Warm Wishes.

Summer Moodboard.

To be honest, for me this is the worst summer I ever had. Why? Every day I wake up with the idea that I have to finish that thesis and some exams in august and for me that's a heavy burden as I'm not your regular all planned and scheduled study girl (not asking for pity here). While normally during summer (resits or no resits) I just do whatever I like (read: travelling, hanging around my hometown, being lazy, playing lifeguard at the coast,...)

But not this time, bummer. It's something that has to be done, just got to start working properly and in an eyewink it should be done. But those first steps, awww so hard. Anyways, why not make the bad times a little less worse by a cheery summer moodboard collage of all things on my mind right now or would they make things worse?

It's not all negative karma these days by the way. Yesterday I met up with the girlfriend gang from high school. It's so hard for the five of us to get together a couple of times a year as we are all busy living our own very different lives. But if we meet it's always party time, literally or not, and within the course of the evening it's starts to feel as if we're all 18 again dealing with high school drama and nothing more than that. Yesterday we took the wise decision to pick a date while we were all together for our next meet-up. Happy to announce we're going to trip Geneva (Switzerland) for a few days the end of september. Spice Girl Power coming up there, evil bitches be alarmed.

Roasted Chickpea Salad.

Every now and then I get a panic attack when I think of all the junk I sometimes eat during holiday season. After surviving 4 days of Dour Festival on booze and burgers my belly could use some detox-time. Healthy food in my opinion is never boring. With some internet research about how to make chickpeas more exciting I made this yummie salad.

désolé for the messy picture I didn't intend to make a blogpost about this one as I invent salads everyday but it was so yummy that not sharing it with the world would be considered a serious crime.

Ingredients:

-fresh parsley leafs

-1 small carrot

-1/5 cucumber chopped

-handfull of rucola

-50 grams of chickpeas (preferably canned, couldn't find canned ones @ Delhaize so I had to buy dried chickpeas, wet and cook them first (12 hours of work m*therf*ckers)

-1 grape tomato (or other sweet type of tomato)

-1 small red onion6 mushrooms plain

-olive oil 

-balsamic or other vinegar

-sugar

-salt pepper

-your regular salad herbs (I used oregano and some basil)

-curry powder

-garlic powder

Recipe:  

Preheat oven at 200°C

Line a sheet of aluminium foil with some olive oil on a baking plate.

Slice the carrot with a thinslicer in long slices (like linguini), slice mushrooms in slices of 3 mm thick.

Put all of the above in a bowl with the chickpeas and add a tablespoon of olive oil, half tablespoon of curry powder, salt, pepper and if you prefer other herbs (I used garlic powder and paprika powder). Gently toss with a spoon.

Spread this mix over the aluminium foil on a baking plate and pop in the oven for about 14 minutes. Watch it now and then, as every oven is different and I don't want you chickpeas to be black.

In the meantime grab a salad bowl. Chop tomato, cucumber and onion. Add a handfull of rucola and some freshly chopped parsley at your taste. Toss all together. Add your favourite salad herbs, a large spoon of balsamic vinegar, a pinch of sugar and salt, and finally pepper. When your oven veggies are ready add them too and gently toss again. Serve with a slice of buttered toast.

It's a wonderful world.

Reminders by Erin Hanson

Hipster Trap in NY, USA.

Self Contained by Michael Johannson

Aerial Nudes by John Crawford

The Time Travellers Guide Through a Worm Hole by Kevin Corrado

Just Add Colour by Converse

Worlds largest deckchair in Bournemouth by Stuart Murdoch

Food Cuteness.

Israeli artist Shay Aaron, made these eenie mini cute food sculptures. Handmade clay, yummy artwork. Eat that Barbie. 
Via FlavorWire and Shay Aaron.
You can buy these and others on Etsy shop.

No Balls No Glory, My Cell Phone Story.

Prik & Tik 

spotted: lonely feathered creature livin' on the edge in Ghent

a bowl of soup a day...

Montpellier memories.

Montpellier souvenirs.

Yet again.

        

study breaks with ninja sister, hoodie included.

BOEKENTOREN.

kitchen entropy-->maximum reached.

Must.Understand.Weird.Symbols.

Swagger Shoes.

wandering through the halls of university

Last night a DJ saved my life.

Seriously people,
nothing can beat a night of funky dancing, drunk friends and some music to shake it all off. I think this thesis thing made me forgot how much I liked being the partyanimal now and then. Hallelujah. And screw all those depressed Prozac users, go out dancing, let the dj save your life.
Ahum. Wonder how long this blast of positivism will last as I'm about tooooo work on my thesis. Bummer.

Note to self: put earplugs IN ears before going to bed, woke up for the 3th time this week because of my neighbours. I don' t know what's going on lately in the Pelikaanstraat but this street is more noise-producing then a freakin' festival and I'd rather save my festival skills for Dour.

Peace out.

Still gonna leave you with the tune above. I know this song has been all over the place for a long time but I just can't sit still when I hear it. People in the uni library really suspect me of some spastic behaviour.

Jitte.

She was supposed to see the light last thursday but decided to hide a little longer away from the wide wild world. This precious ninja is the daughter of my niece Sofie and Jeroen. We waited for quite some time but this afternoon my sister and I became proud godmothers (what an awful word) of Jitte. In total chaos, Eugenia just jumped out of the shower and looked like a wet dog, we rushed to the station and took the first train to Bruges to visit my niece, Jeroen and their little one. She's so cute and sleepy, I could kidnap her immediately. Never thought I would be so into this baby stuff, now I want one too, at least for 2 days or until she starts crying like an alarm bell. Welcome Jitte,  happy to have you here.