It's fall!!

It’s fall season!!

In the part of the world where I live, it is fall season now aka my absolute favorite season of the whole year. Everyone has its favorite ones and mine is fall. I also like the other ones. I love the smell of blooming flowers and trees (despite my allergies), the waking up of the nature after a long winter, and the first warmth of the sun in the spring. I love going to the pool, wearing cute dresses, shorts, sandals, and tops, warm summer nights, and the smell of summer rain in the summer. And I love Christmas time, New Years, snow and how snow and the cold are able to change the whole natural scenery in the winter. But it is fall that I love the most. I love everything about it except dirty, grey, rainy weather. But who likes that.

Anyhow, I especially love it this year after this incredibly long period of hot weather. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that we had a warm and wonderful summer, but for my taste it was a little too warm. So when the temperatures dropped below 20° C I was one happy camper. As of right now, the temperatures are even lower which I love even more. I unpacked a warmer jacket, my beloved dark blue trench coat and ankle boots, which I love. The whole wardrobe changes from shorter dresses, shorts, sandals, tops, and t-shirts into cozy sweaters, jeans, cute fall dresses with either leggings or tights , flannels, boots, cute hats, and cozier wardrobe in general. I hope that really soon I can unpack my wool cloves knitted by my grandmother.

Additionally, have you noticed how the nature changes its colors? It is amazing. Trees change their leaves from green to yellow, brown and red. I absolutely love to walk through a forest with all those wonderful colorful trees. It is especially beautiful when the sun is shining. After a walk, I usually make myself a warm tea. Nothing is better than a warm beverage. In my case it is tea or a hot chocolate. No, it is tea. Definitely tea.

Well, what else, do I love about this wonderful season? I already mention wardrobe, colors, lover temperatures, and warm beverages. Ohh, the first thing I do when the temperatures drop is to eat soup, noodle soup. I could write a whole book about why I love fall so much. But this is only a blog post and not a book. And I don’t want to bore you with pages after pages on my love of fall, so I kept it short.

My favorite season of the year is fall. What is yours? 

September Favorites

There are a few things I have been loving for the month of September. And I want to share some with you today. (As usual, I am a little late on that.) Keep reading. J

My newest obsession are those cute note books from Éccolo. I’ve loved note books ever since I’m able to write in them. And I’ve always been a sucker for cute ones. So, there was no surprise when I discovered the Éccolo ones that I will have a new obsession. As of now, I already bought 4 of them. Okay, I bought 5, but one was a birthday gift for a very close friend. Their cover looks like leather, but I think it is faux leather. It is incredible soft and resistant. They always have those little phrases or words on the front cover, which makes me love them even more. The first one I bought has thephrase “On the GO” with engraved sketches of travel sides like the Eiffel Tower, the opera in Sydney, Big Ben, or the Chinese Wall on the cover. It is like a travel diary with extra pages to put a photograph or a postcard on it. So cute. The other three also have lovely phrases on the covers. One says “Work Hard Dream Big”, the other one says “When you love what you have, you have everything you need” and the fourth one has a quote from Walt Disney on it saying “It’s kind of FUN to do the impossible”. I use them for writing my daily thoughts, grocery lists, ideas, or whatever I want in them. I dedicated one, the Walt Disney one, to my master thesis. I just love them. In Germany, I only found them at TK Maxx. They do not always have them, but most of the time.

The next thing I have been loving is a makeup product. Actually, it’s two. I do not have that much money to spent on expensive makeup as a fulltime college student. Therefore, I always look for cheaper but also good makeup. I have been dreaming about the Urban Decay Naked eye shadow pallets, but with 45€ each they are way too expensive for me. So, I have been looking for something similar. During my search, I came across the pallets from W7. They looked similar to the Naked ones. The packaging is not of the high quality as the ones from Urban Decay but it is still very good. I ordered them off of Amazon, two pallets for 12€. I thought why not try it. When they came, I was surprised on how good the quality is for that price. Also the eye shadow is beautiful. It is very pigmented and easy to apply on. The colors are wonderful. I really like both pallets and I use them very often. The pallets I bought are called In The Buff and Lightly Toasted. 

