Postcards connecting the world

Do you like postcards? I do, and whenever I'm on holiday I love to send some to friends back home. I love receiving and sending postcards, and my friend Jenny inrtroduced me to a site called Postcrossing. She wrote about it here. The idea behind this site is to send and receive postcards to/from random persons from all over the world. These persons are registered users from Postcrossing, so it is guarenteed that you get postcards. I decided to join the fun, and since I'm new to this site I have to send out a card first, and the first person I'll send a card to is from The Netherlands. When I receive my first random card, I'll show you a picture XD

Lately, I also love to watch make-up tutorials on youtube, they are really useful and I leart a lot. Love the videos from Michelle Phan a lot, she is a very famous make-up artist! Hope I can improve by watching loads of those videos. I'm also watching a lot of "how to apply false eyelashes" videos as a preperation for my review XD

Here is one of Michelle's videos :-)

Today was the hottest day of this summer until now, we had 35 degrees ;__; My god it is still 30 degrees and we have almost midnight. But there's a storm alert for tonight *__* 

If everything works out I'll see a former fellow student again this Thursday! Haven't seen her for ages, it will be nice to meet and catch up! She also has a blog, you can find it here. And I'll have a job interview on Friday, looking forward to that! Wish me luck!

Okay,I'll try to post again soon. See you!

New Header :-)

Tadahhhh, here is my new header! How do you like it? I was so sick of the old one so I decided to make a new one. My brother helped me lot (actually he did all the work and I was just saying I want it like this and that, lol) cause I can't handle photoshop and such. The Tokyo foto was stolen from here, and the parfait is a picture from Tom (hope it was okay to use it) and the rest of the pictures I took myself in Tokyo.

Well have some other random pictures form the last couple of days! 

 I tried that use/old style on my camera, which I just discovered some days ago. Didn't know m cam could do something like that! I used these Oreo cookies for my New York Cheesecake!

 New cosmetic gets: two new nail polish in mint green and sparkling beige and gel eyeliner plus brush. It was my first time trying gel eyliner and I failed so heavily, lol. Looked like a panda on my first try, haha! Guess I have to practise more!

  My new crochet flower, this time with colour mix! Sorry for the bad quality!

My friend S. is having her first giveaway, you can win lovely crochet items! Just follow her on facebook and on her blog, and you will have the chance to win! Se is much better than me in crochet and stuff, hope se can teach to me to some new techniques!

Tomorrow I'll go eat cupcakes with my friend K. looking so much forward to that. The weekend is also quite planned, I'm gonna check out a new shopping mall in the next town and Sunday I maybe go to the fleemarket where my sis sells some of my stuff. What are you guys up to?

A weekend filled with many good things

Hello friends, hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend? Mine started well, I received a lovely package from my friend Sara Mari which was filled with so many cool goodies! Thank you so much! As soon as you are back from Tokyo, I'll surprise you as well XD 

Saturday I had one of my relaxing days, you know those days where you stay in your pajama, drink hot tea, wear no make-up and watching DVD covered in your favourite blanket :-) It was lovely, and even though I'm free most of the time at the moment I really needed something like that.

 Now I have Lip Smackers for the rest of my life :-)

 Went shopping the other day with my girls K. and L. I really liked the flower dress, but it was too huge for me :__; I ended up buying the striped over sized pullover ;)

 My new DVD's. I'm collecting old nostalgic Anime! Who remembers this? XDD

 My sponsored eye lashes arrived! Hope I can try them and write the review soon. Need to get some glue first, there wasn't any inside the box!

 I started to crochet again! I taught myself how to crochet this flower, and now I wanna make a scarf or kind of blanket with that! I failed like 100 times before coming to this result, haha! But once you got it, it's so easy!

 Sunday I visited my friend S. in Venlo, The Netherlands. It's just an one hour train ride from where I live. This is her cute dog! He was lovely!

 He could even do tricks!! What a smart dog!

I still don't know what to do this week, what are you guys up to? See you next post! <3

New Gets :3

Hey friends, how are you today? I'm fine! I'm still waiting for my sponsored product to arrive, looking forward to do my very first beauty review! The last days I've already practised for that, haha!

