Pics from 2012

Hello everybody!

How are you? How were your holidays?
I´m back in Austria :). Today I slept like Aurora from "Sleeping Beauty". My mother and my younger sister Ami drove me home, it's starting to be a tradition to drive me home. They stayed longer than planned. I was sad, but life must go on with or without them.

I planned to write some blogposts in my holidays, but the time runs so fast. I slept very late with a smile and woke up to early. I could sleep all day, but without my bed it´s like laying on a stone XD.

It´s too late to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, but hahahaha I´m not like everyone so then :D I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :D hope you celebrated well with your loves one or had relaxed days.

I´ll show you some pictures which I didn´t post last year, because I thought they weren't good enough to show :).
And I decided not to match my blog and my YouTube videos, I want it to be special.

Outfit Of The Day´s

which wasn´t good enough to show

I thought it looked to unspecial or normal, not really an inspiration for you :)

Pictures from my Youtube video

Pictures I didn´t showed last year

 This picture was from a turial which I wasn´t satisfied with^^

Enjoyed my time in Germany

 Missing my cuty babies, they visited me.

Ate all day along

Spent every minute I can with my beloved Ami <3

miss her so much ;___;

 Pissed out Nony :P

That´s it :) my next post is going about my holidays. I´ll show you some pictures :)

Have a nice start in the week my lovely readers :D

With much love

Nony

chit chat

Hello everybody :D

I have 4 drafts in my blog. Sometimes I need time to write a blogpost, in my opinion too much! One draft is about Autmn (you realize it´s almost winter in a few weeks) >__<, one about food (again!), one a philosophy text about age (I wrote it before my birthday now 4 days past after it) and the last one is for new years eve (a review about 2012, pictures, because I´m not at home in the holidays).

You can see, the only things in my brain are only food and chill out. I really have to organize it all better. I have to give my blog a special day and time, where I have time all day long without rush.

Ok I´m going to write what comes right now of my mind.
We have sunday night, I ate well, like everyday. I don´t know why, but I sang all day the U.S. anthem "Star Spangled Banner" instead of christmas songs :D.
I started days ago to choose my christmas and new years eve wardrobe. I always start weeks ago to experiment which make up I wear for specials days like these, I want it always to be perfect, because for this occasion the chance is higher that somebody takes a photo from you. I will bring 2 dresses to the tailor, because I don´t like how they're cut. I will for sure do before and after photographs :). I´m not certain how I will let them cut^^, but for sure a V neckline, I have terrible wide shoulders.
Today I watched the press copy of "Bourne Legacy", I´m doing movie reviews with my husband. We stopped one year ago and we just started again. It´s a lot of work but it´s worth it^^. The movie was really good like I thought. Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Renner are really good actors. I liked the szene where Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) climbed up the house of Dr. Martha Shearings (Rachel Weisz) wall in to the window on the second floor. The camera moved very smooth behind him. I´m sure it wasn´t easy, I imagine they shoot the scene many times, hmm all the scenes where smooth and not as hectic as "Bourne" part 2 and 3. The atmosphere was very exciting, the close combat choreography was amazingly fast and lusty. The story is comprehensible and developable. It isn´t a bad copy of the other "Bourne" movies. Jason Bourne was more a soldier, a mercenery, a robot :X he did what he had to do and Aaron Cross is more like an 007 agent, very smart and emotional. I don´t want to tell you the whole story, I stop here. I can´t wait to watch part 2 kekeke, they have greenlighted the sequel.
I can´t wait to watch this year "The Hobbit", "Skyfall" and "Cloud Atlas". I don´t like, I really don´t like cinemas, if I was a rich person I would buy all the seats around me. I don´t like it when someone's talking while the movie plays, when somebody touches my seat or does weird stuff beside me, like kissing, shake with the leg ( I´m not better but when I´m concentrating I´m like a statue, maybe because I focus my energy on my brain instead of my leg XD ), eat/ drink to loud, move and and and... I know I must sound really fussy, but I love movies and if I spend so much money on it, then I want to suck it all to my soul :D:D:D. I only go to the cinema if 1. The movie has been released a while ago 2. For a person I really like 3. A movie which I have been waiting for a long time 4. The last screening of the day 5. For a place to hide or sleep when a zombie apocalypse or somthing else breaks out :D:D:D:D:D. I can talk about movies for hours :D.

