Back to school 2016

Today was my first day of school; that's it, back to routine! For the few past weeks, I've seen so many videos/posts/pins about back to school and I wasn't into it at all. But at the end my thought was, 'what better way to go back to school than with positivity and lots of motivations?'; and here it is, my back to school post!

I feel like having nice school supplies makes you want to use them and do a nice work. However, that doesn't mean you have to buy expensive super-cool supplies every year, actually I've been using most of mine for years; the thing is that you can add your personal touch to them by using some washi tapes, metalized color markers, colourful wrapping paper... Also I think that having a good care it's important, so your pens and pencils will still look like new after you have used them for months. Here there are some 'back to school' mini DIY's, from Pinterest :)

And that's my back to school set!

• My weekly planner: can this be more easy to make? I love how this DIY looks on my desk and it's also very useful! You can get it in just a few steps: 1. Go to Microsoft Word (horitzontal orientation) and use the text box tool to organize the days and whatever you would like to have in your planner (like notes or a 'to do list', like I did). 2. Customize it with cool fonts (I get mine from dafont.com) and Word's own settings. 3. Choose one or two matching colours to give your planner some life and print it! 4. You can stick it to a cardboard (tip: previously wrapped with craft paper) and decorate it with washi tape and clips, for example. Done!

• Mint agenda: I got this lovely academic year agenda for just £1!, from a shop in London, Poundland. I absolutely love it, it's got the perfect colour, the perfect size and the perfect design, and not to talk about the prize...

• School supplies: Nothing is missing in my suitcase!; pens, markers, pencils, post-its, highlighters, rubber and sharpener, calculator, a ruler, scissors, colour pencils, scissors... It tends to get a little bit messy...

We have to be realistic, we know that our school supplies don't look always like this picture or Pinterest back-to-school pictures, especially after at the middle of the year... But that's how to get into it; nice supplies, positivity and projects in mind! 

I wish the best for the first day of school (if you aren't back yet) and for the rest of the academic year! 

See you soon,

Paula

In my bookshelf: Frozen Yogurt

Hi again!

Because I'm really excited about this blog, today I wanted to start a new section, which I've called "In my bookshelf". Although I love reading and I have several novels I would like to recommend for a good read, in this section I'm not going to talk about them. The entries will be about other kind of books; recipies books (like this one!), illustrated books, guides, simply nice books, with lots of inspirations... Creative, different and special books!

So the one I'm talking about in this post (I think I can't call it reviewing) is about frozen yoghurt. It might sound a little bit strange; "a book about frozen yoghurt?", that's it and it is a delicious book!

The autors are two sisters, Constance and Mathilde Lorenzi, owners of the frozen yoghurt shop "It Mylk" in Paris. They share more than 60 recipes (including milkshakes and cupcakes), the secret of a 0% frozen yoghurt and some topping suggestions to try at home! 

The book is originally in French but I got it while my stay in Italy last year, so it's in Italian which I can pretty much understand, but, anyway, thanks Google Transalte! The good news is that I've found out that they have realese an english version available online, HERE.

Paula