I love penguin.

Penguin Bags. Perfect as book bags. I want the A Room Of One's Own one. That book means a lot to me. Penguin also make mugs, tea towels and notebooks (and pens I think) with prints of their classics. I got the A Room Of One's Own mug for Christmas.

cupcakes and cashmere

I love this photo from the blog cupcakes and cashmere. Coffee and cupcakes. YUM... I'm getting hungry again now!

books turned into films

An Education & A Singla Man. Two books turned to film that I would love to see, And read! I might get the books for my long trip to Sweden... You need good reading material...ALWAYS, I never leave the house without at least one book.

Have you seen or read any of these two?

shopped

I've done some shopping. Three very basic long sleeved supersoft tops. Brown, brown and grey.
One boyfriend cardigan, Navy blue.
One even softer, thin washed black hoodie with button details, and some blue striped fabric here and there. SOO soft.

take care ... of your hair...

I got these today, I've never tried these before but I'm going to give them a go.

stuff

time

I need to find a watch to actually buy. These are to die for but a bit pricy. Anyone got any suggestions? I like plastic and simple designs, leather works too...

love...

Monday again! The weekend was great though. A lot of US-time. Films, food, drinks, restaurant, DIY, cuddles... Lovely cheese night last night + white chocolate lemon mousse for dessert. SO DELICOUS,

Chocolate chocolate chip cookies recipe

The cookie recipes were requested! Here is on of them, for the double chocolate ones.

12 BIG cookies or 24 small ones
Ingredients:
100 g chocolate
125 g unsalted butter
75 g brown sugar
50 g caster sugar
150 g plain flour
30 g cocoa
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 packets of chocolate chip (or 200 gr chocolate in pieces)
1 tsp vanilla
1 cold egg

Do this...
Melt the chocolate (100 g) in a bowl over a pan of hot water.
Mix butter and sugar and vanilla with a mixer/electric whisk/or by hand with a whisk. Add the melted chocolate and the egg.
Add the dry ingredients and the chocolate chips/pieces.
Put six dollops of dough on each oven tray and bake for about 18 minutes, 175 degrees celcius. Let cool on a rack.
These cookies are freezable.

Enjoy! :)

chai latte recipe

I made this little picture recipe for my little sister who LOVES chai latte! So she can try making it at home instead of paying loads of money in cafés. I've bought her this drink mix and apparently it really good. I did a Swedish and an English version just in case.

my cookies

Here are the cookies I made yesterday :)

at my house

photos © Russian Doll
We get great lovely warm afternoon sunshine in our bedroom. I like to sit there with a big coffee and my books.
Lots of cookies have been baked today. I'll go and snap some pictures in a bit. :)

I need to TOP-shop!

I'm in desperate need of some warmer long sleeved tops. Like these tops and cardigans above from TOPSHOP. I'm so cold and there's never enough long sleeved tops in my wardrobe... T-shirts with short sleeves - I have loads of them. But they're no good in the winter, unless you have enough cardigans to wear with them. I'll have a look this weekend for some new tops.

good morning...

photos © Russian Doll

Pic: (me a couple of days ago)
Sooo Thursday. It feels like Monday somehow... my class got cancelled today so I have a bit more time for my own home studies and to bake COOKIES! :) I'm baking milk chocolate chip och chocolate milk chocolate chip cookies today. I'll get some pictures later. We're going to a friends new apartment tonight and we're taking some of the cookies and some wine.

my hot chocolate

photos © Russian Doll

The hot chocolate I had yesterday mmmm!

apparently, I'm this font

apparently, I'm this font.

pampering time

I'm pampering myself for a little moment this aftern0on. I've just made and drunk mint hot chocolate with whipped cream. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy... time for a hot shower and some nice body products now. I'm freezing!

photo love> alexander wang

I love these photos. Especially the first one. Gorgeous!

monday morning/

Weekend was awesome and felt longer than usual which is always nice because that means more time with my man. More relaxing, more fun. School work today as always. My knee really hurts...I must have slept on it in some funny way but now I can barely walk... ouch. Coffee time now I think.

cookie dough baby

Whooops! A pint of Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough accidentally fell into my stomach over the weekend... YUM!

fancie.

I really want to go to fancie again and have a lovely cupcake!

Check out the menu here. And the rest of the website here.

I fancie trying
-Snickerlicious (n)- Yummm! Chocolate cupcake filled with caramel, piled high with
peanut butter and chocolate frosting finished with drizzles of gooey caramel
-Banoffie- Fresh banana cupcake with a toffee filling, topped with a freshly whipped
buttercream swirl and chopped nuts
-Cappuccino- Rich Coffee cupcake filled with caramel. Topped with peaks of frosting
and dusted with cocoa.
-Praline (n)- Classic chocolate cupcake filled with caramel, topped with a chocolate
hazelnut frosting and sprinkled with toasted chopped nuts.

YUM! :)

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caffein, cold days, cookies

Today is slow. I'm working on some projects for school...drinking coffee but now I fancie tea...
I baked loads of cookies yesterday. Milk chocolate chip and Oat & raisin. We were supposed to give them to one of C's friends but it snowed and the world stopped. So we couldn't go. C took them to work today instead. There were so many! We still have some in the house though, you can't give away aaaall the yummy cookies without saving some for yourself. :)

MY dream kitchen

Retro, clean, magazine piles, light and bright and oh did I say RETRO?

the body shop

New The Body Shop-products! Picture 1 and 2 are the things I bought yesterday:
1. The best of body shop heroes collection
Peppermint Cooling Foot Lotion 60 ml
Cocoa Butter Hand & Body Lotion 60 ml
Olive Glossing Shampoo 60 ml
Olive Glossing Conditioner 60 ml
Coconut Shower Cream 60 ml
2. Apple shower gel
Picture 3 is our bathroom cupboard with some of the new things and some oldies from The Body Shop.
And below is a photo of the sink... with the ducks going for a swim. They were dusty.PS. That apple mint soap is gorgeous!

photos © Russian Doll

black&colourful

"fika" yesterday morning

It was so grey and cold and horrible outside. I had to cheer myself up with my biggest coffee cup,
filled with coffee and with a massive mountain of vanilla sugar whipped cream. And new VOGUE, of course.

photos © Russian Doll

tuesday morning

Most things TOPSHOP.

glossy magazines - tidningsbutiken.se

Ah jag älskar magasin, speciellt inredning och design. Hos tidningsbutiken hittar man prisvärda prenumerationer på de bästa tidskrifterna.
Mina favoriter som jag dessvärre inte prenumererar på just nu är: [disajn], Elle interiör, RUM, Residence och Wallpaper*.
Vilka är dina favoriter?

Residence är definitivt den bästa svenska inredningstidskriften. Alltid packad med inspirerande hem och möbler.
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Ah I love glossy magazines, especially the ones about interior design and design.
Here you'll find the best offers for the best magazines. My favourites are the ones above. What are your favourites?

my cup of tea

photos © Russian Doll

Peek a boo. Here I am. Tired. but happy. I have lots of good things to read, an other book arrived in the post today and so did new VOGUE U.K. Lovely. A bit distracting though. So many books, so little time. That's my problem. It looks like spring here where I live. The sky is baby blue and the sun is bright. But it is EXTREMELY cold. Freezing. My fingers feel like the're going to fall off - kind of freezing. Brr. I've gotten into English tea lately. I've always like it but now I love it. I think it's because I've started putting cream in it. Cream makes everything yummier, don't you think? I used to hate cream. I've only liked it for hmm about 2 years I think. It's highly addictive. Maybe it's time for a cuppa...