29 Jan 2018

New year's shopping I. (try on) // Dada's fashion

Hi!

So, I am back. Sitting in my room, smiling at my screen and being ill. It had to come, however I have been fighting for quite a long time so I do not take it too seriously. As long I can work from home and get important done, I am OK.

Today's post is really interesting since it is going to show you how much you can change in being a little "shopaholic".

I used to be a small maniac who loved shopping, clothes and having a wardrobe full of clothes I had never worn. I enjoyed the feeling when I paid for a dress, wear it for once (sometimes not even once) and found out that it did not suit me or I did not feel good in it or it had a different reason why I should have never bought it.
And then I have started to earn my own money. For the first few months I spent everything what I earned. To be honest, my salary has never been very poor, I could live a proper life and even be able to save something. But I did not save anything. I wanted to buy this and that, have everything what rich-looking people have and prove myself I can look rich and then also happy in that way.
Come on, I should have slapped myself. 
Four years has passed and I am not that girl with a lot of clothes. Now, I do not have to solve that common problem which many girls/women have. I know exactly what I want to wear in the morning and I never feel the powerlessness of not having anything to wear.

There were sales in shops. And I decided to buy something for myself. I became to be in a shopping mall Aréna in Trnava (western Slovakia) with Simonka (my #sisterfromanothermother). I really wanted to go everywhere, I am not gonna lie. But we were smart (haha, I know) and decided to go just to one shop and have the ability to choose something just there, nowhere else. Believe me, this tactic helps a lot. Since there is a big shop Mohito and we both really like this brand, we made a quick agreement to go in there.

The sales were not that big, the sellouts were just starting. But I said to myself if I found the things I needed and also wanted, I would just buy them.
And yes, I was lucky as I have not been in years when we take in a count clothes shopping.

THE SWEATER.

This was actually the main reason of going there. To find a sweater which will be bigger than me, warmer than a tea and cozier than a blanket. There was nothing I liked in the beginning. I was almost thinking to go to another shop but then I saw this one (just the last one for me). I so enjoy wearing this huge baby blue blanket :-)

THE DOTS DRESS
This dress was so cute that I had to try it. My first thought "It is just how I do want to look like in  a dress". The first reaction of Simonka was "Aren't they too short?"
Honestly, they are. What, believed me,  I hadn´t realised before she said so. And even then, I did not think it was that short. You see, the material is just falling down because it is heavy. It did surprise me how heavy this dress was. So I gave it a chance. And how great I did! I feel very well while wearing it, almost like I wear nothing. Yes, it is that comfortable.
Have a look at the photos. Is the dress too short? What do you say? I wear it with black tights and do not feel like anybody could have a chance to see what should stay hidden.

And one more point. I did not want to post the photos where I am wearing the dots dress below. When I looked at it, the first thing I saw was the scars on my legs. 
"What will people think?" went through my mind. And then I realised, those are my legs and whatever happened to them or will happen to them, they are still mine and I should not feel the shame. What happened to me was not my fault and especially because of that, I should be able to live with it without everyday's thinking how my body looks like. Once, I will do that automatically.

THE CHARLIE HARPER DRESS
Tell me honestly - if this is not Charlie Harper style, than nothing is his style :-)
I have always wanted a shirt which would be in that kind of style, especially in dark versus light colours. I have not found anything like that yet. But I found this dress which is even more original. I have never seen any dress like this on anybody and that is exactly what I like to wear. I do like a lot of ongoing trends but when I see a lot of people wear something similar or even the same,  I cannot wear it as well. That is just not me, I feel like I am cheating my own personal style. But I do not want  to say that it is bad if somebody is doing that. Not at all, at least I can look on it :-)
This dress is longer I want to say. And again, the dress is really heavy, you would be surprised. And the feeling when I wear it, oh, so comfortable. I would like to even sleep in that.
You might be thinking "that is not much shopping" and you are right. It is not but these three pieces of clothes made me more happy and satisfied than my shopping used to make me in the past.

I will have another post about the New Year's sales since I went to have a look on some stuff I needed in Prague. So you will see a bit more of what kind of clothes has made me really happy :-)

And what about you and shopping in new year's sales? Do you buy a lot of clothes? Or anything else?

Let's meet here the next time <3 Serusky

21 Jan 2018

How I spent Christmas 2017 // Dada's diary

Hello!

What a lovely day is today for writing about my memories connected with the last Christmas of mine. 

I know. It took me ages and probably nobody is going to be interested in this topic, but I would really like to have this post here since the last Christmas was very special for me.

