Holiday!

Long time, no see. But I've been busy with school.
Now I am on holiday! But I still have work for school to do over this period, so it sucks.
Here are a few pictures from the last two weeks. It's mostly just been about work.

 {when my room is clean and organized}

 {one or two storms}

 {the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world - but she won't show you her face}

 {moving furniture around}

 {learning( still) how to do a proper technical sheet - denim jackets}

 {learning how to make jeans}

We are learning about denim now and it's awesome. It's so interesting. We have a project to do - a menswear collection of denim jeans and jackets, we are putting together a denim fabric 'dictionary' - learning about different compositions and structures in denim fabrics and we have to make a pair of denim trousers. It's hard, scary work, but fun.

Now that Girls and Broad City are over I am kind of sad because I used to treat myself with an episode of Girls at the beginning of the week, on Tuesdays, and Broad city at the end of it, on Thursdays and it made my weeks so much better, I had something to look forward to every week.
Now, I have downloaded the Curb your enthusiasm series, and it will have to do. It's OK.


So, R is arriving on Monday and I am psyched! I have a bit of cleaning round the house and cooking to do these two days and it's going to be so refreshing after just working for school these past weeks.
Have a nice weekend!


P.s.
I love these
this article and recipe by the lovely Molly from Orangette
this too
some more Broad City videos here

Some lately and some right about now

{my old room, last days}

{last owners, recent apartment mate, dinner I cooked}

{new place}

I just moved yesterday and it feels strange. Like it should feel the first few days after moving to a new place. I found this place two weeks ago on the first day of searching, and by evening I told them I'll take it. It's right up front my school, so no more metro fare, less time commuting, and it's cheaper. I will have to pay bills with my flat mates, and I did spend a few on some bed sheets and some cleaning supplies but even so it will be cheaper by at least 50 euros on rent and 30 less with no more transportation card.

The weather is the worst right now. Rain, rain and then some more rain. It's all damp and windy and no sun. I am really looking forward to some sunny, warm days. Also looking forward to R coming soon. In exactly 4 weeks!

School is still hard with a lot of assignments to do. This month particularly, as I will have to finish an assignment with a teacher on jeanswear.

{men's suits, outerwear and blazers's fabric swatches - not enough, but all I could find }

{Tuesday morning train station}

  {teacher, fellow colleagues, fabrics expo}

{2016 trends}

P.S.
these photos of Porto
this made me miss illustration at school

Coffee: Six Degrees of Caffeination
eating fruits and veggies in the wintertime
indeed
NY city's 14 most famous micro apartments

What up

I'm just waiting for Easter break. That's kind of it.

(visit to a jeans wear factory - the most interesting of all the visits we had)

(we have to make a men's jacket - wtf???)

Oh, and I have to move in two weeks because I'm running out of money and cannot afford this room anymore. I have a new roommate, a guy, a Chinese guy. He is loud and too friendly and told me he cannot cook Chinese food. So much for regretting leaving the place...

I also have a lot of school work and presentations coming up very soon so I'm really busy and stressed these days.





You probably heard of these girls from Broad city. It's the shit. I downloaded their first season and it's really great. You can check out more about it here.

The year in images: 2014

1. cold, snow and trying to get through in January

2. DIYs and recipes in February

3. trying on gardening in March

4. first real signs of Spring, work and some more recipes in April

5. our "uneventful" Easter trip to Italy in May

6. happy moving to our new apartment in June

7. trying on work for a short while in July

8. our first trip to the seaside together in August

9. our short weekend to my hometown in September

10. moving to Porto, starting school in October

11. adjusting to school, work and a few recipes in November

12. spending the holidays home in December

It's been exactly two weeks since I'm back here and I already made a sheet-like calender to cross off the days until Easter. I'm hoping I'll get one or two visitors around here...or maybe even more... Everybody, you are most welcome to come visit me!! Besides the money issue, there shouldn't be anything standing between you and a week or two of vacationing in Porto. Just that.