I gained 7kg/ 15,4 pounds during the sommer (I´d never weight that much in my life) and now I lost 5kg/ 11 pounds:D yaay. I was always a skinny person but with the age your basic metabolic rate gets lower and lower. I ate like crazy, everywhere delicious food and everybody made my favourite food, to make me happy. Ohh in 3-4 weeks I´m going to my family and it´ll happen again, I´ll surely gain weight! But this time I will or I'll try to do sport :D or I stop eating when I´m full. We will see, I will try to make more food porn for you guys and of course write more recipes with permission.

Ahh I´m using Nivea cream (blue one) and I´m really satisfied, in cold weather times my skin gets very dry, everything else was like a watery film over my skin, but nothing gets inside. My skin feels very plane and smooth. My grandmother uses it for almost 30 years, and her skin is gorgeous and young. She is using a asian soap and Nivea, that´s it, hope my skin will look like hers in her age *___*. I have to rub my eyes less, it prevents from getting eye wrinkles. The skin eye area is very thin, it needs moisture and gentle touch. It isn´t easy to apply it on the face, it is very dence from the consistence. I dap it all over my face and then I rub it gently all over.

Oh I have to slowy consider what I give my family in law for christmas >__<. Do you guys bought already a present? Or are you spontaneous like me? My family doesn't want a present, we´re too many people (16 people including me) O__O they are happy when we are all together :).

Ok guys I´m getting tired, good night.
Hope you all out there have a wonderful week!
Greets and kisses to all of you, wherever you are there is always somebody who thinks of you.
Nony

Pre christmas makeup look

Hello lovely readers!

Christmas atmosphere starting everywhere. I'm in a christmas mood, everywhere glitter, colours and smell of a fir tree. I can't wait to walk in the christmas market in Karlsruhe, Germany. Eat delicious langos with garlic sauce and cheese wuuaah I'm going to eat it almost everyday! Drink some hot spiced wine (Glühwein) and fruit punch (Kinderpunsch) and eat pizza, waffles, oven potatoes with bacon, garlic sauce and cheese, fried grated potatoes with apple sauce *___* I'm now really mouthwatering :D

I'm really going to bankruptcy because of food :D:D:D:D:D

I love to walk in a christmas market specially there in Karlsruhe, it's big and there's food in every corner, and everywhere tiny and beautiful things you can buy. The decoration is very festive and you can skate on ice, although there is no snow or ice^^

I will show you definitely pics from Karlsruhe :) I promise :)

Salzburg is very idyllic, but the christmas market is very hmm how should I tell you hmm.. there are only a few food booths, like 5 or less (one oven potatoe booth, 1 or 2 sweet booths, 2 or 3 sausage steak bread roll booth and no fries O__O I was really shocked). The decoration booths repeat very often, it's big but hmm not really beautiful. The people here are very quiet, after 8 o'clock it's going to be blank in the streets. It's like Germany 20 years ago.

This makeup look is very easy and beautiful, it's not too heavy for the daily basis. I can imagine to use it also to christmas or something else for a glamourous event.

Products I used:

Urban Decay Naked Palette:

Buck -matt chocolate brown

Half Baked -old yellow undertone, shimmer

Virgin -beige, creamy white, very fine shimmer particle (glow)

Hustle -dark chestnut, dark wood

Essence Breaking Dawn part 2 (LE = Limited Edition) shimmer powder -gold shimmer particles, beige

Essence Breaking Dawn part 2 (LE) pigment 03 "A piece of forever", colourful glitter with fine gold particles

MNY 305A -rosy pink blush

Essence I Love extreme mascara

Preciosa Stone story lip liner -cherry colour

Urban Decay -24/7 Eye Pencil in Whiskey -dark brown

Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink 1

 I used a lot of golden colour

Essence pigment, Essence shimmer poweder, Naked Half Baked

Eyes

I used a beige with golden shimmery powder. Dap the colour all over your lid, tear duct and 1/3 of the front of your lower lashline.

