Elen's comfort zone

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🌸 This post is going to be used as this blog's "About" and will be amended accordingly 🌸

🌸 My name is Elen and welcome to my blog, hope you'll feel comfortable here 🤗 🌸

🌸 The purpose of this blog is to keep a record in time and space of things I consider important to me and wouldn't like to forget, some more and some less cheerful, and which I feel comfortable sharing on the web. Since I already have 3 others active thematic blogs which I run for years, this one probably won't be as active, but it's the most personal one.🌸

❌⛔❌ On this blog every form of hate speech/bullying/discrimination/extreme behaviour is not welcome and whoever engages themselves in comments and behaviour of aforementioned issues is going to be immediately reported and blocked. Please be kind ❌⛔❌

🌸 Languages I speak are Italian 🇮🇹, Croatian 🇭🇷 and English 🇬🇧, while German 🇩🇪, Swedish 🇸🇪 and Spanish 🇪🇸 are languages I somewhat understand and would like to learn better.

🌸 This blog is mainly in English 🇬🇧, because more people understands it and in my humble opinion, since I don't use it every day actively, this is a handy way of practicing it on a daily basis, so I wouldn’t forget how to speak it and use it kind of properly.

🌸 Feel free to hit me up if you want to 😊 🌸

Some more info about me are:

🌸 23 years old 👱🏻‍♀️

🌸 From Croatia (Istria) 🇭🇷

🌸 Loves cacti and succulents 🌵

🌸 Univ. Bacc. Geol, hoping to finish my Geophysics master degree soon 💎🔨👷🏼‍♀️

🌸 Scout, currently a rover 🏕️

🌸 Simple board-games and old pc games enthusiast 🎲

🌸 INFJ-T, therefore quite shy with strangers 😶

🌸 Not a fan of social networks, in fact, Tumblr and Vero are the only accounts of mine currently active, while 9gag and sometimes Reddit are the only "forums" I visit 📵

🌸 Amateur photography 📸

🌸 Favourite colours are violet, baby pink and green 🌈

🌸 Used to be quite creative, no I draw or sew or create rarely 🎨

🌸 Watches anime every now and then, loves crime series 📺

🌸 Enjoys camping and spending time in nature 🏞️

🌸 Animal lover 🐢

🌸 This blog should be full of ©️ personal original posts (photos, videos, gifs, thoughts, music taste and so on), therefore please do not repost them (or if you do, don't forget the credits oe you'll be reported) and occasional reblogs 🔄

🌸 Not a fan of emojis, just wanted to make it look a bit friendlier, so I added them 😅

🌸 Please do not reblog this post 🌸

🌸 Some of my personalised tags (probably more are going to be added in future):

#elenblr (general)

#elen studies (university stuff)

#elen plays (board games)

#elen watches (movies, shows, anime)

#elen eats (food I eat/ate)

#elen's art (sometimes I draw and such)

#elen's playlist (music taste)

#elen's moments (events)

#elen's mood (self-explanatory tag)

#elen's food (food I prepare)

🌸 Warmly,

Elen 🌸

🍒🌸 Cherry tree is in blossom, spring is around the corner 🌸🍒

Unexpected encounter

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This evening I came across these aforementioned 3 letters from Santa, so I decided to try to send another one this year, more than 10 years after the last one was sent, because I wanna know wheter this is still active and feel the childlike joy of getting back a letter from Santa once again ^^

On the left is the 2005 letter in Italian, in the middle is the 2006 letter in English and on the right is the 2009 letter in English as well:

If anyone's interested, the address is in the picture below and also written a little bit updated below the pictures :)

Santa Claus' Main Post Office

Tähtikuja 1

96930 ARCTIC CIRCLE / Rovaniemi

FINLAND

(A quick Google Search brought me to Santa's Official web page, where I checked the address once again before posting it :) )

EDIT:

This morning I went to check once again what's up with Santa's Main Post Office and I found out that people can pay around 9€ (if I remember correctly) to get Santa's Christmas letter on time for Christmas, which I don't know whether is a new option or the same as the Spring letter I would get for free from the same place 10-15 years ago.

Here's the link for the web page from where people can order a letter from Santa Claus, if anyone's interested :)

⚫⚪ Black on white quick doodles I made with a pencil, some colour pencils, black gel pens and black sharpies on an A6 sketchbook for the 2018 Inktober ⚪⚫

🍝 Homemade pljukanci with pesto 🍝

The recipe for pljukanci, a traditional pasta from the inner Istria, is very simple (video as a reference)

Ingredients:

You're going to need some smooth flour (some people use for the dough a mixture of both smooth and sharp flour), hot/boiling water and fine-grained salt. Some people tend to add an egg or two too, but it is not necessary.

Procedure:

In the recipe, the amount of all ingredients goes deductively, in relation to the amount of pasta someone wants to prepare. The flour needs to be sifted first, then salt is added on a board or in a bowl where the sifted flour is, and then little by little boiled water is added, so you can begin to knead the dough. The dough is adequate when its consistency is a little harder than the one of the dough which is used for homemade bread. Let the dough rest for about half an hour, then start making rolls of dough of the diameter of approximately 2cm, flatten those rolls a bit and the cut them into small slices. Roll each of these slices on the palms of your hands in such a way as to obtain a spindle-shaped piece of pasta. Now pljukanci are ready to be thrown into a pot and cooked. They are being cooked for around 10-15 minutes, depending on how who likes it.

Serving:

Pljukanci are great with homemade goulash (šugo) or with salsa or pesto or whatever suits them. Bon appetit!

* Raw pljukanci can be frozen for another time, just like in the picture below :)

Yesterday I ate the best homemade ice-cream in a long time! 🥰🍨

The service was very kind, they even put 3 scoops of ice cream in my bowl for the price of 1 (8 HRK ~ 1 € ~ 1,25 $), since I couldn't decide which flavour I wanted 🤤 (yes, of course we left a tip too, they really deserved it! Besides great ice cream, best service in a long time, too. I mean, they put so much ice cream in my portion, that I even struggled to finish it and I asked my dad for a little help 😱) The light brown one was Mon Cheri, the dark brown was Jaffa and the whiteish one was Oreo-Raspberry

Today I found out my Petrology exam is in about 2 weeks