Valentines Cupcakes~ ♪

Baking life away~ This saturday was my besties birthday party and because it was valentines day that week, I made cute Valentines Cupcakes! 

(the recipe book said something of selfmade marzipan hearts but i cba to do that as well, so i just bought chocolate hearts ♥ :D

Also. LOOK. AT. THIS. FOG.

I feel like I was in Silent Hill or something!
Scary shit - but it did look pretty :3 

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Choirtrip! ♪♫

So I went on a 4 days trip with my school's choir last week, yay!
Well, it wasn't only the choir, it was both choirs, the big band and the orchestra, and it was the 9th time to go along on that trip for me now, and it's always great fun! We're usually leaving on tuesday morning and we're coming back friday morning. It's only a short time, but a nice time!

This time we stayed in another town than usually, and.... well it was different :D
Our little group of 5 had the biggest room on the floor! Yay! And the youth hostel was not too bad actually... but it didn't have one of the big halls we usually spend the last evening at and the food was seriously THE WORST. I basically only ate cookies the whole week. I tried eating their food but got sick from it, yay -.-

But other than that it was a nice trip, really, and I had loads of fun!

On Tuesday, when we arrived, the first thing we did was having lunch - Ravioli - and the only lunch that actually tasted nice and didn't make me wanna puke my stomache out :')

Afterwards we got some time to get to the rooms and make our beds and unpack and stuff (I basically laid on the bed the whole time. who the heck even unpacks for 3 and a half days? I don't!). Just about 2 hours later we went for a walk through town, discovering the most useful store they have (and proabably the only big food store? omfg) where everyone did their daily cookie and other sweets shopping, and we went to visit a castle! I still have no clue what it was called, and though I wanted to go inside, I was the only one who wanted to, and we were not allowed to to stuff alone *sigh*

Stop-motioned myself in an attempt to try my new wireless remote release - it works! :D

(FINALLY!)

The next day we did something EVEN MORE EXCITING! We visited STONES

(No but honestly. Stones.)

The 'Externsteine' who are famous. For being literal stones. HUGE stones, with stairs and a bridge and stuff and they are pretty epic actually.

Lovely. Thanks Jana for the Photo :D

Awesome stones!

Last evening of the trip make-up :3

(I felt odd without my bangs *sigh*)

Napping on random shelves.

I think they were actually for suitcases?

Idk but i didn't unpack anyways so no use of these things there :'D

The ride back home on the next day was AWFUL 

no really. Basically almost all of the boys, Jana and I stayed awake all night - we got some sleep at like 5.45am, for 2 hours, of which one was on a wooden bench, very much like the lovely shelve. 

I was TIRED, and I wasn't able to sleep on the bus, and certain things (more like people) got me to think a lot about the time I spent in school, since this might have been my last choir trip and I randomly started crying, school could've been so much better!

I could've made more friends!
I could've been less shy!
I basically send 6 years liking one and the same guy, being in a relationship for one month, ending it all with the most ridiculous and hysteric drama ever - only to forget I ever had feelings for him a week later :')
I could've loved more, 

I could've had so much more fun!
Instead, I let those bastards bully me and make it hell, without even tryna make it better!

Ahhhhh I regret it so much!

ANYWAYS!

There will probably be more pictures on my facebook soon :3

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Carnival!

The German Carnival - Helau and Alaaf! 

I'm fortunately living right in North Rhine Westphalia, close to the biggest Carnival celebrating cities in germany - Düsseldorf and Cologne!

Kölle Alaaf

Düsseldorf Helau!

Carnival pretty much starts at 11/11 already, but the real celebration was this weekend, from Thursday until Today. 

Today was so called 'Rosenmontag' the main carnival day (in my eyes, I guess.)
You can see huge parades all over Düsseldorf and Cologne, most of the car's topics are political - I never  understood them as a child, but NOW I almost fell over laughing at some of them today!

There's also people on the cars (I'm NOT gonna explain why, that's really just too much^^)

Of course everyone is going there in a costume, except me, of course, because I don't own fancy costumes, but I dressed up nonetheless!

Some (unedited because no time, ever u.u) pictures of some cars and people of the parade!

Sweets I got that day <3

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Matrix || Hello Kitty Cupcakes

Matrix is the name of a club in Bochum - just sayin' ;D
They have a special offer there: If you've had your birthday in the week before you visit the club, you can take as many people as you want in - FOR FREE.

You and all your friends: Free entry. No matter how many.

And that's what my bestie did! 

I love this club especially because it doesn't just play Charts  music like most clubs do,

it has different floors that also play nicer music, rock music, metal etc etc- the so called Rockpalace is one of them for example, and I love it! :3

& the outfit - I felt fab! 

