My present to me,

Today I finally could use my new watch. I had bought a similar one to my husband for his birthday and they came together. Only difference is that his a bit bigger than mine.
I have looked that watch so many times in shop and fell for it more by every time. I loved that it is simple and neat and beautiful. It does not have to be something complicated always. For me it is the simplicity what matters. Love also the colors what the watch strap has. Same time I always can buy other straps to change and have a different variations. Depends how is mood or what color the clothes I have.

When I first saw it, I fell for the watch it self. When I started later to look information, when I saw, that I actually have fell for another Swedish brand. When before it was Peak Performance, when now it is also Daniel Wellington. On the all, it feels I have quite big taste for Scandinavian brands. Before it was clothes from a Danish brand Zizzi and ZJ, but now they are very big for me, so those have changed with clothes from Peak Performance. Bags I like are from Friis and Company and now watches from Daniel Wellington :D Seems that in that way I am quite a loyal costumer for Scandinavian brands. Usually I chose things after how comfortable I feel in them but also quality matters.
Now, it time to wish you all a good evening. Time for me to go and rest a bit. It has been a bit emotional day for me. Had my examination and was put all my energy to it. Now I must get new one.

Good night and sleep well!
                                            Love,
                                                       Ingrit

Back at my sewing room,

After some days in countryside, I did took time for me and spent a time in my sewing/hobby room. I tried to organize my threads, so that they would not fall every time I sew or embroider. Yesterday I bought some extra special boxes for thread and today I fixed my room. To be back at my room, feels actually so good and I just love it.
On my sewing room wall hangs 300 rolls of thread and in the box fits 104 more. It is not all I have just :) I have three 2-levels boxes full of thread. Just love it. I believe that there is never enough the thread, not with the hobby I have and love it.
After my exam in economy tomorrow, I know, where I will spend rest of my week. In my room for peace and joy. Will finish my orders and start to prepare some spring things to my own home. So, soon I can start to show again, what I have done and what have been ordered.
Have a nice evening,
                                   Love,
                                            Ingrit

On the road again,

Today I took my step to better me again and started to train. So many starts after new years promises, but not me. I want really get back to better me. The times I have been training before, it has been made me feel good. I have got more energy, I feel well and that has been part I have missed.
I have looked different gyms and programs they have, but I found the one, what fits to me. Today I had try pass in crossfit. One hour pass with learning right technique, information what bodypart exercise will help to work with and so much more. 
After the good pass I felt that I have leg muscles and muscles in my butt. My legs was quite soft after training and actually it felt good. I have really missed that feeling. At least I have not lost my muscles together with all weight and that was very good :)
I also got opportunity to try out my new training clothes from Peak Performance and here I can say one thing. That was the best bought I have made. They was so comfortable and fitted so well. I am not used to wear tights and for the first time, I am willing to wear it and not to feel very ashamed to do it.
Now I am waiting next week to go again to train. I have signed up myself for on-ramp pass and can't actually wait it to start :) Me love it. I feel, like I really have got my life back on track and that I feel more as I used to do. Of course, there is some things, what still is on my mind and probably stays there until they are solved, but at least my beginning of better me has made.
Have a nice evening,
                                   Love,
                                              Ingrit 

Birthday cake,

Day before yesterday I had a big baking day. I needed to bake some cakes for my husbands birthday yesterday. It feels so good to bake, when I know, that there is someone who will eat it. I wanted to make an easy cake and something, what is not very sweet, since I do not like very sweet things and in the same time, I wanted that it would look and taste as home made.

Ingredients:

3 egg
4,5 dl flour
3 dl sugar
188 gr butter, room temperature
3 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2,5 teaspoon baking powder
1,5 dl milk
1,5 teaspoon salt
4 peach halves

Topping and filling:

500 gr quark
4 dl whip cream 
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar 

Decorations:
400 gr blueberries - share as decorations and in the middle of the cake as well.
250 gr strawberries

Whip butter and sugar together with to a smooth mass. Add egg one by one. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to egg and butter mix. Mix it and add milk. Chop peaches to small bites and add it to the dough. Mix it until it is smooth dough. Pour the dough to the form and bake 40-70 minutes in 175 degrees. Depends how big baking form you have and how much dough you put to the baking form. Take it out and let it cool down. Take it out from the form and put it to the plate.

