|cinematheque| :: THE LUNCHBOX (DABBA) ::

I saw this movie yesterday and really enjoyed it. It`s beautiful.

It will leave you with a craving, to seek your own little happiness...

IMDB (8,1/10) "The film set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox servis) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.

"Sometimes the wrong train, can bring us to the right place."

xo, M. 

|events| :: DOUM in PREOBRAZBA ::

DOUM je društvo mladih oblikovalcev in umetnikov, ki je bilo ustvarjeno dober mesec nazaj, z namenom druženja in izmenjavanja znanj med kreativci.

Zaenkrat so med člani arhitekti, fotografi, grafični oblikovalci, oblikovalci notranje opreme.. želijo pa si, da bi se jim pridružilo čim več zagnanih mladih ljudi, iz različnih kreativnih področij. 

Društvo bo imelo pester program skozi celo leto, od okroglih miz, različnih delavnic na temo programskih orodij, fotografske delavnice in še marsikaj drugega.

Če bi te zanimalo sodelovanje/članstvo, obišči njihovo facebook stran in jim napiši sporočilo.

Otvoritvena zabava DOUM, se bo odvijala 30. januarja ob 20h, v Centralni Postaji. Ob glasbi za katero bo skrbel dj Illusion, si boste lahko ogledali fotografije, nekaj pohištva in dodatke za dom, mini cruiserje iz pleksi stekla, video animacije, ..

Prve obiskovalce čaka welcome drink in pa vsakega še majhno presenečenje.
Po 23h pa se zabavi pridruži dj Pohalino/Zavod Kru/ in razstava se bo spremenila v zabavo!

Pofočkajte se na FB strani od dogodka.

Vidimo se!
Pozdravček, M.

Razstavljali bodo: 

KUMOMI DESIGN

http://kumomidesign.wix.com/kumomi

UPS ATELJE

https://www.facebook.com/Upsatelje

FAT RAT
https://www.facebook.com/fatratdesign

PIRATE PIŠKA
http://www.piratepiska.com/

VUCCINELI
https://www.facebook.com/Vuccineli/

PETRA BOŽIČ IN ŽIVA LUTMAN

https://www.facebook.com/deskbuddies.design

BLAŽ BAČAR

KATJA ČEBULAR

BRINA GLUVIČ

KLAVDIJA JARC

JURE MATOZ

http://www.jurematoz.com/

MAŠA MAZI

ANJA MENCINGER
EVA POVŠE

MARKO ŠAFARIČ

http://instagram.com/safko89

Btw, for all the international readers... I`m sorry this is in Slovene, but It`s about a local thing, so I felt there is no need to do it in English. Maybe next time. ;)
Anyhow, if you are free on 30th of January and in Ljubljana at the time, come to Centralna postaja, where there will be an exhibition of some young slovenian designers and artists. For sure, it is going to be fun! ;)
Check out the event here.

|Badass recipes for real men| :: EAT ME, WORLDWIDE ::

Guys, now it`s your turn because finally I have more of a badass thing to post, thanks to our next contributor. He is a good friend of mine and comes from Poland. He surprised me with his creativity and wish to start a completly different thing. So, here it it, Przemek and his....

BADASS RECIPES FOR REAL MEN 

(if you meet a lady who likes it - think twice… she might have bigger balls than you do)

Every Badass knows how to take care of himself. Food is the third most important thing Badass does in his life, after having sex and making money. Real Baddas eats MEAT! A lot of meat and he keeps it spicy and bloody. Every three weeks I`ll give you a piece of advice on how to be a Badass cook! Stay calm and keep cooking!

Heart Breaker! 

Easy as hell, spicy as hell and just perfect for your cold beer served in a frozen glass. 

You will need:

1. 400g of chicken hearts (the more the better!)

2. 1 clove of garlic (use the Polish one, if you need to use Chinese, than take two)

3. Spices: fresh pepper, sea salt, chilli pepper...and some balls! 

How to do it? 

1. Clean the chicken hearts: cut off fat, endings of veins and open the heart to take out blood. You are a badass, but you don`t want to eat chicken blood boiled in a heart chamber. 

2. Marinate the hearts in olive oil with garlic, fresh pepper, sea salt and chilli pepper.

The stronger the better!

3. Leave it in the fridge for 20 minutes.

4. Fry them on the pan until they are crispy..... 

Enjoy it with that cold beer I was talking about in the beginning. ;) 

Coming soon..... 

(Romantic Badass)

Turko (that`s how he wants to be called), loves eating blue beef steaks, altough he lives with a wonderful women who has more of a sophisticated taste. They both love red wine and cheese. Thanks to the mix of his wilderness and her sensibility, their food is exceptional! 

Please meet, the first Badass Chef in Republic of Poland - "Smacznego"! 

A true survivor!

|architecture|:: ORTENIA - APARTMENTS IN NATURE ::

A while ago (actually about 2 years ago) I already wrote (here) about a project called "Open house Slovenia". This Saturday we took the opportunity and visited beautiful new eco apartments in Podčetrtek, that were mady by the architects Petra Ostanek and Tinka Prekovič.
I won`t say much, I`ll let the photos to tell their story.