Christmas of the year 2016 I spent working until 8 pm and I was ill and I will probably never forget how alone and upset I felt that time. So having the opportunity to spend a few amazing days with my beloved ones was the biggest present of all...well, I got one special present more :-)
When I was a little girl, I used to watch fairy-tales like you can see in the picture above. What my parents disliked was this way of watching. "Too close to the television, you will have bad eyes when you are older" they used to say to me. And I did not believe them. To be honest, I do not have any serious issues with my eyes but for sure I know by now that I am going to be totally same as my parents were to me in this matter <3
The Christmas tree was built at the very beginning of December by me and Mario. I remember that we used to built our Christmas tree around December 20 when I was a child. However, I do have my own opinion that Christmas is starting on December 1 and since I want to enjoy the atmosphere of this holiday as long as possible, I have made a new tradition of building the Christmas tree very soon. Do you also do that?
On December 6, we celebrate the day of Saint Nicholas. This tradition keeps itself in a believing that in the evening of December 5 you must clean your winter boots/shoes before going to sleep and put them in front of the window (from inside of course). And if you have been a good boy or girl that year, St. Nicholas (Svätý Mikuláš) will come during the night and give you a reward for your good behaviour
And because my dad is the best one, he still saves me the present from St. Nicholas. This year I got my favourite chocolate Milka in a beautiful package. Pure love - I call these little things we can do for our beloved ones.
Christmas evening is the most important evening the year, I can say. 
Our main part of Christmas happens on December 24, around 5 o'clock PM. We do have a Christmas dinner which consists of a starter you can see in the photo above. We call it "oplátka" and it is something like a wafer. It is very fragile and you ought not to break it during the preparation. And how do we prepare it? Well, you put honey and a garlic on the top of it and that you eat it. It must sound weird, honey and garlic but believe me, it is delicious. 
As a main meal we have "Vianočná kapustnica" (Christmas cabbage soup) and fish with traditional potato salad which is one of the best dishes I have ever tried. Believe or not, I so do enjoy our traditional dishes because the taste of it is just irreplaceable with any other dish. 
And this was the very special present I got. Let me finally introduce you BONIFÁC, the little jumping happiness of mine. Since I do live alone in Prague, I was upset sometimes. Without family, friends, Mario and everybody I know well. I am starting to make new friendships here but since I spend a lot of time at work, we do not meet so often. The last weekend we went to SAPA which was great but in general I would go home to the dark room and had nobody to hug or have next to myself when I was falling asleep. 
Now, I am not alone anymore. Everyday I hurry home from work because I know that he is there, waiting for me to cuddle. I will have a post about him later, so let's wait for more details.
The rest of the Christmas holiday was so cosy, just magical. Watching fairy-tales or documents with my dad, eating and eating (I gained two kilograms which I lost in the first week after coming back to Prague and did not eat that much :-D), watching falling snow, enjoying the winter wonderland, visiting our family, talking and talking for hours and just resting every moment possible. It could not have been more perfect.
Oh, the dish you can see in the photo above is "lokša" in a grammatically correct language but we call it "lokeš" in my family. It is a potato dough just with a bit of salt and water baked on a very special pan. After baking it for maximum of 5 minutes, you put animal fat on it and salt it a bit. Just YAMMY.
The New Year's evening  I spent home, no parties, no friends. When I had a call with my dad a few days before the Christmas I told him I did not have any special plans. And he just started saying that was great, we could spend that time together and it would be marvellous and so on. He was completely happy when he was saying that. The hope which went through him that I would spend the New Year with him after 8 years was just too much for me. I agreed in a second and it was the best thing I did in the year 2017. 
Family is everything for me and I am ready to give to my dad everything he gave me throughout the years of raising me. 
And here we came to January 3 which is an important day for me for two reasons. 
The first reason is - I celebrate my name on this day. In Slovakia, every day of the whole year is given to different names and mine is actually the second in the calendar.
The second reason is - on this day my blog celebrated two years of existence. Two years have passed since I sat on the floor in a living room and started writing about everything. So, let's carry on <3

How was your Christmas guys? Did you enjoy it? How did you celebrate? What kinds of traditions do you follow? And what about the New Year´s Eve? How was it? Let me please know in the comment section bellow or let's star a discussion on my Facebook page or write me a private message. I want to be in touch with you <3 Serusky.

PS: Oh well, I realise how late it is but still - I wish you all the best, let's the year 2018 be the most magical one for all of you out there!