The first dap with your pencil in the eyeshadow will be the darkest. I worked at first at the back of my eyes, to create a eyeline, the end of the eyeline will be your guide, start there and follow your crease to the middle (I have medi moni lids, I drew above my crease to open my eyes), now you have to look if it's enough (it should look like a shadow), if not then grab more of the eyeshadow but always start at the end.

3. Sweap the rest product to the tear duct. It should be gradient dark at the end and lighter in the front.

4. Put the eyeshadow 3/4 to your lower lashline.

I used a black gel eyeliner, because it doesn't smudge like an eye pencil. 

Use a thin pencil brush and draw between the lashes.

3. I drew a small eyeline and connected it to 1/5 of my eye.

4.I used dark brown eye pencil and drew as thin as possible an eyeline along my eyes. Take your time, it doesn't have to be perfect, I worked with strokes, in front of the eye very thin and in the end I connected it with the black eyeline.

Use a dark brown eyeshadow with or without glitter, it doesn't matter :), now correct the mess before :D, dap the eyeshadow to last longer the eye pencil, 

draw the lower lashline 3/4 connect the end with the eyeline, first thick and then thinner

4. I used Half Baked, a golden yellow eyeshadow to intensify the look, put it only on the lid of your eyeball.

1. Highlight your tear duct, 1/3 lower lashline, 1/4 upper lashline.

2. Curl your lashes and put mascara on.

3.I used a colourful glitter pigment with gold shimmer, I dapped it gently 1/3 of my lower lashline. (Important: you should always dap your pigment, otherwise there is a mess and it doesn't last long as well).

I wanted a lip stain, so I used lip balm first and put lip liner all over my lips.

I used a rosy pink blush, but fir an glamourous party I would use a blood red lipstick and a red pink blush^^

Highlight your cheek bones and the bridge of your nose.

Final Look

Some of the pictures are really blurry, sorry ^^ it was hard not to shook.

Next time I will check it out before I'm done with the look :D

Hope you all have a nice week! Tell me what you like about christmas and your favourite christmas market :)

Can't wait to read your comments.

Lovely greetings

Nony

11 Question TAG

Hello everybody,

lovely Aely did TAG me :D thank you :-*
She created 11 Questions randomly
let´s start :) 


1.) What was your career dream as a child?
I wanted to be a stewardess^^ (my husbands big dream was to be a Pilot, maybe if we have chosen differently, maybe we would have met each other on air  :D) but I found my love at a young age :)

2.) If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
Oh that´s not easy! I love Schnitzel, but every day only Schnitzel and no potatoes? Hmmm maybe potatoe salad, I could change the ingridients for more variation.

3.) If you would travel back in time and meet yourself, and you could give yourself advice in three things, what would yuo choose?
1. Focus to your education, because this is the key to your future and dream
2. You don´t have to prove anything for somebody
3.You can´t be liked by everybody and it´s not important, start by liking yourself, what do YOU want?

4.) If you had to move to another country because of your job (and you could do it everywhere), where would you go?
USA middle north California, not too hot not too cold. They have delicious food and a big variation of sweets and it´s not so far from asia.

5.) How many kids do you want to have? And how do you want to name them? Or: If you have kids how wouldn´t you name them?
 3 kids, Amelié-Sophie, William, Keanu, James, Aurora. I would like to adopt a child.

6.) Which 3 qualities (character/ look) do you think are the most important in a man?
-humour, intelligence and tolerance

7.) Which song or picture describes your current mood the best?
Ólafur Arnalds -Undan Hulu
 
8.)Which meal of the day is your favourite one?
Definetly dinner, I love to come home to relax and cook, then eat something warm and delicious!

9.) Name one thing that you really have to do before dying.
I want to see the world! First stop Korea and Japan

10.) Which languages would you like know?
french, korean and latin

11.) Which attribute of yourself would you like to change?
 I really don´t know how to answer, because I always try to correct or improve myself.


