Life as we know it
Hy everyone,
today I’m sharing with you something very different… my passion for fashion…or another words says…couple of my favourite outfits lately 😜
Which one describes you better?
Thanks for visiting my page 💖
Have a great one!
xoxo
Love,
ELL
Hi guys, I hope all of you are doing well 😊
Today I would like to share some thoughts with you regarding my personal observation during the past couple months. Yes, I’m going to write about this unfair difference between internet world and reality. A lot of the famous people I follow on Instagram lately shared their own opinion about how this “perfect world” actually threatens our real one. And it’s true…sad, but true, because we are all comparing our lives with the other ones…even when we deny that. For example I love to take pictures, when me and my husband are on a vacation somewhere I’m always begging him to make me some nice shots…he’s always never happy about that fact and we always have a little kind of a fight about…pictures.
I’m honestly saying that I don’t use any photoshop or any other modelling apps of a kind to touch my pictures. I only use the Instagram filters and that’s all…, but when I saw friend of mine to moderate her picture before adding it on her page, I was like “why?!” . Do we need to look unreal in the virtual world or this is something that we kind of always wanted to look like that and now with all those programs we could add some touch ups on our virtual life.
Sometimes I feel like all the other pictures on Instagram for example are much better than mine, rather that I’m trying really hard to get nice pics…, but than I just say to myself…”do I need this?!” .
This is a condition actually that threatens a lot our generation…to compare, to sneak into the others “life” and calm ourselves that we also have this “perfect” life. But this lifestyle isn’t perfect at all…to be a professional model or an influencer, you should always be “perfect” and this actually is very stressful and leads to a lot of mental stress even to some psychological problems.
Guys, live your life and enjoy your days! Don’t try to be perfect for this picture, for this internet post…for anything…our generation needs more randomness and more realness.
After all, what is more “perfect”, than reality?!
Thank you guys for reading my thoughts ❤️
Have a great day to all of you!
xoxo
Love,
ELL
Hi guys,
Hope all of you are doing well. For the past couple months a lot has been happening and in the meantime everything is still the same ( in a good way of course)
Lately I’m trying to focus on my mental health and stability by practicing more yoga and I feel wonderful, fully positive and energetic after a session. That’s why I decided to talk to you guys today and focus on the inside stability and how important is that for our health and life in general.
Sometimes you get passionate about kind of a sport and than it feels harder to stay on track and be able to make 2-3-5 workouts for a week…, but here is the moment where you should push your self a little, because after couple months it will come naturally to keep your own rhythm…and the same is happening with all other choices me make… sometimes we are the one who are not giving them a chance to improve our lives.
It doesn’t need to be a strict plan that we need to follow…sometimes we need to let ourselves to be spontaneous, to learn to listen our inside voice.
It’s not about the perfect picture, or outfit or captured moment…sometimes it’s worth it just to enjoy your own time/day/ moment…without thinking about what’s next on my list… just truly get your self in those moment and live it…💖
Thank you guys, really…thank you for being with me from the very beginning of this blog journey 💖
Have a wonderful weekend!
xoxo
Yours,
ELL
Hello guys,
How are you in this cold weather. Hope all of you are healthy and happy!
Today I would like to tell you more about how my year started. I decided that 2021 will be different for us, because of the all changes we made last complicate year.
So first I decided to turn into myself and start a really healthy life. I decided to turn to a nutritionist for a complete and balanced meal plan and now I’m finishing my first week of this change.
I decided to stay away from all my negative thoughts and feelings about our new apartment and stop chopping this topic with my husband, so after all whatever happens with us in the future, at least I will be sure for myself that I did everything that I could.
I’m pretty sure that this year will be challenging too, even more than the last one, but this is something good. Challenges come to our life’s to change it in a good way, I strongly believe in this! Even in the worst scenario ( for example friend of mine just lost her kid due to a cancer… I really don’t know what to say to her now…it’s hard…).
All I want to say is that yes, life is hard… I experience a lot of shakings in my mood, doubts in my own abilities, but if you let all those feelings to take advantage of you the situation would become even worse.
I decided for myself that I’ll stop making all those big plans for everything and try just to have an idea of what I’m gonna do or where we’re gonna go and etc. I would like to be more flexible at the end of this year, more the type of person who’s trying to solve the problem, not to analyse it forever.
So this is practically my most bright new year’s resolutions. What about yours? I will be very happy if you share some of them with me in the comments below.
Have a great day and weekend!
xoxo
Yours,
ELL
Sometimes we all need to escape for the weekend and just do nothing.
That’s why I decided to give for my husbands birthday a little getaway from our daily routine as a present. And it was really nice and relaxing. We both need that for sure.
I highly recommend this place for a little spa getaway. It’s perfect for couples who doesn’t want to live the resort. The food, the view the people…everything was great!
If the situation wasn’t like that and we weren’t living in this pandemic world, probably we will travel to another place outside our country, but it is what it is and we were happy to spend the weekend just us two, no matter what is the situation outside.
So after all…we came to an agreement that we definitely should do it again, if we have that possibility… if the situation allows us that.
It’s nice to spend couple days with your husband like the good old times… 😎
Have a great weekend guys!
And if you can give yourself a little getaway…just do it, it’s worth it! 💖
xoxo,
Yours,
Ell
Hello guys, in this sunny autumn afternoon I’m thinking about our relationships and how sometimes we take our partners for granted without even noticing that.
Yes, with our busy schedules during the week and even weekends, somehow we stopped being romantic. We just go through our tasks and at the end of the day, we are so tired of that routine that we just turn Netflix or some YouTube channels and just fall asleep after. And did anyone actually notice that this routine is repeating again and again… and if we don’t wake up on time from this bubble we take the risk to destroy our relationships.
