Time to get ready for winter again...

Snowing, snowing, snowing...here it starts again.

Last winter in Finland was long, cold and snowy...The last few days are forecasting the same for this coming winter. For some reason I don't seem to get used to it at all...While it's cold outside it's good time for daydreaming and getting ready for it with following comforts:

This weekend I'm spending inside with my woolen socks on, PJ's on, under the blanket and sipping hot drinks, including the beautiful Chai-tea and White Tea from T Salon on Melrose Ave in L.A. (http://www.tsalon.com/los-angeles-store/)

How beautiful is the ad on the top of the T Salon...? NOT!

I picked the soft and smooth Chelsea Chai Tea Blend which has An intricate blend of Assam and Ceylon black teas with cardamom, almonds, hazelnuts, chocolate and peppercorns. YUM! The White Tea is called Dragon Phoenix Pearls. This hand-rolled tea is highly valued in China. It's a pleasure to the eye and the palate. I learned drinking the white tea in Australia as my colleague Amanda who was from China introduced me into this cleansing tea. 'the more you drink it the better' she said. And finally I found this fab tea shop in L.A. I've been looking for...it's quite hard to order tea to Finland though, but next time I know where to go and buy lots more!

While I'm sipping the tea, I'm burning the incenses...and oh boy I have difficulties of picking my favourite from the selection I've picked from Australia, Indonesia, Latvia and Estonia:

All these favourites of mine are Agarbathi incenses, just different brands with slightly different smells...I fell in love with the blue pack in Australia and bought the yellow one in Indonesia and started to like it too...then I went to Latvia and found both and someone recommended me the soft Satya Natural (top box) and that was beautiful! As my storage of all these started to get lower I found the little box of the 'Super Hit' from Estonia. So with these I calm myself and it really works, believe me! "Helps reduce negative and increase the positive aspects of all zodiac signs" (and headache to my partner!)

I put my Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/) on and find some acoustic guitar music (search for acoustic guitar music) which reminds me of Lisbon where I was exactly one year ago...here are some best parts of Lisbon:

notice the boy waving to me :)

And the evening is spent by drinking more hot drinks like Herrgårds Glögg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine) in the candlelight...

Enjoy your weekend! :)