Raspberry leaf tea

It is said that raspberry leaf tea helps to ease labour. There is no scientific evidence, but because it does not hurt I am currently drinking a lot of this stuff everyday. It tastes okay. Will not be my favorite tea, but it's better than pure water all day long.

Eat your art out by Ida Frosk

I stumbled first over the instagram of Ida Frosk at Pinterest and when I discovered that she published a book, I decided to buy it. And I love this book. There are some great ideas in there. What I like most about her food art is that she uses normal things. With all the bento books I always have the problem that they use stuff I can't get here or don't like. But in this book are simple designs with everyday food, so everyone can make these.

She even made some themed designs like an art series and a sightseeing project.

I really can imagine to make some of the designs for special occasions and maybe later for the little one.

Great Valentine's Day Hair Tutorial

New Make-up

Last week I treated myself to some new make-up. It is all from the drugstore and was very affordable.

The Catrice BB Cream is great. Finally a BB Cream that matches my skin color. Most BB creams are simply too dark for me. This one also feels nice on the skin and I am not all shiny at the end of the day.

The Essence powder is also gorgeous. It keeps my face matte, but does not look cakey. I really like the texture. I used both products the last days and finally like my make-up.

The sponge is a dupe of the Beauty Blender. I used it only once to test it and was not overly excited. Maybe I have to try this a bit more. But for the price it is okay. It does its job.

Cute Valentine's Day Tutorial by Mollie Makes

Simply click the picture to get to the tutorial.

Photojojo University

I already talked about the Photojojo book and a bit about their webshop. So in this shop they also offer a kind of photography course for smartphones. You can decide if you want a course for Iphone or Android. I took the one for Android. Then you get an email with instructions twice a week for a whole month. Each email contains tips and information to take better photos with your phone and at the end you find a challenge. If you want you can upload your challenge photo to instagram with the hashtag PJuniversity.

The course was nice. It was like the Photojo book and website all about the fun. Unfortunately it did not help me too much with taking better photos. Most information I already knew or were not useful for me. For some techniques you need special apps. I don't think I will take much better pictures now then before the course.  If you want to learn about new apps, maybe this course is for you, but other than that I think, taking pictures and experimenting with what you have is better.

But here are my photos:

The new Vintage Life Magazine

This issue is all about Valentine's Day. There are articles about dating, gifts and corsets. I really enjoyed reading this. The photo shoots were amazing and I really wish I had the money to buy some of the dresses.