my love for vintage and antique (tea set)

So at first let me tell you when i decided to take pictures for these gorgeous pieces i only had few oatmeal cookies so i made some tea just because i wanna take pictures and i prepared every thing i put the cookies in the little white dish which is also vintage but it will be displayed in another post any way i went up stairs to get the camera and when i came down  well the cookies has disappeared and i didn't know who did it :( who took the cookies noooooo because the once that were in the room they were about to get out and when i came down they were gone now i am left with four

So i had two choices delay the photo shoot and make more cookies or do it with only four cookies so obviously i chose to do it so lets get started 

I am in LOVE with vintage and antique pieces i think i could make a thousand post about vintage ok i am over reacting now any way but really i could make a lot of posts about them cause i have so many that i bought and there are so many in the house mostly from the old house that we use to live in it was a really really an old house that i use to live in and all the furniture and stuff were like from 40s up to 90s so we still have some of those things like these pieces that i am showing you in this post

I am gonna tell you how i take care of these beautiful precious pieces

the key of preventing them from breaking is using them i know that vintage is suppose to be displayed and no body should touch it or use it at least this what they use to tell me and i remember when i was younger like 13 or 14 one day i heard on the radio car that you should use your vintage pieces or any glass piece if you wanna keep them for a really long time if not for ever and since i showed interest in vintage i  kept that in my mind that i should use it and i think it totally works 

if you don't wanna use them for any reason you should at least wash them like once a week or once every tow week you really should and when you are washing them wash really really carefully and one by one don't bump them together and store them in a place that you don't have kids that could reach them and you don't have something in the same place that you use very oftenly or you open the cabinet so many times and bump things to this and that 

What i do is that i store all the vintage pieces that are in the kitchen in one department of the cabinet so no body has to open it cause there's nothing that they need in there and 

so that way you are preventing breaking them

what i love about these pieces and antiques in general is the pattern on them they are so pretty oh my god i cant even describe how beautiful i see those

Can you see how pretty each piece is

i love the details

hopefully you enjoyed this post and hopefully you will fall in love with antique pieces and if you have some take care of them cause these are just Amazing

and hopefully my English is understandable

  

CARE FOR THE OLD PRECIOUS PIECES AND

ENJOY THEM

NWSSA

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chickpeas salad my favourite lately

OK i am loving this salad that i started doing for the last month and i am still doing it i am not bored yet so that means only one thing its that good woohoo and every one in the house are loving it so that's always a plus so lets get to our ingredients

1- 2 tomatoes

2- 1 cucumber

3- 2 hot peppers i used 2 Thai peppers i know a little bit hot but i love it

4- 1 carrot

5- a half green bell pepper

6- few mint leafs

7- a little bit of coriander

8- and of course chickpeas you can use canned but i don't i like doing it my self so i boiled mine in an electric pot pressure

For the dressing olive oil , soy sauce or vinegar any kind you like

but in this recipe i used soy sauce with the olive oil

and as i always say you can add or remove what ever you like

now put your chickpeas in a larger bowl

and then chop your other ingredients and add them to your chickpeas

and then add in your soy sauce and olive oil

then mix every thing together

and enjoy eating

 this amount lasted for three people for lunch and i had leftovers for dinner too

here is my lunch

and here is my dinner

this salad makes you full as well

hope that you will try this and add in what ever you like just make smart healthy choices

The nutrition facts :

TOMATOES 
has a good amount of Vitamins A and C which are considered antioxidant which is good for preventing cell damage, K which is good for your bones, folate, potassium. thiamin, niacin, vitamin B6, magnesium, phosphorus and copper these are good for your health and it also gives you a good amount of fiber 
tomatoes makes your skin look great because of the beta-carotene that helps to protect skin against sun damage and tomatoes also helps your skin protection from UV rays which is a leading cause of fine lines and wrinkles

very good source of chromium, which regulate blood sugar.

prevent kidney stones and gallstones.

