Photo an hour - Thursday the 8th of March.

I have wanted for a while now to do a photo an hour post. On Thursday it was the first time I actually managed to remind myself to take a photo once every hour! Usually I forget to start or I start and forget myself and before I know it the day is over and I don't even have two pictures.

I wasn't planning on doing the photo an hour on Thursday but as I was running to pick up my nephew I decided that today would be the day. I didn't have my camera with me but I did have my Blackberry so I quickly snapped a photo!

Here it is:

9am - Picking up my nephew and heading back home we saw this umbrella art that was in recognition to the International Women's Day. 

 10am - wooohoo down to 76.7 kg (169 lbs). I was surprised since I haven't been exercising at all! 

 11am - My lemongrass plants are rooting like crazy! I sadly had to trow one on the stalks away since it was about to start rotting. 

12pm - reading through my sometimes favorite food magazine, I have mixed feelings about it. It is awesome and then when you cook recipes that are in them you don't think it is as awesome. They are very misleading and you just want to cry. But more of that later!

 1pm - my nephew doing his homework. He was almost finished!

 2pm - knitting as well known as calmness and me time. 

3pm - made banana-yogurt-shake for the boys (the nephew and Mr. Handsome)

4pm - cutting my split ends. I finally found my hair scissors and could attack the serious amount of split ends. My hair feels much better already even though I didn't manage to cut them all away. 

 5pm - putting away laundry, the closet is still almost empty since all the clothes are still in boxes!

6pm - quickly put some nail hardener on, I am growing my nails out again after writing a final essay (I bite my nails when I am stressed writing final essays)

7pm -heading to the store to buy a birthday present for my dad! It gets dark here early even though it is almost spring.

 8pm - my favorite part of the mall we went to - Herman's tortoises, this one looked at me when I came over and just begged me to take it with me. 

9pm - cooking dinner

 10pm - finally ready to go in the oven! This is a recipe from the March issue of the Vegetarian magazine. They said it would take 10 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook. That is load of bullshit. Pardon my language. I started at 9pm and it went in the oven at 10pm.

11pm - and finally ready! Still not as ready as it was supposed to be but I was starving, and the worst thing was it had almost no taste! ANNOYING! 

So that was my day! 

xoxo

24 Things To Do Before My 24th Birthday.

1. Change schools

2. Learn how to write in Arabic

3. Learn better French (I am on level B1 now)

4. Start a Handmade Shop

5. Knit a sweater

6. Find an apartment

7. Grow some herbs

8. Take 52 outfit pictures

9. Lose 10 kg (22 lbs)

10. Cook 52 different recipes

 11. Knit 52 different things

12. Needlepoint 12 different things

13. Sew 52 different things

14. Write a short story

15. Stop eating milk products

16. Set up a workplace for me

17. Take 52 make up pictures (13.01.12,) 

18. Get a bike

19. Visit the East-Cost of the USA

20. Save some money (around 2600 chf)

21. Have 400 twitter followers - follow me here  (57 (13.01.12), ) 

22. Turn this blog into a webpage

23. Stop using shampoo and conditioner

24. Grow a lemon grass plant. 

This is my list for this year, I do this frequently but usually I forget all about it after couple of months. This time I have started the list!

I will update this list and link to it frequently because this time I am in it to win it!

xoxo

Friday Make Up

Beginning of last year I tried to post one week of different make ups, I didn't succeed. I managed to do it four times. (Monday, Thursday, Tuesday I, Tuesday II ). This time it is different, last year I was tired all of the time and it just was too hard for me. This time around I have energy and am ready to do it! I might even start writing posts with swaps and all that of these things, today there is just how I decided to use my make up.

Today I woke up early and went to meet my friend. I wasn't wearing any make up because I just had gotten up. When I got back I decided that today would be the day I should start taking the pictures. First let's look at the before picture!

I will write down the things that I used in the order I used them (easier for me to remember what I did): 

 Skin - I used a concealer from Max Factor called Erace, the tone I used was number 7 called ivory.  I really do like it and I might even buy that one again when I finish it. 

Eyes -.I am using an eyeliner from M.A.C (same one I used here), it is the Smolder Khôl. It is the same one as I used the last time because I rarely use it and it was kinda lost in my make up box.I am still in love with the Hypnôse Precious Cells mascara from Lancôme and I use it almost every day. I need to buy a new one but I can't decide if I should buy the same one again or buy the Hypnôse Doll Eyes instead. I find it annoying buying the same one again because I love trying new make up.


Lips - I used two things for my lips, a lip liner from Maybelline, it is called COLORsensational and the colour is number 547 Pleasure Me Red. Over that I put on the Universal Lip Glow by L'Oréal to give it a bit shine.

And the end result is taataaaaa:
 


I brushed my hair too! I can't believe that now it has been over a month since I last time used shampoo and conditioner! But more about that later ;) 

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I have always loved poems and this semester in my Textual Analysis class we have mostly been talking about poems. Today, I would like to share on of the poems with you. The poem is called Pied Beauty and is written by Gerard Manley Hopkins.


Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford on July the 28th 1844 and died in Dublin on June the 8th 1889. Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the best poets of the Victorian era. Sadly, many of his poems were not accepted for publication until after his death. He never received the recognition that he deserved whilst still alive.


The poem that I am writing my essay about is Pied Beauty. Pied Beauty is a curtal sonnet, it was written in 1877 when Gerard was 33 years old, at that time he had failed his final theology exam and therefore could not become a priest, but published 29 years after his death in 1918. It was one of the first poems he had written in a sprung rhythm style he claimed to have discovered. 


In the poem the narrator appreciates all the things God has given the world, mostly that can be found the nature. 

Glory be to God for dappled things –

   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;

      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

                                Praise him.

Sources:


Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985)


Poetry Foundation