Everyday Jewelry

Jewlery is something most poeple wear, either just for the sake of fashion, because it's tied to a memory or for religious purposes. There can be many reason, but a lot of times the jewlery we wear often or only on speical occasions are the pieces we cherish the most and that mean something to us.
I wanted to share the pieces that mean something to me and that I wear everyday, or almost everyday.
There has been a few additions since I wrote this post, my wedding band and two gifts from family, but besides that it's all the same, these pieces all mean something special to me, including the new ones that are not in the pictures!

The cross is from my baptism, it means a lot to me because it is a symbol of my tie to God and the promise I made to myself when I got baptised and later the promise I made to my husband when we god married (of course my wedding band is part of that promise).

My engagement rings I guess don't really need explanation, they are the promise of love, joy, happiness, unity, family and much much more from my now husband when we got engaged, they are truely some of the most cherished pieces I have.

Then comes the dainty earings that is a gift from my grandmother (from my mothers side), I got them when I was quite young, 10 if i remember correctly, as a gift when she came to visit from Armenia.

The Jade bangle is something I bought for myself when I went to China with my high school class. That bangle reminds me of all the places I've been in my life and all the new places I'm gonna go.

I hope you enjoyed getting to know me better through my jewelry I would to hear about the jewelry that you cherish the most :)

Rhubarb Cake | Recipe

Why is it that most social things are based around food and mostly unhealthy food? Like cake and candy? When we want to have a good time we go out and buy all of these unhealthy things (not that there is anything wrong with that once in a while, I love me some cake we all know THAT!)
But honestly I appreciate social time more when I am doing/eating healthy things.

Anyway some time ago one of my besties came to visit for the first time after I moved to Malmö and since we are both good at being bad when it comes to eating healthy, I decided that we were gonna have fun and eat a lot of delicious healthy things, forgot about healthy and baked a rhubarb cake, perfect for summer,  I'm so bad haahahah! If you would like to try, here's the recipe.

You will need:

- 2 dl sugar
- 3 eggs
- 100 g meltet butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanillasugar (you can substitute it with vanilla extract)
- zest of 1 lemon (or 2 limes)
- 4 dl flour
- 1 dl yogurt
-  1 ½ dl milk
- 4 rhubarb stalks cut in 1 cm pieces

Heat the oven to 200 degrees celsius (390 degrees fahrenheit)

Whip egg and sugar together until fluffy, add  meltet butter, milk and yogurt and mix.

Mix flour, vanillasugar and lemon zest. Add it slowly untill it's all well combined. Lastly fold in the rhubarb pieces.

Prepare a springform pan by giving it a genereous coat of butter and pour the batter in, and put on the middle rack for 20-25 minutes. Every oven is different so keep an eye on it.

Enjoy with fresh berries and sourcream, so delicious!

Hectic Life, Busy Wife!

I am now officially a Mrs, yaaaay mission accomplished!
But seriously guys I can't believe that I am now a married woman, and that we actually made it, all the preparing and planning in time and that it was so beautiful and fun and exciting all at the same time. I cannot explain how happy it makes me to see his ring on my finger knowing that this amazing man is MINE!

It feels like a balloon deflating you know, now there is no stress, just normal day after normal day, going to work, cooking and cleaning. It's surreal after that incredibly hectic week before the wedding and after with family and friends visiting. Guests flying back. It took some time to come down from my pink cloud and get into my normal relaxed self. Also one of the reasons I haven't been posting, but now I am finally back! Can't wait to get the pictures so I can share them with you guys and relive an amazing day that passed too fast, that's one tip for you guys, try to let all the impressions soak in because suddenly the day will be over and you will be thinking when did the time pass.

Gotta go now I have some amazing weather to enjoy some delicious elder-flower cordial to make (recipe coming up!)

Catch you guys later!

Time to Travel

Today we are packed and ready to go to Armenia, we have planned this trip for quite some time now.
Since I am originally from Armenia I am super excited to revisit, which will be the 5th time for me. I'm going with my Fiancé, and even though we are mostly going to fix wedding stuff, like our rings and wedding favors, we are also gonna relax and have some time for ourselves.
Another reason we are going is the marking of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. Which is super important for both of us to attend, so we are looking forward to that.

But first we have our transit in Vienna for 11 hours, and have we totally taken advantage of that and explored the city! Super fun and interesting walking around in an old european city and there is so much to see. Unfortuneatly all stores are closed on Sundays so no shopping, but I'm not evens sure we would be able to after walking 16 km (aprox. 24.000 steps, wearing a pedometer becomes handy) around beautiful Vienna, with only 3 hours of sleep and another flight ahead of us.

So now Mr. M and I are recharging (both body and electronical devices!) so we are ready to explore Armenia tomorrow!

Talk to you guys post Armenia, and hopefully before the wedding ;)

First a little breakfast

St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom)

Look at all thoose details!

More beauty...

Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsopera)

More beautiful architecture

Hofburg Palace

Soviet War Memorial

Beautiful Belvedere (Schloss Belvedere)

Freshly Baked Buns on Easter Morning

I decided to bake warm delicious buns for my family yesterday, and I used Emily Solomon's recipe, and tweaked it a little to be a little more neutral to taste, I have made them by the original recipe, with raisins and cardamom and they are mouthwatering, with butter, tea and nothing else! Find the original recipe here, on Emily's blog :)

The recipe makes between 16-20 buns:

• 25 g Yeast
• 5 dl Milk
• 30 g Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 15 g Salt
• 900 g Flour
• 75 g Butter
• Sunflower seeds as topping
• 1 egg for brushing

Heat the milk till it's lukewarm in a small pot, you can also heat it in the microwave, but keep a close eye on it so it doesn't get too warm.

