Christmas Lookbook

Hey you guys,

after months I can finally post this lookbook that I've been wanting to do forever!!!

As I had to study a lot for school these past two months and I only had time now (christmas break) to take the pictures. So this former 'Winter Lookbook' turned into a full-on Christmas Lookbook - which to be honest I am very happy about as I love love love christmas.

This time I tried to link all the things I wear so you can find them easily but sadly I couldn't find all of the things and sometimes only a similar item.

1. Flowy summer dress over turtle neck

 dress - Zara

http://www.zara.com/de/de/damen/kleider/kleid-mit-doppelten-trägern.html

turtle neck - Topshop

similar:  http://de.topshop.com/de/produkt/fine-gauge-funnel-neck-jumper-

boots - Steve Madden

matte lip - Kylie Cosmetics lip kit (in Candy K)

https://www.kyliecosmetics.com/collections/matte-lip-kits/products/candy-k

2. Plaid skirt on black on black

  

skirt - Asos (Monki)

http://www.asos.de/monki/monki-minifaltenrock-mit-schottenkaros/prd/

lace top - Promod

http://www.promod.de/damen/top-mit-spitze-schwarz.html

black velvet sweater - Brandy Melville

choker - Topshop

booties - Nasty Gal

https://www.nastygal.com/shoes-boots/crosswalk-pico-ankle-boot--brown

coat - Massimo Dutti

similar: http://www.massimodutti.com/de/en/women/navy-quilted-coat-with-fur-detail.html

3. Dungarees and red lip 

dungarees - Muaa

sweater - Topshop

similar: http://de.topshop.com/de/tsde/produkt/gerüschter-pulli-mit-bommeln-petite-größe

bow - American Apparel 

similar: http://store.americanapparel.net/en/velvet-bow-hair-clip_Green

boots 1 - Steve Madden

boots 2 - Uggs

red lipstick - Artdeco (in Black Cherry Queen)

https://www.douglas.de/douglas/Make-up-Lippen-Lippenstifte-Artdeco-Lippenstift-Nr.-29-Black-Cherry-Queen

4. Big cozy knit dress and heels

knit dress - Asos

http://www.asos.de/asos/asos-swing-kleid-in-rippenstrick-mit-tasche-am-oberteil/

tights - Primark

booties - Nasty Gal

https://www.nastygal.com/shoes-boots/crosswalk-pico-ankle-boot--brown

I hope you enjoyed this lookbook and you get some inspiration of it!!

Happy christmas to all of you!!

xxx

Claire

Cinnamon Stars

Cinnamon stars makes about 120 small stars
   

 For the cookies: 4 cups ground almonds                    For the icing: 1 egg white
                            2 3/4 cups icing sugar                                             1 cup icing sugar
                            2 tbsp cinnamon
                            2 egg whites
                            2 tbsp milk

1. Preheat the oven to 150°C (300 F)
2. Mix the dry ingredients (almonds, icing sugar and cinnamon)
3. Add egg whites and milk, mix well
4. With your hands combine it to a dough
5. Spread some flour on the worktop and roll out the dough until it's about 6-8mm thick
6. Cut out the stars with cookie cutters and place them on a lined baking tray (although you don't have to use stars! It is just the traditional style)           
7. Put the tray into the oven and bake about 5min
8. During these 5 minutes you can mix icing sugar and egg white for the icing

9. After letting them cool for 2-3 minutes you can now put the icing on the stars.
    I like to do this with a little spoon because the icing is pretty sticky but you can also try to use a brush if that works for you!
10. Put them back in the oven for another 7-10 minutes
11. Let them cool and enjoy!

 
   

Christmas Sugar Cookies

            INGREDIENTS         

                            400 g     plain flour

                             2    tsp  baking powder

                            150 g     butter/margarine 

                            150 g     sugar

                            1/2  tsp  vanilla extract 

                            2            eggs

          INSTRUCTIONS:

            1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius/ 340 Fahrenheit

            2. Combine flour and baking powder 

            3. Add the room temperature buttered mix a bit

            4. Add the remaining ingredients (sugar, vanilla and eggs) and mix until a dough has formed

                Use your hands for this, it will make it easier

            5. Make a ball (or two if it's to big) and wrap it in plastic rap and chill it in the fridge for half

                an hour

            6. Take dough out of the fridge, roll it out and cut out your desired shapes

            7. Bake them for around 7-11 minutes depending on size and thickness of the cookies

            

Then have fun decorating them!! You can literally do everything with these...