But until that I wanna show you my newest gets! My elder sis returned from her business trip in Croatia a few days ago and brought back some nice goodies! <3

 Sweets from Croatia. I really love to try sweets from different countries!

 Pink scarf, I'm gonna wear it the next days :-)

 A huge box full of Lip Smackers! As many of you know I'm a GREAT fan of Lip Smacker!

 The box content: 3 regular Lip Smacker, two lipgloss and a huge special Lip Smacker

See the difference? The bigger one is as huge as a glue stick!!

This is no get but my laptop case I've been crocheting over the last weeks! How do you like it? Well, the buttons are a bit crooked,but it was my first try XDD

Have a nice rest of the week! I try to blog again as soon as possible!

Blogger Meet-Up with Jenny

Today I got to meet up with another fabulous blogger lady from Germany, Jenny!! She lives just about an hour away from Düsseldorf, and she was in town today so we decided to meet-up! I picked her up at the bookstore in the city centre and we just walked around a bit in the Altstadt, Jenny wanted to buy some postcards there.

After that we went to my favourite cafe "Sugarbird Cupcakes" to have delicious drinks and cupcakes and a long lovely chat. She showed me her holiday pictures from Greece, and I my purikura on my phone, lol. At half past six I brought her back to the central station so that she could catch her train home. Well, have a look at today's fotos. (The pics are all made with my phone camera, so sorry for the low quality!)

 Iced Latte Macchiato and Choclate Cupcake 

 Jenny and me XD

 Jenny's lovely gifts: a beautiful mugcup and chocolate!

 

 My outfit of the day! (See my new lovely mirror :-)

Jacket: Clef de Sol (Tokyo)

White-Dot Shirt: Cox Streetwear (from Shikoku)

Flower-Cardigan: Honey's (Ikebukuro)

Black Shorts: a gift from my Mum's last Vietnam trip

Leggins: H&M

Shoes: from Harajuku

LOL, the cup looks soooooo huge here XDDDD

Have a nice weekend!

XOXO Thanh Thao

New goodies

Time for another post! How are you doing? I'm fine, sometimes bored but that's okay. I have a few things I can look forward to the next couple of days! 

First, my sponsorship is almost confirmed! I will write a review about... false eyelashes, lol. I've never worn any and I'll surely fail but I take this opportunity as a challenge. Well, I'll give my best!

Second: I'm gonna meet a fellow blogger for the first time this weekend! I already prepared some little presents, hope she'll like them! Oh, I'm always so excited whenever I get to meet new people. Let's hope I can post about our meet-up soon. 

Third: Have a look at my new baby XDDD I just got mail from my sis that she bought the thing I wanted for such a long time, but just didn't have the money to buy. 

 Now I feel like a proud electronic dicitionary mum, lol. I actually wanted to have the 2010 modell, but it seems it was sold out, so that I had to take the latest one (and pay more of course)

Of course the case needed to be pink :-) 

I'm so sure studying Japanese will be even more fun now! I can't wait for my sis' return so that I may use it. Maybe I'll make a video about my new toy, it might be interesting for those who are studying Japanese as well. I think I can give some good advice now having battled with that language for more than 6 years now, hahaha.

Yesterday I relaxed with self-made Royal Milk Tea (in my Kireizuki-kun cup) and Oreo chocolate cookies. Doesn't it seem like Korilakkuma is wearing huge sunglasses, lol

Having chatted with my friend B. this morning, there's one thing which doesn't get out of  my mind for almost the whole day now. It's nothing serious, though, just a stupid dream I'm brooding over and over. Anyway, I wish you a nice relaxing rest of the week.

XOXO Thanh Thao

I long for a real Cinnmonroll! We had such yummy ones in the Tully's Cafe I worked for :)

My favourite blogs (long post!!!)

