Today I've downsized my makeup collection. What I've done is sort out everything that I either don't use, or that has become to old.
This is the initial amount of makeup that I'vecleaned away from my makeup collection. It's a mash-up of both old and unused items!
I then cleared out all item that are too old and I threw those out. Whatever was left have been given to my sisters and my mother to bicker over - the items are pictured below
It felt good to declutter that part of my life, along with my office earlier in the week. New things are coming my way. I can just feel it :)
I'm typing this at half past nine in the evening because I've spent the day doing nothing but looking up planners on pinterest and google!
I'm officially obsessed! My Moleskine planner is not enough anymore! It's too standardized and I can't change on add anything!
During the weekend I ordered new dividers and new diary inserts for my filofax in the personal size, but as I'm looking through videos and pinterest I am slowly realizing that my Personal sized filofax will not be enough!
It's just too small for all of my planning and the things I want to do with it! So what am I going to do? I can't cancel my orders as they've already been shipped!
The plan is as follows:
To save some money and buy an A5 or A4 filofax system (currently leaning towards the A4 as it seems easier to customize) at the end of March and use my Moleskine for another month.
The diary inserts that I ordered are day per page and that is way to much space for me to plan out my day - therefore those inserts will be used as a journaling tool instead!
I have also spent the day making even more dividers and my own printables!
I now have my own, customized vlogging and blogging ideas sheets and a social media tracker to go with it. They are all in personal size and I was really happy when I figured out how to create them!
It's actually really simple!
So, my Filofax in the personal size will be used as my journal and an outlet for vlogging and blogging. Now, that will probably not stop me from creating something pretty for my other Filofax that will be used for work as well!
Enjoy the pics of my newly customized planner and the printables I made - let me know if you want me to share those with you!
So, I don't know how many of you actually know this about me, but I suffer from IBS. It's a fairly common disease, that happens mostly to women around my age and people don't like talking about it because the symptoms are not that kosher.
It's also very hard to determine if it's a "real" disease or not. This is because the triggers are mostly phycological. Basically I got mine from my anxiety and panic attacks. Which is another thing you might not know about me. Senior year of high school I got my first panic attack, and I got scared of public transportation. It took some weeks before I got a diagnos and medication to help me. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. It was a very difficult time. If you are not familiar with this disease I'm not going to explain it, just send you to a video that Zoella posted a while ago that describes the symptoms and disease very well, even better than my phycologist did back when I was diagnosed!
It's almost 20 minutes long, but trust me, if you don't know what panic attacks and anxiety is this will explain it. And if you are suffering from it yourself this will help you understand it a lot better!
Now, back to the topic at hand, IBS and FODMAPs. I was diagnosed with IBS as a follow-up from my panic attacks, which is usually how you get IBS. IBS stands from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and has also been called Nervous Bowels. Basically, if I'm nervous, stressed or faced with something challenging or new my body stops functioning as it should. I get stomach pains and the urge to visit a bathroom becomes an emergency. I won't go into details, but let's just say that I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
It has become such a problem that I've let it control my life and because of it I'm not actually living my life to the fullest. I've lived with this problem for almost eight years now and it has been a constant struggle and worry for me.
One of my resolutions this year was to actually live my life and in order to do that I have to get my IBS under control. I've read about this diet called FODMAPs which is an Australian thing where you eliminate quite a lot of foods that are known to be irritable for your bowels. I've been eating according to this diet for a week now and I've noticed major improvements! Trust me, I noticed a change 24 hours into the diet!
I've eliminated gluten, lactose, unions and garlic. This is very, and I mean very, problematic and difficult in the beginning because there is unions and garlic in almost everything. However, it is so worth it due to how much better I feel already.
On Friday I accidentally ate something that had unions in it and the pains arrived a couple of hours later. This diet has definitely showed me things that I absolutely can't eat, and that I do feel better when they are eliminated. My co-workers are telling me that I have a healthier glow to my face now and that I am more energised.
