DIY: my handmade board and passing to Asian Part by ferry

Hello there! Finally l made my handmade board. l was thinking of a board with quilted affect and had some sweet pop art cloth. l found an idea to make my own and this showed up!

If you wanna try, hope you enjoy it. l made two next to eachother as you see in last picture.

And today l have another picture for you, yesterday l was so bored at home and while passing to Asian Part with ferry, l took these photos as l love drinking coffe at. There is an advertisement these days playing on tv which l love, about a new housing development, describing İstanbul as the city that you pass between two continents while you drinking your tea still hot! l love that opinion and remembered that when drinking my coffee.

Tom Hanks Films and My Mother’s Healthy Delicious Receipes Go Good Together

l really would like to have a mediterrenean pro chef husband ) l do love to eat! What to say, l’m honest!

Today l went on the easy receipes. The funny thing, even l’m a veggie fan, l feel like zucchinis are usually smthing no taste. Buuut an appetizer which l also used in new year’s eve is, one of my favourites from my mother, you must really really try so easy, just 2 zucchinis, yogurt and wallnuts!

Zucchini Appetizer

This expose the great taste of zucchini. And by the picture from http://turkishcuisine.wordpress.com l realised this sweet blog.

So then you grater the zucchinis, roast the flakes on the pan with some little oil and add some salt. When it is ok, mix with yogurt (l know other countries use a more sweet yogurt but) then add the plenty little pieces of wallnuts  and mix. l just ate a big plate of it l can’t beleive to myself. With only grain bread…yes l do love.

grain bread – such a love

Kahve Dünyası – Strawberry Hot Chocolate

Sooo what next, in the later evening, need to have some snack with the films! l’ve two choices for you tonight, one is l heard Kahve Dünyası (Coffee World l had told you there is in UK too) have made the real melted hot chocolate with strawberry and other tastes this year. But it’s more a choice if you are outside. If you’re one you don’t buy snacks for house not to eat (!) like me, you can cook a more  healthier and easy chocolate puding. No, not those ready packages. Just 3 big (soup) spoons of flour

Again 3 spoons of cacao

Nearly a glass of sugar

And smth like 1 litre of milk.

l use my sense of proportion usually so, you must better to arrange with the consistency. You put all and simmer with low heat by mixing with a wooden spoon.(Not it to make flour bits ) Put some ladyfingers on the bowl. 3-4 porsions depending on the bowl dimensions.

l use grounded mastic gum instead of cocoa in summer in Ayvalık usually.

Image by IMDB

Sooo, tonight l went with the 2011 maden film by Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. “Larry Crowne” made me remember “Forrest Gump.” The way he tells his name. “Crowne. with -e” As always he’d been my hero and he saved my life one more time haha! l hope to find my own Hanks one day, not a copy. )

Snow alert and the 3 legged cat needs home! (Ameliyatlı kediye acil yuva)

Hi at 00.28 am on wednesday by İstanbul time. It is snowing for 2 days here and since l’m from Egean, l’m not used to see much snow. The fact is, the main subject is not snow today but l wanted to share the snow photos at the same time.

 A few days ago my friend shared a cat needs a home announcement, it’s real important and urgent, since l don’t know the gender of the cat, l’ve to call ‘it’ l’m sorry, and l’m real

 sorry since saw the photos of it. The snow is bad these days and this cat just HAD AN OPERATION and was in intensive care for 1 week. and has missing one arm right now. l wanted to share this announcement to make around people to hear if there is somebody living in Türkiye to hear andmaybe open their home for it. For a 3 legged cat it is hard to live outside and with snow and just had the operation and it feels not good for it now. So please share it. May be we can find a house around.  And contact with comment or e-mailing so l can contact with my friend you to get more information. Thank you.

Bu kedi arkadaşım tarafından bulundu. Bir ayağı kangren nedeniyle kesilmek zorunda kaldı ve şu an 3 ayağıyla sokakta yaşaması zor. İki gündür de yoğun kar altındayız ve bu kedi bir haftadır yoğun bakımdaydı, klinikten çıkarıldı ve çok acil bir yuvaya ihtiyacı var. Klinik de daha fazla bakmamış, barınak da kabul etmemiş. Lütfen paylaşalım ve ilgilenenler yorum ya da e-maille bana ulaşsın ve ben de arkadaşın bilgilerini verip yönlendireyim. Gerekli bilgiyi o size verecektir. İlginiz için teşekkürler.

Coffee Quiz!

l can be counted as a coffee addict and when there is a coffe chat l love to join! Specifying few days ago l was searching for coffee and tea blogs. Even though l’m not a tea lover, l love reading those pleasure articles. So l jumped into this quiz to reply when l saw on @CrazyTrainToTinkyTown . 

