In today´s post I´d like to show you my handmade crystal jewelry, and in particular, bracelets and rings made with sodalite, and yellow topaz.
This bracelet is made with yellow topaz, rose quartz, and a vintage porcelain decorative bead from Italy🌟
Yellow topaz allows stability and balance to enter one´s life. You can use this crystal to manifest your deepest desires. This gemstone allows your intentions to align with the divine will. This beautiful crystal brings clarity and inner peace to a person.
Rose quartz has a gentle blush- pink colour and is known as the crystal for matters of the heart. It emits powerful, nurturing vibrations to your heart chakra, which can be used to boost self- love, emotional balance, friendship and romance. It helps to lower stress levels and dissipate feelings of resentment, upset and jealousy.
The other bracelet (and a matching ring) that I wanted to show you is made with sodalite, freshwater pearls, and the same decorative bead.
Sodalite is traditionally associated with communication and intellectualism.
It´s tought to improve clarity, self- expression, intuition, insight, wisdom, emotional stability, and calm.
Sodalite is frequently recommended for artists, writers and other creatives.
Sodalite is also awakener of the Third eye, the centre of our perception and command. It directs our sight and everyday awareness of the world.
The inner glow of pearls is thought to tap inner wisdom and nurture love. Pearls are also believed to signify innocence and faith. Practitioners use pearls to enhance personal integrity, to bring truth forward, inhibit immodest behaviour and advance in wisdom.
When I create my jewelry, I always feel excitement, and it´s all about bringing positive feelings and authenticity to the table!
🌟 Authenticity 🌟 Living your life freely, expressing who you really are at the very core of existence, without fear of being judged, miss understood, labelled or ridiculed by others. Without fear of “not making it”, or not being “enough “. Shining your light brightly and never letting others dim it. Standing at the source and fulfilling your life’s mission by just- being yourself ❤️
Holiday season is just around the corner! If you’d like to treat yourself or someone you love with a special, custom made jewellery piece, make your order now, don’t wait the last minute!
I hand make all of my jewellery and also charge it for you with the beautiful energy of my garden and my trees.
I’m already starting to accept your orders for Christmas so drop me a line if interested 📩 that way your gift can arrive in time and just the way you wanted it🥰
This past weekend we went to the nearby town Labin in Istria, and we visited the park of sculptures "Dubrova".
We noticed this park a few months ago, when we were on an organized tour with Alfa Romeo cars, and we stopped there for a quick rest.
We didn´t have much time free to explore this park then,
but we promised to ourselves that we would visit it again, and next time, with our bikes!
And this is exactly what we did, the past Saturday! It was nice, sunny weather (a bit chilly, but this didn´t stop us from going to explore this park with our bikes!).
The park is really beautiful, very spacious and full of interesting statues made by croatian artists.
It´s also a great place for picnics, especially in spring time. I´m sure we´ll visit this park again! 😊
After our fun bike ride, we got hungry and went to eat pizza. We were very curious to try pizzas at "the best pizza place in Labin", pizzeria "Napoli". My hubby is italian, and I lived in Italy for many years, so we know pizza and how good pizza should taste!
And luckily, this pizza from pizza place "Napoli" in Labin, truly is fantastic, an explosion of flavors!
I´m very grateful to have spent such a lovely Saturday with my family, it´s such a blessing!
If you guys ever find yourselves in Istria, close to Labin and Rabac, you must visit the park of sculptures and this pizza place, "Napoli", you won´t be disappointed!
Thanks for stopping by my friends!
There is a new "slow life vlog" on my youtube channel if you´d like to take a look at what was I up to & how my week went!
I went second hand shopping in "Textile House" second hand store, and let me tell you, it was a success!
I also did some grocery shopping, meditated in my garden, and I talked about Feng Shui school that I started attending this fall.
I also vlogged about this park and our visit to it, but I´m now working on editing it, so I´ll post it here when it´s ready & live on my channel!
Also, I wanted to mention, regarding my YouTube channel, we´re almost at 8000 subscribers!
Hopefully we get there before the New Year, I´ll try to film as often as possible during December (hopefully I´ll be able to do Vlogmas!)
U danasnjem postu radim recenziju L´Adria seruma, "Instant Revitalizing Serum", koji me osvojio svojom kvalitetom pa sam vam ga htjela ovdje preporuciti 🥰
L´Adria proizvode otkrila sam tek nedavno i moram vam priznati, isprve sam bila malo skepticna prema njima, zbog toga sto sam vidjala dosta njihovih reklama na drustvenim mrezama, a kada su placene reklame u pitanju, ne vjerujem bas "influencerima" 😅😅
Odlucila sam se na kupovinu jer su me zaintrigirale njihove maskice za okoloocno podrucje (isprobala, fantasticne, slijedi recenzija u jednom od iducih postova🥰), pa buduci da su mi se toliko svidjele, odlucila sam isprobati jos poneki proizvod iz njihove ponude.
Instant Revitalizing Serum oni opisuju kao "morski eliksir mladosti", proizvod koji trenutno izgladuje bore, ekstremno hidratizira, a prirodan je i bez mirisa.
"Bas sve sto sam u jednom takvom serumu i trazila", odusevljeno sam pomislila.
I zaista, l´Adria serum za trenutnu revitalizaciju, daje kao rezultat hidratiziranu i mladoliku kozu.
Sadrzi koncentriranu tajnu snagu algi Jadrana, jednog od najciscih mora svijeta, kojom se alge stite od dehidrirajuceg slanog okolisa.
