Nettle harvest and Bumblebees

(please, leave me alone and stop being where ever I am, I can't stand the sight of you being there every fucking step on the way, I can't cope if it's like that. How am I supposed to get over this if you're everywhere, like a plague. I'm sorry, but I really need you gone... if only for so long that I can get my life back)

Today has been a lovely day. A lovely day for harvesting all kinds of green stuff you find in the forest.

We set out with a basket, gloves and rubber boots and laid our eyes on nettles.

My A's on a roll here, picking and picking.

There was a lot of nettles in our little forest we've got here. And it was so relaxing... even when I tried to run from the huge bumblebees that buzzed right at me.

I'm not sure how much we picked, but the sauna now looks like this after a few hours of harvest:

It might not look as much, but it took us a couple of hours to clean them all of twigs and worms and stuff.

Three sauna shelves filled with nettles that will hopefully dry correctly and not mold wrongly (I am aware that you probably can't say that, but it sounded funny)

I don't know why all my pictures are this blurry... there's something wrong with my camera, I think.

My pictures have never been like this before..

But anyways, this is our nettle harvest. Lets cross our fingers and hope this will become the dried nettles we want them to be! Then there will be tea, soup, bread... pretty much everything you can do with these.

Next, I want to show you my new beauties I bought when I was in Sweden with my Papa a few days.

I love faeries. And, just like shoes, you can't have enough of them.

So these two are my newest members of my faerie family.

And just like everyone else in my big family, these two watch over the house and protects us from bad spirits and plant life we don't want. They still haven't revealed their names to me, so I don't call them anything.

It'll come.

Long post again, so no time or room to blog more about my Stockholm cruise with Papa.

Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.

All I can say is that the dancers that had the boat-show were really good..

Hot Latino guys in tight dancers outfits and beautiful Spanish girls in beautiful dresses... There will be pictures, and maybe even a video if the quality is good and not blurry like the pictures.

I'll save the fun parts for another post.

Green forest and bumblebee hugs, Luna

The times are changing..

Yes, yes they are indeed.

The Land of LoonyToo as we know it, is going to change.
Change for the better ^^ And we like that! We like that a lot.

But as soon as the changes are made I am back to writing, and a few other things as well.

This is great. I feel that this change is worth it, even if it is just a blog.
But, a blog with a lot of opportunities and thoughts of any kind really and of course my personal therapy area.. And mostly, something that might be helpful for all you readers out there!

I've always felt that this is a good year for changes, and it turns out I am right.
It certainly didn't feel that way a few months back but now... now all sorts of spirits are on my side, it seems.

.....but it could just as well be the lovely sunshine we'e had.

It's good, anyway. Life is good today and it will hopefully get better.

So while we are waiting for changes, I will post a video as entertainment. Specially if you are a gamer and specially if you are a gamer of Skyrim.

Stay tooooooned!!

Blackcurrant in a cup.

There is nothing I like more than a long hot shower to get all the glue off of my hair (we had a photo shoot again with Iiris, this time pink princess was the theme, pictures coming soon) , my warm cosy bathrobe I got for Christmas, a big cup of steaming hot tea (or in this case some blackcurrant juice with hunny) and a movie, Lost in Translation, to make my evening. Especially when you feel a big nasty cold coming up, and that is not at all welcome. Not now.
So I say Begone ye flu-demon from Hell!

I am sorry for not writing something amazingly interesting like the last post about bullies (although I still have an extra thing or two to say about that) but lately I've been out of energy and very much out of good topics.

So today is going to be a regular post about a little that has been going on in my life so far and what is about to happen, oh and I have an announcement too. Already it seems a bit more exciting.

I had a job, worked one day and got sacked. I applied for a new job, they said I would get it, I didn't get it.
I applied now to a flower shop. I hope I get it.
There has been money problems and bureaucracy problems for so long now that I feel like I've had it with just about everything.

I've also been having strange nightmares and twice a dream I am not so particularly fond of, having to do with That what happened earlier this year. The scene changes but the plot is the same-ish.
I do not like it one bit.

And last, but not least, the Announcement! Yay!
I am going to start a second blog! Not sure what to call it but there I will post as often as I can about make up and styles and tips and a few tutorials and the all the makeup I've used in the pictures I've posted here.

I'm still going to write here as often as I can, but I feel that that stuff doesn't really belong here.
So a new blog coming sooooon!

Now I really don't have anything of importance to write, I just wanna curl up and watch a movie and enjoy the company of my newly showered self.

You have a good evening, ta ta!

No one deserves to be bullied!

I read in the news a few weeks back about a 15 year old girl who committed suicide because she was bullied and teased in school.
Her parents were oblivious of all that happened to her, and a while after she died they found her diary where she wrote everything.
They then decided to give the diary to a writer and have it published for the people to read..
The writer has a  blog about this and there are pieces of the girls diary I read, and the feelings that came after I read about the things this little girl went through... I can't stop thinking about it. It makes me sick knowing that young people can be so cruel.
It makes me sick knowing that people, children, can hate one child this much that she takes her own life.
I daresay it's not fair at all..


