weleda haul

Sometimes I can´t help... especially in regards to cosmetics if I like a product and feel convinced I want to have everything out of this series to try it. So here is what I bought newly from Weleda.

As I have a cold at the moment I picked the relaxation bath oil with essential oils. To be honest, the smell is described like a walk through a forest and could be more intense. The rosemary shampoo is okay so far, but I miss an additional hair caring product that makes my hair more soft and gentle. The refreshening shower is one of my favourite weleda products. It smells really fresh like citrus fruits and makes you kind of awake and gets you in a good mood, if you are the lazy morning type as I am :) I also went with the citrus deodorant that does not congest your pores. I think it´s really good they offer it in a mini dispenser and I feel its ok so far. Furthermore I wanted a more intensely caring facial creme for the night time that reduces first wrinkles, it is with mosque rose and smells very nicely. It came with a sample of the 2in1 cleanser that I honestly don´t like that much as the application is too complicated, but I may try the normal cleansing milk sometime.

Weleda has such a good internet page where they explain which products suit your skin best, check it out here.

I wish you a wonderfull New Years Eve!!!

Sani <3

apple products

I am totally thrilled by our new apple tv! It is sooo cool!!! :) Today we bought the missing cable and could finally start the apple tv with all it´s functions. I am so excited to try everything out and to look my youtube videos on a big screen now. Yay! I already watched through all my iPhone photos and tried out an Hawaiian radio station - which is one of 5 billion offered!!! I am very happy with it and looking forward to rent the movies for our planned Harry Potter weekend! :) No more driving, just sitting on the couch, cosy and warm and rent the movies. It´s so comfortable! :)

In addition to that I finally could buy the Zip Wallet for my iPhone 5 today. I was waiting for ages! 

Now I got the Black Saffiano Wallet by Michael Kors. I think it looks super chic and sophisticated! :)

By the way at our apple store they offer now to check out yourself via your iPhone (in case you have activated itunes and a credit card number is deposited). When I was asking how the staff can control if someone has paid for it, I learned that they can´t - they just trust you. Isn´t that weird? What do you think?

Sani <3

Merry Christmas!

I had a wonderful christmas day with my hubby and my family! I wish everyone a very happy merry christmas!

Sani <3

weleda face care

Since I had my last appointment at the cosmetic studio I am newly discovering natural skin care. By the way I had the treatment at aliqua nature cosmetics that I can totally recommend! Thereafter I was on the search for a new creme series that does contain more caring ingredients and the lady told me in natural cosmetics everything depends a lot on the price. So some days later I went to a drugstore which has a huge department of these products and finally chose the moisturiser for sensitive mixed skin from weleda. It is unperfumed and cares with almond oil. After using it for a few days I had the feeling this is exactly what I wanted for my skin! It feels very soft and kind of pushed up a little bit now, like very good moisturized!

As I read there is a face oil available that should intesify your skin care during day, night, winter or both if needed I was not sure if this would be good for my skin. I feared this would be too much. But as you can use the face oil also for removing eye make up I was convinced to give it a try and use it for one or the other. The oil is also for senstive skin. When I apply it in the morning I can still feel the protecting care until late night. This is such a good feeling, knowing your skin is well cared and protected throughout the whole day! Exactly what I wanted! And on top of this I am using the oil for removing my eye make up as well... :)

Sani <3

no more excuses

I like sports, I really do. Once a week I am going to the swimming pool and swim for 45 minutes. And also once a week I am doing my workout at the gym for at least 1 hour. Knowing it´s not that much and I could do a little more I always try to work out one more day in the week. But sometimes there are these days when I have time but am a little lazy and can´t motivate myself to pack my bag and drive to the gym. Nowadays, this also relates to the fact that it is dark early and I prefer to stay in my cosy home at these times. ;) So I took advantage of a sports dvd!

It´s really comforting as I am ready to start immediately. A huge advantage on this dvd is that the programms offered have different time schedules. So even if I have only a little time I can start one item or I can combine different items in a workout. All I need is my yoga mat, a towel, a chair and a bottle of water depending on the programm chosen. So from now on I have no more excuses! ;)

Which sport dvd´s do you exercise at home?

