Hey

I appologise for my long absence. We have been working very hard on our garden trying to get it finished before the end of summer..and I went to visit my family in Poland..and was job hunting..busy busy summery months!!!

Unfortunately not much of crafty- inspiring busy-huh*

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Witajcie

Wybaczcie moja dluuga nieobecnosc. Duzo czasu spedzilismy pracujac nad naszym ogrodem, ja rowniez wybralam sie w odwiedziny do Polski...i bylam pochlonieta poszukiwaniem pracy... bardzo napiete letnie miesiace!!!

Niestety niewiele z tego czasu spedzilam na robotkowych pracach i natchnieniach-heh*

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just leave you with this...Polish cut-outs, it's a traditional thing, but I find some colours and shape combinations inspiring :)

taking care of ourselves

I love living healthy, eating fresh and nutritious food,,, just generally taking care of my body. I believe that health is something difinatelly worth investing in for the future well being... my wellbeing and wellbeing of my children...(maybe at some point). There is nothing that frustrate me more than going to the supermarket and trying to chose a vegetable or a fruit that seems semi fresh or not rock hard! Do you find that too? That's why I am having a go at some growing this year so that next year I can really put my efforts into it! It is worth it. Organic vegetables and fruit have far more vitamins than artificially ripen(you know not artificially but injected with chemicals to help them ripe) ones that I can buy in a supermarket. Shame that organic stuff is so expensive! Anyway I already spent quite a sum of money on my vegetable garden and green house, so I am really counting on them! Hehe!

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Uwilebiam zyc zdrowo, jesc swierze, pelne witamin jedzenie,,, generalnie dbac o siebie. Wierze, ze zdrowie jest zdecydowanie czyms w co warto jest zainwestowac na przyszlosc...na moje zdrowe samopoczucie...i moich dzieci (moze kiedys). Co najbardziej denerwuje mnie ostatnimi czasy to to, wybor warzyw i owocow jaki mam w hipermarkecie! Wszystko jest albo nieswieze, albo niedojrzale (przynajmniej tu w anglii!!). Zreszta dlatego postnowilam, ze bedzie warto samemu wychodowac pare warzyw i troche owocow. Warzywa i owoce chodowane ekologicznie maja o wiele wiecej witamin i mineralow niz te ktore byly sztucznie dojrzewane (tzn. nie tyle sztucznie co pompowane chemikaliami, ktore umozliwiaja dojrzewanie po zbiorach). Szkoda tylko, ze zywnosc produkowana ekologicznie (organic) jest taka droga. W kazdym badz razie, ja juz wykosztowalam sie troche na moje ogrodki i na szklarnie, wiec trzymam za nie kciuki, hehe.

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But it's not all about only taking care of my body on the inside, the outside is important too! Shower gels, shampoos, body butters, hair sprays etc. they all contain man made horrible chemicals that damage our skin! I always loved body lotions, hand creams but was very disappointed when I found out that mineral oil or Parafinnum liquidum (which is in ingredient list of most moisturizers) coats my skin make it appear soft and healthy, while drying out the natural oils that moisturize my skin. In effect I'd have to use it more and more often as my skin loses abilities to moisturize itself...if that makes sense. Other most common chemicals: Parabens (methylparaben, ethylparaben...and anything with "paraben" ending...cause skin irritation, allergies and may disrupt our hormones. Parfum-linked to asthma, mood changes, depression, memory lapses. Sodium lauryl sulphate (found in almost every shampoo) can promote formation of cancer-causing substances.

