OOTD - 31/03/2013 - Easter Lunch

Hello everyone and Happy Easter!

Today, my family and I, we had an Easter lunch in an awesome restaurant. 

So, I´m going to show you the outfit I wore!

Unfortunately, the weather isn´t that great and it´s really windy, so I was happy that we didn´t have to walk a long time outside in the cold!

Floral White Blouse: H&M

Blue Jeans: H&M

Lita-like Platforms: nelly.com

Colour-block bag: boutique in South Korea

Golden Necklace: fleamarket

Julia ♥

Collective Haul - I´m ready for Spring!!~

Hello everyone!

After some abstinence, I´m back with a little collective haul!

I bought some really nice things which are going to be perfect for the, hopefully soon, upcoming spring time!

Unfortunately, the weather here in Germany isn´t that great again, so I hope my purchases put everybody in the mood for the spring/summer season, especially those of you who aren´t yet because of the weather...

                                                                 

First of all, I got this maxi skirt from Vero Moda in sale for only 10€. It´s made of a flowing but not that thin material, so it´s perfect to wear for the spring time.

I also went to H&M and I found a really pretty t-shirt which is made of linen. This material is awesome for summer because it´s really light an airy. I got it for 15€.

In a little boutique, i got this nude coloured dress. I love its geometrical print and its light material. I got in on sale for 35€ (around 120€!!).

I also searched for great bargains on ebay and I found this awesome multicoloured blouse shirt. It also has a really light material and a great fit. It only cost me 5€ including shipping! Awesome!

Also from ebay, I got this beautiful necklace. The combination of gold and light green is perfect for spring/summer. This statement necklace can upgrade every simple shirt and give your outfit that certain something.

There also was a big sale in a local glasses store, so I purchased some really nice trendy oval shaped sunglasses which were reduced from 100€ to only 10€! 

Julia ♥

OOTD 09/03/2013

Hello everyone!

Today, I will show you the outfit I wore for today!

It has been a beautiful sunny and warm day, so I thought I can put on my new black maxi skirt combined to my beloved leather jacket.

What a pity that the weather next week won´t be that good again according to the weather forecast...

However, I hope you enjoy my first spring outfit !

Leather Jacket: Orsay

Black Maxi Skirt: Vero Moda

Black Platform Boots: H&M

Lace Biker Jacket: H&M

Printed Shirt: Pull&Bear

Black Handbag: thrifted

Green Carré: thrifted

Jewelry: second hand

Have a nice weekend!

I will be back with a collective haul soon, so stay tuned!

Julia.

Strasbourg Haul!~

Hello everyone!

I´m back again with a haul! Last saturday, I went to Strasbourg with my best friend and I found some nice stuff which I´m going to show you now!

In France, there are big sales from January to February with up to 70%! So, all the things I purchased were awesome bargains and nice new clothes and accesories for Spring/Summer!

                                                                 

We went to Mango and I found this nice tweed jacket. I love the lime green colour and the golden zippers. I got it on sale for 15€!

 We also went to COS because they had big sales as well. Mostly the whole shop had items which were reduced up to 70%. I love how they wrap up the bought things in tissue paper and then into the paper shopping bag!

First, I got this awesome forest green dress! The upper part is made of jersey material and the bottom part is  made of a thicker cotton material. I got it on sale for 13€ (45€)!

 This shirt has an awesome stretchy light material which is perfect for summer. The apricot colour is suitable for the upcoming season as well. I got it for only 10€ (35€)

These apricot bobby pins match perfectly to the shirt I bought and I thought you can´t have enough of these little guys! They were also reduced to 2.50€ (5€)

In the awesome thrift shop "Léopard", I couldn´t resist to buy this awesome shoulder bag! I love the colour combination and the fact that you can take of the strap to get a handbag. I can use the strap to attach to other brown bags I have to make them to shoulder bags! The bag was 5€.

In that outift, I combined my new bag with my caramel coloured platform booties from nelly.com and my thrifted scarf.

And last but not least, I got this awesome black leather belt in that thrift shop as well! The design remind me of the Dsquared2 Spring/ Summer 2013 collection which I think is really pretentious and precious which all the black leather and gold. The belt was only 3€!

Hope you enjoyed my SALE haul and stay tuned for my next posts!

Julia ♥

Collective Haul - H&M & Thrifted

Hello everyone!

After two cooking posts, I´m back with a haul!

I bought some nice pieces which were really awesome bargains as well! Hope you´ll like it!

On Friday, I went to H&M and I found some really nice things. First, I got this shirt with different coloured flowers on it. I love the light material and the colours are perfect for spring/summer. I got it for 10€!