The weather has been so and so. We had rain and wind, unpleasant days, and then there are the sunny nice days, but they are still kinda cold. So I just want to stay in bed and watch movies. I guess everybody is just trying to get through these darn winter months.




I've been thinking about various things. I enjoyed these series on wardrobe changes and all that. I guess everybody's been doing it since last year. Trying to cut down on your clothes and wear just a certain number, 30, something like that. Oh, here's another proof of it, and a whole blog about it. It would be nice to do so, just try to keep only the stuff you like and really wear the heck out of them. And also makes you think about your style and clothes and what matters to you, being comfortable, being 'a fashion diva' and what not...
Just making things simple, clear, uncomplicated.



photo via Rmtl

In parallel with this closet rethinking and simplifying things in your life I've been reading this book, that talks about a new way of rethinking your time and efforts, that you can't do it all, that you have to choose what to do with your time / because otherwise others will choose for you, that you have to accept trade offs.

Another book I want to read soon enough is this one. And here's an article or two about it, if you think you're into it...
I don't know...this time spent here in school, my teachers and my colleagues, even what I'm studying: menswear have got me thinking about re analyzing everything, simplifying, organizing, planning on every level. I guess it's the way people do things here (in school).



I have a little series  /it's called High Maintenance/ I've discovered and would like to share with you. It's a bunch of 5-10 minute episodes about different people and their weed guy. It's in New York
so of course I love it. I love to watch movies and documentaries about people living in NY, so this was perfect. Hope you'll enjoy it too, if not who cares.
As you probably know, Girls is back on for a while now, and thanks to Nadia I have seen the first two episodes and I love it. I've watched them in the morning before going to school and it's just the perfect thing to help me day dream all the rest of the day in classes. I'm so glad it's on again.

I enjoyed this TED Playlist on Finding the right Job, since clearly I'm in need of help on that matter.

Until next time, I leave you with some school and bad weather pics, cause that's what I'll be experiencing in the weeks to come.

Christmas at home

It's really been a while.
I was home for Christmas and although it was short and tiresome it was totally worth it.

 {lights on Copou}

The weather was Ok, I guess. We had a little bit of everything. Some sunny decent days and then some hardcore freezing mind numbing snowy ones.

Precious time at home was the most important.

 

 

{monkey bread}

There was coffee in our new french press almost every morning, cooking, a bit of baking, loads of dirty dishes all the time.

I finally tried monkey bread. I followed Deb's recipe, of course. It was delicious and everything you would expect, like hot miniature cinnamon doughnuts. I made them in the evening so we could enjoy them the next morning with our coffee, cause there was no way I was waiting for the dough to do it's thing in the morning. I have to admit they were better right out of the oven, still warm, as we ate the whole thing on the left right then and there and the monkey bread loaf on the right survived until the next day in the evening. Other than this I did no other baking.
We did cook a bit. I made the Soba Noodles with Peanut-Citrus Sauce recipe I was talking about here a while back, but with no soba noodles, of course. R liked it a lot, I like it too, so we made it like three time. Other than these two recipes I did not do anything else remotely special. We mostly ate at other peoples places.

  We watched the Back to the Future trilogy three nights in a row while at home at my parents' house with my sister and good pizza while it was brutally snowing outside. The movies were as awesome as I remembered, and having seen them when I was little I wanted a hover board like that.

Also while at home I had to throw away my fashion magazine collection and it was a pain in the back. Literally. R was kind enough to help me carry them to the dumpster. I did however kept a stash of magazines I really like: D/ la Repubblica delle Donne. I prefer it over any other magazine out there. But it also felt so good throwing out things you don't like anymore, and keeping just the essential things.
I went to school once or twice before Christmas hoping to meet up with some colleagues and Dna Maria. It was good revisiting the familiar sewing workshop where I'll be starting work at the end of summer, people I know from school. Sadly it was too short, all of it.