Visit their website and read their story.

You can also find them on FB.

As you can see it was a foggy morning, now imagine the building in its glory while sun is shining over it. ;)
I`d definitely love to spend a weekend there!

xo, M. 

:: HOW TO BRING YOUR INSTAGRAM PHOTOS TO LIFE ::

I`m sure that most of you are using Instagram or at least you know what I`m talking about. Insta photos are everywhere and everybody seems to love it. I already saw so many things that you can do out of those photos, but never really tried any of them, so it`s time to change that and start to make a magic of my own. 

I gathered some of my favourite options and made a selection of twelve that I really like:

1. Do you remember Vila Malina? The shop from my hometown that I wrote about here?  Well, it sadly doesn`t exist anymore, but they can make a great Instadiary for you + you should totally check out Instagram from Urška. You`ll fell in love with all of those beautiful shots. 

2. Use Stickygram.com to make personal magnets

3. For sure you`d be happy with your custom iphone case

4. Ceramic tiles perhaps? 

5. Everybody loves pillows!

6. When you serve coffee/tea on custom coasters, the taste is even better! 

7. Canvas wall art is one of my fav ideas as well...easy and it looks good! Definitely one of my next DIY projects! ;) 

8. Personalized cake bunting is always a good idea.

9. What about old fashion photo strips? Love it! 

10.  Memorybox is great as well! For sure Im going to order some of those cute miniprints. :) 

11. If you are not really a "do-it-yourself" person, printing onto Canvas is also an option 

12. Stickers - oh, yes! Stick em up everywhere! 

I hope you find out something new and that you`ll make something great out of this ideas! ;) 

Just in case you are not already following me on Instagram, you can find me here.

xo, M. 

VOTE FOR ONE TO ENTER THE TOP 6!

The Top 5 have finally selected.

SEE: Goddess of the Universe 2013 Top 5 Announcement

But there's a major twist! It's not just 5 but 6! But the Final spot will be decided by you! You are going to vote for ONE non-Top 5 finalist to enter the Top 6 and join the Official Top 5 for the final judging! The poll is at the right side and what are you waiting for? VOTE NOW!

Brazil - Sancler Frantz

France - Hinarani de Longeaux

Netherlands - Nathalie den Dekker

Poland - Paulina Krupinska

USA - Marissa Powell

:: EAT ME, WORLDWIDE :: {Germany} ::

Since I have a lot of friends from all around the world, I`m always thinking of things that would make us closer or somehow connect us even more and that`s how I got the idea about the "Eat me, Worldwide" project. I was baking a cake the other day, when the idea hit me....Everyone cooks everyday, right? So, if they took some photos while doing it and send me the recipes, we`ll soon have a big variety of recipes from all around the world, which is great! :) So, for the beginning I asked my friends to participate, but I`d really love to see some random people sending me their photos + recipes.... let`s make this interesting, fun, easy to read and fun to watch! What do you say, are you in!? ;) 

So, let`s go! 

The very first recipe came from Germany.  

Mara and Moritz are sharing with us a dessert from late summer, called "Mara`s Wild Berry Tiramisu":

Beeren Tiramisu / Berry Tiramisu

Ingredients for 8 people:

• 250 g Mascarpone
• 250 g lowfat quark
• 100 g sugar Zucker
• 4 Eggs
• 500 g ladyfingers ("Spoon biskuit")(google it, if you dont know it)
• 3 Tablespoons coffee licor (or Amaretto or Baileys)
• 1 cup cold coffee (strong)
• 500 g fresh Berries (or different fruits – do not use deep frozen fruits!!!)

1.       Seperate the eggs
2.       Take the Egg white and 50g sugar and beat it to beaten egg white ("Egg snow"). Put it aside for now.

3.       Mix the mascarpone and lowfatquark with 50 g sugar (use more mascarpone if you want it even heavier).
4.       Mix egg yolk and coffeelikör under the Mascarpone-Quark-Mass and whisk (quirl) it (if you are a super sweety put more sugar)
5.       Take the beaten egg white ("Egg snow") and fold it (mix it) gently under the Mascarpone-quark mass 
6.       Dig the ladyfingers in the coffee and place them on the base of a baking/casserole dish 
7.       Apply one layer of the creme mass on the lady finger base (ca. 3 cm thick (depending on the casserole))
8.       Put one more layer of ladyfingers on the creme
9.       Apply the ladyfingers with another thin layer of the mascarpone creme (ca 1 cm thick) and put the fresh berries on top of it
10.   Apply the rest of the Creme on top of the berries.
11.   Decorate the tiramisu with fresh berries, mint or whatever you feel like

You should give your berry tiramisu at least 3 hours of time in the fridge before you head to the party and become the king/queen of the party with your feel-like-summer-desert! 

Mara and Moritz are living together in the middle of Germany in a city called Mainz. While he works, she is studying hard, and while she thinks of new great thinks to try in the kitchen, he goes and buys them at ALDI. We generally try to eat healthy, although a great dessert can never be really healthy!