Blue and White

A blue and white outfit for this Monday morning...

... wearing striped second hand pants, a Jake*s top (which I got for my Kisura Review last year) and a H&M blazer. Not much more to say this, except that I love every single of the pieces and I wear all of them a loooot during the warmer months. Especially the pants and the top are some of my most worn pieces :)

Oh yes, and I got my hair cut. It was way too long for this warm weather ;)

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! 

I did- I went for lots of walks with friends and my little family, I cooked some yummy meals, I went to see a friend of mine for her birthday in another town (first time for the baby to take the train :)) and we had a wonderful day in her garden, I skyped some faraway friends and I planned this new exciting week :)

Have a great Monday everyone and have a wonderful new week!

Sending much love!

Favorite Summer Dishes Part IV: Mango Sorbet

Another super easy Summer recipe...

...one that I love and that I could eat every day (which I actually did this entire week): 
MANGO SORBET!

All you need are some very ripe mangos that you cut into pieces and freeze for at least 12 hours. Then you just put the frozen pieces into your high speed blender (you will need a really strong blender for this recipe, like a vitamix or similar) and voila: You will have the best creamiest mango sorbet! 

I promise you, this sorbet is better than any of those dairy ice creams out there, which are full of fat, sugar and unhealthy animal-protein!

This is what the final product looks like and in case you are wondering why I put some basil on top of my sorbet - try it out before judging! Basil and mango are the perfect combination! I also love mango and basil as a salad dressing :)! 

And now you also know what happend with the box of mangos that I've been carrying in my pram in this post ;) 

Have a most wonderful weekend everyone! 
Sending much love!

Homemade Sunscreen

I have been looking for a good sunscreen for my baby...

... of course I only use organic products for my baby since I only want the best for her skin. However, even in the organic sunscreens available on the market there is lots of stuff in there, where I am not sure if I really want my baby's skin to absorb it or not. So I decided to make my own sunscreen to make sure that only the best ingredients are used and that no chemicals and no non-natural ingredients get in contact with my baby.

Now, the whole family is using this sunscreen since its really easy to make, it is super easy to apply (those of you know organix sunscreen know the thick texture and the white skin you have after applying it...) and it makes the skin soooo soft because of all the good oils in there. I am pretty much in love with my homemade sunscreen and this is why I thought I better share my recipe with you :) 

So here is what you need:

100 ml sesame oil
60 g cocoa butter
10 g coconut oil
10 g bees wax (if you want to make it 100% vegan, leave this out and use slightly more cocoa butter insetad)
6 teaspoon carrot oil (or a few drops of carrot seed oil)

In this recipe its mainly the sesame oil which gives the sunscreen an UV protection of approximately 25, but also the coconut oil has a natural UV protection. There are lots of other natural oils out there which can protect your skin from the sun, but sesame oil is one of the strongest and this is why I decided to use this one for this sunscreen.

Its as easy as it can be to make this sunscreen - you just add all the ingredients into a pot and let the cocoa butter, coconut oil and bees wax melt (just put the pot with the ingredients into another pot filled with hot water). Then pour the blend of oils and fats into a glass.  

The sunscreen will smell like sesame oil and coconut oil. If you do not like the smell, you can always add essential oils of your chocie! The yellow color of the sun lotion is of course because of the carrot oil. If you do not like that, you can always use a few drops of carrot seed oil instead of the 6 teaspoons of carrot oil. 

The sunscreen will look like this when its still hot it will only take a few hours for the oils to harden and for you to have a  sun screen with a nice texture - not too hard yet not too soft.

When applied on the skin, it will melt easily so that its really easy to apply. This is especially important for me because I dont like to stress my baby's skin with lots of rubbing of cream into her little face. 

As mentioned above, the sunscreen had a UV protection of approximately 25. I use it several times a day when I spend lots of time outside and believe me, my skin gets sooooo soft from all these good oils! My baby seems to like it too and now she does not have an all-white face like she used to have when I put the organic sunscreen on her face. 

Have fun trying and let me know what you think about this recipe :)!

Cord Shorts

I usually don't like cord...

