Inspiration Monday.

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Now I'm reading a great great book by P. Coelho, "The Zahir" - I love it!
It's one of those books that gives you answers to the questions you've been caring around for some time - it really suits me right at this moment.
Here's one of the quotes for your week inspiration:
All you have to do is to pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Have a good one!
xoxo
Ak.

have a dreamy weekend.

photo via Yiannis Cove

I think I'm becoming a fan of documentaries, but Man on Wire stays my favorite of all time.

Here's the trailer if you haven't seen it.
The documentary is about a man, who walked on a wire between the Twin Towers without any security  in New York in 1974. And as he said in the movie: "[..] but if I die - what a beautiful death!".
Brilliant movie! A man living his dream..

Have a wonderful weekend!

P. S. Here's also an interesting speech by Philippe Petit on TED.

xoxo

Ak.

... and I guess all I ever loved was standing right before my eyes.

As my life now is only including home work-university-dance class-home work-university-dance class... Here's a very nice dance with colors. This song I liked some time ago (maybe last year...) and now the video is out!
Great idea!
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

The first violets are already in my room reminding me of the spring!

I hope you had a very spring weekend and here's a very nice article for your Monday written by a friend of a friend:).
How important is the atmosphere for your work?
I always can't get started to work until I prepare to do that. And that includes a cup of coffee or tea, clean table, checked and answered emails, plans what I'm going to do and some nice things on my table that I could look at, when I have to think of something - like the violets.
I'm curious - what's your work atmosphere?
Have an inspiring week!
xoxo
Ak.

spring time in Charleston.

Have a wonderful weekend!

xoxo

Ak.

..make my wish come true!

photo via Flickr

I was looking A MONTH for this song!!!! It's such a perfect lindy hop song!
It already was becoming the question of principles for me to find it.. 

Whew, FINALLY.

P. S. The lyrics are a bit... hm. Well, listen yourself.
P. S. P. S. Lindy hop flash mob in the airport!

xoxo

Ak.

singing language.

photo via Archyvai

Did you know that Lithuanians are slow speakers?
We say only 120 words per minute!
What is more, our sentences are very potholed: there are many ways how the sound will go in a sentence. For instance, for Germans the beginning of the sentence is sharply high and then it goes down sharply as well at the end. Or for French is usually the end of the sentence that is higher. So that is why other nations say they hear like we were singing while talking because of the unstable high and low tones in the sentence.
Isn't it interesting? We are singing nation:).
P. S. Remember that Lithuanian has the largest number of words for expressing tenderness, endearment and affection?
xoxo
Ak.

Easter eggs.

It's already the second week after Easter, but I've just copied some photos to my computer, so I'm gonna share it anyway:).
Here's our Easter eggs this year! And as I told you, I tried to make the marbleized Easter eggs. It doesn't seem quite like the original ones, because I used paint powder and not liquid paint, so perhaps that's the reason. But they looked beautiful as well:

And here's the second bowl of our Easter eggs:

Have a colorful day!
xoxo
Ak.

beautiful hair secret.

photo via Pinterest

Do you have a secret for keeping your hair silky and shiny?

Recently one of my friends asked me about hair conditioner and later I remembered that my hairdresser once asked me as well, how I keep my hair so healthy and shiny.

Yes, I use the conditioner, but that's not the trick:).

The thing is, I always have two shampoos and every time I wash my hair I use the different one. And sometimes (usually every second time) I use the conditioner or I have two of them as well.

I think it's the same thing like with the toothpaste - you can't get the tooth used to one, you have to switch it from time to time. But well, for the hair, I switch it more often.

I'm curious - what's your secret? 

xoxo

Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

photo via Pinterest

I love love colors!
And during winter I always get hungry for colors (remember the cool video Advanced Style?).
But now it's already spring, let's get colorful!
Here's a video from the Festival of Colors (Holi) in India - it looks super amazing!
I smile watching this video, it's so joyful.
Have a colorful week, my darlings!
xoxo
Ak.

have a relaxing weekend.

photo via Pinterest

I hope you are looking forward to your weekend plans! I wish to be on an island like this even just for 15 minutes!

Anyway, here's a few fun posts around the web..