and many more. Crazy!
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Ale nie chodzi tylko o dbanie o siebie wewnatrz ale rowniez z zewnatrz. Zele pod prysznic, szampony, kremy do ciala, lakiery do wlosow...itd..wszystko to zawiera chemikalia, ktore niszcza skóre. Ja zawsze uwielbialam, balsamy do ciala i kremy do rak, dlatego bardzo sie zawiodlam kiedy dowiedzialam sie, ze Mineral Oil, lub Parafinnum Liquidum (ktore sa skladnikami w wiekszosci balsamow i kremow) pokrywaja skóre, zeby wydawala sie nawilzona i gladka ale niszcza naturalne oleje nawilzajace, ktore znajduja sie w skorze (czyli jakby wysuszaja skore). Efekt jest taki, ze regularnie musialabym uzywac kremow i balsamow, zeby poprawic wyglad skory. Inne bardziej znane chemikalia: Parabens (methylparaben, ethylparaben...wszystko co konczy sie na "paraben" podraznia skore, powoduje rozne alergie oraz moze doprowadzic do zaburzen hormonalnych. Parfum: powiazania z astma, zaburzeniami lub zmiennoscia nastrojów, depresja, zaburzeniami lub zanikami pamieci. Sodiu Lauryl Sulphate (w niemal kazdym szamponie do wlosow) moze doprowadzic do produkcji substancii powodujacej raka.
oraz wiele innych.

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It is absolutely shocking to me that few years ago I didn't have a slightest idea how many chemicals was daily put into my body.

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Straszne jest to, ze przed paroma laty nie zdawalam sobie sprawy z tego na ile chemikali dziennie poddawalam swoje cialo.
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But I found series of Naked products that offer 97% natural ingredients in their products! I just love to use that stuff. It's a UK supplier and they sell their products online or via Boots. I had a nice surprise when I made my first online order ( I usually buy their products in Boots) when I opened my package everything was so nicely wrapped. It's great when people put a little effort into what they sell to you, don't you think?!

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Ale znalazlam ta serie kosmetykow, Naked, ktore sa produkowane w 97% z naturalnych skladnikow! Uwielbiam ich produkty. Niestety jest to tylko brytyjska firma, (poki co:)), ale niedawno zlozylam zamowienie do ich internetowego sklepu (bo zazwyczaj kupuje ich produkty w sklepie kosmetycznym). Po otworzeniu przesylki czekala na mnie mila niesodzianka, bo wszytskie produkty byly piekniutko osobno zapakowane! Fajnie kiedy ludzie wkladaja troche starannosci w to co Ci sprzedaja, no nie?!

time goes fast!

As you probably experience, time just goes past so quickly!!!
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It seems that I only got married... and tomorrow we will celebrate our 3rd Wedding Anniversary!!!

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This is incredible, it seems like we known each other for ever, but still few months back I had to count several times, what year we are in and when we go married to figure out that actually it has been three most amazing years!

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We were planning to go camping for few days, since the weather here in UK has been great for the past month, but it turns out it will pretty much rain for the next week and it will be cold, so there is just not much point. (I can see more cinema trips comming up...maybe I should start writting reviews..hehe). Crazy weather. I must admit I started to like English hot weather in May, that's the only thing that UK is missing! Nice'y nice hottness...

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Just not to leave the post without pictures this was one of my wedding bouquets (we had a wedding in Poland and England= two wedding bouquets; this one was from our Polish wedding).

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cinema

I really enjoy going to cinema I find it so relaxing and when I'm stressed or have a lot on it really helps me to take my mind of everything for at least those couple of hours. I was aware that I go to cinema very often, (at leats much more often than I used to 4 years ago) so this year I thought I would count how many times I'd go in 12 months (hence the cinema trips- thingy on the side bar). We are half way throught the year so in the first six months I went to cinema 20 times... Hmmmm... I find that the information doesn't really do much for me but my curiosity is potentailly lightly satified plus I feel that if I happen to come across a survey about entertainment or someone asks me about it I would be able to give pretty procise number...

Anyway...

I thought I may share something here. Everytime we (me and my Husband) go to cinema we always take chupa chups with us! We don't tend to eat them any other time...It's not too crazy, right, but when I just thought about it, we' ve been having a chupa chups everytime we went to cinema for the past year...and recently we kind of went up to two chupa chups each cineam trip (you know one is just not enough anymore)...so I guess we ate quite a lot of chupa chups in just one year, hehe. We ocasionally contemplate about buying them in bulk of a 1000 (you can get them on a stand-haha), but I think that would be going much over the top.