... ice with a classic icing and sprinkles

... dip them in milk/white/dark chocolate

... make sandwiches out of two cookies with marmalade/nutella between them

... or just leave them plain as they come

Gingerbread Cookies - healthy and vegan

Today I wanted to share the recipe for these delicious gingerbread cookies with you guys.The great thing about these is that they are not only a healthy version of the original   cookies, but also are they vegan.I love to have these gingerbread cookies with a good cup of tea when I come home from school.

               INGREDIENTS

                 dry: 1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour                               wet: 1/3 cup coconut oil
                           1        cup ground almonds/almond flour                 1/4 cup almond milk
                           1/3    cup coconut sugar                                               1/4 cup blackstrap molasses
                           1        tsp baking powder
                           2       tsp cinnamon
                           1        tsp ground ginger
                           1        tsp nutmeg
                           1/4    tsp ground clove 
                           1        pinch of salt

Before you start preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius or 350 Fahrenheit

1. Combine all the dry ingredients in bigger bowl

2. Melt the coconut oil in the microwave or in a saucepan 

3. Mix the almond milk and molasses in a second bowl then add the oil an combine

4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry one and mix until a dough is formed

5. Roll out your dough to about half a centimeter thick on a floured surface and cut out your desired shape of cookies

Make sure that your shapes are all about the same size otherwise you'll have to take the smaller cookies out of the oven earlier than the bigger ones (like I had to do with the little stars).    

6. Bake for 11 to 14 minutes or until lightly browned, depending on the size of your cookies

I hope you enjoy these gingerbread cookies as much as I do!!
Thanks for reading!!

xxx 
Claire

Healthy iced green tea latte

Summer is finally here and that means: ICED DRINKS!!

Especially this iced matcha latte is perfect to cool me down on a hot summer day.
Matcha does not only taste amazing but is also very healthy. It is full of  antioxidants and all sorts of vitamins.
You can get it in a lot of stores that sell tea or if you can't find it there: on amazon there are many sellers.

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Iced green tea latte

by July-10-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup dairy free milk
• 2 tsp matcha powder
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1/2 cup water

Instructions

1. Add the water and the matcha powder into a blender and blend it until there are no more lumbs of powder anymore.2. Then add the rest of the ingredients (milk and syrup) and blend again. I prefer using coconut or almond milk3. Poor the mixture in a glass filled with ice cubes and there you have it!

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: Total time: Yield: 2 serving


I hope you enjoy this really easy summer recipe!!

xxx
Claire

Rainy days - Lookbook

Hey there! So I'm back with another Lookbook!

These are three outfits I totally love at the moment, they are all very comfortable and I still feel pretty stylish wearing them!

I hope you like them!

1. Dungarees and stripes

I really love dungarees at the moment! It took me a while until I felt comfortable wearing them as I wasn't sure if they really suit me! But last month I realized that I needed to stop thinking like that! 

If I like a piece of clothing I'm going to wear it even if it may not show me from my slimmest side!

 Dungarees - Muaa       

T-shirt - Muaa

       Shoes - Converse

     Jacket - Topshop

2. Daisies on black with long Cardigan

Looooove this really long cardigan!

  Cardigan - Hallhuber

Daisy Croptop - Topshop           

Black Jeans - Topshop      

3. Cord Dungaree-dress on Stripes (again!)

I practically live in this dress since I got it!

It works in almost every situation!

 Dress - Topshop

    Top - Topshop

          Shoes - Steve Madden

Thanks for reading!

xoxo

Claire 

NEW YORK - Dreams come true

So this post is a bit delayed as I was in New York over christmas and new years eve, but I wanted to share this experience with the Internet anyway! 

