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Christmas everywhere - even on my nails

Today I thought, I'd share my favorite Christmas nail designs with you. I'm so excited for Christmas already that I decided to get me some more Christmas decorations.

Here are my top 4 designs I'll definitely wear this season:

Santa's Hat
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Simple and easy design, but nonetheless beautiful!
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Sophisitcated Christmas tree (if a thing like that even exists)
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Simple tree ornament
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I will post my own recreations of these wonderful designs until Christmas. I'd also love to see your recreations!

Xoxo, have fun being creative on your nails!

Christmas time is almost here!

It's that time of year, when autumn has arrived, the leaves are changing their colours, it's raining all the time (at least it feels like that) and when days get shorter. This is the time when I first start feeling a little Christmassy. I'm always kind of expecting the first snow to fall and to hear the first Christmas song on the radio. Of course, that won't happen until December, but nonetheless you can always hope - or make your own little early Christmas party.

This year's very first party was very short and improvised, but when the first Christmas feeling hits you, you just have to go with the flow, don't you think? My party consisted of listening to my all-time favorite Christmas song and watching people hurrying home through the light sparkling in the rain.

The instant I heard the opening chords of Whams "Last Christmas", I felt calm and happy and couldn't wait for Christmas to come around. For me, this song gives you the ultimate Christmas feeling.

Here's to all the other people out there, who also feel Christmas is right around the corner:

What are your favorite Christmas songs?

Xoxo, let's have a big pre-Christmas party!

RGRC Update #2

I've been very lazy over the last two months. Basically, all I did was work. Even the books I actually made it through, I read at work during my less busy late shifts.

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This time I chose two very differential books - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald on one hand and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the other.

I have to confess, if I had to choose, I'd prefer The Great Gatsby over Uncle Tom's Cabin, simply because it's story is so glamourous and makes you want to live in the Roaring Twenties and experience one of Mr. Gatsby's great parties.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading both books. Both of them brought a whole new world to me and made me see certain things in a different way.

So, in light of all this I hereby vow to try and read more until it's time for the next update. I'm planning on reading:

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Xoxo, have fun getting lost in your book's world.

Love is...



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Xoxo, enjoy being in love, it's the best thing that can ever happen to you!!

No men, no problems

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It took me until today to realize that if there are no men in your life - in a romantic way, of course - you've got a lot less problems then when you are in a relationship. Of course there's the occasional misunderstanding with your co-workers or a little fight with one of your friends.

But there are no evenings spent on the sofa crying and watching Dirty Dancing. There are no long hours of waiting for his call or text. No days spent at home, because you feel too depressed, tired, ugly, ... (fill in your feeling here) to go out of the house. No worried phone calls from your mum saying she's going to send out a search party to rescue you from this world shattering mistake you're about to do or, alternatively asking when you'll finally get married.

Instead, you have a lot more time and muse to practice your hobbies, meet with your girlfriends, drink wine and eat chocolate while watching Sex and the City for the thousandth time or dancing along to this one embarrassing favorite CD. You don't have to shave all the time, no one minds if you've gained a few pounds and there's no reason why you shouldn't spend hours on some online shopping site spending your money on beautiful shoes and bags.

And the greatest benefit: Knowing yourself. You've got so much more time at your hands
to get to know you.

What do you think are the greatest benefits of being single?

Xoxo, that's a great life, don't you think!

RGRC Update #1

I was very busy working on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge during my holidays - whilst doing some sightseeing in Paris and the South of France and enjoying a few days of sun, sea and beach in Croatia.

So, during these last couple of months I read about 2300 pages. Three books, that couldn't be more different if intended. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, an epic love story and famous classic, "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson, which is a non-fiction book about the World Fair in Chicago in 1893 and "Lord of the Flies", a novel about a group of boys stuck on an uninhabited island.

All three books were very interesting to read and carried you off into a whole new world to explore. Now, that I'm finished with these books, I'm planning on reading these:

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Xoxo, have a great time reading!