welcome to the guest room

After moving in to our new apartment almost two months, the spare room was instantly turned into a storage room, walk in wardrobe, beauty space and general "im not sure where to put this, ok put it in the spare room" space. Finally this weekend I put my orgaisation skills to good use and with a little bit of help from multiple ikea storage boxes got the spare room in guest worthy condition. 

Well when I say guest worthy condition, my clothes aren't scattered across the bed, the suitcases are put away, a make shift lampstand was created out of my Elle magazines and the clean sheets were cast across the bed. And the final touch, the beautiful welcome pillow, which as a birthday gift some years ago, finally has its place. 

The next task. Get some photographs on the wall! But thats a blue job for the boyfriend isn't it. 

motivation for a monday

So Monday brings with it that horrible feeling in the bottom of your stomach. The "oh my god its Monday which means I have a whole five days to endure until the weekend" feeling which makes it oh so hard to drag ones body out of the duvet and pillows upon waking. So a little positive mental attitude seems apt. I saw this on http-//www.lily.fi/palsta/likainen-parketti (my new favourite blog) and thought I should share. There is something so confident about the streaky black letters cast on the white background that kinda give you the "yeah ok lets be positive" vibe. And obviously, happiness is a lot more attractive than depression! So what if it's Monday, the boyfriends left me for a week for work trip to serbia, i fell down the stairs last night and now have a sore ass, ate way to many "bitesize" pastries at work thanks to the numerous name days and then tripped up on the way home. So the only way to solve this Monday feeling (aside from a desperate attempt at positive thinking.............homemade chicken and sweet potato curry with peas and rice (recipe can be found here, courtesy of the BBC good food website)

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love and life in...

I thought it was time to update the blog address in keeping with the new name. But since living in Cyprus may not last forever, I wanted to keep it open ended, hence the loveandlifein.blogspot.com address. Nothing else is changing for now. Maybe a little layout shake up in the near future, with longer term goals for an all out blog style overhaul. For now, its just the name. 

bedtime

there is something about a ridiculously comfortable bed, fluffy pillows, a soft blanket and the smell of freshly washed bed-sheets, that makes me happy and relaxed within an instant. Unfortunately, sharing my bed with a boy means there are fewer pillows than i'd like and not as many beautiful, floral blankets as desired but such is life. I have serious bed envy after seeing the pictures below.

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this is definitely something for a sunday

A while back I wrote [here] about the wonderful Katie Quinn Davies and her sumptuous blog, What Katie Ate. She has just done one of the most ridiculously beautiful blog posts with some stunning recipes and photographs to boot. Im now contemplating making self saucing mocha choc pudding which looks as taste tantalizing as its sounds. You can see my favourite post picks below, but for the full post and recipes check out the post here. 

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