Monday's recommendation

It's really early in the morning and I'm wondering why I'm awake. Taking care of puppies feels like one big montage from the Beethoven movie, n°2.

Today's recommendation is:

The Belgariad
First book- Pawn of Prophecy
By David Eddings

This series of books tells the story of a young farm boy (of course) who discovers the power inside himself as he journeys to fight evil. Sound familiar? What makes this story special is that, accompanied by his aunt and his grandfather, Garion must recover the Orb of Aldur and fulfill a prophecy that was once forgotten.
Pretty usual fantasy plot but I really recommend this book for those fantasy lovers. The story has really good twists and turns and the main character is always on the same wave-length as the reader (even though sometimes that means we both need a little explaining from the other characters). I, unfortunately, thought the series went downhill at the fifth book so if you stop there I won't be the one to say no. In the stories defense however, the fifth book wraps up the story in ways and then starts again as though forced, if you read until it wraps up then you've got yourself an amazing series.

To shop the shops

An amazing day! (This is not a recent poster above but the Nimagine expo/selling place takes place every year).
As you can guess we went out to Nimagine to look through the tons of little shops. There is so much great, unique stuff and it's really difficult to choose which shop you want to spend all your money in (since nothing is really cheap). I brought my friend Jess, who's at my house for the weekend, and bought him an awesome shawl at the stand where I bought some pretty fabulous clothes. I also got new glasses! So excited!
All in all I was really happy that I spent the day with my two friends from my village (and consequently my youth) which has been a long time since.

Bonsai Madness!

Hello again! It is a happy person that greets you today! I am very pleased with myself (hahaha) but mostly I should be pleased with my amazing little bonsai that got through the rough moment and survived!
I've never taken care of plants but I now find myself with two bonsais and five little cactuses. My Chinese Orme went through a horrible moment and was dying to my great despair. It was potted all wrong by the shop so they could sell it in a tiny pot for cheaper but it really needed place for its roots to breath. I repotted it, risky as it may be at the start of the winter season, but I told myself if I didn't do it now it was going to die anyway. So I tried my best to do as instructed by the many books and bliss has been achieved as my little Orme is now thriving like never before! I'm so glad!
Here are a few, before and after of repotting and re...life I guess.

Birthday Treat

It's a bit late to bring this up perhaps but for my birthday I gave myself a little treat and was really happy with it! I had never made cupcakes before and they were from scratch (not a box thank you very much). So here I share with you the little treat I made that was thoroughly enjoyed by my little brother for my birthday.

Some of my work

Dear dearies!
I also want to share with you some of my work! I realize I have never shown any of my editing on my blog so I think this time is as good as any. So here you are! One of my projects for my thesis class was to depict someone not doing something. I picked someone not getting fed.