DAS GOLDENE WIENER HERZ

If we're friends and you ever feel like buying me something, please don't get me any cups or plates or cake stands or vases or any other pretty stuff. Same goes to you if we don't even know each other. 

It's okay if you're my sister and if you know what I really like and need.

My apartment is drowning in pretty things and I actually started using everything instead of just looking at them. In the hopes that one day I can throw everything out because it's old and used and ew. 

Anyhow, these two Das Goldene Wiener Herz cups are two of my absolute favsies. They are white and gold and just lovely. I would never throw them out.

Actually, everything made by DGWH is pure gold (get it?)! 

The fact that their products are designed in Vienna and made in Germany are two cherries on top. 

The golden designs on the big cups represent details of Viennese Jugendstil buildings and constructions. (I totally had to look that up.)

Also, at home I only drink my wine in these Wiener Heuriger glasses. TO.DIE.FOR!

HEALTHY BANANA CAKE

So Nugget turned two last Friday. When did this happen? (Last Friday, I know)

I'm old and I start being the kind of adult I hated when I was younger. Always talking about how fast something went by and the worst, I always hug and squeeze and try to get a kiss from him. Poor Nugget. I know how awful that is. Not trying to change anytime soon though. 

My darling sister then asked me to bake a cake with no sugar. She acutally said that. And then I panicked. What cake doesn't contain sugar? I mean, I can't just subsitute sugar for honey. And then I remembered that some people like to make banana bread instead of banana cake. And then smear a whole jug of Nutella right on top of it. Nice try. 

I used this recipe from BBC. Mainly because the site doesn't look hideous unlike other blogs. I doubled the recipe because I knew my fantastic cake needs six fantastic layers. 

And then I remembered that no banana cake tastes good without cream cheese frosting. Since cream cheese frosting consists mainly of .. ummm sugar, I knew that my sister and 12 other moms would try to kill me if I actually went for that. So I went for elana's pantry's cream cheese frosting. 

Needless to say, it was the most amazing shit I ever tasted. And there's no butter nor any sugar in it! Can you believe it? I couldn't.

ROTM - WHITNEY HOUSTON

Excuse the abstinence. I was busy tanning and snorkeling in beautiful Thailand. I shall make you jealous in separate posts about our trip. 

Right now there's not much to be jealous of. I'm sick at home working, although I should be painting my living room walls and preparing for a move. 

That's when Whitney comes in and tries to bring some glamour back into my life. 

My couch will be my baby tonight.

LANCÔME ABSOLU VELOURS

Yeezus, no time for nothing.

Plus I keep forgetting what number this Lancôme Absolu Velours is. 

I know it now! It's 375 Magenta!

It's like super neon pink and it's matte and definitely not shiny (which I hate, ugh) and it makes people look at your lips like this. 

My parents in the back seem to like it too.

I bought this when my goal was to step outside Douglas with something I actually needed. This did not happen.

MY CRANE

Have you met my crane?

Yes, I'm serious. And no, you cannot play with it.

Not because I'm a selfish little girl but because the controller doesn't work.

In case you are a technician and you are serious about fixing my crane (and by crane I mean the crane in this picture and not anything else) please contact me under 
0001 110001. 
And if anyone ever feels like getting me something for valentine's - I wouldn't mind this BRIO crane.

FAKE WASHING MACHINES

I hate doing the laundry.

I'm not supposed to start posts with 'I hate', right?

I hate it anyway. Especially in winter. Socks everywhere. Why do we have two feet? That EACH need a sock? Ridiculous.

I don't really understand why my little nephew has the urge to 'help' doing the laundry. I might take this cardboard washing machine away from him and make him do my laundry instead.

I could keep the fake one for putting my dirty socks somewhere in case my mom comes over.

For a fake washing machine you'll simply need:

• A big box. 
• A biiig roll of the thickest parchment paper.
• Duct-tape.
• Hot glue. Lots of it. 
• One sheet protector for the little window.
• Masking tape for decorating it a little bit.
• And for the 'grip' I used a cap of an old nailpolish that I wrapped in parchment paper and a hair tie.
• Tadaaaaaaaa!

TONY'S CHOCOLONELY

Chocolate the fifth, or so. 

I never ever finish a pack of chocolate. I don't even start a pack.

Why would I ever ruin the lovely packaging? 

So this time around I was being a good person and gave my bestie one of Tony's Chocolonely bars.

She openend it right away and ate all of it. That deserves some major respect because the pack is huge and chunky and just big. That's how she rolls. 

So how was it? Lemme quote her 'Yummmm mhhhh geilll so good!'

So there you have it. I brought Tony's all the way home from Amsterdam because it's oh so pretty and bestie loved it because it was, well, see above.