festive and what not.

I have no idea why i was so into decorating this year, but I thought it would be nice to share some of my attempts on here before I'm off to celebrate Christmas with my family. I hope to finally cure my insomnia over the holidays with a lot of lazy family time and eating myself into a coma!! I also still have a long list full of your tips for my sleeping problems to try out...so far I tried switching to tea on your advice and cut out coffee completely (so proud of myself for that one!!!) I also followed your recommendations to get me some audio books to listen to at night -and it already helped a bit, in the last few nights I was actually able to close my eyes for a few hours. The only advice I just can't see myself following is the sport thing -to be fair, it is the most logic one: it's tiring, releases stress and it produces endorphins...but no, that's not gonna happen...not me and sport! But even more than those tips, it helped me to read all of your sweet and thoughtful words and to find out that many of you share this problem with me "a burden shared..."you know. Thank you very much for caring so much and I hope you'll have lovely holidays!

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bohemian teeth.

Can you see that ambitious tooth trying to grow out of my mouth in the first photo? I have no idea where it wants to go, it's been poking out there all it's life. But the great thing of being the late child of a Hippie Mother is that you get told that crooked teeth or sticky-out ears (got a pair of that too btw) only make you look more beautiful. And that they respect your twelve year old opinion when the dentist says you should get braces to make that front teeth look more presentable. These pictures were taken in my mothers beautiful bedroom. Asim loves to lay on her bed, it's bigger and much more cosy than mine, even though he "officially" isn't allowed to. And I really love the big collection of old paintings and pictures my mother has on her walls, all around the apartment. She and my Aunt are my heroes when it come to interior design and the absolute queens of flea market and antique shopping! Actually my Mother recently complained that there's no picture on my blog that shows my crooked tooth...so here we go!

the lost books.

During our move I discovered a box of old books that I inherited from my beloved grandmother. I still can't believe that I forgot about them and that they had to stay in a grubby old box for so long. They are such pretty books with with beautiful illustrations...there's some Dostojewskij, some Fallada, Daphne Du Maurier, and alot of Jane Austen, all in different languages, some French some German and so on (my grandmother didn't speak English)...can't stop reading!

a room for two.

The room Asim and I are sharing for nearly two months now, starts to feel more warm and comfortable...more like a home. I'm guessing a big part of that comfort comes from the friendliness you spoiled me with over the last days. All your comments on my last post helped me focusing on the positive side of things, and it was very calming to read that so many of you once had the same problems that I do now. But I wasn't only supported with wonderful comments, I also got a blog award from Abigail Oliveros from ayvenart , thank you for that Abigail, it means a lot to me. And as if all that kindness wasn't enough, I found the sweetest surprise yesterday, the lovely Dulcie from Human Sea made a beautiful post about my blog. Human Sea is a wonderful place in this sometimes dull internetworld and I feel very honoured to find myself a little part of it now -thank you so much, dear Dulcie, your words were too kind.