My parents and I always spent christmas with our family, almost every year at our house. For this years christmas (2015) we wanted to do something completely different! Don't take me wrong I LOVE spending time with my family at home!! But for the last christmas we decided to spend only the three of us somewhere else. Whilst discussing where to go we all secretly in the back of our had were thinking of NYC, but nobody actually said it because it seemed so unrealistic - Christmas in New York?! Sounds like a movie with a lot of famous actors showing you this perfect life, nobody actually has! Especially not us! - It wasn't until my mum finally said it and we started looking up apartments and flights and all that kind of stuff when we realized that this dream could actually become reality!

In July 2015 we had everything planned and we were so ready! Since then I was counting the days on several countdown apps! 

Then finally the day of the flight came! I was very excited but also pretty tired and exhausted as I had just finished a pretty tough and packed term in school! Luckily we were upgraded to business class, which has never happened to us before! So after this pretty relaxed flight we arrived at JFK-Airport in New York.
Sadly as soon as we arrived at our apartment in the heart of Soho I started to feel a little bit ill. Two hours later I was laying in bed with pretty high fever and all the other things you have when you have the flu... so that was cool... NOT!! I really hoped that it would go away over night, sadly it didn't. I spent christmas eve, christmas day and two more days in bed feeling awful! I was trapped in this small (but beautiful) apartment in one of the coolest cities ever. All I wanted to do was to go outside and explore the city! We had to cancel dinners and plans we had, but hey: I had a really good excuse to binge watch one series after the other on Netflix!! No but seriously, although we were stopped from exploring it was very cosy in our flat and these days were a real recovery from all the stress not only for me but also for my parents!
Finally the day came!! I felt (kind of) well enough to go out and actually enjoy the city!
I looked pretty shitty but here's the thing I love so much about New York: Nobody knows you and nobody cares how you look! That's good for days like this one where I wore an oversized sweater, leggings and no make-up, but it's also really cool if you want to try a new maybe a bit more adventurous style. 

As we lost 4 full days of exploring the city we had to pack a lot of plans we had in the remaining five days! These five days turned out amazing!! We did so many things and I was so happy to be able to do them, as I thought that I'll be staying in the apartment for the whole nine days. Everything we did felt even more special and I was a lot more grateful than I already was to be able to be part of this amazing city!

Here are some things we did:

1. We stayed in Nolita which is located pretty centrally! We could literally walk almost everywhere and believe me or not: we did not once take the subway!!
On our first exploring day we walked through beautiful Tribeca and Greenwich Village to get to the High Line. It was really cold and rainy but it was beautiful anyway to see this park growing over the city!

2. On our second day we decided to get up pretty early (which we did anyway thanks to jetlag!) to have the city a bit more for ourselves and not having to share it with thousands of other people! This is a really good advice I can give you in general about New York: the early morning hours are the most peaceful time of the day in this never sleeping city! 
So what we did was to walk all the way from Soho to Midtown most of the time along Park Avenue, having the Grand Central Station as our destination. As it was the day before New Years eve Midtown was absolute CRAZINESS! Walking was very hard, it was more "pushing" through a menacing amount of tourists, policemen and some locals.
We decided to go to the Top of the Rock to escape the mayhem on the streets beneath us! Although it was very cold and foggy it was absolutely magical!

3. On the day of new years eve we decided to cross the river and walk through Brooklyn. We took a cab to Brooklyn Bridge Park where we went for a beautiful walk along the riverside and took a lot of pictures of the city! It was such a good end to this amazing year 2015!!
On the way back we didn't take a cab, we walked back crossing the river on the Brooklyn Bridge! An unforgettable experience!

These were obviously only some of the things we did! We also went to the 9/11 Memorial which was breathtaking and did a lot more amazing, beautiful, impressive, stunning ... things!

Our trip was unforgettable and wonderful although I was ill half of the time, although there were way too many people and although the weather wasn't what we hoped for! Still this trip was perfect just like that! I don't often use the word PERFECT but these ten days were truly perfect! 

I can't wait until I can come back to this crazy city and dive into its adventures!

UNTIL NEXT TIME NEW YORK. SEE YOU SOON!! 

I hope I inspired you with this post to visit New York or any other place you want to visit! And I hope that I showed you that things don't always have to workout as you hoped they would, to be THE BEST they could have been! 

Thanks for reading,
Claire