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Bardzo lubie chodzic do kina, jest to dla mnie dobra forma relaksu a szczególnie gdy jestem zestresowana, badz mam wiele rzeczy na glowie, kino pozwala mi sie od wszystkiego oderwac, choc na te dwie godziny. Zdawalam sobie sprawe z tego, ze czesto chodze do kina (a przynajmniej czesciej niz przed czteroma-laty), wiec w tym roku postanowilam, ze policze ile razy chodze do kina w ciagu 12 miesiecy (stad aplikacja "my cinema trips" po prawej stronie). No wiec minelo po roku i w tym czasie bylam w kinie 20 razy... Hmmmm ta informacja nic szczegolnego mi nie daje, ale potencjalnie troszeczke zaspokaja moja ciekawosc. No i oczywisie gdyby mi sie zdarzylo wypelnic kwestionariusz na temat rozrywki, badz gdyby ktos sie mnie zapytal na ten temat to bylabym w stanie im podac dokladna liczbe...

W kazdym badz razie...

Pomyslalam, ze sie tu czyms podziele. Za kazdym razem kiedy idziemy (ja i moj Maz) do kina to zjadamy po chupa chups'ie. Tzn. na codzien ich jakos nie jemy, tylko w kinie... Nie ma w tym bynajmniej nic zwariowanego, ale jak tak sobie pomyslalam, ze od roku podczas kazdego filmu w kinie jemy chupa chupsa (a ostatnio nawet dwa..bo jeden juz nie wystarcza :P). To raczej zjadamy duzo chupa chupsow w ciagu jednego roku, hehehe. Czasami rozkminiamy zakup hurtowy, tylko, ze wtedy musilibysmy kupic 1000 chupa chupsow...nio choc dostalibysmy na nie stojak...hehehe...ale to bylaby juz raczej przesada.

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Enjoy your weekend!!!

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Milego weekendu!!!

To niesamowite jak szybko wszystko rosnie...

To ta sama cukinia- dwa tygodnie pozniej

Ostatnie dni spedzilam na "nadrabianiu" roznych prac w ogrodzie

co sprawilo, ze troche zaniedbalam blogoland

ale za to saltki sa smaczne

-Ohhhh my laptop is being incredibly slow and I appologise for a very brief post-

I am back!!!

I finally finished all assignments, projects, dissertation and exams and am study free!!!

Nareszcie oddalam wszystkie zaliczenia, projekty, prace i zakonczylam egzaminy, koniec nauki!!!
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I've been so busy ever since!!!

I od tego czasu jestem zagoniona!!!

I had some weeding to do in my vegetable beds...

Musialam powyrywac chwasty z jarzynowych ogrodków...
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looking forward to...

From the very begining, this year has been very busy for me... dissertation, a lot of my voluntary work, exams, some work on a garden...huh...the hardest thing is to persevere with it all... My health is a little bit funny and I think not getting enought rest over a long period of time...might be the reason. How I'd love to sit down and crochet something or work on my sewing "skills" (;P)...so many ideas..but no time... I am trying very hard to stop myself from any potential "time involvement"that would intefere with my studies... So I started this project...(amongst a few)... I thought it will be nice to have something to look forward to...when I am done with revision and stress!!

nice'y nice!!!

Last week I was one of the people who won a giveaway prize from Emma, *bagladee*. I was just so excited!!!

A little parcel arrived yesterday!!! Oh you can't imagine how exciting... I love surprises...and a surprise from a creative person... must be great!
...and just look at this!!!!!





It is such a PRETTY brooch!!!! I love it!!! It looks great on my handbags...eghm.. quite a few of them I don't know if I will be able to de-attach myself from it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH EMMA!!!

Happy Earth Day!!!