interview with smaranda

hello friends, how are you today? are you prepared for the weekend? i do not know how is weather behaving there where you live, but appears that in europe we have colder days approaching, but nevertheless i can’t wait for friday night to come, as i 1) need to sleep and 2) i have so many things to do, exciting things… but yes, a bit of cleaning too! by the way, if you live in lisbon and know about a sweet lady that irons… please, please, give me her phone number! there is nothing else i hate more than ironing! well… but let’s keep on going, because today we have a special guest. but this is not her first time here, so i will present her this way…

smaranda… or sma, a sweet girl full of dreams. she is our {lovely} guest today. so, as i shared here before, when changing the blog to a whole different place, i have changed a few things around, kind of changing the decor. and the former edition called {number’s editorial} is now called a {lovely} guest. a few questions remained the same… others are different. are you willing to know a bit more of this sweet girl?

number :: 22

i was now thinking about naming the age when i was most happy, but please, do believe me i can’t do that. i have always felt that my last year was the best, whichever year that was, so i’ll stick to the present: i will choose 22 and scream to the world: i’m loving it!! my age, my life, my love story, my family, my friends, my actual perspective on the past and on the future. i love it all. i somehow wish time stood still, here and now, but still i’m curious for more, i’m wondering about others dreams coming true… maybe i have a strange relationship with time, we are most of the time chasing each other, but right now it doesn’t bother me at all. so yes, 22.

letter :: o

for me, the letter “o” means “organized”. not because i am so, but because i have always felt the need for everything around me to be like that. otherwise i was afraid of getting somehow lost, of losing control on my life and what happens to me. however, lately i’ve started to reconsider it and, piece by piece, i feel i am loosening this necessity. sometimes having your head in the clouds is actually not that bad, not to mention that lack of organization leads to surprises. that’s a whole new perspective on life for me!

my favourite time of the day is… definitely the morning. for so so many reasons! that’s when i am the most active, positive and inspired: i’ve always preferred waking up early (6 a.m is quite a common hour for my alarm clock) to do all my tasks than staying up late for it. and the feeling you have when you wake up and look through the window to the sleeping world around you, feeling that you are the only one that witnesses the break of the dawn, is just priceless. oh, and then there’s coffee! i started drinking coffee about 3 years ago and i always have it with more than two times as much milk and love it to bits! whether i drink it alone, with my mother, with my boyfriend, chatting with my colleagues or with all the strangers in a crowded cafe… and yes, then there are the lazy mornings… with sun beams coming through your curtains and waking you up… or with your crazy sister jumping in your bed, tired of waiting for you to finish sleeping … and i could go on and on and on.

if i could choose a country to live, other than my own, i would… probably choose Croatia. i fell in love with its mountains and sea shores, with its forests and rocks, with its beautiful cities and friendly people the first time i’ve been there, 5 years ago. i have since imagined myself living in a small house near the coast, seeing the blue waters from my bedroom window, smiling to my neighbours and saying {dobro jutro!} for {good morning!}.

if i had to choose a flavour from my childhood memories… it would for sure be that of baked potatoes in my grandmother’s old oven. with a little butter. no food ever invented can beat that. and don’t try to convince me i’m wrong, i will assume you are insane.

and about indulgences? there are a lot of small things that make me happy. i’ve always appreciated – for example – the feeling of fresh clean bed linen, or the smell of hot bread, or walking on the dewy grass barefoot, or forgetting about myself in the pages of a good book. still, if i have to pick only one, my favourite above all the others, well… this might sound like the voice of the little girl in me, but – after missing her so much in the past 5 years since i left home for university – my favorite indulgence is to let myself be spoiled by my mother. to eat cheese with her, talk for hours, have coffee, sunbathe, laugh, go shopping, watch romantic girly movies and put fresh fruit slices on our faces to make our skin look more beautiful. time with my mother…!

and this was our very first interview in 2011… i know, i know, we are almost in february. still… better late than never, right? i must confess that i saw a bit of myself too in these descriptions! you can sneak-peek into smaranda’s work {here}, which i strongly advise, as she is quite a talented lady! but now i am curious… what are your indulgences? your favourite above all the others?