LOOK AT THESE CUTIES *.*

BUT the reciepe was in italian.
You wanna know how good my italian is?
I can say following:

'Vorrei una pizza' 'Vorrei dei biscotti' 'ti voglio bene' and 'ciao'
(And that is all i learned from having an Italian bestie for about 8 years.

Well, the only thing I've learned from my polish bestie was 'Nadzdrowie', so at least...)

ANYWAYS, The cupcakes looked totally adorable, and you, well you could eat them.... But it wasn't necesserily what you wanted I guess. 

PURE. CHEMISTRY.

That's all. 

I was very sad that I had to throw away 8 of 12 cupcakes because I couldn't eat them anymore, and I couldn't ask anyone else to eat. This. 

:'(

Next week I'll be back with baking properly, I promise! 

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Sweet Vanilla Cupcakes ☺

A little late this week, but since I was busy on Saturday I baked on Sunday, and the Blog entry follows now!

Unfortunately I am unusually busy at the moment, so everything is getting delayed a bit *sigh*

Anyways, here are my Vanilla Cupcakes!
They were too warm when I put the topping on, so it melted a bit - nonetheless i think they look cute! :3

They were really cute and tasty, EVEN MY TEACHER SAID SO! 

:')

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Eating Ramen - Traditional Way!

My Summary of this morning: My hairdryer ate my hair - it hurt as hell and now I have to throw away the hair dryer AND a stand of my hair is now about 20cm shorter than it was before. I am not in a good mood.

That only happens when I want to let my hair grow out doesn't it, ugh.

Today *takes look at the clock* Well, Yesterday, 2 of my friends and I went to Düsseldorf again - first time in ages! Lou is already comfortable walking around there with me, through the japanese stores and all, but Eva was there for the very first time... I think I kinda shocked her? :D

She was fascinated because...Japanese x'D

We went to eat lunch at Takumi's, and it was great. I didn't notice they even had a traditional Japanese table there, until I read it on someone else's blog, and now we've been seated there! 

It was really funny, I never sat on a traditional japanese table and ate there (and their Ramen are just the best really *.*)

I forgot to take a picture of the actual Soup I had :')

It was really delicious, though I choose salt Miso, just to try it out and... it was really salty!
Better take something else next time!

The cup with the green tea is so pretty!

Eva and Lou both had Chicken Teriyaki Ramen & Mango Juice!

My mother was all shocked when I told her a ramen costs ~12€,

but really you get so much for it, you're full without eating up, and it's really nice!

After finishing Lunch we all went to the Japanese Garden- to take my OOTD pictures ♥

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Cherry yum yum! || Visit to the Archaeological Muesum [Very Picture Heavy]

So ofc, I am still going on with my baking challenge, and here are 

my lovely cherry cupcakes from Saturday~ 

I also went to the Archaeolgical Museum that day, I was allowed to take picuters, at least at one part of it. 

The other part was a sepcial exhibition about skulls, so the more interesting part, 

but it was forbidden to take photos in there, unfortunately. 

I loved this exhibition, idk I have something with skulls, their fascinating.

They had a glass skull (google that, there's interesting myths concerning the end of the world about it) and a crystal skull, asian skulls, african skulls, european skulls, american skulls, adult skulls, phetus skulls, A LOT about different cultures and how they either prayed to skulls for help from the gods or feared them, some cultures build houses for skulls, some decorated huge bottles with them, others tattooed them and used them as sign for victory. Reeeeeally interesting!

But as I said, only pictures of the normal exhibition.

Bones from neanderthals, ans acessories from romans, etc etc!

The text is talking about a volcano that erupted in the Eiffel in 10 966 BC.

Because of that the whole area was covered with a 50meters layer of stone.

There was so much lava that the river Rhein became a lake for some time!

Ashes of a human

This was so small like, probably a pinky fingernail? Not much bigger really.

Romans were amazing!

"If the Lions in Africa had their own Storytellers, the Hunters wouldn't always be the Winners."

This was a roman well. After they left their camp they burned it down completely, and threw dead animals, dirt, screws, and all kinds of stuff into the well, which made it unusable for others. It was so their enemies couldn't use it for themselves!

Pet dog skeleton. Found in the park in my town - I can see that park from my window! :D

It's supposed to be pretty old!

Deformed Skull of a European Woman.

When the Huns came to Europe, some kind of beauty ideal came as well - the skull form, a very long skull. Girls skulls were deformed with bandages so they'd become longer! 

Part of the laboratory they put up to show how it's all done in archaeology.

They have microscopes and all set up there, and you can try things out yourself, and everything is well explained, for example anthropology or the radiocarbon dating method!

Wrong way around Piece sign?

No actually not, this was once a window from a church!

Text: From the 8th Century on, Westphalia had Church windows made of glass.

This one is heavily weathered, therefore barely transparent. The Frame is made of blumb.

'Every thing has its Time.'

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