Whip up cream. When it is hard, mix it with quark and vanilla sugar. Divide sponge half in the middle. Half a quark mix put in the middle of the cake. Cover it with blueberries and add other half of cake sponge. Cover with rest of the quark and whip cream mix. Slice a strawberries. Decorate cake as you want. For me, it was just that I wanted it to see out a homemade and that it has a good taste. For me, it remembered cake what it is home made and what is similar, we have had during a years. I did not decorate as proff, but the taste is more important this time, when looks this time.

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Cake with chocolate and peaches,

Yesterday I had a big baking day. I needed to bake some cakes for my husbands birthday today. It feels so good to bake, when I know, that there is someone who will eat it.
To his work I was bake around pound cake. Here is recipe for that cake.

Ingredients:

3 egg
4,5 dl flour
3 dl sugar
188 gr butter, room temperature
3 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2,5 teaspoon baking powder
1,5 dl milk
1,5 teaspoon salt
4 peach halves

Topping:

200 gr dark chocolate 
80 gr nougat
50 gr almond shavings

Whip butter and sugar together with to a smooth mass. Add egg one by one. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to egg and butter mix. Mix it and add milk. Chop peaches to small bites and add it to the dough. Mix it until it is smooth dough. Pour the dough to the form and bake 50-70 minutes in 175 degrees. Take it out and let it cool down. Take it out from the form and put it to the plate.

Melt chocolate and nougat. Cover cake with it and top it with almond. Let it cool down. Best will be until next day at least. Enjoy it with a cup of good coffee.

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

A good day,

It has been some good days lately and that has made me feel good and also very happy. A feelings, what I have missed quite a lot due some other reasons. It feels, that after last operation I feel bit more as a human. I just do not want to think about my shoulder. That we don't talk about that since I just want to see the positive.
In Saturday I was away from home and had a very good time with a very good friend. Sunday belonged to school, since I thought that it will be good to fix the last thing on Economy and when I can enjoy a week before oral examination and enjoy the cinema visit with friends and husbands birthday, but also weekend in countryside. I love to spend my time in countryside. It will be perfect week I have decide :) It is enough with problems and issues and other scrap. Time to enjoy the positive things.
Today I started with breakfast with husband and after that me and Sally took a good powerwalk. I think that Sally is still not used with the short coat :D When we came back at home, we cuddled up on couch and took a small nap. After was a small coffee break in Norrahammar and visit to local medical center. I will never want to change that medical center with some other as long those doctors are there, who really are caring for their patience and listen them. That makes a lot. New medications and my injection and I was good to go again. Heheee :D Feels good. Next week I will talk with my doctor number one and after that if not earlier, when on 8 weeks it will be time for new injections. Time goes fast we could consider today. Last 8 weeks had passed very fast. She was happy to see me and told me that she can see changes on me after my last operation in December. I took that as a good grade to me. It has not been easy time, but it has been time, what has been very useful in so many different ways. I have got to know a lot of wonderful persons and spend good times.
After visit to medical centre I took my black purse and drove to Jönköping. Had lunch in Ikea with my dear and took a visit on the shop. Before the way out of city I visited Naked Juice Bar and bought a good healthy smoothie and met up with my husband. We decided to take another road for a change to home, and had to change that plan quite fast. There had happened accident and we needed to take a smaller road, but I loved it. I got to see so wonderfully beautiful sunset. Sad to miss the better camera, but good that todays mobile cameras are also more advanced and you can take quite a beautiful pictures. I loved the colors. it was a feeling like it was burning. Perfekt sundet after a so perfect and good day. Not surprised that my medical center personal says that I have changed more happier person. It feels good.Thank you for everyone who had made my weekend and my Monday a good and happy day!
Now, time for some TV and a good book. Tomorrow will be new day full with computer helping and later we will get visit from Northern Sweden. Love it.
Have a nice evening!
                                   Love,
                                             Ingrit

Wonderful winter day,

Today was another wonderful winter day. Nice and sunny and very mild outside. It was just a perfect day to take a trip first to Ulricehamn and later to Borås. Perfect day to try my new jacket from Peak Performance. Loved it. Passed perfectly today.

