing and you go home with a 100 :)) Then I've painted one wall of the kitchen in dark grey... I'm so excited about seeing the result tomorrow morning when it has dried! And I will of course also show it to you tomorrow. After that I felt a need to do the spring cleaning, so I've started that too and now I'm sitting here at the table and I'm very happy about all the things I managed to do feeling like an interior designer from one of these tv shows. :) Sometimes I feel a need to just read a book or just do nothing and then there are times where I just feel I need to change something and I roll up my sleeves and I work for hours on one thing and I just can't stop until it's finished. The only bad thing about it is that time passes away so fast and all of a sudden the weekend is gone and it's monday and you need to go to work again. I can sometimes feel that I would need double the time than the one I have for doing things I like and to also keep just a little time for myself too. As I already told you in one of my posts I can't say no and I tend to "overbook" my weekends, so that I ask myself on monday where all the time has gone...

Yum Thai Restaurant Munich

Sometimes it's good to celebrate a normal day and to go to a good restaurant for dinner together. Like we did today, it was not a special occasion, just a normal day and that made it perfect. We went to"Yum", a Thai restaurant in Munich which has definitely the best Thai food outside of Thailand. It's a little bit more expensive but it's worth it. The whole atmosphere is very welcoming and you feel like entering a spa...

Photo: yum

Photo: yum

Even the food is represented in a very beautiful way, with flowers and vegetable carvings. All dishes are homemade, fresh and without flavour enhancer. If you should ever be in Munich and you like Thai food, this is the place to be! :)

Photo: yum

Kram,

Isabell

Violas

I know it's a stupid idea. We're soon leaving for our vacation but I couldn't resist to buy these little violas. I don't know why this year is so different than the other years, I need Spring and Summer. It's simply not typical for me. It all started already with Christmas, I packed away everything earlier than any year before. And since I then I've started to wish that it would be summer immediately and I do everything to get Spring and Summer inside the apartment even if the weather in Munich is doing the opposite outside...

But doesn't it feel good to see flowers even if you have a snow storm outside your window. You can choose that it's Spring or Summer... inside :)

Have a lovely day,

Isabell

Singapore - here we come!

I love Singapore. I've already been there together with my Dad a couple of years ago and I like the mix of different cultures and I must admit I'm happy that it's very clean, not like many other Asian cities I've visited. Many people say that it's not typical Asian, and they don't like it because it's so clean and structured in a way. But for me (or the German part of me :)) it's perfect like that. We're just going to stay there for 1 night, so we decided to choose a really luxurious hotel for this night: Swissotel the Stamford. Just looking at the pictures makes me very happy, I realize how much I need holidays...

Photo: swissotel

Photo: swissotel

Photo: swissotel

They even have a skybar at the roof of the hotel, I hope I can get some nice pictures from there and will be able to show you these.

Photo: swissotel

Singapore- here we come (soon)! :)

Kram,

Isabell

Lindt Easter Bunny

It is an old German tradition that the children look for Easter eggs that the "Easter Bunny" has hidden. When I woke up on Easter Sunday there was always a basket filled with green grass and a Lindt Easter Bunny. Then my brother and I had to look for the chocolate eggs that were hidden in the garden when it was warm outside or inside the house when it was cold outside.

It wasn't only a few times that we found some of the eggs that we hadn't found during Easter, during Christmas when my Dad took out the Swedish cookbook from the bookshelf. What a sweet surprise :)

Kram,

Isabell

Pompoms for my wedding -DIY

I'm currently looking for decoration for my wedding and I really like these pompoms, which I've seen on Martha Stewart's website:

Photo: marthastewart

and also as decoration on the table for the serviettes:

Photo: marthastewart

I think that it's easy to make these myself, but for my wedding I will need help from my family to make all these pom poms :)

Photo: solebich

A very good blog with instructions how to DIY is nicepackageblog. I'll keep you up to date...

Kram,

Isabell

Healthy breakfast

I started this morning with very healthy food.  I cut a mango into cubes and the first strawberries for this year and plain yoghurt which I've sweetened with some honey. This is the best breakfast you can have :)

Kram,

Isabell

Lark Rise to Candleford

While I was in the library a few days ago, I also looked for new series. I found a series from BBC that is called "Lark Rise to Candleford"which is a costume drama playing in Oxfordshire in the 19th century. I like these BBC series very much, I also saw all episodes from “Upstairs Downstairs". It's about a young girl named Flora who comes from a small village named Lark Rise and moves to the local market town Candleford to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress. In this series it's of course a lot of drama but it's very nice. I especially like the character "Dorcas Lane" in this series who is her boss and owns the post office of Candleford.

The entire post office is very cozy and I especially like the kitchen, where they all meet for tea:

This series is very nice for these cold winter days in the evening, when you sit on the sofa with a cup of tea and a blanket and you just want to see something nice and if you like lovely clothes and a charmingly old-fashioned way of life and lovable characters.

You can watch all episodes from this series on youtube:

Kram,

Isabell

Friday - Weekend Feeling

Why can't everyday be like friday? I left the office very early today and went to the library to get some new audio books for the weekend and to bring my old ones back. Friday is the best day I know, you have this weekend feeling and you know you have 2 full days to do just what you want, perfect! On my way home, I passed by the supermarket and bought a magazine and some coffee. I'll put my legs up on the sofa, read and just relax.

Have a good friday evening!

Isabell

Klitterbyn

One of my beloved memories of my childhood is the vacation in Klitterbyn in Sweden. This is a little village made of wooden houses for rent which is very close to the sea. When we went to Sweden during summer time it was always also 2 weeks that we spent there.

Photo: klitterbyn

My grandma had always been there a few days before we came to Sweden and had cleaned everything and made köttbullar. On the way to the beach there were wild strawberries and raspberries growing on each side of the way, which my grandma and I picked.

Photo: klitterbyn

Photo: klitterbyn

As we are going to get married in Sweden too, I would like to spend some time there, even if I know that it's never going to be the same again...

Kram,

Isabell

Braided Easter bun

A typical Easter tradition in Germany is the braided Easter bun. Many families have a Easter brunch on Easter Sunday and this is something that is a must:

Photo: ichkoche.at

This is what you need:

400 g flour
160 ml lukewarm milk
40 g fresh yeast
60 g butter
2 eggs (only the egg yolks)
60 g sugar
1 sachet of vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 table spoon citron zest

1 egg
decorating sugar


Melt the butter and add the milk. Pour mixture into mixing bowl and allow to cool until “finger-warm” (still quite warm, but just cool enough to touch). Stir in yeast and let sit for 10 minutes. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and citron zest and raisins if you like raisins.

Mix the flour into liquid and then the egg. Add enough flour to form a soft dough (just until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Don't add too much flour as the dough gets dry). Put the dough to a large bowl and cover it with a clean towel and allow to rise until doubled, approx. 30 minutes.

Cover the dough and let rise for 45 minutes. Divide the dough in 3 equal pieces and roll into ropes. Loosely braid the ropes and put on a greased baking tray. Let rise for another 30 minutes until braid is plump and doubled in size. Brush with beaten egg and add the decorating sugar, bake for about 30 minutes at 190C/347F

H&M Home and Zara Home Spring 2013

I've been on the H&M Home and the Zara Home webpage today and had a look at the Spring collections. H&M Home has a lot of brown, grey, beige, silver and white colours in their Spring collection:

Zara Home has the same colour range, I especially like the glass flacons on this picture:

but also a lot of mixed colors:

and a very very colorful version:

Kram,

Isabell