January favorites

Last day of the month means it's favorites time!

BEAUTY. Garnier Ultra Doux Honey Treasures hair mask

I've bought this mask in the middle of December, but started using it only in the end of December/beginning of January. It is a great mask, leaves my hair soft and nourished. It has honey extract in it, which from my experience works very good on my dry, coarse hair. And it smells amazing! After shampooing my hair, I put this mask for about 3 minutes and then rinse it off. I feel the difference immediately.

MOVIE. Predestination (2014)

Great movie! I like this type of movies when you don't understand what is going on and you are completely dragged into it trying to solve the whole situation (like Shutter island, The illusionist etc.). It is the best mind-blowing movie so far! I had a feeling that my brain is going to explode :D If you like such movies, watch it - you'll love it.

Source: imdb.com

BOOK. Wm.Paul Young "Cross roads"

It is a fiction novel about a egoistical businessman who falls into coma and the same time finds himself in a surreal world, where he can see and analyze his whole life. Also he can see the present through other people eyes and this way try and correct his mistakes. It's the first book that I read by this author and I enjoyed it (gave it 5/5 stars on goodreads). It shows a persons journey through himself and his life. I also want to read the first authors book The Shack.

Source: goodreads.com

PAGE. buzzfeed.com

 There is so much interesting and fun stuff there. I can watch their videos for hours. 

MUSIC.  Ed Sheeran
I listened to his songs almost every single day. Want to learn all the lyrics, because in February I'm going to his concert. Can't wait! 
I've been loving Photograph and Afire love.

EVENT. Graduation!

Yes! Finally on 27th of January I've graduated from university. Yey! After 3,5 years of studying it is over and I gained a bachelor's degree. It makes me extremely happy and proud. 

Have a lovely February! :)

Travel wishlist ♥

Inspired by Soffyaaah's post, I decided to share places that I want to visit. I like traveling but I don't have  possibilities. But still I want to travel more in the future and discover new countries and their cultures. Also, I believe that when you talk loud (or talk at least) about dreams, they will come true. 

By the way, don't forget to check out Soffyaaah's post here. 

What places would you like to visit?

(All photos where found on the internet)

100 books everyone should read, or not

Source: http://www.theminimalists.com/reading/

One of my hobbies is reading. So a couple of days ago I've been surfing the internet for some books recommendations and came across this BBC's list "100 books you must read before you die". At first I thought: "Great, I will try to read those, make it my goal". But after revising the list a couple of times, I've changed my mind.

Here is the list (I marked what I've read): 

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

20/100. Not bad, I think.

But I don't agree with this list. In my opinion not all of these books deserve to be in the list and it is missing some excellent, "must" books (for example Uncle Tom's Cabin). Also, I felt like the list was based around some authors. But maybe I'm wrong.

So, I decided not to read everything of the list, but I will look up to it and pick some books that are worth it.

Instead, I set a goal to read 24 books in 2015 and participate in 2015 Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I participated last year, but haven't complete it.

By the way, here is my account on Goodreads. Lets be friends there and chat about books :)

Source: http://weheartit.com/entry/group/1162680

Also, I'm considering to start the Reading Challenge 2015 by Popsugar. Check the it out here. I like it, because it's not a list of specific books, but a list of criteria and themes. 

What do you think? Do you participate in any reading challenges? Let me know in the comments or leave me a message on the blog or send it on goodreads :)

Have a fantastic weekend!

Liebster Awards

Hello.

 I was nominated for the Liebster award by lovely Emily. Thank you so much! Go check her blog out here, she writes great posts.

My answers to Emily's questions:

1. What was your highlight of today? Going on a little walk to enjoy the beautiful weather.

2. Favorite crisp flavour? Sour cream and onion.

3. Best memory? I can't pick one but I would probably say that my best memory is times spend with my dad.

4. Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years? Having a job that makes me happy, being with my significant other, traveling, experiencing and enjoying life. Just being happy.

5.Describe yourself in one sentence? Usual girl in search for herself. Short and sweet.

6. Any meaning behind your blog name? Well, not really. I like mint color and somehow I came up with the name playing with words and replacing chocolates bar's Milky way with Minty. Really nothing special, just my mind going nuts :)

7. If you could have lunch with three people (dead, alive or fictional) who would they be? I thought I would pick one from each category (dead, alive, fictional): Pope John Paul II, Lizzie Velasquez, Ted from How I met your mother (and then meet the whole gang haha).

