thank you
Lifestyle Thoughts

A thank you letter to you, my dear readers

My dear, beautiful readers and followers on social media. I’m not good with verbal expressions, awkward, actually. But I dare say, I’m a bit better at expressing myself through writing. When you tell me you read my blogs and/or give me feedback on my posts, it warms my heart. Even so, it’s hard to express, …

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Biology Gardening Lifestyle

Indoor plant collection and updates

I currently keep the following plants: I water them all once a week, each with the same amount of water. Except In December and January it’s every other week only to prevent from complete drying and not to disturb their dormancy. I fertilise them every year in the months from February to June. I add …

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Lace jewellery
Art & DIY Lifestyle

Lace jewellery

We’ll be talking about a specific brand that goes by the name Klekljančki. We all like pretty things and jewellery definitely belongs in this category. It’s very important to know where the materials come from, since the precious metal and stone industry are large environmental issues. Thus I prefer to buy, I rarely do, but …

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Art & DIY Lifestyle

Make your own yearly planner

This is only a partial DIY, as we will be using an existing notebook or binding planner, just adding our own created calendar of mothly and daily sheets. Making the monthly calendar Design-wise there are a lot of options (Canva, One note, Powerpoint, printables from Pinterest, etc.). I tried all of the listed and learned …

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Khaki-mango pudding
Recipes

Khaki-mango breakfast

Ingredients (for one): 3 ripe khakis (depends on the size, can be 2 if larger, 4 if smaller) 1 mango a pinch of cinnamon (optional) Cut all fruits to smaller pieces. If khaki is very ripe, there’s no need for cutting as you basically pour it into the blender. Blend, pour into a bowl, add …

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Thoughts

Happy 2023

May it be imperfectly perfect, full of fun days and weeks, colourful and blossoming. I wish you all the success you want for yourself and that you happily set and reach your goals. Best of everything and full of love.

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Lifestyle Thoughts

Bloganuary

Welcome to bloganuary, where you will receive a new email, informing you about a new blog post every day in January. We’ll talk about a bit of everything – as usual here. You’re welcome to bear with me through this month, to comment, also send me ideas on topics you are interested in and want …

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Importance of epiphytes in ecosystems
Biology

Ecological importance and adaptations of epiphytes

Definition An epiphyte is an organism that grows on another living organism. Highly diverse, occurring from forest floor to tree crowns. These plants only receive physical support from the host, but not nutrients, although they may injure it. Fully autotrophic plants are referred to as true epiphytes, but there are also epiphytic bacteria, fungi, algae, …

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Importance of riparian vegetation for water bodies
Biology environment

Importance of riparian vegetation for water bodies

Riparian area is a transitional semiterrestrial/semiaquatic biome, the interface between land and river or stream extending from the edges of water bodies to the edges of upland regions. This area includes flood plains and landscapes closely surrounding streams, rivers, vernal pools, ephemeral streams, ponds and lakes. Plant habitat along water bodies is riparian vegetation, consisted of hydrophilic …

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