Sani <3

new handbag

I have a passion for handbags... I could buy every single bag on this planet!! ;) This is my new one, it´s a brown animal print bag from Rena Marx. I like the size very much, it fits all my things that I need to carry to work. It´s neither too big, nor to small... lovely!

By the way in the background you can see the new teddybear cushions that I bought lately at Höffner. They are super cosy and are now part of my winter decoration! :)

Sani <3

healthy food day

I really like cooking, baking, preparing food and try new recipes whenever I have the time for it! On the weekends I have the most motivation to make a tasty and healthy food day :) So here comes, what that looked like on one of the last weekends.

Porridge with blueberries, banana slices and cinnamon and a green juice with spinach, apple, lemon, melon and strawberries. Both recipes are 'stolen' from the internet... ;)

Thai food, basically some chicken, lots of vegetables, fresh chopped pineapple and some cashews in coconut milk.

I serve it with rice. Soo yummy! I love it... In this pic you can also see the desert which is some yoghurt with berries and hazelnut crisps.

Then my lovely hubby made me a vanilla macchiato <3

And I prepared a pot of peppermint tea for the afternoon.

What would look your healthy food day like? 

Sani <3

x-mas time

I can´t believe how fast this year ran through! It is now mid of December already and even the christmas time with all it´s special senses, the beautiful lights and christmas markets are only there for 9 more days!
I feel like the time goes by faster every year and therefore it gets more and more important to me how I spend my time. It´s like I want to spend it exclusively with the people that I love and like and doing things that I want to do. It´s almost like I´m only willing to take the benefits of my life (of course I know this is not always possible). You know, life is too short for letting anything negative in that hurts you or stresses you out. So why bother with it? And I think this is a very good attitude and it will also be one of my new years resolutions :)
This year is the first year my family and I decided to make a new rule regarding the gifts. So we will only give presents to the children and this makes it very easy in regards to christmas shopping :) However, the presents for my hubby have all been bought in November already, so I am well prepared and really look forward to christmas eve! :)

My hubby also gets an advent calendar from me every year.

I´ve done it by myself and it will be filled up every year with some little surprises! ;) Isn´t it cute?

I wish you and your families a wonderful x-mas time!

Sani <3

quick fish dish

On Monday I usually have a pretty full time schedule. So I don´t want to spend much time cooking. Therefore I have an easy and delicious fish dish that needs almost no time for preparation! In the morning I take the salmon out of the freezer. After work I heat the oven to 200°Celsius. Then I wash the fish shortly put it into a gratin dish and put salt and pepper on it, as well as some lemon drops. The topping is cream cheese and Block House steak pepper. Leave it in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes, depends on how thick the fish slices are. Et voilà... Bon Appétit! :)

Although it´s pretty simple it´s so worth it! And I think about doing it as a kind of habbit. Like you should eat fish once a week, so I´ll have mine on Monday! ;)

Sani <3

facial care during winter time

As it comes to autumn and winter time now I switch my facial care. My skin definitively needs more care during this time of the year as i am outside several times and inside in dry heated rooms several times a day. This is sometimes very stressful for my skin (and also hair, but anyways...). Therefore I am happy to use my beloved facial care products from Estée Lauder now again. It makes my skin very soft and gives me the feeling that it is moisturised and prepared enough. I use following products in combination:

Day Wear is my moisturizer that I use in the morning.

Idealist gives a light glow to my skin and reduces pigment irregularities that I unfortunately have on my forehead. In total my skin looks more even and nice. I actually kind of massage it into my skin before using the moisturiser.

The Time Zone is an anti-wrinkle and moisturising care that I apply in the evening. So my skin recovers throughout the night time.

The Night Repair Serum is a very rich but light super care product for pushing up my skin. It is super good! I use it in the morning every 2-3 days before I go outside or on special occasions that are very stressful to my skin like the solarium that I do in the winter time on a more or less regular basis. Vitamin D is everything! ;) But during summer I use it on the weekends for the night to like give my skin a special treatment. Also when i spent a day on the beach I usually give it as a base under my moisturizer. This product is a miracle! :) 

You can buy all these products on the Estée Lauder website. If you are interested have a look after sets & gifts which are produced regularly in limited editions. :)

 

Sani <3

nail polish remover

My old nail polish remover went empty and I finally could try out a new one. Lately the polish remover in this little dose with the pump dispenser cought my eye and yesterday I bought and used it for the first time... 
it´s so cool :) 

It removes the polish very good, I usually leave the wet pad on my nail for 2 seconds and then wipe it of it goes really easy! In addition to that it´s so smooth and my nails didn´t hardly breach at all. And this product cost only 1€ - this is great! :)

Sani <3

Happy Halloween!

