Spring essential ~ a fresh bouquet

I can't wait but it's almost spring!! And to get even more in the mood I bought a fresh bouquet of tulips! I put them on my desk so when I'm busy with boring school stuff I look at the tulips and think about the soon coming spring!Here some inspirational pictures for you to get in the spring mood!

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Love you all 

xx Lydia

DIY vintage glass box

I hope you all had a great weekend. I did definitely, when there is a lot of crafting involved :D The next couple of weeks I will show you some DIY's. Here the first one enjoy it! 

Do you know them? Those cute vintage glass boxes. They're great to display beautiful cute objects like jewellery or souvenirs. I know they are quite expensive. But I came across beautiful shaped plastic boxes. With a bit of cold paint you make in a sec your own vintage 'glass' box!

All you need is a plastic box, a brush and some gold paint. It is importent to first degrease your plastic. If you don't do that your paint won't last very long! It might be necessary to paint your box twice or even more. I had to paint tree times before I was happy with the color on the box.

I hope you like this DIY. The plastic box I got from Sostrene grene, a cute design/ everything shop in Europe. Please show me your pictures if you are getting creative with this DIY!

Love you all xx Lydia

picture wall

Everyone collects moments. We keep them in pictures or in things we collect like train and airplane tickets. But you can't enjoy them if you put them in a box and never look at it again. It's the same with all your pictures on your phone I guess. You flip through them every now and then but you can't enjoy them every day. That's why I made this inspirational post (I hope) for you! Take a look at the pictures and see which one suits your room! 

Stick them on your wall in a heart shape!

Light them up!

Combine them with lights and a quote!

Make a moodboard and collect your memories on one wall!

Places and pictures, the most wonderful momories on earth.

I hope you got inspired by this post! 

lots of love <3 p="">

coconut oil?!

It's getting more populair: coconut oil. And there is a reason for I think. But I didn't discover it until last week. I did some research and discovered a lot of cool recepies with coconut oil. You can do so much more with coconut oil than backing and cooking! Here I will show you some awesome ideas. Enjoy it!

Cofee coconut scrub

Klick the link for this recepie

coconut scrub

Add to your tea
Instead of sugar you can add coconut oil to your tea or coffee. It gives a special taste. I'm not yet sure if I like it but it's definitely worth trying it.

Add to your salad
Here is a cool recepie for a salad dressing. I didn't try this one yet but it's on my list for this summer!

Add to your popcorn
Home made popcorn is sooooo goood! But next time I watch a film with friends I'll make popcorn with coconot oil. How? Cook them in coconut oil instead of vegetable oil. You can also finish your popcorn with coconut oil. So instead of sugar or salt you add coconut oil.

On toast instead of butter
Just use coconut oil on your toast instead of butter.

Homemade lipbalm
I always wanted to try this! Now I'm definitely going to! Klick the link for the recepie.

Homemade lipbalm

Homemade granola
It looks so tasty! I tried it this morning and It was delicious

homemade ganola

Mix in Bath water
The next time I take a bath I'll try this. Just add a bit of coconut butter and it'll melt in your bath. It gives you a softer skin.

This are 8 simple recepies with coconut oil. If you have some more time search the internet! You are surprised by the things you can do with coconut oil!

SHARE it with your friends and let me know in a COMMENT what you think of coconut oil!

~Lydia~

DIY Bow

You need: 

Piece of fabric 7inch x 5.5 inch or 18cm x 14 cm

And a small strip of fabric

You also need needle and tread

Fold your fabric. With the wrong sides facing you and the good side insite. 

Sew the sides and keep a hole to turn your fabric.

Turn your fabric.

Tie together with a small piece of fabric and add an elastic so you can use it as an hairband.

Finished!

My roomtour

I can imagine that some of you are curious about what my room looks like. At least I would be ;-)
So here it is: my room tour. Enjoy it!

I keep my clothes in 3 seperate lockers. But as you can see it looks like one closet. I also use my lockers as a magnetbord. I stick a lot of stuf on it like make-up in a holder and my necklaces.

 On my bed I have 3 pillows which are handmade. Klick here to see the tutorial.

On shelves above my desk I keep my schoolstuff. Because somethimes I do make homework ;-)
Klick here to see how to make those ombre pencil holders.

Klick here to learn how to make a white magnetbord.

I hope you got inspired! See you soon. Please share,comment and like! 

Lots of love

A jar of happiness

It's only 2 weeks until Valentine!! Which means time to show some love to the world. I came a cross this amazing chocolate chip cookies recepie and thought I should share it with my friends. But not just as a recepie on paper but as a cute Valentine's gift. So I bought a weck jar and filled it with all the ingredients. And there you have your original Valentine's gift! For the finishing touch I made a label on canvan.com

• 2 1/2 cups all-pourpose flower
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon flaky sea salt
• 15 tablespoons salted butter
• 1 cup + 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 2 large eggs

Mix it all in a bowl ans bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Your oven has to be 180 degrees.

I hope you understand that all the liquid ingredients are not meant to go in your jar but later in your bowl when you start baking. On the label I wrote down what you have to add later, like the eggs and the butter. I also wrote the oven temperature down on the label. I tried to layer all the ingredients so you can see the different colours.

Last week I already gave a jar of happiness to a friend of mine. She was very happy with it. And I can tell you the cookies are delicious!

Xx Lydia