Put a little milk in a big mixing bowl and stir out the yeast in the milk. 

Add the rest of the milk + the sugar and salt, give it a little stir and then add the flour and eggs. Stir/knead until well combined.

Add in the butter little by little until all the butter is well incorporated. Leave the dough to rise,  in the bowl covered with a kitchen towel, for around 2 hours. Put it someplace warm.

When the dough has risen, knead it through and divide it into 16-20 buns. 

Put them on a baking sheet, lined with parchment paper, for my standard size oven I need 2.

Cover them again and let them rise for another 2 hours.

10 mins before the buns are done rising set your oven to preheat to 200 degrees Celsius. 

Whisk the egg together and give the buns a generous coating. 

Sprinkle on some sunflower seeds or any other seed of your liking and put them in the oven and bake them for about 10-20 mins depending on your oven (until they are nice and golden brown on top) You can bake both sheets at the same time, just remember to switch the places for the bottom ones to get color too.

I love the toasted sunflower seeds on top, I have a habit of collecting the ones that have fallen off the buns and sprinkle them back on the cut and buttered side, yum!

Bon Appétit :)

Bachelorette Party?

Right now im sitting in the train going to jylland (main part of denmark). I just ate the biggest salad and now im full and happy (i tell you guys while im munchin on some cashew nuts)! Do you guys ever feel that way after eating? Like now everything is exactly as its supposed to be, theres nothing more you could ask for after a good meal (besides a nap maybe, i could really use one now haha!) Anyway i am going to jylland to visit my familiy, but more importantly im going there so i can participate in my bachelorrette party. 

Can i just say how fantastically happy i am to have such good and considerate friends! Even though i haven't seen half of them for more than a year if not two they chose to spend their time and energy on doing this to make me happy. Which i appreciate so much, i think... Because i actually have no clue what is going to happen, which is nervewrecking. But i cant wait anyway! Whatever they planned im sure we are gonna have lots of fun. So i want it to be saturday NOW! but i guess ill have to wait. 

Im hoping to post some pictures from the whole ordeal after the weekend. 

Enjoy your weekend, i sure am gonna enjoy mine

Accutane treatment.. DONE!

A couple of days ago I took my very last accutane capsule, and I'm so freaking happy about it! Even though making a living for me depends on selling drugs, I despise taking them myself. Any kind of medicine/supplement that is not natural. I definitely have that  from my parents, they alway taught me to let nature take care of things itself. And I totally live by that, but when you come to a point where you feel like you have done everything you could going natures way. That's when you are willing to try anything.

But guys it's so relieving  to know that there is no accutane capsules waiting for me! Now the last thing in this whole process is my final blood work and checkup at the dermatologist and I'm done!
Hopefully the results will last, but not quite to this extent, i would like a little less dry skin. In the meantime I will continue to live by gels, creams and balms.

To celebrate the end of my treatment I decided to have a lovely cup of yogitea, this one is the womens balance with raspberry leaves, lemon verbena and lavendar.
Love me some tea with lavendar mmmh, hope You are all enjoying your Sunday!

Enjoying the Sun

Hi guys! How was your weekend? It has been the most amazing weather in Malmö and I have been taking full advantage, going on walks with Mr. M and enjoying the sun, meeting up with friends, eating good food and just having fun.

Hope you had the oppertunity to enjoy the sun whereever you are...
Wish you all a lovely week <3

Holiday season!!

Hi guys! How are you all doing? I hope you are enjoying the holidays :) you really know its holiday season when the danish tradition of "julefrokost" which is like a Christmas party, begins!! I'm going to my first one today with my colleagues. It's gonna be fun and interesting to see them casual and more relaxed!

Have a great weekend

Reunited With The Gang!

Hi guys, how are you all doing? The weather lately has me all cooped up in my apartment with blankets, candles and hot drinks, but I miss going out, having sun in my face.

A couple of weeks ago I was out, meeting with the girls for the first time after we graduated this summer. Amazing being out enjoying good company and good food. Besides 4 months is a long time to catch up with, so you can imagine we were at that cafe for a long time.

A piece of Armenian Culture

Last month I went to my first Armenian concert, which was super interesting for me since I'm always eager to learn more about my Armenian roots, I both filmed and took pictures during the concert and I thought I would share a video with you guys. It really opened my eyes to how much beauty there is in my culture and it also made me want to learn more.

I hope you will enjoy this little piece :)

Mushroom Hunts and Good Memories

I'm spending some time at my family's house this weekend, I haven't been here since I moved end of September. I'm sitting here all cozied up on my parents couch, tea next to me and snuggled into a fluffy blanket I'm remembering when I was still working in Vejle, and living here.

The last week I was working in Vejle was a little bittersweet, because I was super excited to start something new and try having more responsibility, and for my colleagues not to look at me as the apprentice but as a equal colleague, not that they were intentionally making a difference, it's just hard changing your mindset after 3 years :) But on the other hand I was really sad to leave because it was really a good workplace, I had fantastic colleagues, a really great boss and I really felt comfortable there.

During my last week at my old workplace, I went to collect mushrooms with a couple of my colleagues, it was nice to spend some casual time with them before I left. It's definitely a day that will stay with me. It was such a lovely day with fresh air and lots of sun, enjoying each others company.

And of course we were not the only ones in the forest, beetles, frogs, birds and deer were around while we were collecting and  investigating mushrooms.

And our "catch" of the day, which tasted amazing btw. Can't wait until next year when it will be good mushroom weather again!

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