Elizabeth Gilbert, author and speaker, has some pretty accurate musings on the trials and tribulations of grasping on to inspiration when it arrives unannounced, as neither its form nor timing us humans are in control of. I don’t have that problem, I have tons of ideas just waiting to be put down in concrete format […]
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After some flying and cooking, we are back in fall of 1984 again. This time, visiting the Christian Dior counter or rather my mother visiting the Dior counter and me tagging along. We already saw that Elizabeth Arden was doing their Colour Plays, Estee Lauder was in their Primitive Worlds and we (my mom and
Tyen’s artistic BLUE stroke in Dior Makeup CollectIon fall 1984; les secrets Read More »
Whether you call it meal prep, cooking in large portions, or just making a one-pot, it all comes down to making a home cooked, delicious and simple meal in a big batch. Meal prep is what usually is on my mind. I fill plastic containers that travel and fly with me everywhere. Yes, fly, like
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Like people, first impressions are also to be had with places. With the speed of air-travel, the difference from your place of origin to the place of destination, can prove to be quite a dramatic transition. The potential for the weather, season, air, scenery, geography, language, culture, architecture having a blasting new impact on you,
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To follow up with Elizabeth Ardens makeup fall/winter 1984 Colour Play makeup collection, we are on to Estee Lauder´s fall/winter 1984 Primitive Worlds. Back in Belgium, in 1984 and my high school days, Estee Lauder was like the exotic imported expat that had settlend on the traditional and conservative mainland Europe – the Continent. The
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Come fall 1984, I lived in Brussels. I won’t become one of those who say that everything was better in the past, but there will be a definite rant theme in this blog, and that is that some stuff in eg beauty, crafts of all kinds, fashion, food – quality in general etc etc, often
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When my child moved out for the first time (pleas note the first time) to go to university, I was in for a full year of mourning. Having a child living at home for 19 years and then off to university in another town far away – not just across the street or on the
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It’s not necessarily a good idea to start cultivating seeds for your vegetable garden when commuting to a new job 4 days a week. Come spring 2022, I literally threw some pumpkin seeds in to my vegetable garden and nothing came of them. The lack of attention was obvious, and I wasn’t even really sure
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If I ever needed someone telling me – Just Do It! – it would be now. I have not done any remotely to something on the net since my university days and Fortran programming. The technical part of this blog web-site creation does not interest me at all. If you had asked med 6 months
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