At the moment I cannot find the time to blog regularly. But I do not want to miss wishing everyone a happy Halloween! :)

I hope there will be many kids today knocking on my door! Muahahaa!! :)

Sani <3

up in the air

Especially in times when it´s getting colder and dark early I get very itchy feet. I have the desperate wish to lay somewhere on the beach in the sun with my lovely hubby!! :) So it came that I searched and found a place were I can dream away... Here are some photos...

 

 

 

 

Although I like dreaming of course, I like it even more when my dreams come true! So I am definitively a person who will do everything for it! In this case... think about and plan the next holidays! Haha :)

 

Sani <3

beautiful blush

Artdeco offers this beauuutiful blush. It´s a mixture of all blush colors such as pink, apricot and bronze. Love it! :)

Get it here.

 

Sani <3

a special evening

My husband and I went to our favourite italian restaurant in the city. We especially like the athmosphere and the design on the walls and of course the food! :) It´s delicious. Here is what we ordered...

Our starter were some Bruschetta.

For the main course I had Tagliatelle Romana without tomato sauce and my lovely hubby had Tagliatelle al forno. We also enjoyed a red wine and had a good talk.

Afterwards we walked a little around the city. It´s nice to be there when it´s almost empty and this week some buildings are illuminated in pink which is really nice. :)

 

Hope you had a great evening, too!

 

Sani <3

shoes, shoes, shoes...

A girl needs shoes! I absolutely went head over heels with these babies here:

They are from bianco footwear and they look sooo gorgeous! Found them here. I ordered them in 2 sizes, but unfortunately none of them fit! :'(
Luckily enough, I also had a look and ordered 2 reduced pairs of sandals. Haha :)

These look very cute and are very comfy as well! I don´t mind that i can´t wear them now as it is obviously too cold, nevertheless they were a really good deal! :)

What are your latets shoe snaps? Do you do anti-seasonal shopping?

 

Sani <3

brush cleaning in below 5 minutes

Today I cleaned my brushes. As I have different brushes for the colors I am using, I don´t need to do it that often. I am using the cleanser from MAC which you can buy here. And it goes super easy!

These are some of my Barbara Hoffmann brushes (here) that I use for my eye make up and the Mary Kay mineral foundation brush (here).

 

I simply give a little spot of the brush cleanser onto a folded double piece of kitchen paper...

and start to wipe the color out of the brushes...

...until they are tidy again.

This took me less than 5 minutes! :)

Hope you have a nice sunday!

 

Sani <3

friday@gym

It´s the end of the week again and the working week is over! :) This week I don´t feel much exhausted or stressed out which is nice! I went to the gym and my workout consisted of the following exercises:
 
A total of 45min on the treadmill...

• 20mins warm up walk
• 15mins light jogging
• 5mins fast walk
• 5mins cool down walk

Afterwards I also did a little curcuit training, just some quick and only the most important exercises:

• adductors - 20kg
• chest press - 12,5kg
• abductors - 20kg
• lat machine - 20kg
• lower back - 20kg
• stomach - 20kg

And this is what I wore for my workout:

H&M t-strap sport shirt in pink
black Nike Women Athletics, similar here
black Puma sport pants, similar here  

Hope you had a relaxing friday evening as well.

 

Sani <3

new make up items

My make up order from Mary Kay (here) just arrived. Yay! I am so happy! :) I waited so desperately for the mineral powder as I needed it in one shade lighter than I ordered it the last time. I use the tone 'Ivory 2' and it gives my skin a very natural look. It´s also very easy to apply. Simply need to brush one time over the face with a mineral brush and it gives a light powdered but natural look. I really like this on the weekends when I normally apply a decent make up only. If I apply 2-3 times it covers very well for my working days. And it really takes some time until this little package ends up.

