Impressions of my day

Favorite asian food: at COA in Frankfurt/ beautifully installed Goethe qoutes in the lovely palm garden/ New make-up trend: coral eye shadow; this one is from essence: shrimp me up/ New favorite hair do/ A cute pavillion in the palm garden during a sight seeing trip with my friends

As it has been for a while not all of these picture were taken today, but rather over the last week. Anyways, they are a collection of my favorite things: meeting friends, going out, great food, literature, make-up, and fashion trends:)

Turning pages

Hey lovelies,
noticed something? Yep, I did a little work on m yblog today. What do you think?
Well, I decided that since this blog is to cherish the changes and possibilies of life it could need some changes itself. Also I thought that after I started blogging in spring (THE season of change) what better time would there be for a new look than fall (second season of change). So, I hope you all are enjoying the first falling leaves and a walk outside these days! Love, Frieda

Chocolate Shock

melting chocolate for the dough

dough-looking good already

before baking

chopping chocolate for the frosting

just perfect

puuting on the frosting...

and adding some sparkles;)

Ever since I have gotten this book I love baking cupcakes even more! They are just the sweetest thing. As I had some free time to spare this past week I decided my girlfriends with some really chocolaty cupcakes. They were really yummy! Do you have any favorite cupcakes?? Love, Frieda

Inspirations- thinking inside the box

Have you read "Eat Pray Love"? It is one of my favorite books. I love it for many reasons, but there is one thing that I like especially. It is the "box". In the book Liz Gilbert talkes about how she keeps a box with journals and pictures and stuff about all the countries she wants to visit in her life to which her best friend replies that she used to have a box for baby things before she had her own child. I have one of those boxes, too. I keep my future plans in there as well. I put pieces of writing in there which I hope will be published some day. There are drawings of a future wedding gown and a list of all the designer heels I hope to own one day. Then there are ripped out pages from magazines and photos like the one above about how I wish to live one day. I have put notes in there, too. Little things from friends all over the world that needed a special place to be saved and that will continue to shape my future forever. Well, and just as Liz there are days that I dig out that box and go through all those scraps to I hope will find together as a whole some day. It is those days that you feel unsure and unknowing that you need something to hold on to, a dream and a hope and a little security. That´s what the box does. It shows me my dreams and hopes, not in an abstract, but in pictures and color.
So I would like to know, what do you keep in your box?
Love, Frieda

100!

GUYS! This is crazy, this is my 100th post! Wow, can you believe it? Anyways, I just want to thank you all for supporting me and for reading along! Let´s hope a lot more posts are to come!
Lots of Love, Frieda

I am Woman!

Makes me want to grab my ladies and go karaoke singing! Well, maybe one of the next weekends;)

Just sharing

To start of this week of right: one of my favorite pics from this summer! Me at the Golden Gate Bridge. Hope you all are feeling great and kick of this week right:)

Tinkerbell- just love her

While in America I watched a lot of disney movies with my friends and siblings. Through all of it and during my stay in Disneyland I decided that Tinker was my favorite:) So when two of my besties and me planned a disney night I thought of it and just wanted to share these cute images with you guys. Who´s your favorite?

heART

All these were taken at the San Francisco MoMa, I´m sorry for not including all the artists names

The Arts have always taken on the question of love. How does love happen to people, how can it be expressed? Looking at the paintings at the MoMa this summer I noticed that it still is a moving question, not just to artists, but to everyone. Including me. I have talked about love and friendship on here before and it is good to see how other creative people have dealt with their thoughts on this topic. Above I have compiled some of my favorite pieces in the exhibit concernig love and companionship. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, even though the photos don´t do their beauty justice! And in the end we all hope to end up in a state diplayeed in the last painting: the mystical HAPPY END!

Story of my summer- Part 1

I know I have been gone for far too long, but I brought you guys back some really cool pictures! So here you go with the first round;)

The Capitol/ Washington Memorial/ Stars and Stripes/ Out of many One/ Jefferson Memorial

I have to admit the weather wasn´t the best for picture taking, but the days in Washington were awesome anyways. I have loved returning to the U.S., my second home:)

Being back to blogging!

Well, hello my dears,
Last couple weeks have been crazy and I hope to fill you in to all that happened in the next couple days! It were definitly some of the best days I have had. I hope you guys had a great summer, as well. Hope you did not miss me too much;) Anyways, I am back now and ready to show you all my great summer finds, holiday pics and a lot of new outfit posts, so stay tuned!
Love, Frieda

Party it, ladies

Some things never get old, like spending the night in watching movies and the getting songs to said movie stuck in your head, so you find yourself dancing to it all day long the next day;) Well, we all know which movie this is from, right? So, then get off the couch and bring it on girls, party it up!

Oh, she knows me soo well...

As I told you guys yesterday I am not into baking and stuff much, but i am big into decorating and eating! So, basically I just loooove cupcakes! I was really happy when my mum presented me with this very sweet book the other day and honestly now I caanot wait for an occasion to bake some of these! This actually inspired me to make those amazing Oreo Pralinés I showed you yesterday!

Oreo Pralinés

 What you need? A pack of Oreos, 375g Cream cheese, 400g white chocolate

love to unwrap those

Smash the Oreos to pieces: Goodbye:(

                                                        Now add the cream cheese

form the mix to little balls and store them in the fridge for about 30 minutes

then, melt the chocolate

cover the little balls in chocolate

leave them in the fridge over night

And finally: Enjoy!

I am not into cooking or baking a lot, actually I love to quote Carrie at times when I am asked to cook who said: I am more Coco Chanel than Coq au vin! But I simply had share these amazing sweets with you lovelies!

What kiss-day taught me

Picture was taken in Paris

A couple days back facebook reminded me of a really cool celebration: the kiss-day. I think it is a nice thing to enhance romance in such a way in today´s world. We are often busy, fast-paced, and narrow-eyed. We run around focused on our tasks and forget some essentials over it. Those being: Love, Romance, True Happiness. This is often said easily, but forgotten just as fast. So, what can we do to work against our "running" habits? What ways do we have to make our path cross those of love and happiness. I wonder about this as I am one of those people to run around everyday, have a million dates and things to remember and phone book-thick calendar. I am one of those people to remember everything except to just let go.

Picture was taken in Berlin

So, when I stumbled across the first picture in prepararion of this post I thought of something I have written about before: small things! It probably really is all those small things that make up the whole: LOVE. But, and here comes the problem to this wonderful solution: how can we make sure to give all those things the meaning they deserve? I have not found a perfect way for doing so, but I am trying my best everyday: to be open-eyed and open-minded! If we take the courage and the time to walk around a little different in our lives it might actually change a lot! For me the first steps on the way to doing so are:
first of all: this blog, it makes me a lot more alert to beauty in everyday life,
second: tune it down sometimes, I have noticed that when I sit down for lunch it can be very nice to turn off my iPod and just enjoy the sounds surrounding me
third: even if it sounds weird, I like to walk, yep, especially on days that my brain is clouded from studying it is nice to go outside and enjoy some nothing;) just air, fields, and walking
Well, I bet and I hope there are a lot more ways to enjoy the small things that make up such big things as Love! What are your ways to do so? I would love to hear about them!

Cool down the edgy way

A hot day is over now, and what I need on days like that is: Ice cream. Honestly, if I had to chose one kind of candy I would chose ice cream! So today I tried some fancy things such as white chocolate with strawberries! Also the ice cream shop was so cute I had to share it with you guys.