Copycat post: A pic that makes me laugh

 I was inspired by a friend's blog to post a picture that makes me laugh. Funny pics are always cheerful to see :P

And since I once again managed to wake up WAY too early, here I am, sitting before my Spanish exam that starts at 8.30 AM (it's now 7.20 AM and I have already gone through everything for the exam lol!) and simply put, I'm bored.

So, let's have a smile at this early morning hour! :D (Couldn't pick one so here are 3)

 

Doing a funny dance with my "homegirls" ^^

Theo looking crazy while jumping into an illusion :P

 Camilla and I having a fight about who should win the board game...


Love cameras because they can catch you at a very funny-looking moment :P






Have a nice day everyone and enjoy the sun!! :D


- Stef

Looking forward to Easter :)

 It's going to be my first Easter spent together with my family since 2007... If there's something that really REALLY got to me during my years in Holland, it's seeing pictures from Easter of my own family and me myself am not there together with them. Ouch, that was really painful and always made my heart break a little and made me feel weak for a moment.

I tried to create an Easterly feeling the best I could during the past years, but it's just not the same without the family there and that huge table full of Easter food...

Living abroad has its benefits and is really nice in a lot of ways, the only sucky thing is moments of family get-togethers or when friends are having important moments in their lives. You wanna be there as well with them, and if you can't, it just sucks. It really really sucks.

So I'm really REALLY looking forward to this Easter, my first real Easter in 4 years... It's crazy how time flies. Family and lots of delicious food, the way it should be spent.

 In Poland, Easter Sunday is a fun day. There's a tradition of sprinkling/pouring water over one another.. And it's not just in your family, you don't really wanna go out on the street during the day or else some kids will pour a bucket of water over you. They were great times as a kid, running around the block with buckets, water guns and water balloons and make each other soaked the whole day.. Awesome :P

Living far from home is hardcore sometimes, when you miss out on important moments. It's not a nice feeling at all. That's why it's extra important to ENJOY the moments that you do get and make the most out of every single moment in your life.

When I'm in Sweden or Poland, I also miss Holland then.. So the key thing is to enjoy the good moments and hold on to them, let them provide you with strength of mind whenever you need it. Sometimes life punches you in the face, but you shouldn't let it make you fall down, but instead find something that keeps you strong and rise above the "punches of life" and regain your focus on what's really important. What is really important differs from person to person, but for me right now it's to create a good life for myself which includes a good job and lots of love and fun moments. And therefore, I might miss out on some other things but all I can do is to enjoy the opportunities I do get.

Life is like a plant with flowers, you have to make sure it blooms :)

 PS. This Stephanotis plant is about to bloom shortly and it has white flowers that smell totally heavenly and really intensively :) Really happy that it's re-blooming for the first time in my care :)  

Here's the lovely song of the day, which wasn't on youtube at the time of my last post :)

Here it is, some down-to-earth vibes: Jah Cure ft. MDMA & Keri Hilson - World Cry


- Stef

More reasons to smile ;)

 Maybe you think I'm going on too much about the whole smiling thing in all my posts, but smiling is the most important thing in life because we should all live in a way that makes us feel happy. A happy person has better health and will live longer and has more energy. So smiling is absolutely vital for our existence so here's another post that I hope will make you smile once again ;)

I was on a big shopping round this morning and I was going to buy a birthday card for Theo because it's his birthday on Tuesday :) So I always go to EXPO in The Hague when I need to by any kind of cards and so I'm always standing there for 15-20 minutes reading all the Sheepworld cards in order to pick out the best one for my occasion. As always, I come across soo many funny and awesomely and amazingly cute cards that I simply have to buy them for myself, just to keep. So today I came home with these cards:
(They're in Dutch but I'm translating!)

 

"Take-with-you-sunshine... So that the sun is always shining for you! Just to cut out and put in your pocket!" 



*hihi* Seriously supercute ! It's so simple, but so charming :)








"We are an awesome team! 

Couch-layers, 
spaghetti lovers, 
lip readers 
and 
excessive huggers"














"I'm never letting go of you! (Together we can face the world!)"

And.. Somebody's B-day card. Theo is never checking my blog, so I think it's ok :P

"Hey Birthday-boy/girl!
You could start playing hide and seek now...
Here, or here or here or here !"

And inside: "But you cannot get away from the +1 year!" 



 When I saw the last sheep hiding in the bottle, I couldn't contain myself anymore and the decision was made! This card it is :P That sheep in the bottle really cracks me up!! ^^





Seriously, I'm such a big fan of Sheepworld making these funny cards.. I really like out of the ordinary cards.. I think standard cards can be ok sometimes, if you don't know someone or so, but funny cards are so much more cooler !!

Before I go, here's the song of today: **actually this is yesterday's song, cause today I have another one! But it's not uploaded on youtube yet so probably it will be posted there soon ;) **

Fresh summer vibes, Akon singing in spanish --> Sexy !

Akon ft. Omega - El Product


Have a nice rest of the weekend ! :)

- Stef

Small gestures that create big smiles !

Sometimes, days can just fly by without anything special happening and this is why it is so important to make sure you SMILE each and every day to make it meaningful day ! Or you make others smile :) If you give smiles, you will get smiles !

Here's how I found my mirror one morning last week :P My baby had come home from work really late and experimented with my eyeliner :D Very cute to wake up to :)

And, this cake always makes people smile :) It has been present at several parties and other occasions and it's always as popular ! So here goes the recipe for those interested. It's a Swedish common cake, it's nice but in Holland it really creates a "wow-effect" lol! I like making people smile by the means of food lol as they say the way to a man's love goes through his stomach :P

Ingredients Silviacake:
2 eggs
2 dl sugar
2 dl flour
1 dl boiled water
2 teaspoons baking powder
Do: Mix eggs and sugar until it's white and fluffy. Add flour, water and baking powder, mix well ! Pour the batter into a greased smaller ovenform (~20x30 cm).
(The cake from the pic is bigger because I doubled the recipe!) Bake the cake in the oven in 200 C for 15-20 mins. In the meantime, make the glaze.

Glaze:
100 g margarine
1,5 dl sugar
1 eggyolk 
 Do: Add these ingredients in a cold saucepan, mix the sugar and the yolk a little bit. Put on very low heat and mix the glaze until all the margarine is melted. The key thing is that the glaze cannot boil, because then the eggyolk will be "fried" and your glaze ruined. Pour the glaze over the cake. Sprinkle grated coconut over the glaze. Let it cool down and cut into square pieces ! :D Good luck !


 There are many simple "recipes" for how to create smiles! Most of them cost nothing, so we can give as much as we just want! :) I hope you all had a good smile today, I know I did :)

Song of the day that's streaming through my mp3 player at the moment: 
Mr. Easy - Dynamite 



Enjoy :) Peace out!

- Stef