I had never been inside in Ulricehamns centrum. Even thought we have passed the place really so many times, that can't count it. So, today I had a chance to see bit that city as well. Nice small and cozy city in my opinion. Liked the lake view and I believe that in summer it is much more nicer when all colors are out. Since it will not be last time I will visit the that city, then probably you will see more pictures from it in my blog.

After Ulricehamn, we went to Borås. Usually with that city is also that we have passed it or visit the shopping center Knallerland.  Once in last summer I was in centrum a short time, but today I spent several hours there. We visited shops and made some shopping, we had good Asian food for the lunch and shortly before I left Borås, we had a good cup of coffee. Borås seems to be also very nice city, what has quite much to offer. I liked the old touch the city has, but I would not like to live there. Still too big for me and I am the one, who loves to live in smaller and more quiet place.  It is always good to visit it anyway and there will be more visits. Before there was one clothes shop I liked to visit, now I have founded a jewelery shop with several Scandinavian designers. My Pandora collection was complemented by a pair of beautiful earrings. My tea collection was complemented wit a new tea taste. Tomorrow after a training, I will enjoy the cup of good tea. It smelled at least good. Have not had possible taste it yet.
Only disappointment I had today was, that after all the distance we walked and walked, I did manage not to get more than just 6500 steps. We can say that we walked very much. But it was a counter in telephone, so I actually do not know, how right it is. Hopefully tomorrow after my training, I can manage to get my minimum 10 000 steps :) If not, that is not a big deal either. I know that I have made my best and that counts in the end.
Next meeting with my best is also booked in. Another good chat and good time will be soon spend. I love it. Now it is time for me to enjoy my evening and look bit TV and prepare my mind for tomorrows training. Have never been on that kind of training before, so, I feel that I have challenged myself again. It is not suprise for me anymore. I have done that before and probably my brain will continue with it further as well.
Have a nice evening!
                                  Love,
                                            Ingrit

Eleven years,

Time goes so fast. Another year has passed without my mother. It has not been easy time and on the other hand it has been time, what has gone well anyway. I know that it is hard for me, but I believe also that it is relief for her since she does not have to fight with the diabetes and it's complications anymore. So my sense says one thing but my heart says another.
11 years is a long time. I feel like she has missed quite much from our lives and we have missed to be part of her life. She has missed her grandchildren, our weddings, our good and happy times, but also our sad times.
So much people I meet and have met, when I also meet quite much unacknowledged about diabetes. So many persons think, that everything is fine from the day you start to take insulin, but it is not so. It is much more complicated and still, we do not hear much talk about diabetes as we hear about cancer, heart deceases and so much more. It is not right, but it is my opinion. Diabetes is also very serious sickness. Hopefully there comes the day, when we start to hear also more about that.
Different from the last year is also, that this year my mother is not anymore alone. She is together with my grandmother and grandfather. We buried her ashes from one graveyard to another, so that my brother would have easier to visit her grave but also that others could do it. Before was it mostly me or my brother, who visited her grave, but now can even my uncles and others visit her grave, when they are already visiting my grandparents. Must say that this feels very good. Now, we do not have to think anymore about this that she is alone.
For me, today I visited a memorial place and lighted a candle to my mother. It feels good that here is that possibility. My brother told that he will go and light a candle to mothers grave as well. Thoughts have been here and there, but it is okay to have little mixed feelings. I just hope that she has good there she is and does not have to fight with anymore with any sicknesses. I miss her and will always do it, but I am also happy that I have my brother and I still have place to go, when I visit Estonia and would like to spend time with my family. I am happy that I have them in my life still. Many says that it will be easier with time. I can say that it is wrong. It is not, but we understand much more with time what has passed, but it does never be easier. Or I am just an wrong person. Who knows. Anyway, I love my friends and family who have still been after that here for me.

Have a nice evening!
                                  Love,
                                            Ingrit

Two happy girls,

Once again it has been fantastic winter day here in Sweden. It has been a good day for me and also to my small cute 4-leged friend.