Those were my absolute favorite of the month September, and they still are in October. Have a wonderful day, people. 

When your mum buys you anti-aging eye cream

Yes, guys. This happened to me today. I told her this weekend, that I need some eye cream because my skin under my eyes is really dry and that I might need a cream for it. Well, so far so good. When I came home today, thinking that I forgot to look for some again in the drug store, my mum told me that she bought something for me. I was totally excited what she bought me. And then she presented me the anti-aging eye cream, telling me with a smile that she found a cream for my dry skin under my eyes. First, I thought “ohhh how nice of her”. And then I looked at it a little closer and I saw anti-aging. You can imagine my facial expression dropping from being excited to a more shocked one. Then my dear mum tells me, that it is time to take precaution against aging. And I looked at her with a facial expression like “whaaaaattt? I’m only 25.” I mean, I love her for think about me and for always wanting the best for me and everything. And I know that I need to take precautions for aging. I mean not that drastic but a little. The skin starts to age when one is 25. That is a fact. With every age you should take care of your skin and always keep it hydrated and not too dry. But still, my ego dropped down into the basement for a second. Anyway, I love her for thinking of me. And I will use anti-aging eye cream now. I am going to use the “Miracle Skin Cream Auge” from Garnier Skin Naturals every morning from tomorrow on. I will tell you if I see or feel a difference. Nevertheless, the packaging looks pretty. :D 

Hey, my name is doubt.

Throughout my life, I went through many ups and downs, challenges and obstacles, happy times and unhappy times. There are so many things I’ve learned from my experiences, but also from experiences and examples from others. During the last weeks, I read many stories from adults, teenagers, and children who self-doubt themselves a lot. Today, I want to share what I’ve learned on how to deal with those. And how to deal with people who doubt you.

First, I want to tell you that you are not the only person with self-doubts. Everyone has them. And everyone will have them. Even the most successful person in the world has them. We all have to deal with them. I believe the key to the solution on how to deal with self-doubts is to accept them first. Acceptance is the first step to recovery in my so many aspects of your life. For example, I needed to accept, that I am not the fastest learner, considering school, I want to be. It takes me a little longer to learn for an exam and to understand the material. I always doubted myself, that I wasn’t smart enough. My brother studies the same thing for like an hour and he knows it by heart. I need a few more hours. I always asked myself why. Why is he able to learn so fast? And why I am not? It took me a long time to accept that I’m just not as fast of a learner as some other people are. I just need a little more time. And that is okay. I am still a college graduate with a bachelor degree and enrolled in a master degree program. Once you are able to accept your self-doubts, you can work on them. You are able to learn how to live with them. And you are able to make them invisible. Sure, from time to time, they want to come out screaming “hey, you remember me? I’m your little self-doubtlett!!” Let them come out for a few minutes or hours and then put them right into their little self-doublett box far away inside your head again. Tell yourself, that it is okay to have them. And it is okay, that they come out once in a while. But be able to close that box again. It is okay to be frustrated with yourself. Trust me, I can be frustrated with myself, too, when I don’t get something right in the first place. Tell yourself “Okay, I am not able to do this this way. But I can do it another way.” Or tell yourself that it is okay of things take a little more time than you originally planned. It is okay to have to do some things a whole different way you originally planned. Keyphrase here is: IT’S OKAY.

I know that you are not only doubting yourself but there are also other people who doubt you. My advice, just let them talk. One of my teachers once told me in a roundabout way, that I should not be studying something that has to do with English, which was my plan. Now, I have a Bachelor Degree in English and in about a year, I have a Master Degree in it with good grates. Therefore, I proved him wrong. Sure, I listen what he had to say. I considered his opinion. But in the end, I did what I thought was best for me and what I wanted to do. Don’t listen to other people’s doubts when you know for yourself that you can do it. Don’t let other people’s doubts take you down. You decide what you want to do and what you think you can do. Even if it does not work in the end, at least you have been true to yourself. And you do not have to prove anything to anyone but yourself.

When self-doubts or doubts of other people are too overwhelming for handling on your own, go talk to someone you trust. It can be a parent, a friend, a boy- or girlfriend, a family member, or even a therapist. Don’t be ashamed of it.