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How to style Chanel ballerinas for Spring?

May 10, 2018

How to style Chanel ballerinas for Spring? One of my favourite Spring shoes are definitely ballerinas and I have about 6 pairs of just Chanel ones and another 10 pairs of different colour, pattern, designer and non designer ones in my shoe closet. Yep! I think that by now I might know how to style my Chanel ballerinas or any other ones too.  Continue Reading…

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Needing less, getting more

May 16, 2016

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As you might remember from my previous posts, I’ve been mentioning that I would be attending my friend’s wedding and it happened two days ago in a little town on the South of Croatia. Little town in which I grew up, went to school in and have so much that still connects me to it. Some of the memories will never die and I will always in a way or another have special place for this town in my heart.

I was happy to bring along my daughter with me to the wedding ceremony to witness one of the most beautiful moments and highlights of any relationship. I know that real love doesn’t need any papers, stamps or “files” but when there is a wedding happening already, it’s such a sweet and magical moment which makes everybody equally happy and excited to see the smiles and proudness on the faces of the bride and groom.

Seeing my friend and her now husband getting married, having that magical love aura surrounding them and being just so truly happy in that moment, right there and then surrounded by the closest people made me realise how little we need to be truly happy and how often we think that we need this or that in order to be someday completely happy. I have already touched base on this same subject before and it’s more clear to me now than ever before that…

There’s no such thing as complete happiness and there are no formulas on how to get happiness come to or be part of your daily life. We all hurt and cry, we all laugh and love, it’s just up to our inner selves how much we’ll let the real happiness be part of our daily lives. Seeing my daughter being excited and happy about the smallest things such as Kinder Surprise and which toy she’ll get in it made me think more and realise that happiness truly does lie in the smallest things and it’s never about the big things, let alone materialistic ones. I have been “guilty” of thinking that having more will give you more happiness, stability, closure… Whatever! That’s bullocks my dear readers. Core of real happiness is inside of us and it’s not up to anybody else OR hoarding on things to make us happy… It’s up to us to let ourselves BE happy and appreciate the smallest, daily life miracles. It is a miracle and a pure happiness to open your eyes every day and know that you are alive, that you breathe, that you have a possibility to do a good deed, that you have a chance to put a smile on another person’s face, that you have the choice to surprise a friend with a flower bouquet… That you have an option to be happy and spread happiness anywhere you go. It’s not in the big things, it’s not in materialistic things… It’s in that kid’s honest smile, it’s in that perfect ice cream ball in a cone, it’s in the sun that is shining today…

Thank you for reading and commenting my dears, you are among other “small things” what makes me so happy day in-day out. 🙂

I’m wearing: Shoes – Marc by Marc Jacobs, Jeans – Tiger of Sweden, Shirt – Pepe Jeans, Bag – Chloe, Bracelet – HOH1960, Long blazer – Uusi Kuu, Trench – , Sunnies – Dita, Earrings – Chanel

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Check mate

February 14, 2016

Zum-zum! My wake up call rings, I look through my window and it’s still pitch black outside… I guess we’re not that closer to Spring as I’ve been hoping for. 😀 It’s only mid of February but it feels great to start a new week with new plans, new work assignments and new adventures, no matter what’s the weather! It’s crazy how much difference a week in one’s life can make!?

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IVANAHelsinki promo

August 30, 2015

Heart… A muscle that is much more than that… Ever since I was a little girl, heart was my favourite shape, sign, word. I’m almost 28 years old and I have lived all of them only led by my heart which turned out “unfortunate” for me many, many times because world is being run by head and not this amazing muscle that’s beating inside of all of us.

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Finnish Summer

June 28, 2015

Hello sweet Monday! I’m back to Helsinki from my Summer holidays in Croatia and after a weekend spent in a hotel, I’m now staying in Helsinki’s countryside for a little bit to chill, (wash my clothes 😀 ) re-organise all of the stuff that I have inside 5 travelling bags and to collect all of the energy that I can for everything that’s about to come in the following months working wise.

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