1) How many cups of coffee per day? 

1 or 2! Filter coffee at house, cappuccino or Turkish coffe outside. l like Turkish coffee chitchats with friends.

Now with white chocolate sprinkles

 

2) What is your favourite caffeine delivery system?

Well, Zamane Kahvesi (Timeserver Cafe) in İstanbul, Kahve Dünyası (Coffee World & Chocolate World) from Türkiye, which also is in UK. (http://www.kahvedunyasi.com/en) Also Starbucks and Cafe Nero sometimes

(Suggest you the The Cake Cooked in the Coffee Pot ‘Cezvede Kek’)

3) What was your best cup of coffee? 

Probably not because of taste but because of who l drink with Also l love to drink coffee with my favourite cake near!!

4) What was your worst cup of coffee? 

l sometimes do have bad coffees out too, since l like to try different places and things!

5) What does your favourite mug say?

l had printed a mug with Kermit, “my job is smiling” l had made it written on. But my all mugs are special. Since l started buying when high school times for my future house, and some of specials are, Starbucks City Series İstanbul and İzmir, and as a memory of Dunkin Donut times in Türkiye. 

6) How do you take your coffee?

Soft, breakfast blend, milky and with sugar. And in Turkish coffee, middle level sugar

7) When was your first cup? 

l don’t remember for sure!

8) Have you ever gone on a coffee date? 

Yep, it’s a ‘classics’

Would like you whoever wants to take the quiz, to hear too! Love from İstanbul!

The Dated Words,Coffee,Ayvalık

 Those were the words l had learned before…l said to myself. We learn words from here, there, in that time and this time randomly. We choose words from life. We own our own vocabularies. We choose the words fit for us. 

 And when l thought about “missing”, l thought that was one of the word l had learned ‘before.’ Not describing the time l am in. Even it fits for me entirely. 

There are things to miss…and things mustn’t be missed. Poorly, l said, those were the words…

 l look at some web pages, that shares photos of the places l love. For example, l used to love Ayvalık, l love but afraid to go and feel now. A beautiful place Ayvalık, seaside in Balıkesir. Between Marmara and Egean. Where my mother lived the summers in her high school and university years and where l did. So when l see the photos l feel like being there sometimes, even l don’t know what l feel when l’m there. And when l saw one today, l thought l was so positive and hopeful when l was there inside myself. l thought about those night bazaar stands with the people and their crafts. Was so beautiful to walk around them, looking at some creative and some other traditional and historical things have been came out of the dower chests of the villagers there. Handiwork red canvas in the edges of the white pillow cases.

 Now listening to Scent of a Woman (Tango). Eating some wallnuts on my desk. Sometimes l wanted that life in some of my life, living simple but with love. Not crowded the streets. l loved. l loved so much before. The word ‘love’ of before. Now what’s the fear?

We met with a friend again and made our daily coffee chat. You know, forus Turkish people, Turkish coffee is a daily routine. Its chitchat is indispensable! And what we say is “a cup of coffee has sake for 40 years.” (l don’t know if l could translate ok.)

 So Ayvalık, as usual in Egean, is special with olives,oil and mustic gum. And l had already stored my mustic aromated coffee and lokum (delight). So l love that fresh coffee smell with mustic in Ayvalık days. And a pic. for you from summer days. Which, bubbles on coffee as you see so important to fill all the ground of cup. 

After all, few days after 2012, l’m not waiting for anything. Not anymore. Just beleive and hope and wait for good things for me, the miracles. l’m glad l know love. Being out of myself and being ‘us’, but l forgot to be ‘me’…that was my mistake. But l’m glad. l could be out of ‘me, but us.’ That was a thing a person can’t easily find in a girl, being able to love a person’s everything, family and friends. l’m honoured by love l hope. But some are ‘poor’, thinking they are honoured by ‘being loved’,without knowing how to love. l hate ego. People don’t esteem the people who really love. People have forgotten the meaning of love. They even look at them so weird who care the opposite side’s friends and family. And they see the ‘words’ just as they help their ego, don’t think the meanings.

Wish people learn being without ego. 

l just feel love, with or without anybody.

                                          Love from Ayvalık, even l’m not there.

(l’m so glad with your likes and readings, would like to hear about comments )

The things l left in 2012

Listen this

My dear readers and who visit when passing,

l really thank you for you reading, because l like to share so much and this really makes me feel happier and lighter. 

In the end of this year, if need to say the truth, l wasn’t planning to write something for a new year. Because in year ends and beginnings l look for my loved ones or lover around, l don’t know but l care it so much. If l wanted somebody to be with me and he/she is not with me in that important day, l feel sorry. This year it’s the first time l feel so weird about, but it is still ok. It has to be. At least l’m not sorry because the same things anymore, what l’m sorry is people are so blind. Mostly blind about love. Some people are not aware of the things they are paranoid of and they risk important things not to change and realise their paranoia, habits. Forget the things, love, the people they loose, they break the hearts. 