I can only imagine how this girl must've felt like, being hated so much for no reason.
They hit her, pushed her down stairs, threatened to kill her, called her a whore... they tormented this poor girl and she had done nothing but existed in this ugly twisted world of youths.
And no one knew. And of course she was afraid of telling... Living life in fear like that, knowing every day you go to school something is going happen. Someone is going to hit you, kick you..

I was teased and bullied in school.
For 10 years I had to endure the same thing - name calling and whispering behind my back,  rumors about things that weren't true... teasing me because of my real name (which I'm not going to tell you)
It was hard. It still is sometimes and I'm surprised I've survived it..
Nowadays I consider myself quite lucky.
Lucky because I've finally managed to almost get over it, lucky because I now have my own life that consists of really good friends that means the world to me, a boyfriend that couldn't be any more perfect and helping me when times are difficult, a dog that is the cutest thing ever even if he is 14 (so there's not much life left in him).
Lucky because I am one of those who stepped up and decided not to sink into oblivion because of what my classmates did, Lucky because I can tell myself I am beautiful, Lucky because I have so many talents (no, one of them is not writing, heheh) and because I found the strength in me to move on and actually build something.

Although I'm still not sure who I really am.
Some things I want to do differently because someone else does it that way, some days I wanna act like a different person because I don't feel like me. Sometimes I wanna dress in clothes that I'm not completely sure I like but wear because it makes me feel like someone else.... Mostly I change my opinion about things because someone elses sounds better than mine even if mine is more drastic.

But I like this. Because whenever I feel at home with something, that something gets me a step closer to my real Me.

No one should go through with awfulness like this.
No one deserves to be tormented because he/she is a bit different than the rest.

I know it's hard to stand your ground.... it's dead hard to just ignore.
My advice to all of you who are bullied: Find Your Happy Place! There is always a happy place.
In your happy place no one can hurt you with words.
And most of all, don't be afraid to tell someone... doesn't matter if it's your parents, neighbors, friends.. there is always someone who listens in the end.

Spring Equinox and Mud Cakes

Merry day-after Spring Equinox!
The weather today is wonderful - it's warm and sunny and you can literally feel the taste of spring coming.. Amazing!
And because of this we are celebrating Spring Equinox, me and A, today with a mud cake I just made.
And, secondly, because of this wonderful day and my oddly good mood, I will share with you the easiest Mud Cake Recipe, because today we all should be eating mud cake with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream
(except us, because we have neither :/)

The Easiest Mud Cake in the World

You need:
 2 eggs, room temperature
3 dl sugar
(1,2 cups-ish)

100 g melted butter, slightly cooled

4 tbsp cocoa powder
1½ dl flour (no idea what cup-size you need to use here, eh eh eh)
½ tsp vanilla sugar
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

Mix it all together til it looks like this!

Beat the eggs, sugar and cooled butter until it looks white and fluffy, like the picture.

Add the flour-mixture to your eggs, beat slowly until chocolaty brown.
Won't take more than mere seconds.

Pour your chocolaty mixture into your cake mold, put it in the oven for 35-40 minutes in 175°C (about 347°F)







When timer rings, take out the cake from the oven.
Hopefully it will look something like this:

If it does, you successfully made the easiest mud cake ever.
If it doesn't, then you probably did something wrong.

I love the smell of freshly baked mud cake that fills our whole apartment... makes me wanna run to the kitchen  and eat it all.... Omnomnomnomnomnomnomnom!

You all have a good day now and I will go to the kitchen and make dinner, not to eat cake...... yet.

Oh, and new Photoshoot©Iiris pictures are coming soon too, and they are gonna be awesome!
I'll give give you a little hint: "Eat me"

Toodles!

Go Green with Blender Splendor

Yesterday we did something spectacular, I felt like a child at Christmas.. We bought a Blender! A lovely, very noisy blender and it is our new best friend!
It makes us different kinds of yummies, and we like yummies! Specially the smoothie kind
more specially the alcoholic ones come summer

We here at home, that is My Sweet Self and my Silly Other Half have decided to go a month without alcohol and trying to reduce smoking as well (just as St. Patrick's Day is coming up.. just my luck. Bollocks!) and so far so good. We've made loads of Green Smoothies.
I think that's the secret for being healthy and not eating unhealthy things like crisps and candy and such...

Here are pictures of our new Best Friend making us yummy green smoothie:
(all pictures are edited with G+'s PicNic editor, filters used are Green Fade and Polaroid* Plus)

                                   One of these every morning and your body feels as good as new!
I kid you not, it's amazing how much energy you get, not to mention they taste delicious.
So I really recommend that you take out your blenders and try this out.
For my next smoothie I am going to make something yummy with raspberry, banana, Greek honey and yoghurt......
I love our new blender!

Oh, and of course.. we still haven't decided on the name or sex just yet, so we are open for suggestions (at least, I am)

Green Hugs, Luna