This way?!

So recently I have been feeling like I really needed an arrow to point out the important. It seems as if my life has been so packed lately that I am losing focus.
 I love to be busy and I love to be needed in places. That makes me a really easy target for extra work, not in a bad way anyways. Usually it just keeps me busy and around lots of interesting people. It is what I do and who I am. I have always been busier than most of my friends and family so I am used to getting that look;) (meaning: how the heck do you do all that). And it is not something I would ever complain about, since I chose this way for me.
 But apparently it took some other people to point out to me that sometimes it is ok not to do everything at once. I am grateful to have people like this in my life who just know what to say and how to calm me after so much has been going on. Unfortunately, there is still some work I have to catch up on and the new semester is about to start, so lets see how this is going to work. Anyways, I am lucky to know there is always someone in my life to point that arrow at the important when I am losing focus. Such as just a nice dinner with friends, going for photoshoot, collecting some of the first fall leaves...
I really wish you all people like this and moments like this to refocus! 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

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!

Impressions of my day

Cute idea: putting pink roses in different vases on my shelves/ Yummy: Vanilla frappucino/ From the post yesterday: hanging out with the girls like our favorite NYC-ladies/ more flowers to bring the summer inside/ decorating your plants with fun accessoires

Days are warm, days are good, days are fun:) Story of my life right now: It just feels very summery and nice! Hope everything is going as well for you guys! Love, Frieda

P.S.: Check out my new facebook page guys: http://www.facebook.com/Changeability

Lipstick personality(s)

When I was younger I enjoyed reading magazines already as much as I do today, especially the ones that came with those psychology-test. Such as: where will I meet new friends? Could I take care for a pet? etc. And then one day it said: What is your lipstick personality? I was curious, but at the time only the owner of one single lipstick, so that was not really representative. Anyways I read on and it said that the shape of your lipstick was according to your personality. Well, I forgot all about this funny little test, until very recently when I cleaned my dresser and took at a look at my favorite lipsticks. I now own a lot more than one... Anyways as I looked at them I noticed that in no way they were all in the same shape. That left me to wonder: Am I a lipstick-shizophrenic?
You know, since the shape determines your character, so I have different characters, because there are different shapes? I know that sounds weird, but as I thought about it today I figured it makes sense anyways. The shapes are different, because my "character" is different with every lipstick and its use. When I feel sweet and girly I will use the light pink Manhattan lipstick (first from the left). When I am going out and feel glamourous and like a diva, you will see mme with bright red lips (2nd from the left) and then there are the others. A dark rose for everyday, a bright pink for a pop of color and a coral for the days I want to upgrade my outfit into the "very stylish" zone.
You see, not one of them is representative for my whole self, but I guess from the contents of one´s make-up bag you can really tell something about the character!

Conquering mountains

(3rd pic was taken by my host brother)

You know you can do it, you do. Maybe you don´t think so now, but deep down you know you can! I bet we all have these moments when we need to remember this. Whatever you have been up to I hope you ahve been able to live this mantra. After studying abroad this s what I have been doing anyways. I am sure that if we want to do things we can. That if we hope to conquer mountains we will be able to! Just like in the pictures above we are able to cross our boundaries and to grow. The pictures were taken at Yosemite National Park during an eleven hour hike. I never thought I could do it, and at times it was hard, but in the end we (my host brother and I) did it and we gained far more than just the beautiful view shown above.

Keeps me going...

Loving these pics! Aww, they remind me how great summer can and will be. I am crazily busy right now and also the weather is not as good as you would hope for, but I am optimistic that as soon as I will go on break everything will be great! I know I have not been posting as much as I would like lately and also I have not posted a lot of resently taken photographs, but I hope you understand that with work and college classes I just haven´t been able to do a shoot lately! I do hope I will be able to take some more pictures over the weekend! Wishing you all time to relax and some happy thoughts of summer that will keep you going for the next little whilt! Love, Frieda

Go Team!

I am not much into soccer, but I am in for a party nonetheless:) I was excited to go out with my friends to watch the soccer game last night. I actually did not see a lot of the game since the place was crowded like crazy, but still it was fun. What I love most about soccer is something else though. While most countries are very proud of themselves and are not afraid to show that off Germany is not. For whatever reason, this maybe being history, Germans tend to never show any pride in themselves and their country. So it is very refreshing to see people sing the German national anthem and wave the German flag. I think Germans finally deserve to be proud of their country again and to leave history behind. Not forget about anything, of course, but move on! So, yeah I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the black, red, and gold seas.