CUCUMBERS
are 95% water so it keeps you hydrated , and it contains a vitamin C

BELL PEPPER
vitamin C and E it also contain zeaxanthin which keeps your eyes healthy and might reduce your risk of age related eye disorder


THAI PEPPERS
vitamin A,C,E,K and i just wanna say that the amount of the vitamin C is really high in it its up to 80% of the daily use and that depends on all kinds of hot peppers in general 
And it also has sodium and other things 


CARROTS
has a high amount of vitamin A it also has vitamin C,E,K and others
it has potassium,manganese and also other minerals and dietary fibers

 MINT LEAVES  
it has vitamin A,C and other things.Its good for your digesting , eliminating toxins And i heard that it cleanses the blood so yeah.

CORIANDER  
Vitamin K , C , E, folic acid , and also has potassium , magnesium , It increases HDL cholesterol the good cholesterol and reduce LDL cholesterol the bad cholesterol and its good for the stomach as well.




SOY SAUCE
has tryptophan , manganese , protein and vitamin B3 in it

OLIVE OIL
has MUFAs which are actually considered a healthy dietary fat

CHICKPEAS
 has proteins , folate , thiamin , vitamin B6 , K , dietary fibers , total carbohydrate , a high amount of manganese , copper , zinc , potassium , phosphorus , iron , calcium
and others of course

 So these are the facts that i managed to put into this post to help you and there are so much more 
I just wanna say that you should research about the food that you are eating and you will know more about what you are putting in your body .

 

MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES AND ENJOY

NWSSA

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Healthy salad dressing

   

hello and welcome to a new healthy post from me well this is my new addiction and it started like 3 months ago when my favorite seasonal citrus disappeared from my tree in the back yard which is bitter orange (sour orange) and i saved some in the fridge but i used them of course and i love using soy sauce and vinegar as dressings for my salads i wanted a new thing because i was getting board of them specially the vinegar i still use it on top of my salads though but not as often i love changing because i eat salad every day and i get board faster so yup any way lets get into it
 Here are the ingredients 

1- 2tbsp of mayonnaise i personally used a natural light mayonnaise in virgin olive oil

2- virgin olive oil i used extra virgin oil this depends on the amount of the dressing so yeah

3- low sodium soy sauce and this also depends on the amount of the dressing that you want 

4- spices: 1/2 tsp black pepper , 1/4 tsp white pepper , 1/2tsp hot pepper (chili powder) , 1/2 tsp garlic powder

you can add or remove any thing you want as well

Now lets get started 

First of all put the 2 tbsp of mayonnaise in a little bowl

and after that add a little bit of olive oil like a 1 tbsp on your mayonnaise  

now mix it very well with a fork or a small spoon in the beginning it will be weird but when you keep on mixing it it will turn out into something like this

after that add in your spices and i just wanna say you don't have to follow the recipe exactly just use what ever you like and then mix them all together 

now add in like a 1 tbsp of the soy sauce that your using

and mix it very well

now if the amount that you just prepared is enough go ahead and put on your salad and enjoy it but if it isn't then you can add in a little bit more of olive oil and soy sauce to make it more than it is 

so that's what i did here

and here

now its ready.

One of my favorite salads lately is tomatoes and almonds yummmmm you should try it is so easy and yummy

and you can add this dressing on top of any kind of salads that you like as well basically you can do what ever you like

you mix it or you don't still yummy as hell

i said this too much already but don't follow any recipe by the book exactly recipes are made to make you have an idea of what you are preparing you can change it and do your own thing

