4 x GREENS

My favorite salad for the moment is one with lettuce, China cabbage, avocado, carrots, fresh coriander and asian basil, with peanuts and fried tofu on top. Had some fine chopped celery in there the other day too. But the most important is the sauce, which I make of soy sauce, rice vinegar and some lime juice. I have it as it is or then roll the ingredients in a lettuce leaf. Or, of course, the best thing is to make a vietnamese roll out of it if you have some rice paper around. 

Seriously, I start drooling just by the thought of this.

Sliced pressed dates with peanut butter on top! I use those eco peanit butters with peanuts and some fancy smanschy salt only, no extra oils or such. I have this for breakfast with a smoothie, but it works like a snack as well; sort of like a snickers! You can make it even more of  a Snickers bar with some raw (or dark) malted chocolate in between, or some cocoa nibs on top!

I tried out some aubergine-olive "meat"-balls today with a recipe from Jolie. Only I put in some kidney beans too, as I did not have enough of the eggplant. It made them a bit drier perhaps but very good nonetheless.

Green suppa-duppa smoothie! With apple juice, fresh coriander (my favorite herb...), fresh ginger, cucumber, frozen pineapple and a little spirulina. I'm a smoothie freak you know.

B- TO THE -L - TO THE - I - TO THE - N - TO THE - G!

One of the best in the world, the Helsinki Burlesque Festival 2013, is just around the corner. This year I am working on a new solo number. In autumn I managed to get not only one but two new routines done plus build our Christmas Show . Prety amazing considering. but then again was so small, Dag mainly sleeping or admiring all the glitters and feathers and happy if he got a little cuddling and a lot of milk in between. But now it is So. Much. Harder.  Making me wish around the corner was a few blocks away still...
But at least I got myself a lot of bling (to stay at least a little bit sane I was smart and outsourced most of it, for once) and a very nice outfit coming up!

THAT SCARF-WRAP THING

I have a new scarf that works very well as the kind of belted shawl-cardigan that you've seen me do before. Which is quite practical in winter too, indoors. For outdoors I just fold the shawl/scarf up over the shoulders to fit under the jacket. 

AlthoughI didn't get his one just for fun; I lost my usual scarf that I wear for everythingwhile out on town. One minute there on the top of the pram while shopping (it's so damn hot inside the stores here you need to layer off a bit), the next gone. Sad. It was a very nice scarf. And as it was shit cold I had to get myself a new one immediately not to catch all kinds fevers and colds on my way home (at least i felt so). Which was harder than one would've thought as apparently the rest of the world want's those knitted tube-thingies only. But I got a bit luck in my misfortune and found this one in the end,  on discount as well. And to be honest it almost works better than the previous one for wrapping like this. But I'm still quite pissed about the fact that I lost the other one and probably because someone took it.

The skirt is the winter-one made by me, the boots and belt vintage and the shawl from Accessorize.

And yes I am outside in the snow without a jacket for a while here for no other apparent reason than the one that it would make more interesting blog pictures. A bit ridiculous when you think about it (especially since I said I needed to get a new scarf not to walk home from the bus without one and here I am outside with no jacket. Not that it's that cold at all anymore. It was totally alright). But then again I guess not that many would've thought about it unless I would have mentioned it. I always have to spoil things like this, heh.

TILE PORN

The same craftsmen that have been building the kitchen in the countryside house switched to the empty space behind the kitchen, turning it into a bathroom. I have great dreams for the tiled floor.  Some ideas are of course out of range -you know, kind of like they have had this same guy painting them by hand them since the 1800s and made by very special clay that only he knows how to handle or something so that they are priced accordingly, the way that you can only afford to put them in a tiny tiny space unless you live in a mansion and the price per square meter is totally of no difference-but let's see what we can come up with...

 

(Image sources: Remodelista, Houzz, Marrakech Design, Stiltje,  Original Style Victorian Floor Tiles, The Kitchn)