• Unmistakable hairstyles in pop art.
• Blitzkrieg - if you are in Vilnius and you still don't have plans for this evening.
• Beautiful necklace!
• Stephanie Rolland couture - the 7th photo is just wow!
• Lemon tart recipe - looks delicious.
• Can a women and a man be just friends? 
• Learning lindy hop steps at home.
• Good point:).

Have a beautiful weekend!
xoxo
Ak.

latte art too beautiful to drink.

photo via Flickr

Take a look at these wonderful 30 examples of latte art too beautiful to drink!

xoxo

Ak.

dance like nobody's watching you.

Love this girl!
She's not that shy:).
You can watch the older video here.
P. S. Nice end, haha.
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

 photo via The Sun

Hello, my darlings,

I hope you had a wonderful Easter! 

Although it's not Monday anymore, I want to share some things I've found during my holidays.

Remember when my best friends gave me Robbie Williams book for my birthday? 

Well, I've just read it. 

Yes, I know, it's been a long time. The thing was that I've got this book just a few days before I had to leave to Germany and it was hell heavy, so I couldn't take it with me (it was heartbreaking!..).

And then I had to leave it at my parents, because it was too heavy as well to take it to my place, so one more month without it..

Anyway, now the Easter was just perfect with it!

Robbie Williams was my absolute idol when I was a teenager, but now still, as I was reading the book, I understood it why. 

He was never the Britney-Spears-kind-of-popstar. He's very clever, sincere and he said many things in the book that fits me a lot. 

This is one of my favorite quotes from the book:

I'm all different things every single day. All over the place. Morning amazing, afternoon indifferent, evening miserable. The next day: morning miserable, afternoon indifferent, the evening amazing. Underneath it all, I'm happiest I've been. Yeah, underneath it all, I'm happiest I've been. But I'm human, I go up and down, up and down...

Have a fantastic week!
P. S. Remember that Robbie Williams is writing a blog??
xoxo
Ak.

happy Easter!

photo via Piccsy

What are you up to this loooong weekend?
As I said, I'm planning to try marbleized Easter eggs and I will make this brownie, but - wait - with... Snickers! One friend from Chile made it, when I was in Nuremberg and it was the best chocolate cake I ever had! So I'll try to make for my family the best brownie they ever had!
And also, I'm making the smoked chicken and fruit salad I ate at my friend's birthday - it was also super delicious. All you need is:
grapes, Chinese cabbage, smoked chicken, orange, canned pineapple, plums and mayonnaise! 
I'm not really a sweet things + meet eating person, but these ones are really good, I guarantee you.
So here are all my plans.
My whole Easter holidays by my parents looked mostly like this. And now university starts again on Tuesday and my everyday morning will look as usual like this.
By the way, as you can guess, I love this site, so if you are bored (like me writing my semester work....) there are many pictures that can make you laugh. True.
And here's a random cute little girl with violets photo I made on the Easter 2009:

Happy Easter, my darlings!
xoxo
Ak.

shirts.

photo via Lookbook

Shirt with pockets was on my spring wish list long time ago and finally I bought red and black squared shirt! 

I just love them!
Have you thought about looking for some shirt?

These with two colors looks cool! Or squared.

Here's two colors denim shirt for men. Squared are nice as well.

xoxo

Ak.

break it yourself.

photo via Mr Birds Beak

 photo via Pinterest

I've recently realized that mostly I adore sad music.
And I think it's because usually I don't care to what music to dance to, as long as I am in a good mood. But the songs that touch your heart - that's where the magic happens.
I just love the new album Break it yourself by american musician, Andrew Bird!

Have you listened it?

I've found it on another blog post here, I listened to the whole album afterwards and I just adore it!

My favorite song:

I just can't stop listen to it! It makes me feel like I'm somewhere traveling by the sea..
Try once, break it yourself:).

xoxo

Ak.

waiting for the Easter.

 photo via Pinterest

 photo via Marthastewart

What are your plans for the Easter?
I've just looked to these photos and I realized I have to make something special for this year!
I find these marbleized Easter eggs in the first photo just gorgeous - it would be really nice to try to color them like that. So I'm planning to do it this year and here's a very nice description how to do it if you want to give it a try as well.
Moreover, I was thinking about the chocolate cake, but these cupcakes look soooo pretty and the colors are just the colors of spring, aren't they? Unfortunately, I don't have the special form for cupcakes, but, anyway, here's the recipe if you would like to try them.
Or maybe I will buy the form. But I'm 100% sure that if I'll try to bake them, they won't be looking that good as in the picture. Sometimes this saying fits for my kitchen, I have to remember it sometimes:).
P. S. haha, good idea!
xoxo
Ak.

levitation.

photos via Yowayowa Camera

Remember that cool photography idea - Feet First - I told you about? 