Morske alge i morski kolagen sastojci su ovog seruma koji ima zaista nevjerojatno intenzivan efekt hidratacije i prodire duboko u kozu te trenutno smanjuje vidljivost bora.
Proizvod se nanosi ujutro, ili uvecer na cistu kozu lica, a odmah nakon seruma nanijeti hidratantnu kremu.
O njemu sam napravila i video recenziju:
A evo i mali l´Adria skincare haul:
Ovo su neki od proizvoda koje sam si nedavno kupila i moram ih pohvaliti jer su mi zaista TOP!
L´Adria Instant Revitalizing Serum is a product I just recently discovered and I like it so much that I wanted to share this quick recommendation with you.
I bought this product with my own money, I´m in no way sponsored by them, and this is my honest opinion. If you get a chance, try out something from this brand because their products are truly fantastic and one of a kind.
"Marine Elixir of Youth" is how they call this serum🥰
It instantly smoothes wrinkles, provides extreme hydration, and it´s pure, natural and perfume free.
This serum contains sea algae and marine collagen. You can apply it generously to cleansed face in the morning or evening, avoiding the contact with the eyes.
Immediately afterwards, apply your moisturizing cream.
L´Adria instant revitalizing serum captures the secret power of algae from the Adriatic, they have incredibly intense hydrating effect and instantly reduce visibility of wrinkles.
Overall, it is a great face serum and I´ll be very happy to buy it again, and also to test out some other products from this croatian brand.
I got a few other skin care products from l´Adria and I honestly love them so much!
Check out my haul video to find out more about these products ❤️
Today I´d like to show you a little shopping that I did over the past couple of months 😊 These are all Sezane items, and everything is second hand. You guys know that I´m a big fan of Sezane, but also a big fan of second hand shopping🥰
Combining Sezane and second hand shopping is great because you get true gems for just a fraction of the price! Obviously it´s important to make sure that you´re getting the real deal (the original Sezane, not the copy!), and that the item you´re purchasing is in a good condition, without flaws.
I shared some of my tips & tricks of successful second hand shopping in this youtube video:
This video is also a try on haul, but I also took a few shots of the items to show you guys here how everything looks like!
I got this gorgeous Sezane silk dress 🥰 I´m in love with this shade of green, and metallic gold details that accentuate the dress. The dress is 100% silk, so it´s very nice against your skin.
I´m in ❤️ with this 👗!
Next item is this super cute black polka dot blouse. I´m not a big fan of black clothing items, and you can rearely see me wearing black, but this piece is timeless, and I can combine it with jeans and maybe a colorful belt, some fun accessories, to create a more trendy and youthful look!
The next items are these polka dot shorts, another clothing item that will always be in style! These are my favourite summertime shorts! The material is cotton, and they are very flattering, being a bit more high waisted, with the cute belt that ties into a bow and accentuates your body figure.
Hopefully I don´t gain any weight, (lol😅), so I can wear them for many, many years, as a part of my summer wardrobe essentials😊
Next item I wanted to show you is this gorgeous red blouse, made of 100% silk😊 It´s just fabulous! I´m in love with the colours, as well as the composition, as it feels so nice against the skin.
In summertime especially, it´s important to choose natural materials such as silk, cotton, linen, which make you sweat less, and make you feel really good during the heat.
I also like the "boho chic" feel this blouse has, it´s definitely my style. I don´t wear red very often, but I do like it and I feel very energized when wearing such vibrant, bright colour.
Next item that I found is this cute powdery pink bag, a combination of leather and suede. It´s so cute and perfect for summer! It´s great quality and fits just about everything that you need (lately I prefer my bags to be smaller!).
When purchasing this bag, I asked the seller for some sort of guarantees that we´re talking about the original thing, and I got the certificate of authenticity that came with the bag, along with serial number and all the info.
The seller was so kind to also include a small container of a leather polish (cleaning paste) by Sezane, that came with the bag!
I´m sure that´s going to be useful and help me maintain my bag in a perfect condition for years to come.
Another great find are these "Maximo" high waisted jeans 😊👖
These are super flattering, and they were brand new with a tag still on. Sezane has a bit smaller fit, I find, because these jeans are size eu 36, and they fit like a glove (but I´m hoping they´ll eventually stretch out just a little bit, because they´re going to be more comfy then😅). They look amazing on, and the quality is awesome, it´s a sturdy denim, very well made.
I love the belt and the buttons detailing, they contribute to making these jeans really superior when it comes to design and the overall fit!
My last "score" were these cute snakeskin print, leather moccasins. They have been worn just a few times (almost new, you can tell that from the conditions of the soles).
They are ideal for spring & autumn weather, when it´s not too cold, nor too hot outside.
They are actually very comfy, and they fit true to size.
I did find that Sezane footwear fits true to size (I also have a pair of black, cowboy style, ankle boots by Sezane, and they are also size eu 40, and fit true to size.)
I hope you liked this haul🌟🛍
Let me know, what did you like best from these bits I showed you?
Are you also a fan of Sezane style? And what are your opinions on second hand shopping?
Let´s chat! 🥰😊
You can also reach me on instagram: @sonia_verardo
I´m sorry I didn´t have time to shoot outdoors for better quality pics, but I´m sure there´ll be many outfit posts of me wearing these items😊 Here I just quickly wanted to show you the items, and how do they look like on!