8. One talent you wish you had? Singing.

9. Something you couldn't live without? Water, food and air. Haha, I am funny right? Not.. -_-

10. Something you wish didn't exist? Wars.

11. What's unique about you? Me in general, there is no one in the whole world similar to me; I believe that every person is different and unique :)

I nominate:
Abbie Katherine
Soffyaaah
Within Jays Life
Bekshaxo

Here are my questions for you:
1. What do you like about your blog?
2. What do you struggle with the most while writing a blog?
3. If you could go back in time, would you change something?
4. What book/movie changed your perspective on life?
5. Tea or coffee?
6. Your hobbies?
7. What is your favorite social media?
8. 3 things you like about yourself?
9. What blog/which blogger inspires you the most?
10. What type of blog post you like to write the most?
11. What do you want to achieve in 2015?

Rules:

Acknowledge the person who nominated you;

Answer the questions given by the person who nominated you;

Nominate bloggers and notify them;

Give them 11 questions to answer.

 
Looking forward to reading your answers soon :)
Have a great day!

Little steps, big difference

I want changes. I need changes. These thoughts are on my mind for some time now. Everyone comes to a point when everything seems to go not the way you want, when everything seems grey and boring, when you feel stuck. At least I feel that way. 

People are always in search. In search for happiness, meaning of life, their place in life. There is always something bothering us, something that is unsolved. And we try to answer questions, try to find ways to solve everything. To solve our life.

For some time I feel that I need something new in my life, some changes because I am stuck in one place. I do the same things, go to the same places everyday, don't find life interesting. And this makes me unhappy. So I understand that I need some changes to color my life a little bit. 

But the thing is that I'm not brave to throw myself in an absolutely new environment, new life. I feel that big changes can scare me. So I've decided to start with little steps. I believe that doing small, even insignificant things everyday can step by step change me and my life. 

I want to share some ideas of little changes that could be a great start. It is only my opinion but I hope that this will help someone.

• Have a new, different haircut; go for the one you always wanted to try but were afraid to
• Redecorate your room; even sorting out books and things on the shelf in a different way will change the room appearance
• Find and go to a new place in your city that you never been to before
• Try out a new cuisine
• Go to an unknown band's gig
• Dye your hair
• Read a different genre book
•  Try to order a new dish/drink every time you are in your favorite cafe/coffee shop/restaurant
• Call or message someone you've meet but didn't hang out with; this can lead to a lifetime friendship
• Try out a new hobby: making jewelry, kite flying, writing a blog etc.
• Start working out; find a type of exercise/sport that you like
•   Change your background; make it positive, funny, inspirational or anyway that makes you smile
• Throw away or hide items that make you upset
• Treat yourself and buy something you want
• Make someone happy
• Change your parfume
• If you're in school or college, sit in a different place at lunch; sit with other people
• Visit your family or friends in another country
• Make a bucket list for a month, year or till you are 30 and make it real

Hope that will help at least one of you reading this.

If you have any other "little step" ideas or want to share your ways and stories about changes, please let me know in the comments or write an email in the contact form on the right. 

It's funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. C.S.Lewis

Best of 2014

Long time no seek!

I was inspired by Sophie's from It's a Saunders Thing post where she wrote about her favorite things in 2014. So I also want to look back at 2014 and point out my faves. Here we go!

Favorite movie:

About Time. This movie is also in my all time favorite movies list.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/

Favorite book:

I have two - The Fault in our stars by John Green (it was the first book that made me cry) and The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

Source: goodreads.com

Favorite TV show:

Breaking Bad

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad

Favorite event:

James Arthur's gig in August.

Favorite day:

The day I became a Godmother.

Favorite place:

Beside the sea where I went on vacation.

Favorite quote:

It seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela 

 Favorite drink:

Masala chai (chai latte). In the last couple of months I've always ordered this in coffee shops. What I like about chai that it is tea but tastes like coffee!

Favorite accessories:

Necklaces. This year I've been wearing them more often than usually. 

Favorite moment:

The moment when my defense of final bachelors paper (that I worked on a couple of months) was over. The only thing left to do is to receive the diploma in the end of January and finito. Yey!

Hopefully, 2015 will be a better year. I will try to make it better. 

Also, after Blogmas I feel unorganized about my blog. It was hard to write every day but I was motivated and had planned all my posts. Now, when it is over I feel that I've been procrastinating. But I'll try to sort it out. 

If you have any suggestions or questions, I've made a contact form (on the right). Don't hesitate to contact me :)

Have a great weekend! Make the best of it.

Stop. Think. Do #3

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

Source: http://vi.sualize.us/25_beautiful_moments_captured_rain_picture_knYE.html