Yes, l’m emotional in the end of the year and may be l’m not going to celebrate the new year coming with much enthusiasm, but hopefully going to greet with my hopes. May be l don’t have concrete wishes, but l believe God knows best things for me. l wish for everyone and for me love, happiness, health, peace and being with our loved ones always. 

l feel that deep, peppery hot feeling inside my heart so real, being not able to share my love with my loved one, but l feel so great that l have my great friends l’m going to share my love. l trust the deepness of my heart and even 2012 was not so bright for me, sure not a bad year but, still some heartsick, bleak and sorry days. Still l’m so thankfull to God for everything and the things didn’t that bad. 

If l look what l had this year, people around me changed so much in last years, but the constant best friends didn’t. l started to keep in touch with my very old friends again after years also. l was  may be examined with some relations of human being, l hope l was good. l tried to be always but always sincere to people and when l loved a person, a lover or a friend. l tried my all for some friends and they were the most heart breaking for me. l can’t believe how l behaved so sincere to my loved one and his friends and how they didn’t care after a break up in the end. l’m so sorry, l started to see the people who are not sincere and just care the friends of their lovers because they have to, are cared more but l had really given my love. And found out my tears at the end. l sometimes got angry because l had cared them so much. Even l told all with these words so real, nobody cared. l am forgotten for them. But l’m greatfull to my friends near!

When you are sincere, you usually be accused of being the way too emotional. Now l see, when people told me l wasn’t wrong, l started to see the real. l just tried for my friendship. 

So l’m hopeful for 2013 and want it to come and find myself in that new morning, without feeling my little alone side of my heart the night before. My heart is full and deep.

 These are the wish-clothespins l took from coffee-shop (Kahve Dünyası) written “a husband who loves shopping” and “eat much, be fit” for new year.  

And l found some photos on web of Nişantaşı (in İstanbul) with the new year concept of Toy Factory – Lead Soldiers.

Loves from İstanbul!

and from  Akaretler/ Beşiktaş , a photo by Dilara

My mini Turkish Breakfast and funny dreams

Hello there,

You remember what l think about think about this new year’s eve from last post, so unfortunately l’m not writing about it these days. Otherwise you could see how ecxited and going in shops with ornaments l was…

Anyway, time is passing fast. These times a bit hard process for me, you know when you have to wait for something and nothing to do other than waiting. Waiting for some hung up work stuff…

 So today l’m writing from a very stormy İstanbul, even on friday news is telling about snow, which is tomorrow!

 Little Smyrna (my cat, her name called ancient İzmir) is sleeping near me as my best friend. l also took a photo of my mini kind of Turkish breakfast plate! ) Hahaha

l wanted to share, we eat many things in breakfast (not in mine ) but salty and sweet things, not just sweet things. Both cheese, olives, sausages,egg etc. as salty and honey, jam, and etc. as sweet. Surely bagels,bread, pastry are indispensable…And a mini type of sunday breakfast from İzmir )

But if l go to work in rush l prefer a street seller’s İstanbul bagel, which has much more taste (if fresh cooked) than a bakery’s one! )

If you ever come to Türkiye, you’ve to try. ‘Simit’ which is bagel and fresh cooked ‘taze’ and hot ‘sıcak’ the words you need to know for ) In street sellers which is cooked by wood fire is tasty l think. As l am so addicted to good taste, you can ask me what you are curious of.

 After the breakfast ceremony, l will tell you about the thing l feel weird about are my weird dreams!!! l know l usually see weird dreams, weird stories and even sometimes may be l can make films of them hahaha! But not always film stories sure…sometimes so meaningless! If l come to tell about yesterday’s dream, it was horrible when l was driving a car accidentally to the short cliff near the seaside(!) but luckily l was resqued and even the car was, and walking out of the sea to the sand…well, but the thing is, ok this is just a nightmare, and who the guy that l never saw or knew before was?? l fell in love even. Sometimes l really see those dreams, with the people l never know or haven’t seen before, but fall in love and when you wake up, he does not exist sure. Is that ever happens to you hahah, and feeling the effect of the dream, isn’t it funny? And also mysterious. The people never known and don’t know if they really exist somewhere in the world. )

 Yes, l started to see those good love stories in dreams hahaha! Hope you had fun and have a great day! See you in next post, probably can write about my dream places close here. Thanks for sharing!

Armoni

Winter Socks and Heartbreaks

Hi guys!