I also got this awesome white blouse with beautiful coloured flowers on it. I´m in the mood for flowers right now because I think they will go perfectly with the spring or summer! This blouse has an awesome fit and I love the collar! It got it for about 25€.

These chunky black booties are from H&M as well. I bought them in exchange for my other platform boots from H&M which last quite a long time, but now, they are really run down. I already saw those new ones a month ago and they were 40€ which is quite pricy for H&M shoes. On friday, surprise, on sale for 5€!!

I got this huge scarf at my local thrift store for only 1€! I like the print on it and its forest colours. It goes well with my winter coat and other winter or autumn items.

I also got this black leather waist belt for 2€! I love the chunky golden buckle and its croco print. I combine it on top of my caramel coloured winter coat to accentuate my waist.

This royal blue shoulder bag only cost 2.50€! I like its shape, size and the golden hardware.

Last week, I dyed and cut my hair, so I wanted to keep the healthiness of my hair by using this wounder oil by Garnier. You can use it after you washed your hair to facilitate the combing or occasionally to make your hair smooth and shiny. It was about 7€.

Each month I buy the InStyle - Magazine. I really love its layout, trend watch and photoshoots. This month, they enclosed an extra magazine with street styles, fashion people´s outfits and the newst trends.

I hope you enjoyed my haul and I hope you will stay tuned for more blog posts!

Julia♥

Let´s Bake Again... Juicy Orange Cake!

Hello everyone!

Hope you all had a fantastic week!

Mine was quite nice but I´m happy that it´s weekend now!

Recently, I am in the mood for cooking and baking, so I tried a new cake recipe which I´m going to show you now step by step.

Ingredients:

3-4 organic oranges

75g dark chocolate

170g shortening or butter

150g sugar

salt

3 eggs

180g flour

50g starch

2 tsp. baking powder

3 table spoon citron juice

75g sugar powder

1. Grate 3 tsp. of orange paring and chop the chocolate.

2.  Cut 2 or 3 oranges into thin slices.

3. Mix sugar, orange paring, shortening and a pinch of salt together and whisk it for about 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and creamy.

4. Put in the eggs one after another and whisk again.

5. Stir in the flour, starch, baking powder and chocolate. Everything should be mixed up very well.

6. Put the dough into the baking tray and place your sliced oranges on top. Bake the cake in the preheated oven on 170°C for about 30min.

7. In the meantime, you can prepare the icing by mixing 50ml orange juice with the citron juice and the sugar powder. 

Right after you took the cake out of the oven, you have to stick tiny holes in it and pour the icing on top of the cake. Now, you have to let the cake cool down until you can serve it with whipped cream.

Hope you enjoyed this easy but delicious cake recipe!

Next time, I will post a collective haul, so stay tuned!

Julia ♥

Let´s bake some Macarons! ♥

Hello everyone!

On Saturday, my best friend and I, we decided to bake some macarons! 

You should know that I tried it several times in the past but it never ended that good... It´s really hard to make them look like they are from a French pastry shop!

I just loooove these little colorful sweet French pastries, so we thought, we try our best for this time!

                                                             

Now, I will show you step by step what you have to do to get your selfmade yummy macarons!

Ingredients:

200g powdered almonds

200g sugar powder

75ml water

200g fine sugar

2x80g egg white

1/2 vanilla bean

a colour/colours of your choice

buttercream:

200g butter

140g sugar powder

160g powdered almonds

1/2 vanilly bean

1. Mix the almonds and powder sugar together and sieve it.

2. Bring the sugar and the water to a boil and let it heat up to 110°C.

3. Beat 80g of your egg white until it´s stif. When your sugar sirup reach 115°C, let the sirup run it your beaten egg white and mix all together until it´s cold.

4. Mix the remain egg white with your sugar-almond-mixture to get a smooth paste. Add the vanilla pulp.

5. Fold the egg white in the almond-sugar-paste until you get a smooth dough.

6. Add the colour! We decided to colour our macarons in a cute pastel minty blue, so we put some green and blue drops of food colouring into the dough.

7. Heat your oven up to 150°C and let your macarons bake for 14 minutes! The baking time can diversify because of different sizes of the dough rounds.

After baking, let it cool down, in the meantime, you can prepare the buttercream!

8. Mix butter, sugar powder, vanilla and almonds together to get a smooth paste, We also added some colour!

9. Put equal and equal togeher and place a little bit of buttercream between the two and you get your macarons, the recipe says around 40!

Here is our finished result! They look quite nice and taste awesome!

Hope you also will try out this recipe!

Julia ♥