Ever since I started blogging I've wanted to post about my favourite blogs, to introduce them to you if you don't know about them already. Some of my fav blogs are very well-known and popular with hundreds, if not thousands of followers, and some are unknown, but nevertheless fine and worth to read :-)

Honestly, when I started blogging back in Nov. 2009 I did it because I was inspired by blogs  I read and admired. And at that time I didn't even dare to imagine that blogging would give me so many cool opportunities, new great friends and a possible sponsorship (I'll keep you updated). It's so awesome, when I think back that I started with 3 followers and posts which were so boring and now I have unbelievable 401 followers. I don't know what I did to get that many, but  I'm thankful for every new reader I get.

2010 and this year I was so lucky to meet some of my fav bloggers in real life, and each time it was an inspiration. I felt like I met some VIP's. I just didn't asked for an autograph, lol. There are still a lot of bloggers I'd truly love to meet, but until then there wasn't just the chance to. I hope I can meet more in the near future.

Well, now to the blogs I really love and adore! They are in no particular order, and I'd love to mention every blog I read, but that would take a long time, so please don't be upset XD I also hope I found the right words to describe you and your blogs.

Jenny's Blog/ Sushi Cat Net (http://sushi-cat.net/) 

 

This was one of the first blogs I came in touch and fell in love with. The mastermind behind this genuine, lovely and fondly created blog is the charming lady Jenny. I Iove everything about this blog, the layout, the fotos,  the fashion and beauty related posts, her writing style. She is practically sharing her life with the readers.  Jenny's Blog is so popular, and if you read it you'll understand why. So if you don't know about her, please go and check out her blog! You'll be enchanted by this likable girl XD

How about doing some sushi crochet, Jenny? :) I just had to think of you when I saw this picture!

Moments Like Diamonds by Sara Mari (http://chouzuru.blogspot.com/) 

Is there anybody who hasn't heard of Sara Mari? XD In my opinion she is one of the most popular and successful bloggers on blogspot, over 1500 followers can't lie :) Yeah, for me, there's a special connection with Sara Mari. Having become friends with her at Poupee Girl a long time ago we were one of each other's first followers at Blogger ;) I met her in person in December 2010 in Tokyo, and it was such an awesome funny day. She is lovely and everybody else who has met her will confirm that. She travels to Tokyo very often, and that makes her blog so interesting as she does a lot of live-blogging Tokyo-USA. Also, her blog includes a bunch of high-class fotos of Japan, fashion and food. Eyecandy! Her personal history is really amazing, and I so recommend you to follow the adventures of a young American girl who brings a bit of Tokyo to all of her readers.

 Sara Mari and me in Shibuya January, 5 2011

 The obligatory Purikura (Dec, 30 2010)

I hope to see you soon again!

Waiting for Wisdom by RicAdeMus aka Master Bug Killer (http://ricademus.blogspot.com/) 

Rick is one of the few male bloggers I know, surprisingly most of the bloggers are female! XD When you see his blog for the first time you'll surely ask yourself why is it interesting? There are hardly pictures, too much text, it has a standard layout (dear Rick, please forgive me, this is no criticism, you know I love your blog to bits as it is now ;) But after some reading you'll realize that all of his posts are taken from his life, real experiences, true stories. Some with a moral at the end, stories from which you can learn. He is good in giving some fatherly advice. His sense of humour seems to be similar to mine, since he always manages to bring up a smile on my face in his posts, comments or e-mails. Thank you for being with me and my blog from the beginning on. Follow his blog, it's hard to find such good guys nowadays! But be aware that he's a happily taken married father to two children, so don't try anything suspicious, lol.

 I'm dreaming of the day when we can share a piece of New York Cheese Cake, lol.

Finding Tokyo by Hana (http://www.hanalovely.com/) 

Here is another well-known and very popular blog! Hana is a very fashionable young woman with a great insight about Japan, about life and work in Tokyo. Her blog is one of the most professional I've ever seen with high-class posts accompanied by great fotos and pictures about japanese fashion, life in Tokyo or Blogging in general. This high quality is also reflected in her writing style which is sophisticated but still readable, since a lot of her own opinion is expressed in her posts. I think I've once commented in one of her posts that "I'm really envious of her exciting life" and wished I had her life. I met her in Nov 2010 in Ikebukuro, my fav spot in Tokyo and place I lived. I highly recommend you to follow!

