Helena-Reet: 1st of December! A powerful person, about liking, food, ceramics, etc
NordenBladet – Today I opened up the health drink “Havupuu-uutejuoma” bought from Finland from Rouhonjuuri health products store. It is an ecologically produced 100% herbal elixir / coniferous tree extract. The beverage is made from the bark and sap of the young pine tree along with spring water and it is a potent antioxidant. We are taking this with our family every morning before breakfast until it lasts.
I revised the winter menu and realized we could eat more fresh stuff. In winter you need the same vitamins and so I brought to the table more fruit, vegetables and herbs – tomato, sweet pepper, sprouts, lettuce leaves, dill, basil, tangerines, bananas and pineapple. All colours were represented and the breakfast table looked amazing. It tasted luxurious and thanks to the handmade ceramics I guess it also looked royal!
I really like to serve meals on handmade unique and original tableware! Me and Ivanka Shoshana have created several clay kitchenware. Also today we went to the clay class with Ivanka and once again many beautiful products are in progress. My current favourite is a freshly made multicolored vase and a small bowl that suits it. I don’t know how well the picture brings out their nature but they are exactly such warm simple cottage style kitchenware.
Today I stumbled upon Dick Carlson’s book “The Able Person” that began with the sentence, “The world gives way to the man who knows where he is going.” This sparked interest and I kept browsing the book and found a nice table describing the traits and habits of a pleasant and attractive person. I felt happy because it is exactly these traits that I have been consciously trying to cultivate in me (not for the reason of being, so to say, attractive, but in order to become a better person). The better a person I become the more happiness in me grows and it is a good feeling.
I will summarise Carlson’s study results for you as well. In attractive personalities the following traits were brought out:
1. joyfulness
2. friendliness
3. tidiness, cleanliness
4. coziness (hmmm… what does this exactly mean? :D)
5. helpfulness
6. unselfishness
7. sense of humor
8. thoughtfulness
9. eagerness
10. stability
I would personally add three points:
1. Avoiding judgement. I don’t like to judge people, we are all here to grow and make mistakes, and then, hopefully, to learn from them.
2. Cultivating a positive attitude in you (a la “It’s worth thinking that people are rather good than bad”)
3. LOVE – a person who is in love and loving is everything that D. Carlson brought out. Fall in love, and love and then you will be the best version of yourself!!! ❤❤❤
For dinner I made my “famous” sea cabbage salad. I posted today in NordenBladet’s GOURMET section the recipe, too (HERE). Once before I have shared this recipe in my blog, but then I chose strawberry and primrose blossoms instead of dill-basil and buckthorn for garnering (see the blog HERE).
Garnering and serving the meal is the best part of cooking – in spring and summer I always like to add fresh edible flowers and plants to the food! In wintertime I also use lots of frozen or dried plants and berries to garner the food.
Yesterday after a while we went real life shopping (lately I mostly order the food over the internet because the store is quite far away and it saves a lot of time ordering online), and we could easily have stayed in the store forever, so many cute things!!! Just the napkin selection might take an hour. We shopped for about an hour and a half and returned with a good supply. Besides all kinds of foodstuff I bought a super cute warm-bag with bunnies and a wonderfully soft bed for the cat.
There was a joke as well. In the self checkout section there was a family beside us and the husband said at the last moment: wait, I forgot something, and headed towards the alcohol shelves. It was so funny.. I thought to myself that we had forgotten the same thing but then again thought: ahhh…
So we drove home but what didn’t give me peace was… the alcohol shelves. 🙈😂
We unpacked everything, then I petted the cat, but still what doesn’t give me peace… those alcohol shelves 🙈😂 hahaaaa
Very normal… we went back to the store and revisited those shelves. I like it when there’s a good supply of everything at home. PS!!! And drinks NEEDN’T ALWAYS BE with alcohol. I like it when there is everything at home, but in our house the non-alcoholic beer is surprisingly popular, also the non-alcoholic champagne, etc. It’s kept me wondering for a long time why they don’t sell six-packs of non-alcoholic beer??? Anyway, we went to the store, we are now well equipped, the mood is good about not letting it be…. So me! 😈😅😂😝
Help! Now it’s enough of chatting. Allan will be home any minute, I’ll continue with the chores. Now there will also be a short pause with the blog, since I need to work for a while, too 🙂 If it goes well then next week I will open a rejuvenated OHMYGOSSIP Estonian site!
All for today, hugs!!!! 🥰🥰
I love y’all!
xoxoxo
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