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23 Jan 2015

Light & Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

23 Jan 2015




Hey there, lovelies! How are you?

I always forget how much fun smoothies are during the winter, so i think it's time to bring these back - even though it's still far from summer!

So here are 2 simple, very light smoothie recipes, that will easily keep you full until the next meal. Plus, they're incredibly tasty!



 Banana-Cinammon 
 
Ingredients:

  •  1 frozen Banana
  • half a cup of low-fat yoghurt
  • half a cup of low-fat milk
  • half a cup of oatmeal
  • honey
  • cinammon
(of course you can exchange the milk and yoghurt for whatever products you usually use, I think it would taste great with almond milk! Same goes for the honey.)



Well I don't really have to tell you how to make a smoothie, do I? Just remember to cut your Banana into pieces before you freeze it, that makes the blending easier.

To make it taste more fresh I often add a few mint leaves to the mixture, but you can try out whatever you want!







Banana- Raspberry


Ingredients:

  • 1 Banana
  • 1 cup of frozen raspberries
  • half a cup ofl ow-fat milk
  • half a cup of water
  • honey


I like to mix water and milk here, just to make it lighter, it also gives it an amazingly soft texture!
Also, I'd recommend fresh raspberries, but in the middle of winter it's a bit hard to find them.

Little Tip: If you want to keep your smoothie cool for a longer time, just add some frozen raspberries, they act like ice cubes and are delicious in the smoothie!

What's your favourite smoothie, that you would recommend me?

See you soon, have a fantastic weekend everyone!


Jill x

18 Jan 2015

This Week's Photography

18 Jan 2015
Hello duckies!

As I've told you, I've started posting pictures to my photography tumblr almost every single day.  Over the years I've accumulated so many photos and at one point I stopped sharing them, so I thought I could start uploading them slowly. Some of the pictures are even from 2012!

I'm probably not going to make a post like this every week, I don't really want to spam you guys. But every now and then I think it could be nice! What do you think?



 If you've read my recent post about visiting Israel you might've recognized some of these pictures. I took these on a trip we took to the North, the goats just decided to cross the road, so we had to wait a bit and I got to take lots of photos!

 I took this picture on my flight back from Israel a year ago. It was an amazing sunrise. I think there's something so calming about this picture.
 

On my birthday last year I hadn't planned anything throughout the day and I was a bit sad, and suddenly my father called and took me to a restaurant and a cafe and a pretty walk through Munich, where I took these pictures. I honestly think this was one of the loveliest ways I could've spent my birthday!


 Both of these pictures were taken in Italy, I think itwas August 2013. The first one was in a lovely city called Mantova. I just love the imagery of the canal and the vintage-y motorcycles, so pretty! I took the second one while we were picking wild berries, honestly I might have a slight obsession with taking pictures of hands...

Tell me if you'd like to see more!
Oh and I'm moving soon and I'll have a white wall, so there will be lots more outfit posts coming soon, I'm so looking forward to it!!

Jill x

16 Jan 2015

Thrifty Finds

16 Jan 2015


 Hello there, lovelies! Hope you're all doing well!

As a poor university student i mostly associate buying myself clothes with sale season. And only this past year I've discovered the wonderland that is thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets.
My top 3 reasons for starting to shop more at these places?

1. The clothes are so much less expensive!
2. You are doing a teeny-tiny thing for the environment by buying second hand clothes!
3. You can find unusual clothes, that aren't anywhere in the stores!

Here in Munich there are these night-time flea markets in big concert halls where you can find the prettiest things, all whilst listening to live music and having a few sips of cold beer. I love it!

Here are some of my finds of the last month - and every item was under 5€, unbelievable!

   Well, those who know me a bit, can guess that I am very obsessed with sweaters and that there's absolutely no room in my closet for more. But, oh well... The grey-silvery sweater didn't catch my attention immediately as I am mostly drawn to a bit less basic items, but I am so happy now that I decided to get it! I thought the other sweater was incredibly cute, you don't see a pattern like that in those colours every day!
 

I'm usually really not a fan of glittery clothing items, but both these items are... I think it's nice to try out a few different things! The dress is just gorgeous, even though some of the stones are already missing, I don't mind! I have no idea though how to wear the shirt, so we'll just have to wait and see.
 

 A few years ago I walked into a Topshop in London and fell in love with a certain kind of shorts. I didn't get them in the end, but these are so similar and I can't wait to wear them! 

Do you like shopping second hand?
Is anyone surprised by me keeping up my upload schedule cause I certainly am :D

Have a wonderful weekend!


Jill x


9 Jan 2015

Trip To Israel 2014

9 Jan 2015

Hello my duckies,

As you may or may not know my entire family comes from Israel, so it's become kind of a tradition for my germany-based family to visit there every year around New Year's. This year was no exception and I thought I could share my little adventures with you, so keep on reading if you're interested!




Most of my family lives in or around Tel Aviv, a city that might seem chaotic and a tiny bit ugly to new eyes, but which in reality is full of heart and culture and really is quite pretty in a run-down, trash-chique-y kinda way. Also the ocean is pretty no matter the city! it rhymes





I see my family so rarely, which means getting to spend time with them is always extremely important to me. Oh, and some of them own cats, which just makes this a thousand times more exciting...
 
 While in Israel I always like travelling around the country. It is so incredibly small and yet so diverse. For example the Negev desert - prettiest place on earth. We took a tiny little hike to a canyon, incredibly beautiful!






Look at the capricorns just casually crossing the road - and yes that black line going up the mountain is all people, we clearly didn't pick the right day to enjoy the serenity and solitude of the mountains...

While the desert is in the Middle/South of Israel, the greener parts are in the North. It's also a very agricultural and rural part, where you can expect a herd of goats to cross the road at any time. Goats are so awesome.





We visited a little village called Bethlehem Galilee (not 'the' bethlehem, though some claim this bethlehem might actually have been jesus' birth place), which was very serene except for the very angry dogs. Went to several druze villages and ate pita with labneh, a sour cheese that i adore. And ended up in Haifa, where my father is from and Christmas was celebrated with lots of shiny lights.

I know this was kinda short, but I didn't want to bore you with too many explanations.
If you like these kind of posts or if you'd prefer me doing it differently next time, I'd really love to know!

See you very soon, Cheers!


Jill x

8 Jan 2015

Some Updates and a Happy New Year

8 Jan 2015

Hey there friends!

Firstly, I wish you all a wonderful new year. May 2015 be all that you expect from it and more!
On that note, don't stress yourself too much if things aren't going your way, my year started on a little low, but I'm optimistic it'll get better and so can yours!

Let's get to the updates:
I want to try and upload at least once a week this year, if not more. I think my scheduled posts will be uploaded fridays, with the one or other post on random other days.

Since I haven't been properly blogging in a while and you might be confused as to what actually my blog consists of, here are the topics I currently want to blog about: Travel, Art & Photography, Student Life, Fashion, Baking and other Recipes, Thoughts on Life and the Universe, Music, Daily Adventures and probably still more... I don't want to make the list too long.

Also on my Art Tumblr I've started to post photos every single day.
And I'm trying to upload a video to youtube every 2 weeks.

But I have uni and work and social life (haha) so I hope I can manage everything!
What about you? Do you have any new year's resolutions? Are you optimistic about 2015? Do you have something to look forward to? I'd love to know!

Hope you're doing well,
Jill x
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