Now to my Questions :)
Everyone can  answer the questions too, if you want. If you don´t have a blog than write the answers right below in the comment. I appreciate everyone of your comments!

1.) What was your happiest moment in this year? Or what do you looking forward to the most this year?
2.) What´s your favourite dish?
3.) What are you afraid the most?
4.) In the world of which movie would you like to live?
5.) Do you have a lucky charm?
6.) The first thing you see when you open the front door?
7.) Which skill would you like to have? Or would you like to learn?
8.) What was the most expensive thing that you bought?
9.) Your favourite quote?
10.) Which country do you want to visit next?
11.) What do you wish for the most?

German
1.) Welcher war dein glücklichster Moment in diesem Jahr? Oder auf was freust du dich am meisten in diesem Jahr?
2.) Was ist dein Lieblingsgericht?
3.) Wovor hast du am meisten Angst?
4.) Im welchem Film würdest du gerne Leben?
5.) Hast du einen Glücksbringer?
6.) Welchen Gegenstand siehst du zuerst, wenn du deine Haustür öffnest?
7.) Welche Fähigkeit würdest du gerne besitzen? Oder erlernen?
8.) Was war deine teuerste Investition?
9.) Dein Lieblingszitat?
10.) Welches Land ist dein nächstes Reiseziel?
11.) Was wünscht du dir am meisten?
I tag Catha and Julia

ok  I´m looking foward to get to know you :)
lovely greetings
Nony
 

Never Know

Hello dear reader,
how are you? Hope you´re well.

2 weeks ago the father of my sister in law died. Her kids David and Felizia are so young and they will never meet their grandfather.
I love my sister in law like my real sister, the fact she´s loving my brother with his good and bad, makes me happy and it´s not important what she did before knowing him.

Death is one of our elemental incident in life, but we´ll never adapt to it, when someone close to us are going away forever.
In the year of 2001 my Dad had a strong heart attack, in this moment he lost his health, his job and his house. The good side of it: he flew his first time with a helicopter^^ (they flew immediatly to a special heart hospital). My Dad is a very funny person :) he was already interested in helicopters as a kid.
One day after it happend we visited him in the emergency station, he laid in the corner of the room beside him two much more older inviduals, they already looked like they passed away, it was quiet and it smelled after germicide. 
He slept while we came in, his face was really pale, everywhere machines who surrounded him and everywhere thin tubes on his body. The sight was horrible, my mom was the only one who didn´t tear up, my siblings and I couldn´t resist to sob. He woke up, surely because we wet his bed :). And the first thing he said while he slowly opened his eyes was: "Why are you crying? I´m not dead yet". We laughed and told him how much we loved him. The doctor came in and took my mother to speak with her, minutes passed away, it felt like hours. She came again, bit on her tissue, and fought against her tears. He must have told her something bad, her eyes got red, she couldn´t speak one word, after a short time she stood there like nothing happend, but I knew my mother very well, her appearance was brave but her heart was broken, she squeezed her package of tissue like a lemon. Our time to visit him was over, no one dared to ask her. We went out, my mother at last, she smiled to him like she was saying: "everything will be better" and gave him a kiss on his lips (it was the first time that I saw her kissing him) without a word and without looking back. She closed the door softly and broke down, I think I´d never saw her crying since the death of my grandfather, she told us what the doctor said with a shaky voice: "the aorta has a fracture, they could do an operation but only with 20% chance to survive, or leave it like it is, which would mean a life expectancy of 5 years at most".
We decided for the last option.

10 years passed and I´m very blessed, I hope it will last very long^^. I appriciate every second with him and I've learnt after that, it could always be the last moment with the person you love or like, I take care what I say before I go and kissed and hug the person it could always be the last one. Most get annoyed when I´m doing this cheesy stuff, but in this aspect I´m very selfish because I want to do the best I could to not regret whatever happend.