 

 Hope to see you soon again whether in Tokyo or in the States XD

Sweet Milk Coffee by Shou-chan (http://suitomirukukoohii.blogspot.com/)

Again a fabulous blog by a fabulous young Lady! The writer Shou-chan is a cute and fashionable girl, just having finished her final exams at highschool. Soon she will move to Düsseldorf, to begin her studies at university. Then I hopefully can see her more often, since she has become a great and important friend to me. Her blog consists of lovely posts concerning all possible topics, from fashion to cooking recipes, from beauty advice and make-up reviews to music videos, from mag scans to everyday life rants. It is one of the most personal blogs I know with a wonderful variety of posts which makes reading and following so interesting. Let's join lovely Shou-chan on every new step in her steadily more exciting becoming life.

 

An old picture from our last meet-up in October 2010 before I left for WH in Tokyo

And a new one from April, 21 2011 (mobile pic)

 

Ephemeral by Design (former Exotic Japan Blog) by Tom and Sakie Gantz (http://www.ephemeralbydesignblog.com/)

Meet Tom and Sakie Gantz, a happily married American-Japanese international couple. Honestly, those two are so cute and lovely together and have such an interesting life one can really become envious XD They have been married for more than 20 years and have lived in so many different countries because of Tom's work. That's a life many people are dreaming of and I hope I am somewhere near having this life in 20 years, haha. Currently working and residing in sunny Singapore I was so lucky and thankful I could meet them while they were still living in Yokohama. The blog is lead by Tom who has a faible for taking fotos of weird or unusual things and partially edited with different i-phone applicatons XD I'm so sure you'll like his blog as well once you start following him :) If you know him in person even better. (And I just realized I don't have a picture of the three of us...please upload some, Tom so that I can steal them XD)

 Instead have a picture of me with one of those lovely dove shaped cookies which were a gift from Sakie :-) I really hope to see both of you again somewhere on this planet XD

Wow, now I spent over two hours making this post hope you have fun reading and discovering your future favourite blogs!

What to do on National Holiday??

It's national holiday in Germany, and since most of my friends are busy today I can stay home posting for you XD The weather's been lovely the last days whereas my sis is inmidst the rainy season in Tokyo, lol.

As always, I'll post in pictures rather than bore you with long texts ^__^

 Remember my cress from the last post? They have grown a lot lately! Soon we can eat them XD I got four new platelets of seed which I will plant today:-) So more plant pictures coming soon.

I went shopping with Lara the other day, I really needed some new flats, as I left my other pair back in Tokyo... I was lucky to find my shoe size here in Germany as I have very small feet (I wear size 35-36) compared to the girls here. I usually have to buy my stuff in the children's section, lol.

 Cookies and Raffaello Ice-Cream I had with Charlotte. She is a regular customer at that ice-cream parlor, so the guy working there was giving us a cool discount :-) Also the portions were HUGE XD Looks like regular size in the picture but they were really huge :-)

 Some presents from my elder sis: new red nail polish, Artdeco Mascara and Ponytail Styler (though my ponytails is really short, haha). I got that Cherry Cola Lip Smacker by myself. Some of you may know I'm a great Lip Smacker fan, and I found a store selling some! *happy*

 Loot from The Body Shop. Charlotte gave me a 20 Euro voucher so I could get this awesome stuff (Strawberry Shower Gel and Moringa Body Scrub only, the rest were freebies), as a belated birthday present! Usually I'm with Lush, but Body Shop is also lovely <3 (Too bad both are quite expensive)

 Another cool present from Charlotte: a handdrewn picture of our beloved "Vermouth", a character from the series "Meitantei Conan" we used to watch so much in Tokyo. She will get a special place on my wall.

I cleaned up my room today and realized there are so many changes within the room. I got some new things like my huge frame mirror, a rocking chair, decorations... My brother gave me his Blu-Ray player and that's very dangerous, since I am a couchpotatoe, lol. It's very tempting to watch movies all day long, and I swear he has a whole video rental at home :p Have a nice day and till next time.