Time to relax

I was presented with these bathing essences this lasst week and I cannot wait to try them in the next days! Especially the one on top seems to be very nice, as it is called Love Letter:) Hope you all find some time to relax aswell! Love, Frieda

Oh, my Mary Jane shoes

Have you listened to this song above? If not, please do! For me it expresses exactly the wonderful feeling you get from wearing lovely heels. I played a concert today, wearing my pink Mary Janes and I felt gorgeous. It is a feeling you will only get on very special occasions and with very special footwear: The feeling of being invincible and stylish:) My best friend and I got this pair of heels a while back at Primark. She got them in a light nude which also looks amazing, but as I stated before I prefer pink shoes. Well, I really hope all of you have at least one pair of shoes that make you feel this way! Go out there ladys, change the world and look stunning!

Enjoy!

(This pic was taken a while back in Cali)

Today was a great day! I had so much fun and laughed so excessively much! It was just what I needed after a week full of work and exams (I told you guys about it). It is nice to feel a little bit of sun and to have a little free time to spare. I went out to buy strawberries for a brunch tomorrow and could not stop dancing to some old ABBA songs on my iPod. I guess that is what true leisure and pleasure is about: dancing along the street, listening to fun songs and just feeling so settled within yourself that you do not mind the looks you get from the passing cars:)

The feel of summer

Those are some snaps I took at my vacations over the years.
1. Spain
2. Spain
3. Spain
4. Bulgaria
5. France
6. Germany
And what I wanted to share with you guys is that I really love the feeling I get when looking at these pictures: it is SUMMER! I hope I will be able to collect some more this summer:)

Stressful

Honestly, today was one of the most stressful days in my life! But, it turned out to be a very good and sucessful one, too. It actually made me realize that sometimes we can do our best when we least expect it. I worked so much today and was crazily tired, but still I managed to perform well. I think at times we need to reach our limits just to see that we can cross those self-set boundries! So running around today left me breathless at times and really exausted right now, but also makes me smile slightly, because I did it anyways:)

Back in the days

What do memeories mean to you? Are they a lesson, a burden, a happy thing, necessary, or are they just unavoidable? When I came across these pictures that were taken a while back I wondered about the meaning of memories. As for me memories can be all of the above named and even more. There have been good and less good days for all of us, but looking back on it now I mostly compiled good memories. There are memories of great parties, of amazing friends, of fun trips and simply groing up. And I know they made me to the person I am today. Experiences and memories make us able to act on prior knowledge and to be self-reflecting, but most of all they make us more "us"! So, maybe next time you come across some old pictures take a moment to remember how the moment captured in them shaped you to be you!

Stressful, but pretty

A while back in Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

Looong day:) A full day of classes and a violin recital to play, puh! I am glad to be home and to finally get something to eat! But really, today was a truly beautiful day and I was able to spent my lunch break in the sun reading. Since I went out without my camera today I am just showing you a picture that captures the feeling that accompanied me today: sunny and pretty.
Another thing I want to let you guys know: You are great, I am so greatful for every reader. Since I figured that very few people properly use GoogleFriendConnector I will get myself set up on bloglovin and Facebook this weekend! Hope you all will want to follow me there then!
Hope you guys are enjoying your days, even the stressful once.
Love, Frieda

Summer approaching

I already told you that I hope to get a little tan so I can wear light colors and look good in my swim wear. Well, that is what I tried this weekend, without much success, but with a lot of fun with my friends. I got this card above from a really good friend of mine a while ago stating our goals for the summer: have fun, get tanned,... Alright, I may not have gotten as tanned as the girl on the cover (yet), but I am doing well on the fun part. This actually leads me to an apology: I haven´t done an outfit post ina week, I am sorry! With the hot weather all I really wear are shorts and shirts paired with heels or flipflops, but I will try to catch up on it asap. I hope you guys are doing a better job at getting tanned and are having as much as fun as I do! Have a great start into the week! Love, Frieda

Flower bench

Oh, how much I love things like that! I just enjoy walking around and stumbling over the cutest things completely unexpected. This cute bench filled with flowers was one of those. And in the end that is what life is all about, to expect the unexpected and to enjoy these litttle pleasures in life:)