Sunday, December 30, 2012

Review on 2012 and my New Year's resolutions

Hello everyone,
today I am trying to give you a little review on my year 2012 and I'm gonna tell you my resolutions for 2013.

As every year, the time went by way too quickly and now that I think about it, there were many many "special" things happening this year - both, in a bad and a good way.
To sum it up, here's a list of my 2012 events:
- my first cover (on the russian GLANZ magazine & pixx magazine)
- I graduated from highschool

- I became an adult ;-P
- I had the 2nd surgery of my life (wisdom teeth)
- little Tipsy (my cat) became a new family member
- I finally went on a cruise ship with my best friend
- I did my first tattoo
- the first year in ages that we didn't go on our annual family vacation

- I went to New York City and to Paris for the first time of my life
- I became a vegetarian
- and last but not least my dream job of modelling started and is still starting to become true

I hope I didn't forget any major events. So now it's time for my New Year's resolutions. Of course I'll keep some of them a secret to myself but those are the most important for the moment:

- maintain all important relations with my real friends and family
- bake and cook some recipes from my "to-do-recipes"-list according to my veggie lifestyle
- do a lot of sports (especially try to do sports while travelling) in order to maintain a good health and to stabilize my immune system since I was sick too many times in 2012
- keep up singing :)

- improve my language skills, especially French
- and most important: try to FULLFIL my DREAM of being a SUCCESSFUL MODEL

With these resolutions and my review on a very exciting and varied year 2012 I want to wish you a very happy New Year!

Beware of the new rock chick of 2013 haha ;)

Xoxo
 

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Festival days = EATING

Hi everybody, how are you doing?
I'm sure you had some lovely holiday celebrations with your families and a bunch of good food. Me for example, I had some traditional German food like "Knödel" and "Spätzle".

Today I was in the city cause I died my hair again (picture to follow) - finally dark enough yay. :)
After the hairdresser I met my mum to do a little shopping after having a healthy lunch. The guy at the restaurant gave me the idea to this post, cause he asked us if we want any sweets as dessert with our Chai Latte but we refused because of all the huge Christmas eating and christmas cookies we had the last days. His reply was "Well, you have to enjoy this. And anyway, spring is far away." The first thing that came to my mind was: "Not for me, I always have to be in shape."
Also many people ask me if it's hard to keep the weight and they ask for some advice how to do so. 

That's why I thought, I'd give you some tips how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. If not now, then when?

As many of you know, I LOVE baking and I also like cooking. So for me it is impossible to abstain from something that I like and just yesterday I read an article that you shouldn't abstain completely from the food you love, e.g. bread or chocolate because eventually you would eat more of other things e.g. cheese, so you would end up with the same amount of total calories.
That's the good news. ;) If you want to lose some "Christmas kilos" you don't have to abstain from the food you love. The trick is to eat the correct amount.
I suggest to eat at least 3 amounts (1 = 1 hand full) of veggies and 2 amounts of fruits a day. If you are really disciplined you can try a trick in cooking. Why don't you twist the amount of the main dish with the sides? Try to consider the veggies as the main dish and the meat/fish/etc. as the sides. Also it is very important to drink enough! I drink around 2 litres each day and for me it's easy because I drink a lot of tea. Try to avoid sugary drinks though (you can save a lot of calories here).
Furthermore you shouldn't forget to get enough protein, e.g. from yoghurt, eggs or fish.
And it's true that you eat more during a day when you haven't had breakfast. Usually I tend to eat the most in the evening of a day, which is WRONG (I admit it). It's better to eat most in the morning/midday to maintain your energy for the day and then just eat a salat or soup in the evening, so your body can digest everything during the night.

Of course your diet will not work, if you are lazy and don't do sports. I know the weather is shitty at the moment, but why don't you go to the gym?
Trust me, you will feel better after and you can allow yourself to eat another christmas cookie after. ;)




I hope I could help you a little bit if you want to live a healthy lifestyle. However, as you know, I am NOT on a diet. To me, this is a lifestyle. I love to live healthy but of course I eat some sweets too because I love baking and if you are a steady follower of my blog you know that I'm rather struggling to keep my weight instead of losing it. So please don't take this post wrong. 

I just wanted to share my way of a healthy, veggie living haha.



Xoxo

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Merry Christmas!!

Guten Abend and hello from rainy Germany!

How have you been guys? I hope you are all set for Christmas and you have all gifts together? I'm basically ready, just have to wrap some presents but I'm so looking forward to Christmas. :)


Since I arrived on Thursday I already met one of my best friends to see the Christmas market, I went to my doctor, I played tennis, I baked something as a present and tonight I'm up to meet another friend.

I really enjoy the free time, especially because I am not sick anymore!

So for me Christmas already starts tomorrow. I'll go to the gym first and then we'll have lunch with my great grandmother and my grand-aunt. 

On the 24th I will celebrate with my parents, sister, grandma and my uncle's family. Furthermore on the 25th and 26th I will visit my grandpa in bavaria to celebrate with him and my other aunt's family. As you can see, my family is pretty big and we'll have a busy Christmas haha.