 

The mineral powder cup can be closed and it comes with a little mirror on the top this is very handy for on the way. :)

 

 
And on top I chose a lip gloss in a coral/peachy color. Although I would consider this color more summerish I think I can still wear it with brown and nude tones and it will give a lovely color spot.

 

Hope you can identify the color in this little spot. Isn´t it nice? :)

Wish you a lovely weekend!

 

Sani <3

cosy home wear

Just learned about an online store that was completely unknown to me until now. I love to wear cosy and comfortable clothes at home especially as autumn is approaching now and oysho offers exactly this! Even most of the presented are in nude colors which I prefer the most. It totally thrilled me! :) They offer homewear, sleepwear, beachwear and a lot of other nice things! If you are interested just check it out here! :)

Skin care products

A few months ago I found the products from alverde which is a natural ingredients based skin care series with very exotic smells. :) I started to try out more products from alverde as I noticed they suit my sensitive skin. I totally like that they don´t have so much ingredients and are vegan as well. Although i have to admit that the application of the body lotion on the skin is partly a little inconvenient as it´s not absorbing into the skin so good. However, these products suit my skin very well, they give a caring feeling all day long and I never got an unbalanced reaction.

Lately I chose the shower gel and the bodylotion that smell like blackberry and quince it is a really intense smell and I liked it so much I couldn´t resist to buy it. Hmmm! :) It is a limited edition...

If you are interested in a natural based skin care i can totally recommend alverde. You can buy it here.

 

Sani <3

Mojito night

On Saturday night we had invited some friends. The plan was to spend a nice and relaxed evening together, ordering pizza and mixing some Mojitos! Although it may be a little cold already for such a icy cocktail we decided to do it, because we all were quite busy in the last weeks and it was difficult to find a date where everyone had time. So our funny Mojito night finally fell into October... :)

Mojitos are so easy to do at home and they are very refreshing and tasty. I also really like the smell of the fresh menthe that I grow myself.

This is the mixture that I went with yesterday:
 
Put 3 tea spoons (big ones ;) ) of brown cane sugar into a glass and dash with the juice of one lime so that the sugar gets covered. Add 3-4 fresh leafs of menthe and squash the menthe with the muddler a little bit. Now add 3cl rum and fill up the glass with crushed ice until the top. Finally add some soda and enjoy. For drivers simply waive the rum and use soda instead. Cheers! :)

Which cocktails do you make at home? Let me know.

 

Sani <3

Friday@gym

Today is Friday and it´s finally the end of my working week. Yay! I really always look forward to the friday afternoon and the 2 and a half free days ahead!!! As probably most people do! :) To get rid of all the stress from the week it helps me a lot to go to the gym. As I just picked up again after a while I have done a light training today. Basically I abserved a circuit training, I didn´t want to overexaggerate it... ;) 

So, here is what I exercised:

• warm up 10minutes walking fast on the treadmill
• abductors - 15kilos
• adductors - 15kilos
• chest press - 12,5kilos
• leg lengthening - 15kilos
• leg curl - 15kilos
• stomach - on my own
• stabilizors - on my own
• lat machine - 20kilos
• stomach - 15kilos
• abductors - 20kilos
• adductors - 20kilos
• chest press - 15kilos
• cool down 5 minutes walking on the treadmill

The abductors and adductors are the most important excersises for me, as well as the chest press - this one is sooo good for my back! That´s the reason why I repeat these exercises at the end of one circuit. After the workout I went to the sauna and totally enjoyed the warmth at 80°C - this relaxes me so good!

Do you have a ritual to start into the weekend? I am curious to know :)

 

Wish you a nice weekend!

 

Sani <3

 

p.s.: sorry i don´t have pic´s at the moment, but i will remember to take some for my next posts!

My first blogpost!

Hello!

 

My name is Sani and I am 30 years old, living in Hamburg, Germany with my husband.

I recently noticed there are so many blogs and vlogs out there on the internet and I really liked the idea of reporting and posting about things you like, or even create a little diary. So I decided to jump on the bandwagon!

 

I would like to keep this blog in English, although I am not a native. But it´s a good opportunity for me to maintain my English and on top I can share my blog with even more people. So I hope you will forgive me in case my vocabulary or grammar sounds a little weird sometimes! However, there may also be some German posts from time to time...

 

Hope you have fun reading!

 

Sani <3