until the next one…
- on: April 09, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: focus on everyday, photography, self care
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Behind these curtains I step into a totally different world. World, where all the everyday worries and heavy thoughts are suddenly forgotten, even though just for a few precious minutes.
World, where I can relax and let my mind wander in joyful lightness…
…until the next deep breath…
I absolutely love my yoga classes. The studio is so calming and peaceful and our yoga teacher, Erin, is one of the most happiest, caring and loving people I’ve ever met. Her love for yoga shines through the whole class.
In the past few weeks I did therapeutic yoga and this week I attended a Hatha yoga class for the first time since 2010. I’m really looking forward to getting more deeply into yoga, not just to nurture my body but also my soul.
This post is a part of this week’s prompt Experience over at our collaborative blog Focus on Everyday. You can check out the entries of other contributors.
Leave a comment...what if…
- on: April 08, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: creative living, inspiration, random thoughts
- 0
found on tyler’s site.
Leave a comment...soft chewy granola bars
- on: April 07, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: from our kitchen
- 2
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease 9 x 13 pan
Direction:
Combine oats, brown sugar, wheat germ, flax seeds, cinnamon, flour, raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, and salt.
I’m glad I always have little hands to help.
Mix and form a well in the middle.
In a medium bowl, whisk honey, egg, melted butter, banana and vanilla.
Pour honey mixture into the well, and mix well.
We like fruit in our bars so whatever fruit I have at hand, I use it. Usually it’s blackberries, blueberries or raspberries but I think that you can use fresh/ dried or frozen fruit which you like (like peach, mango, apricot). You can experiment with different kinds of nuts as well. It’s up to your taste. My kids love chocolate chips in there too.
Pat granola dough into greased pan. You may needto grease your fingers a little, so you don’t end up wearing most of it!
Bake for 24 minutes for chewy bars.
Cool in the pan for 5 minutes and cut into bars while still warm.
Makes 16, granola bar sized bars.
I wrap them into plastic foil and put them into freezer. They are perfect for school/ work snacks.
Leave a comment...the weekend lens
- on: April 06, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: family life, the weekend lens
- 2
The first weekend of April is almost over. It has been one of the more relaxing weekends without any races or need-to-be-there events. We did a lot of training though which isn’t documented on photos.
We played games together.
There was some spring | I can’t believe that you have already outgrown from this cleaning done.
A lot of reading.
And noticing nature awakening. Our red currant bush is growing! Hopefully we will get first fruit from it this year.
Patrik and Ivo have started training for little man’s triathlon so it meant a lot of girls time together. Which we didn’t mind at all.
There were a lot of hugs and kisses and cuddling included as well.
Now I wish I could say I’m ready for another working week. I’m not. The only thing I’m pretty sure of is that I can’t wait for another weekend to come. It’s going to be a busy one…
Leave a comment...going green
- on: April 06, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: self care
- 2
Last week I’ve joined the 30-Day Green Smoothie Challenge. I was a little bit afraid of putting 1 cup of spinach into my smoothie but after a week I have to say that I’m loving the extra portion of vitamins and don’t mind the spinach in it at all. Yesterday the smoothie looked really green as I didn’t put any berries into it. I’ve received the shopping list for the next week in my email already and can’t wait to explore more of the different textures and tastes.
Jadah and Jen posted this formula on their instagram on Friday. I’m not sure if I will be brave enough to try the bok choy, but who knows, it might be my favorite in the future.
Do you have a favorite recipe for making your smoothies?
Leave a comment...weekend favorites
- on: April 05, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: weekend favorites
- 0
It’s weekend and it means another weekend favorites from this week. So here we go:
:: Susannah Conway‘s collaborative The (delicious) truth about getting older pdf ( link available from Ali Edwards’ site)
:: this word art found on pinterest
:: how to cut a mango post by ohdeardrea – I will definitely need this one for my 30-Day Green Smoothie Challenge
:: my favorite loose tea (so far) from David’s tea – Mango Madness
:: this layout by Ali Edwards – she is a true inspiration to me with her scrapbooking style. I just love her way of documenting everyday life.
You can see some of my previous favorites here.
Have a great weekend!
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almost forgotten
- on: April 04, 2014
- By Gabi
- theme: creative living, memory keeping
- 6
I haven’t scrapped for ages. Sometimes I miss it, sometimes not at all. To be honest, I don’t have time for anything creative lately. I know, it’s the usual “excuse” for people saying they don’t have time for doing something. But in this case, it’s true. There are more important things in my daily routine right now. Like taking care of kids when I get home from work, or cooking lunch or dinner. Or my morning workouts before going to work. I barely squeeze a few minutes to just read my favorite blogs. So no, no creating layouts in the past months/year(s) at all. I remember I went through a phase, back then when I was at home as stay-at-home-mom, when I scrapped almost every day. And I really enjoyed it. It was my “escape” from the everyday routine of being at home. But since I’ve started working in the fall of 2011, I think I could count the layouts I made on my one hand.
So you can imagine how surprised I was yesterday when I received an email from stampington that my layout is published in a magazine and the magazine is on its way to me. I had no idea what they were talking about. I was like: my layout? I don’t remember sending anything out in years! Today I’ve received a response from the director of publishing that they are reprinting their favorite layouts from their older issues. I have the issue from 2010 at home, there were several layouts of mine published in there and Katrin was on the cover page as well.
And this is the layout which will be published in the new issue. It’s called Follow me.
They really made my day, I must admit. How cool is to have one layout published again?! After months of not touching photoshop for scrapbooking it is really a nice surprise. I can’t wait to get the issue in mail. Patrik is little bit sad though that Katrin has been published and not him but oh well. I might start doing layouts again and send one with him for submission. Who knows..
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