Since then I also learnt to let go :)
In my opinion it's the most difficult thing to realize as a human being. It starts with tiny things you like, you want to have or you spend time on it. Maybe sometimes it'll become a habit. It can be everything from something you spent a lot of money on, to the person you love or really like. We're focusing on something to fill our inner emptiness. For example a very expensive watch. A watch helps us to organize our time, it doesn't have another function like that. To have a beautiful watch is an extra for your soul, the thought you own something you like or something you get from a special person or a special reason makes you happy. An expensive watch still has the one function, but it's negligible in respect to it's materialistic value. The prominent function now is to make the owner happy or proud to own something so special. Of course some rare people will buy it to admire its inner life and formidable handwork.
But still, if the owner loses it by any chance, the loss will be much greater than usual. Probably even greater than a gift from someone special, as at least the special person still lives on in our life even if the gift is lost, whereas the self bought watch from our example is a really great loss without a substitute.
What do we really need? What do we want?

I´ve never met my grandfathers, but luckily my grandmothers :) (today only one left, see picture) to see the grandparents it´s nice to know where you come and where the roots are from. Hope my future kids are going to meet sometime their grandparents.

piuh so much private stuff :D the next blogpost will be more fun :)
ok I wish you all a wonderful week
lovely greetings
Nony

Tortillas

Hello everybody,

if you read my blogposts before you will know that my family in law are latinos and of course you can always find tortillas in every latino household, my dad bought it before but doesn´t know how to eat them. we put it on the stove and ate them with sweet condense milk XD
From then on I really like tortillas but it´s very expensive here. 

My cousin always told me from the new place she found, a salat bar, she always sent me pics from her delicious wrap filled with vegetables, chicken and cocktail sauce (recipe coming soon!). It was enough for me, my floor was flooded with my spittle. I did it myself, the beginning was horrible, it was too hard, too thick, too stringy, but now I know the trick about it ^^
really easy if you follow my instructions step by step :)


Ingridients: (for 6 torillas)

13 tblsp flour
1/3 tsp salt
2 tblsp olive oil
200 ml (7/8 cup or 13 1/2 tblsp) luke warm water

tablespoon

flour, salt, olive oil

spread it all over th flour and swirl it with your finger 

(I used 3 fingers from the middle part) 

after all combined, kneat it until the dough gets smooth I would say 3 minutes

wet the surface of the dough and put it in a bowl, so it doesn´t dry wrap it with platic wrap.

If you need the dough immediately let it sit in the fridge for 15min and 15min in the room.

I do the dough often one day before I want to eat, you can put the dough although in the freezer.

the consistensy will be very sticky, put flour on the surface the dough on top and turn around

on the sides too, flatten the dough

and split it in 6 pieces

roll the dough in balls, so it gets easier to from round tortillas, if you do more than 

this recipe cover it with kitchen towel, to keep them smooth

 use a rolling pin to flatten the dough

  I used my fingers to spread the dough properly to make it thinner on the outside. 

Keep the hands close (fingertips on the outside) and open them while you move the dough in a circle

Important, the pan should be really really hot! Use a iron pan if you have. 

After the pan gets really hot lower the heat a little and put the tortilla in the pan, 

(we want to warm-up it on both sides) when minimum 1/3 of the dough gets invisible (20 sec), flip it.

the dough sizzles a bit, flip it again after 10-15 sec

normally after the second flip it should puff out but don´t worry if it 

doesn´t after 5sec, flip it again!

I fliped it very often until it lifts everywhere especially on the edge, sometimes 

I move the edge of the tortilla to the middle of the pan (the hottest part of the pan is the middle)

finish! You can cover it with a kitchen towel to keep it warm

in the end it should have many thin layers like this, warm tortillas are sooo delicous :)

After you´re finish you can put cheese on the hot tortilla or put the tortilla cheese for 20 sec in the microwave, put ham on it and top it with creme fraîche, siracha and dry onions wuuaaahh sooooo yuummiiiiii!!!! I love this combination :) try it! Sometimes I do salad in it, both variations are soo yuummi!!

You can fill it with everything what your heart desire, meat with garlic dressing, or only vegetables with hummus, get creative ;D and tell me how you filled your tortilla :D

everyone has the ingridients at home, so give it a try :D

I´m sure you will love it!

I wish you a nice weekend my lovely readers!

Lovely greetings

Nony