I’m not sure if we women notice that situation more often than men…, but sometimes it really hurts when you went through that conversation several times in your relationship and your partner still wakes up in the morning, knowing that you two are alone (the kids are not in your bedroom) and you could have some privacy and instead of hugging and kissing you, he takes his phone and open the newsfeed or Facebook…
I’m not trying to say that every day should be exciting adventure for you, because sometimes it’s really nice to just stay at home with your partner, instead of going out, and pour a glass of wine, turn the Netflix on…but let’s not get so comfy with that and try to pay more attention to your relationship. Do some new things for both of you, travel to new places, discover new things together…if we don’t make the effort to keep the flame of our marriage/partnership, believe me, it won’t last for long… In the times we live, into the quick liquidity relationships and hectic daily life…we have to at least try more often to spend some quality time with our partner.
So…after all…everything that matters is love. Love yourself, love your partner, family, friends….when we give love it returns to us…this is the circle of life 💕
Thank you all for reading my thoughts this afternoon, if you like it, you know what to do 😎
Have a great afternoon!
xoxo
Yours,
ELL
Hello guys, I hope all of you who are reading this post are healthy, smiling and in a really good mood today 😊
Today I would like to describe my expectations for this year vs. all those things which actually happened with me. At the beginning of this year I was full of thoughts for travel opportunities and new destinations in my life like thinking for a new home, visit some countries for the first time and etc.
At the beginning of this year the only scheduled event that actually happened was the birthday surprise trip to Milan with my mom, one of my closest friends and her mom. Our mothers are born in the beginning of February so we decided to organise a trip for their birthdays to Milan for some mommy and daughters time.
After that we were under lockdown for like two months…and all our plans for this year just had to be changed… we had tickets for Barcelona, we had plans with our friends for a summer trip to Kefalonia without kids and etc…I was devastated when I herd the news about changing the date for the Olympic games, but…this is life and sometimes we have to be flexible, we need to learn how to extract the positive vibes from the disadvantage circumstances.
So…after all, we managed to go to Greece, but with our toddler and we had such a great time, after that we went to the Bulgarian seacoast with our friend…and yes, we still have those tickets to Barcelona locked as a voucher, because after all nothing is gonna happen if we go there next year or the year after…, right? The world is not going to end with a cancelled flight 😉
I’m not trying to say that all this situation with the coronavirus is fake or made for the benefit of someone else, but in fact some people got some benefits from this crisis,right?!
Yes, a lot of people died with the virus, I agree… but somehow I still can’t believe that we all need those restrictions. Yes, we are following all the rules of the WHO, our doctors and etc. We were following all the rules from our government, we stayed at home as long as we had to…, but for example, when we were in a lockdown we had like 40-100 cases for a day…after that during the summer we were having regularly over 100 cases even more (I stopped paying attention to that scale somewhere in July, but I remember days with more than 200 cases… and we weren’t under those past restrictions)
After all, I used all those time for some quality moments with my family, for myself, for more positive things, for some homemade food and etc.
So yes.., I had another expectations for this year, but after all it turns out that the unexpected situations lead to lots of great memories💖
I’m wishing you all a positive day full of smiles 💖
xoxo
Yours,
ELL
Hello everyone,
In this sunny day, in the middle of September I’m thinking about the hot summer days which just passed, the plans for our vacations that we all had, for all those memories we made… and slowly start to setting up my mind with the thought of the upcoming fall season. All those colours and last sunny days…the mornings and evenings become chilly, but there is still shiny and bright hours in middle of the day… isn’t it pretty?!
Some of us start to feel a little depressed,right…and only the thought for the Holiday season cheers you up…right? 😛
In the past I didn’t enjoy a lot the Christmas holidays, but for the last five years that feeling got changed because of my boyfriend (now my husband). He made me feel the joy of that cold days…and showed me actually how nice is to have homemade dinner, nice movie to watch and sharing a glass of nice red wine (one of my favourites). Love could change everything, isn’t it? Now I’m thinking…why we have to feel so nostalgic about the past season (spring, summer, fall and etc.) and just don’t enjoy what the upcoming season is offering to us. Why is so easy for us to focus on the sad/nostalgic part of the things and just not turn your energy into a positive vibe for what is coming in our lives. Even with the lockdown situation this spring, most of my friends were acting in a negative way, instead of just accept the real situation and try turn it in a positive way for you. Isn’t it easier to feel sad instead of just happy?!
We are the only one responsible for our own happiness, if we refuse to see the beauty of the future and still feel stuck in our past…it’s no one else’s problem..it’s our own.
So yes, seasons change….and there is nothing bad about it…enjoy every moment guys!
Life is too short…smile more often 🥰
Hope my post gives you a positive vibe and makes you smile even once today 💕
xoxo
Yours
ELL
No matter what happens there always is a sunrises and sunsets in our days and lives…so stop for a second and just enjoy that moments of beauty and peace.
I always connect the summer with the most beautiful sunsets and because I adore summertime, I love those moments….just sit somewhere quietly with a glass of cold wine in one of my hands and just watch that gorgeous colors in the sky, especially when I have a chance to watch this beauty from the sea cost.
After all all that matters in our lives is love…a grateful heart full of love, an open mind and a little pinch of positive energy… and everything will be all right 💖
Wishing you an amazing sunset view today!
xoxo,
Yours,
ELL
We all need a little piece of summer in our everyday life 💖
And a little gesture of love
And some reason to smile…
Those pure moments of happiness…when you see your little boy smiling and how your husband’s eyes glowing
Yes, I love those little our moments 💕
My moments 💌 