Now I've found one more brilliant idea!

Natsumi Hayashi is a girl, who lives in Tokyo and photographs levitating self-portraits, how cool is that, ha?
Visit her page to see more!
xoxo
Ak.

ticking boxes.

Remember when I told you about the festival Spring of the Cinema?
I mentioned that I would love to see the new short movie by Tadas Vidmantas.
Well, I didn't see the movie in the cinema, but I did saw the director himself that day! The thing was, I won two tickets to the other movie called Ave, which was at the same time like Ticking Boxes. But my movie was late and while we were waiting, Tadas Vidmantas walked from the hall with flowers. Anyway, now it's on Youtube, so you can watch it as well!
The whole time as I was watching this movie, I knew what's the end going to be. But well, the end is not so clear - isn't it?
P. S. Here's a very funny article for lithuanian readers (written by T. Vidmantas) about working with advertisement company - it made me laugh out loud!
xoxo
Ak.

traveler's gift guide.

 photo via Pinterest

I've already talked about finding a present for Christmas, now I thought about finding a traveler's gift.
When I was leaving Germany, I found it really hard to pick up the presents for everybody, so I just came up with the idea - what would be the universal gifts from the journey?
Here's what I think:

• It's always nice and easy to buy some jewelery for your girlfriends (I loved this store!) - it's very lovely to wear something from abroad and when someone says "that's a nice bracelet!", she can answer "my friend brought me from England." or whatever. And it's not because it's a chance for you to brag about it - it's more like every time someone notice it, you remember your friend and you remember that country and what they told you about it, because - obviously, it was the first time you met her/him after her/his journey:).
• Another gift could be a book - especially written by the classic author of that country (for example, a book of H. Hesse from Germany.). The only disadvantage is that perhaps you will have to find it in English and that may be a problem. I had an idea of finding a cookbook with German food specialties for one of my friend, who loves cooking. But then I realized that the names of the products, which are very specific, will be a hard work for her. So I decided that you can always end up with a nice cover notebook:). As she loves traveling, I took a traveler's journal for her - this one looks very nice as well.
•  As I searched the souvenir stores, I found a very adorable dark red scarf for men with a little Bavarian blazon on the edge - it's very practical and it looked stylish. But I was a little too late - unfortunately, it was sold out when I finally decided to buy it. Anyway, a scarf or a nice T-shirt with some national details on it (just like this one, haha!)is always practical and I find it nice as a gift as long as it looks not too souvenirish - sometimes it's just a kitch.
• Another item from a souvenir store I would suggest - a wine or a beer opener. It's very practical, you can be 100% sure that your friend is going to use it, it's simple and most important - you can always find some cool design decisions with some national attributes, just like this one. And you can always add some fine wine or beer along with it:).
• When you are stuck and can't think about anything to buy for someone - food is always an option. In every country you can find food specialties store (just like this one - Käseladen), where you can pick up some interesting and delicious things. And if you can't find anything there - chocolate and candies are always the answer (it may even be with some national attributes as well - chocolate from Russia!).

These are 5 tips for travelers, who are looking for gifts, I hope they helped somehow!
And always remember - even when you are already leaving - it's how every travel happens:).
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

photo via Piccsy

I'm curious - do you worry too much? Have you ever caught yourself thinking about negative things more often than about positive ones?

I definitely did.

And now I've found a great article, where I 've read some interesting things. 

Did you know that some people do have a more positive outlook, but almost everyone remembers negative things more strongly and in more detail? 

Moreover, we tend to ruminate more about unpleasant events — and use stronger words to describe them — than happy ones.

And what is more interesting that most people can take in only one critical comment at a time and that many good events can overcome the psychological effects of a bad one. In fact, the authors quote a ratio of five goods for every one bad.
I absolutely recommend you to read it here! The second part is more for business routine, but it is interesting as well.

So think about 5 good memories today and try to start your kudos file!

Have a good week!

xoxo

Ak.