Do your own thing and remember to make healthy choices

ENJOY

NWSSA

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a late introduction

This post was suppose to be the first but obviously its not sooo yeah any ways i am writing it now so lets get started i am nwssa well my mum and the close people calls me nwssa i live in Kurdistan which is in the upper part of iraq and its independent so yup i am half Armenian quarter Turkish and quarter Kurdish (iraqian kurdish) so yeah i was born on August 3rd 1990 at 6AM :) and since i was a little girl i loved loved writing i have three note books full of stories that i created when i was younger and recipes that i invented and oh my god lots of stuff and i have a short story that was published in a local news paper when i was 16 and it was a huge huge deal at a time i still have the news paper of course i started this blog a long time ago and never published any thing on it cause i thought that no one would read it and i was a very insecure person so i was like thinking that people were judging me all the time and all that jazz while no body gives a s*** so if there will be some one reading this blog or not i will keep on writing it cause there is just something about writing makes me feel so good and happy and i really wanna share what i know.

I have a degree in  electronic communication and now i am studying computer science i didn't decide my specialization yet though , any ways i used to be fat and i lost weight i didn't achieve my goal weight yet but i lost most of it and i will make a separate blog post about it and i used to wear oh god OK the ugliest and the most unflattering clothes and colors but i changed as well i needed allot of work but i am so happy with the results that i achieved and i will make a blog post about this as well

I am crazy about skin care and i love fashion , decorating , food , writing , photography , reading and planting i will be having posts about every thing yaay i have seen allot in my life and am sure i have so much more to see and share .

never complain and be happy with what you have and enjoy your Life

NWSSA

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DIY/transformation

transforming a fake chanel handbag

well i got this hand bag like 3 weeks ago from my cousins wife as a present when they came to visit us and she got me this fake chanel handbag now let me tell you about the fake things in my country they are exactly the same as the original they don't change any thing from the original brand name its just the same and so much cheaper of course and i personal hate fake things why would i wanna buy a fake hand bag aaaaa i really hated this handbag and i was too close from give in it away to somebody else that doesn't care about the fake part and then i wanted to try to change it which is something i do since i was a little girl i was always changing the things that i had so some one else wont have the same thing as i do and i still do that so i decided to give the fake handbag a try hope i inspire you to be creative and see the things from another angle i personal imagine the thing in my head and i usually know exactly or kinda close from how its gonna turn into so lets get started

                                                             

here is the before

the first thing  i did was that i removed the chain and the "chanel" symbol or logo what is that called any ways i just removed it

then i took off a piece of the chain then i split them of each other just like in the picture below

then on the little closer opening i added a one ring but make sure that you are placing both of the sides in and out between the chain piece and use this plies tool to tighten it but don't do it now OH i made the mistake for you trust you don't wanna tighten any thing because things gonna be moving and the leather gonna come out of the ring and it will take you for ever to open back the ring just like it did with me so Yeah i am talking like every one has the same bag that i have and gonna do the same thing i did with it LOL any ways lets continue

now place them one by one and make sure that both of the side are between the ring and keep on doing that

all this will take you half an hour that's how it took me so yeah and after you are done and satisfied with it then began to tighten them

And at first i placed the rest of the chain this way the style is unique and not available in the stores I've never seen any thing like it in my city but its available in other countries i am sure

I just wanna say that the other side i didn't leave it without any thing because there are tow openings for the original chain so i placed a little chain to make it look nicer

and then i began to hold it walk with it look at the look in the mirror and i wasn't sure about it to be honest it wasn't so functional for me personally 

so i added an extensional chain to it because it got shorter than it was because i took too many rings for the closure area so i believe that you can buy a chain or have it from something you don't use any more that has a chain having an extra chain is an easy thing i believe

And here is the final result yaaay i really love the way it turned out i went out with my friends the other day and they all asked me from where i got it so that's always a good sign that you have a special unique beautiful piece which i love to have

Here its hanging on my vintage closet 

all i wanna say is that you just have to be creative open your mind because every single person has a vision and that's what makes you different i always try to change the stuff that i have or i buy cheap stuff and change them to something beautiful and unique that people will thing i spent allot of money on while i didn't

always be creative and enjoy your creations
NWSSA