After a very long time, l realised how l like to communicate with people far even l don’t know and where who is. When new year’s eve is coming, usually l was so so so excited and happy for nothing, just to feel winter and new year’s eve coming was already exciting itself. l had always liked that day to celebrate with me loved ones. Today, may be l’m so sorry because, the person most l wanted to have that day with sees me as he wants and so far from his heart. May be that day l’ll be alone with my tv, doesn’t matter. More matters is, my heart with being broken.

 l understood one thing, “if you love a person who is paranoid it is the hardest may be, first he/she gets paranoid for if you don’t love him/her, later he/she gets paranoid for if you really fell in love with him/her.”

 No matters sometimes, if he wanted you to be his lover so much before, if you love him, later he can get bored so easy sometimes. Depends on his character for sure. From now on, may be l’m sorry  and feel bad at late at night, but l can see that in every happy picture of us, actually everything has been just an empty dream. A person can’t love anybody with his/her paranoia. But sometimes they don’t even accept they have paranoia.l don’t know why but people are afraid of accepting their wrong things. Unfortunately they are afraid of change. But people have to change every time, not the word “change” but “improve” theirselves may be. Take a look, the date changes, hours pass, the agenda changes, how can’t we change? l’m not talking our good character to be changed, but improving something on us. After all, l need you my readers say something for cheering me up for the new year’s eve l guess. )

 Few days ago l bought some socks from the center shops of the district l live in. l want you guys to see them how sweet they are while winter already came.

 

And the t-shirt my sister was jealous of mine, ‘Cookie Monster’ and bought one to send her. Instead in mine, it was written “make cookies, not war”! But in this one l liked the glass of milk!

Rain Outside

 Is it the same, sometimes do you feel like me, in your inner side you feel something bores you. In your lungs, like there is no air, in the middle of the night, usually people sleep and it makes a feeling like alone..probably because those are the times you feel sorry for something…and when it’s november, closer to december, to a new end and a new beginning, a happy new year, as saying ‘happy’, l like to be happy when welcoming the year…and a nice feeling of winter, but when the people you look around are not around, so your eyes look for them when coming to the end of the year. There is a saying as, how you welcome the year, the year passes as…so l’d like to be with the person l love hand in hand and with the people l love. When you think they are far, or you don’t have a hope somebody will come, there is nothing bad with welcoming without a great great fun or a party or just alone, sometimes there are your best friends near, it’s great, but a person is missing even if he/she could be there, it feels weird. So even l love the rain, the sounds knocking on the windows, in the middle of the night again, and the moon is bright, a little wave on the trees front of the windows, l miss that person. l miss that person to be with, when there’s rain outside. But if you’ve ever felt like me and without and sign of that person. No way to comunicate may be. lt feels weird. And you feel like you wanna go somewhere far. Why we do? Is it really something feels better? l’m not sure…but it’s always a dream. Even these days l’m writing a story of a girl has did it. Makes me more feel how it is. l felt like talking again. May be you all have some stories same or more different to share too.

Armoni, From İzmir with love.

Biz geliyoruz

Yaz geliyor işte…kalbim bu sefer de güney taraflarında atıyor…kısa bir ızmir turundan sonra zor alismak ıstanbula..neyse ki yakında bir kaç ay donmemecesine egeye gidiyorum tekrar. Üstelik nasipse bu sefer planlar egeden güneye..doğuya hatta belki de kuzeye..
Yaz binbir coşkusuyla sardı beni evet.. özellikle guneydogunun yemeklerini çok merak ediyordum.. gelin gorun ki kıştan çıkma diyetinden ben de nasibimi aldım. Sürekli yazacak şeyler de birikiyor.Ama bir türlü yazamiyorum. Vizelerden çıkıp finallere giriyorum..muzikleri yaz havasına soktum. Evde bahar temizliği çoktan yapildi ohoo.. Ritmler kulakliktan fışkırıyor. Vapurda yanimdaki kadın kesin “nasıl dinliyor bu” diyordur ama oluyor bazen işte..ben ki hep slow seven insan, bazen bildiginiz club dinleyesim geliyor..
Mesela şunu mutlaka dinleyin – beautiful monster. Insanın içine yaz heyecanı katiyor bence.
Belki hayat zor, belki sıcak sizi kavuruyor ofis koltuğunda..saymak istemiyorum olumsuz ihtimalleri..sadece bunu acip bir 5 dk dans edin..eğer isteyseniz de caktirmadan ayaginizla ritm mi tutarsınız, yoksa evi beklemeniz mi gerek bilmiyorum..Bir ara sadece dans edin evin içinde ve her şeyi unutun..yazı kutlayin..kendinizi kutlayin..bekleyin her nereye gidiyorsak biz geliyoruz..himmm iskeleye de yaklastik..gitme zamani.
Bu arada…deniz kokusu geliyor.