So I wish you all the best for these lovely days :) 

Xoxo Minnie Mouse ;)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Vacation is coming :)

Hey everybody :)
How are you doing? After approx 3 weeks I can finally say I am NOT SICK anymore!! Perfect timing for vacation haha.
So now it's time for me to get my suitcase packed again because I'm leaving tomorrow. Heading home! I am sooo lazy but I have to get it packed cause tomorrow I'll have another shooting before I'm going home.

My feelings are a little bit mixed because on one hand I am so happy to get back to my family, cat and friends, especially to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve. But on the other hand I'm really sad to leave Paris.
It really has become my second home, I love my agency and of course I don't want to leave my boyfriend because we will not see each other for a couple of weeks. :-(

However I'm positive because I will be back soon. :-) I don't quite know yet when, because there are many options for me going on for January and we have to wait for confirmations until I know where I'll be heading first.

As always, I will keep you posted! 



So I have to get my bags packed and will be back blogging from Germany (HOME)! :-)
And I promised you some pictures, so here is one from a shoot in London and one from Paris for you guys.

Xoxo



Saturday, December 15, 2012

Weekend? Not for me :-P

Bonsoir de Paris :)
Well, I returned from Berlin this morning and I had a really great shooting yesterday. It was for the German INTERVIEW magazine, for the january issue.
It's gonna be a great story and the hard work was definitely worth it, so better watch out for the results. :-)
I'm really glad to be back in Paris though. Wanna know why?

Because of the WEATHER! It was an amazing shooting with a german team finally, it made me really feel home, but the weather was NOT good at all. Snow, rain, minus degrees --> WINTER! Not really my favourite season haha.
So here in Paris we had blue sky and 10°C today.
Look:





So yeah today I was working,too. We did the cover of the italian magazine "Io Donna" with many girls. It looked really cool and I had a nice day.
AAAAAND surprise: Tomorrow I'll be working,too. It's just a test shoot but especially for hair and jewellery so I don't know yet if it will be used for something additionally.

So I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and I'm curious if I'll be free on Monday haha.

Keep it up, lots of love & xoxo

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Busy week

Hey everyone, it's me again ;)

I just wanted to let you know that my week is getting way busier than I first expected haha.
As you know I have 2 long days behind me, shooting with Antoine de Laroche yesterday and for VESTAL Mag today.
Of course it was hard work but the results are definitely worth it and every time I see some results I realize that this is my dream and it is just starting to come true. It is incredible how many different styles you can do. Honestly, I've already had many many photo shoots in my life so far but EVERY single shoot is different. That's what I love.
And so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the week because today I got to know - SURPRISE - that I have a job in BERLIN on Friday.
So I'll fly tomorrow night and return Saturday really really early in the morning.
I'm really excited and even though I'm freaking tired, I LOVE my job and my fantastic agencies! THANKS to all of them!! <3



                    backstage today @futuristic shoot


I will keep you posted at the weekend, when all this exciting rush is over. 

Xoxo


Monday, December 10, 2012

New week - new start

Hello everyone,
hope you're doing good. I'm slowly recovering. It's still not completely over but I'm getting there haha.
So today I was doing castings again and tomorrow I'll have a beauty shooting with probably some crazy hair. I'm curious haha.
On Wednesday I'm gonna do an editorial for a spanish magazine called VESTAL, so I'll be quite busy the next few days.
I hope my body will make it but you know I'm a fighter so don't worry. :-)
Here are some new Polaroids for you guys.

Have a nice week,
xoxo



Thursday, December 6, 2012

ANGINA!!!

Hello you,
I hope you are doing better than me! It's really not hard to feel better than me right now.
As you know I went to the doctor on Monday and I already expected that I have angina/tonsillitis. I was kind of lucky that it affected only one side of my throat so I could at least speak and eat even though it was really painful to swallow at the beginning. However, the doctor gave me antibiotics and at least my throat slowly gets better. The main problem is that I feel a huge secondary effect caused by the antibiotics, so my stomach is sick, I'm kind of stuck to the bed and to the bathroom (I'll save you the details!!).
It really sucks and I hate being sick. I cannot eat properly and I feel pretty weak. My only hope is that it will really get better on Saturday because I'm gonna take the last antibiotic pill tomorrow night.

So I'm sorry that I don't have any news of my exciting model life right now, cause I'm really forced to stay at home!

Hope you're better and fingers crossed for my recovery so I'll have more interesting stories to tell next time. ;)


Keep it up, xoxo

Sunday, December 2, 2012

A lot going on

Good morning,
how are you all doing? I'm actually sick and my throat is really really thick so I guess it's gonna be a funny experience to see a french doctor tomorrow. :-P

As you know I was quite busy working on my book the last days and my agency and I are just waiting for the pictures now. :-)

So I am free the whole weekend and yesterday my mum used this opportunity to visit me here in Paris. We had a lovely day together, doing a little bit of shopping and enjoying Paris together. I'm glad I know at least some parts of the city already so I could at least show her some nice places.

The time passed way too quickly and I'm already looking forward to Christmas to see all my family and to be reunited with everyone. :)

So for the moment I hope I'll get better soon to be fit for work again!


Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'll keep you posted and here are some weekend impressions for you! Xoxo

                         la place de la concorde
                            my mum and me :)
                                  chanel store