In lunch I had booked a fur cut for Sally. She is nice and cute with her teddy fur, but it is not so easy together with snow. So I took our small Sally to the city and she got a cut. Now she is like a small ball of freezing bones and skin :) I know, that it is not nice to laugh on her, but she looks so cute now. In home, she tries to be as close as possible, so that she could keep some warm. The other thing is to go to outside. We are not that popular at the moment in her mind. I want to go out with her or let Sally to go out alone, but in her opinion, we are idiots who want to see her to freeze :D It feels nice to see her now with short fur. Looks more like our Sally. Perhaps now I will get to keep up her with my tempo.

After I had got back Sally from the hairdresser and had lunch, I met up with one girl. I had seen on net that she had jacket from Peak Performance for sale. Lately I have got a teeth to bleed for that trademark. It started home, when my cousin talked about it, but I could never buy before, since I was very big person and their clothes are bit smaller from normal size. During a past 5 months, I have bought some clothes from Peak Performance. So, when I saw that jacket and saw the size, I thought first that no, I should not buy. It is too small for me, but I decided that, ok. Even that it does not fit me now, when it should be a good motivation for me to get my goal and when it will fit perfekt for me. I came home and decided to try it already today. I must say that I was very happy. It fitted me very well. I can even have a knitted sweatshirt under it. I must say, that all this have made my day.
This week has went so good so far. My husbands birthday present have came, I got a very good grade in Economy specializering and have had time to prioritize me a little bit more. I have had time to study, time for training and some other new trainingplans are made and in Saturday I can go to Borås to visit my dear good friend. What else I want. It feels that slowly the things have start to go as I would like and love. I have start to feel myself bit more as a human again. Now I just have to hope that winter will last a little bit more. I just love it. It is so beautiful outside. It gives a lot of energy. Now, it is time for family. Soon I will go to bed, because, when Saturday comes faster :P

Have a nice evening!
                                  Love,
                                            Ingrit

95 years since Peace Treaty of Tartu,

Today Estonia celebrates 95 years since Treaty of Tartu was signed between Estonia and Russia in 2nd February 1920, ending the War of Independence. Estonia was the first democratic country to sign an official agreement with the Bolshevik regime and it was a first time Estonia got it's independence from Russia.
The wish to end the War of Independence in Estonia was evident by the summer of 1919, but the government had to consider the countries of the Entente and its neighbors, who did not approve of peace talks with the Bolsheviks. The breakthrough was brought about by the failed attack of the White Russian North-western Army in autumn 1919. This affected the Estonian military-political situation of Estonia and changed the attitude of the Western countries. Peace talks in Tartu started on 5 December 1919. The Estonian delegation was headed by Jaan Poska, and the Russian by Leonid Krassin (later Adolf Joffe). The main obstacles were differences on the border question – the Bolsheviks demanded Setumaa and the eastern part of Virumaa – and increased Russian military pressure, in the hope of securing a better position at the talks. An armistice was achieved on 31 December 1919 and the final peace treaty was signed on 2 February 1920. In the treaty, Russia recognized Estonian independence; all areas settled by Estonians were accepted as part of Estonia (including Setumaa and Narva). Russia gave up its possessions in the Republic of Estonia, agreed to return the treasures evacuated from Estonia, and ceded 15 million gold roubles to Estonia. The two countries established diplomatic relations.
More about Peace Treaty of Tartu can be read in Wikisource, where also articles have been taken out. Also from Histrodamus, where can see the road to our Independence.
That independence lasted until 23 August 1939, when Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed under in Moscow and Estonia together with other countries was annexed by Soviet again.  Now, we are independent again and it feels good.  It is good to see, how much Estonia has gain and achieved with this independence and how much more the small country can achieve in the future. I am very proud to be an Estonian.

Have a nice day!
                            Love,
                                     Ingrit

So peaceful,

Today the weather outside in Norrahammar is so peaceful. In the night it have been snowing again and after I had cleaned some snow I took a long powerwalk with my small black friend. If someone loves winter as much as me, it is our little Sally. She just loves to keep her nose close to the ground and eat the snow. Here is some pictures from our walking trip.

I just love winter and it's pureness. All is so white and so peaceful. It is so innocent outside. Not surprising that I love winter.

Have a nice day!
                           Love,
                                    Ingrit