Welcome lovelies!

Welcome welcome everyone!:) I am glad you found your way to this healthy lifestyle blog and a big thank you for reading!

A bit about me:

I am Jane - a girl with an extreme passion for food, wine, travelling, exercising, media and pretty things. I am originally from Estonia, but living in England at the moment, just about to graduate Bournemouth University doing Communication and Media.  My dream is to travel the world after graduating and explore different tastes and cultures of various countries. I became passionate about food very suddenly around the age of 16-17. I started experimenting with different recipes, started loving cooking more and more and decided to enter a couple of cooking competitions in Estonia. I didn't get through the finals of the first one unfortunately, but I did compete in the finals of the second one when I was 18 (the photo of the dish I grilled at the finals can be found below). Unfortunately I did not win, but I was happy I had even gotten so far. The judges said that all the finalists recipes could go straight to the restaurants menus:))) That made me really happy and it made me want to cook even more. From that time onwards I have been cooking at home as a hobby, but I do feel like I would like to share my recipes with others and also have them written down somewhere so that my children/grandchildren (I do not have children currently) could  maybe also try out some of my recipes one day.

My dish at the finals

As I already mentioned, I do have a passion for wines as well. While being a student here in Bournemouth, I have not really had a chance to enjoy wines as much as I was hoping to - student life is different. But before coming to England, me and my boyfriend (now ex-boyfriend) used to always buy expensive wines between the two of us and enjoy and explore every sip of it. We loved watching the tv-show 'Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure'. In 2010 we also went to a wine course to learn more about different wines. We loved it! My favourite wines are - Pinot Noir, Riesling and Gewürtztraminer. I love others as well, but these are the particular favourites at the moment. I am planning to go to either Spain or Italy with my mom soon to have a little wine trip, so I will definitely write about it in this blog.

I also enjoy exercising. I've had a gym membership as long as I remember and for me exercising is like therapy. I think the quote 'You are only one workout away from a good mood' is totally correct. Whenever I felt down here in England, I went to gym or a studio class and when I walked out of the gym, I felt great - like a totally different person that I was when I first entered the gym. I did cancel my gym membership this winter, as the gym was a bit too far away and I was scared to walk through the park in the dark, as my friend had an incident etc. I also have been working on my dissertation daily and every night so I have not physically had time to go to gym, but I have been working out at home. I even bought myself a kettlebell :) I am always for a lookout for different exercise routines that can be done at home, so if anyone knows any - send it my way!:) My favourite so far is the Toneitupcom channel on Youtube, you should check it out! 

Being a media student, I also love advertising, marketing, graphic design and journalism. I had a placement in Cosmopolitan magazine in Estonia. I abolutely LOVED working there - all the people there were nice and positive, the office was amazing - we had our own make-up table with a lot of make-up and nail polishes we could borrow!! how amazing is that:) I just overall really enjoyed this experience - I loved writing for them, I liked translating articles. I might still write for them in the future, if they need me to. Unfortunately they do not have any positions available at the moment. Currently I am also writing for UrbanTimes (urbantimes.co). I have written 1 article to them, but am planning to write many more. Why I said I love advertising, marketing and graphic design? Because I studied them in uni (currently still studying advertising) and these were the units I enjoyed the most. I am also a marketing officer for a Business society in Bournemouth Uni - I do all the posters for them and manage their Facebook page. I enjoy InDesign and Photoshop and I am planning to take up more courses on them after graduating.

Pretty things- who doesn't love pretty things? I just dream all the time to once have my very own flat/house that I could decorate myself. Many would not probably spend a majority of their wages on decorations or pretty things for their home, but thats what I would definitely do. It really makes a difference to me if food is served on a pretty red plate rather than on a plain white plate or having a pretty lampshade instead of a boring one. These small things make me very happy. 

Huh, I've written far more about myself than I anticipated to.. Oh well, now you know quite a lot about me and if you have any questions - you're more than welcome to ask.

A bit about this blog: 

As you can probably already guess - this blog is mainly about food. I will post different recipes here, product reviews, restaurant reviews, new interesting foods I have tried, a bit about wines, a bit about exercising, if I find some new videos or pages and a bit about travelling. It might all vary, but this is the plan:)

I hope you enjoy reading this blog and will learn something new:)

Jane x