I'll update you more about all of this as I go, but for now I'll leave you with that this diet works and if you have IBS I urge you to try this.
So Blogmas was not a success. I hit a bit of a slump there in the beginning of December and I'm just getting out of it. I'm hoping that 2015 will be my year as 2014 wasn't!
I am not making resolutions, as I never keep them anyway. I am, however, wishing. I am wishing things for the new year, or of the new year.
I am wishing for organization in my life. Seriously. When I am finding bills and important things that I don't know if I've paid or not I seriously need to sort things out!
I am wishing for happiness and joy to my family. They really deserve all the happiness they can get.
I am wishing for love. I know that this is very superficial and silly, but I'm tired of being alone now.
I am wishing for friendship. Yes, you read that right. I feel like I've lost many friends this year and it has all been my own fault. I need to find good company and stick by them. And they need to understand me and all of my flaws.
Lastly I am wishing for adventure. I want to be swept of my feet and I want to be spontaneous. I want to have enough courage to actually live.
In 2015 I wish that I will finally live my life. To not hold myself back and tell myself that I can't. I want to do new things, experience life.
I hope for a good year, one with many laughs and smiles that will warm my heart.
Yesterday I got a package from my dear friend Patrice. She was in Canada earlier this year and I asked her to pick up the Naked 3 palette for me, which she posted to me and it arrived yesterday. However, upon opening the package I found a few more goodies!
The lovely Naked 3 palette that I've been waiting for since its launch! It's so beautiful and I can't wait to do looks with it!
She gave me this beautiful bracelet. The infinity symbol is one of my favourites, and the band is a lovely turquoise :)
She also sent me this compact powder that I've never heard of - but she says it's her new favourite! Super excited to try this!
I also received this beautiful blush! it's called heat wave and the last two items are from Essence.
I've used Essence products before and they are pretty good in quality. Bought all my other things in Croatia and I've not seen them in Sweden at all! Shall be interesting if I fall in love to see where I find these products!
So I came home today to two more packages from eBay! Let me tell you, those small cute paper packages get me super excited! Today was a delivery of two Harry Potter things and I'll show you which ones they were below!
This gorgeous wrap around bracelet (that I've also ordered in another colour) has the Deathly Hallows symbol on it as as two owl and The Golden (silver) Snitch. The band is some sort of pleather material and it looks really nice one the wrist. Will probably wear this one tomorrow!
The second thing is a necklace and it's of the Hogwarts Houses and their animals in one Hogwarts Crest. It's really pretty and even though it's gold, and I'm usually not a gold person, I can see myself wearing it!
P.s. My Whovian friend and I shared our Tardis necklace today and I walked around feeling like a nerd and a 10 year old all rolled in one! Best feeling ever! ;)
So a few days ago my first ever order from eBay came in the mail. I was super excited as the earliest expected delivery day on all of my items were 17th December I wasn't expecting anything to arrive before then!
If you follow me on Instagram you'll know exactly what arrived, but I'll let the rest of you in on what it was!
A Deathly Hallows necklace that is jus so pretty! It's at an odd length compares to what I'm used to as it tend to fall inside my tops and chill my boobs - uncomfortable! But I'll figure out how to wear this asap!
Today I was happy to walk down the stairs and find a second little package on our counter! Excitement feels queued and I just tore the thing open to reveal my two Doctor Who necklaces!!!
The first one is of the Tardis key and I'm super pumped about this one!! It's the key that belonged to the seventh doctor and even though I haven't seen the Old Who it still gets me excited. Besides, all the New Who Tardis keys look just like normal boring keys so this one contains much more awesome in my books!
It has this star sign pattern on the back and I'm dying to find out if it means something specific or just manufactured that way? Can someone tell me?
The second Doctor Who necklace is this Tardis one. It is supposed to be for couples and lovers but since I don't have one of those I'm giving the other half to my fellow Whovian who I made into a Whovian. We just need to figure out who gets which half!
I'm a happy nerd today and I'm going to get something to eat and then proceed with the rest of my day!
