What's In My Bag | Summer Edition

August is finally upon us, which means lazy days in the sun and adventures with friends. I especially love the evenings! Sitting with my buddies next to the Isar, the river going through Munich, or in a park, having a cold beer and chatting or playing guitar is just wonderful!

And to show you how I last throughout a longer day outside, here I am to share with you what's in my bag in the summer time:

1.  A little book. I'm usually carrying one around wherever I go. It's so useful for a long train journey or if you're just sitting there and waiting for a friend - let's be honest they're always late!
2. A Notebook & a pen. I'm always jotting down ideas, whether for blog posts, youtube videos, songs or just little sketches, a notebook is an absolute necessity!
3. My purse. Where I keep all of my cards and money and the one or the other random photo.
4. A hair band & some pins. In case it gets too hot even for my short hair.
5. A mirror. This little thing is so useful! It's a mirror and a hair brush in one, and it's so small and light, perfect for the occasion where you want to check on your smudged eye liner or just get your hair into a better shape.
6. A solid perfume. I got this little thing from my aunt a few years back and it's just the cutest little thing. It's Cherry Blossom from L'Occitane (lovely smell!) and while I'm almost never putting it on, it's always beside me - just in case, you know?
7. A fan. I really don't go well with heat, so sometimes a fan is unavoidable for me. It is very cute, and while it might look a bit stupid to flutter this thing in front of your face, it's pure bliss on a very hot day!
8. My phone & some ear buds. Duh.
9. Various lip products & chewing gum. I always carry lip balm and one or the other lipstick & -gloss around, in case I need it. Same goes for some chewing gum.
10. Some Sunnies. Instant coolness level achieved and obviously they're incredibly useful!
11. I usually pack a bottle of water as well, I just forgot it on the picture, whoopsie...

So that's what I always carry around with me, what's the item you couldn't go without in the summer?

Hope you all had a lovely July, see you soon,

Jill

Backyard Thrifting

Hello my little duckies! One of the things I love most about Munich, the city I live in, is the sheer number of activities it offers. For example district backyard flea markets. It was my district's turn this Friday and while I didn't sell any of my own stuff this year, I could enjoy the other items even more! Sadly I didn't find anything I liked enough to buy, but just going around, peeking into people's backyards, getting to talk and joke with different people, is fun enough!

Every house participating was marked with colourful balloons, which was just so adorable!

I went with my lovely friend Miriam (Miri for short), who is - let's be honest - too gorgeous for her own good. We've been friends since second grade and it's always so fun to spend time with her!

It was getting dark at the end and the sky was lit with the most beautiful colours (photos can never capture it, really)

After walking for some hours we finally sat down and went for a cheeky snack (potato sticks & radler, which is a very german thing I think, basically beer + lemonade, it's very delicious!).

A perfect ending to a wonderful day!

 What did you do this weekend?

Love, Jill

10 Favourite Free Fonts

I've spent a large portion of today going through websites of free fonts. (Sadly, this is one of my favourite activities :3) If you have a blog you've most likely stumbled upon the one graphic to make or another. The fonts which are already on the computer don't really work for me most of the time, so here are some of the free fonts I ADORE to share with you!

(Most of them are even free for commercial use, just check with the license)

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And that's it! I have a lot of other fonts to share, so tell me if you would like another post like this!

Love you all, Jill

Carrot Cake | Let's Bake!

I usually associate Carrot Cake with the winter, but this one is just so light and incredibly fluffy, plus adding lemon makes it very fresh as well, that it is absolutely perfect for summer!

Why not give it a try?

Well to be fair we had too many carrots in the house and I had never made a Carrot Cake before, so I thought, why not?

I've tried to convert the ingredients into the U.S. system as well, so I hope I didn't make any mistakes :3

Ingredients:

375g/13oz flour

250g/9oz sugar

350g/12.5oz grated carrots

200g/7oz ground hazelnuts/almonds (whatever you prefer, i went half/half)

4 eggs

250g/9oz melted butter (cold)

1 package/4tsp baking powder

2 lemons

a little bit of salt

cinammon, if you want

for the icing:

a bit of lemon juice

icing sugar

Mix the flour, sugar, salt and hazelnuts/almonds well.

Wash and grate your carrots, just know that if you don't have a machine for that it'll take you a loooong time! (As it did for me, but I don't mind :3)

Add the carrots and mix again.

Then grate the zest of the lemons and extract the juice. Add both.

Seperate the egg whites and yolks and stir the yolks and the melted butter into the mixture. (If you want you can add cinnamon as well, I did without)

Whisk the egg whites until they form a foam and fold it into your mix.

Don't forget to grease your cake tin!

Then put it in the oven at 180°C/350°F for max. an hour, 40 min should be completely fine though. Just make the toothpick check :3

Now for the Icing part:

Squeeze the juice of half a lemon and add icing sugar until you're satisfied with the consistency of your Icing.

Put it on the cake, DONE!!

Tell me if you liked this kind of post, because I love baking/cooking and I'd love to share some more recipes! Also if you decide to make this cake, I'd love to know!

Little Moments

Life has been very busy lately and I barely have the time to do a "proper" blog post, so here are some photos of how my life has been (though I've somehow managed to take pictures of the boring stuff and leave the more interesting stuff to memory alone...). Let me know if you like these sort of posts, so that I know if I should make more of them :3

 

1.  I live in a very old house with lots of mosaic windows, I particularly love how the morning sun is shining throught the entrance door.
2. I love to take walks without any direction and ending up in places I've never been before
3.  Click on it to enlarge BECAUSE THERE IS A RAIBOW WOAH
4. I've been babysitting this little munchkin a lot, he's so cute! (not showing his face though for obvious reasons :3)
5. COCKTAIL PARTY (we were only 4 people and that was the first serving whoopsie)
6. well... FAST FOOD PARTY, I live a healthy lifestyle, I do...
7. watching Germany play (and win) football is something I don't really care much about, but my friends do, so yay

Well this reminds me that I should be more active on Instagram, I have these little spurs of excitement where I post a couple of pictures a day and then nothing for whole weeks. Definitely should be a little more consistent, as I really do enjoy it! Anyways, if you're interested here is my Instagram.

What have you been up to? Any exciting plans for the weekend?