Hey, yesterday was my birthday (I won't say which one), but yesterday was also another significant day in my and Ēriks's life - exactly the 100th day since we no longer have a television at home in the classical sense. That is, there is a fairly large LED screen in our living room, but no television lives inside it. I'll admit it - one fantastic choice in the modern age.
Pantone codes are a familiar thing for anyone who works with graphic design programmes, draws layouts, illustrations, or processes images. Likewise, every self-respecting company - or at least its marketing specialist - knows the corporate Pantone codes by heart. Until now I had not been following these official Colors of the Year, but had been guided by the principle of "like-dislike", "goes together-doesn't go together", "readable-not readable". But it's never too late to learn something new, is it?
This Wednesday, Susan Harmsworth, the founder of the ESPA brand, visited Riga. A charming, 72-years-young lady full of vitality and at the same time thoughtfully accumulated life wisdom. Her philosophy, reflected in ESPA hotels across every corner of the world, is mindfulness. What exactly does this mean and how does it relate to appearance?
It's now been a full week since not even a crumb of inspiration has come to write anything for the blog - only the necessary texts for work. This morning I woke up with a certain irritation: where has my inspiration gone? I look out of the window - everything is already turning green, but the sky is overcast; suddenly, along with raindrops from the sky, large snowflakes begin to fall. A splendid backdrop for crawling back into bed, pulling the duvet over your head, and not starting anything at all.
Movement is no longer butterfly-like. Everyone is flying in flocks. Herd instinct. Meerkats and penguins try to huddle closer together so as not to freeze. Time to say goodbye, to part, to leave someone or be left. The perfect time to feel melancholy.
As of today, I have become a girl with a sun tattoo. The idea came to me suddenly when my colleagues asked whether there was a special wish for something I'd like to receive as a birthday gift. I had a clear sense of the sun image very quickly, but spent a long time searching online before I found the right sun, which I carefully traced with a black marker pen onto white paper, adding shadows to give it a touch of individuality.
This will be a purely girls' conversation (guys, sorry) - the kind where friends settle in comfortably at the dressing table and start pulling out their cosmetics cases or bags to share their experience of which beauty product is a real find. Here are a few cosmetics products that I find good enough in quality to talk about and even recommend to others.
It seems spring won't keep us waiting long this year. But along with the first sunny days, alternating with grey and rainy ones, spring fatigue sets in too. How to get through this transitional period and preserve your inner energy and zest for life? I'd like to share a few tips on what you could do to help.
For a couple of weeks now, residents of Sarkandaugava, drivers and pedestrians on Tvaika Street have been able to watch drawings taking shape on the wall of the Riga Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology. More precisely - they are words, letters, syllables, illustrated by black-and-white images: flowers, birds, faces.