 


...but I do like these cord shorts of mine. 

This is why they made it on my blog quite often (especially back in 2013 when I lived in Ohio and these were the only shorts I brought with me from Germany). You can see them here here or here in other outfits. I even like to wear them in Winter as you can see here. 

Anyway, so this time I wore them for a day in the park where baby girl N. my husband and I had a nice picnic. I am wearing a floral blouse with the shorts, which I got from a friend of mine :) 
The shorts are from ONLY and the blouse is from Promod.

How is your week going so far? I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and the Summer! 


We are starting to get a routine here and thats really nice for me. I am able to work for my nutrition studies and I have time to plan and organize things for my blog. I may even begin to work a little again soon (translation work from home) but I am not pushing myself to it. If I feel like working, I will and if baby N needs a little more time from me then I will give her all the time she wants :) 

Sending you all much love!

More from the thrift shop

So here I am wearing some of my latest purchases...

...from the next door thrift shop where I went the other day :) 

Both the jacket/blazer/vest (how would you call this thing?) and the jeans are second hand and I really love both pieces. I got them for 2euro each and I am pretty much amazed but the price and the pieces! 

My tote bag is actually from Cork in Ireland and its new in my huge tote bag collection. I wear tote bags a lot (instead of purses) since they are so handy and they go with almost every outfit ;)

That day the weather was really good and I actually felt pretty hot wearing this vest on top of my shirt. Today its supposed to be around 30°C and tomorrow even 34°C. So we are taking our baby girl on trips to the park where we spend most of the day in the shade underneath a tree. And we also want to go to the lake with her tomorrow. All these things, that we used to do so naturally before, become small adventures now that we do them for the first time with the baby. We never know how the day will turn out because we never know how she will like what we are doing. But actually, most of the time, she is just happy, looks around and sleeps aloooooot :)

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Sending you all much love!

Favorite Summer Dishes Part III: Chard with Walnut Sauce

Here is another one of my favorite Summer dishes...

...chard with walnut sauce (and millet in this case).You can find part 1 and 2 of my favorite Summer dishes here.

I love chard! There are a few greens I only eat in Winter (like kale) and a few I only eat in Summer (like chard) and when one of these greens which I do only eat in a certain period of the year, is available, then I eat A LOT of it. Like, we have chard at least once a week these days :)

My favorite way to eat chard is to steam-cook it for some 10-15 minutes and eat it with a yummy garlic-walnut sauce. Its the easiest dish ever and yet its so yummy!

For the sauce I just blend one clove of garlic with a handful of walnuts, soy sauce and water in my high speed blender. It makes a really creamy yummy sauce which goes well with all kinds of greens and rice/millet/quinoa/buckwheat or whatever you like to eat your greens with. On the picutre I am having fried millet mixed with some cousous with my chard.

By the way, I like the chard with the red  stem better than the one with the white stem. But both are good and both go so well with the walnut sauce, so just get the one you can find and try it! 

Oh and of course chard is sooo super healthy (next to the fact that its so delicious) with lots and lots of calcium, iron, vitamin C and potassium.

How do you like chard? Did you try it at all or is this veggie maybe even new to you? I would love to know :)

Vintage Silk Blouse

Remember I told you about my thrift shop haul...

... in this post!? Well here is one of the first few things that I bought there. Its a vintage blouse made of 100% silk with this fun pattern. I really like it and I wore it a lot since I got it for 2 euro at the thrift shop. 

Next to the new second hand blouse I am wearing a H&M blazer (which I got some three or four years ago...), a Levis Jeans (still so happy to fit my old jeans again! Especially this one, I really missed during pregnancy!) and these shoes which I got last Summer from TJMaxx.

 

I hope you all had a nice weekend and I wish you a great week ahead! My plans for the week are the same as in the last few weeks - going for lots of walks with the baby girl (she is getting so big! I cant believe how fast she is growing!), having coffee with friends and getting a few things done for my nutrition courses (I have to hand in some exam-questions). The weeks pass so fast since the baby arrived even though I feel like I am doing nothing :D

Sending you all much love!