From: Http://farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-dates-and-times/

@ me to myself every time a minor inconvenience happens

Keto Ciabatta Bread (recipe comes from the amazing Marc at the Low Carb High Fat UK facebook group)

Ingredients:

225g Mozzarella Pizza Cheese grated 75g Ground Almonds 13g Psyllium Husk Powder 45g Cream Cheese 1 large Egg ½ tsp Salt ½ tsp Pepper

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 200/180c fan. Place cheese in a bowl and microwave the cheese until fully melted and pliable, around 90 seconds. Add cream cheese and 1 egg to the cheese and mix it in well. Add ground almonds, psyllium husk powder & salt and pepper to the cheese mixture and mix together well. As you mix the dough, it should become cool enough to work with your hands. Knead the dough together until you can form a ball. Shape ½ of the dough into a long bun, making sure both will fit on a large pan. Bake for about 30-40 minutes. Then cool on a wire rack.

Except i have a weiner dog and am eaten alive by mosquitos.

Summer evening.

But what if the cat cursed it... some cats dgaf. Jk. I love the idea. I would be so surprised if any of my boys took joy in anything. Does purring on or under my knitting or crocheting count? :)

Favorite cleansing method: purring cat.

Cozy mornings 🍂

I decided to create a masterpost that would help you with what you are struggling with. Hopefully any of the links below will help you! Reminder; You’re going to be okay. What you are going through will pass, just remember to breathe. 

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Distractions;

Here are some distractions to help keep your mind occupied so you aren’t too focused on your thoughts. 

-Draw something

-This website translates the time into colours.

-Create your own galaxy.

-Play flowing.

-Make a 3D line travel where ever you like. 

-Listen to music.

-Calm.

-Ocean mood, do nothing for two minutes.

Sleep issues; 

- 8 hour sleep music.

-Rainy mood. 

-Meditation.

-Coping with nightmares.

-How to cope with nightmares, 11 steps.

-Calm

-Foods that can affect your sleeping, both positive and negatively. 

 Uncomfortable with silence; 

-Rainy mood.

-10 hours of rain and thunder.

-3 hours of rain and thunder.

-Human heartbeat.

-Rainforest.

-Sound of rain on a tin roof.

-Autumn wind.

-Rain on a tent

-Traffic in the rain.

-Soft traffic. 

-Fan.

-Train.

-Simply noise.

-My noise.

-Rainy cafe.

Anxiety; 

-How to stop worrying. 

-Tips to manage anxiety and stress.

-The 10 best ever anxiety management techniques. 

-Self-help strategies for anxiety. 

-Helping a friend with anxiety. 

-All about worrying.

-8 myths about anxiety. 

Sad, angry and depressed/depression; 

-“I’m always sad”

-Feeling sad.

-Going through trauma.

-“I’m always angry”.

-Anger management. 

-All about anger.

-National helplines and websites.

-Self-help strategies for depression.

-Dealing with depression at work.

-Dealing with depression at school.

Isolation and loneliness; 

-Pets and mental health.

-All about loneliness. 

-“I feel so alone”

-10 more ideas to help with loneliness. 

-How to deal with loneliness.

 Self-harm;

-Alternatives to self-harm and distraction techniques.

-146 things to do besides self-harm.

-More alternatives to self-harm.

-Self-harm alternatives.

-How to take care of self-harm wounds/injuries.

-Getting rid of scars.  

Addiction; 

-How to help a friend with a drug addiction.

-What is addiction?

-All about alcohol and addiction.

-The facts about drug addiction.

 Eating disorders; 

-Helping a friend with an eating disorder.

-Eating disorder treatments. 

-Support services for eating disorders. 

-Self-help tips with eating disorders.

-Eating disorder recovery. 

-Recovering from an eating disorder. 

-100+ reasons to recover. 

-Understanding and managing eating disorders. 

 Dealing with self-hatred;  

-3 ways to ease self-loathing. 

-How to turn self-hatred into self-compassion.

-Self-hatred resources.

-10 step plan to deal with self-hate. 

 Suicidal; 

-International suicide hotlines (1)  (2)

-Preventing suicide. 

-Reasons to stay alive.

-Dealing with suicidal thoughts and feelings.

-Coping with suicidal ideation.  

 Schizophrenia;

-All about schizophrenia.  

-Helping a person with schizophrenia.  

-Understanding and dealing with schizophrenia.  

-Delusions and hallucinations.  

OCD;

-Managing your OCD at home. 

-Overcoming OCD.

-How to cope with OCD. 

-Strategies for dealing with the anxious moments. 

Borderline personality disorder; 

-Helping someone with BPD. 

-All about personality disorders.

-Treatment for BPD.

Abuse; 

-Healthy relationships VS abusive relationships. 

-Emotional abuse

-Overcoming sexual abuse. 

-Hotlines services. 

-5 ways to escape an abusive relationship. 

-Domestic violence support. 

-Signs of an abusive relationship. 

-What do to if you’re in an abusive relationship. 

-Surviving abuse. 

-What you can do if you’re sexual harassed. 

-Sexual assault support.

-What to do if you’ve been sexually assaulted or abused. 

 Bullying;

-How to stand up against bullying.

-How to protect yourself when it comes to cyber bullying.

-How to help stop people bullying you. 

 Loss and grief; 

-How to cope with a suicide of a loved one.

-Grieving for a stranger. 

-Common reactions to death. 

-Working through grief.

(Other loss and grief)

-Moving away from friends and family. 

-Coping with a breakup.

 Getting help; 

-Seeking help early. 

-All about psychological treatments. 

-Types of help.

-All about age and confidentiality. 

Things you need to remember; 

- Don’t stress about being fixed because you’re not broken.

-Remember to remind yourself of your accomplishments. Tell yourself that you’re proud of yourself, even if you’re not. 

- This is temporary. You won’t always feel like this. 

-You are not alone. 

-You are enough. 

-You are important. 

-You are worth it. 

-You are strong. 

-You are not a failure, 

-Good people exist. 

-Reaching out shows strength. 

-Breathe. 

-Don’t listen to the thoughts that are not helping you. 

-Give yourself credit. 

-Don’t be ashamed of your emotions, for the good or bad ones. 

-Treat yourself the same way as you would treat a good friend. 

-Focus on the things you can change. 

-Let go of toxic people. 

-You don’t need to hide, you’re allowed to feel the way you do. 

-Try not to beat yourself up. 

-Something is always happening, you don’t want to miss out on what’s going to happen next. 

-You are not a bother.

-Your existence is more than your appearance. 

-You are smart. 

-You are loved. 

-You are wanted. 

-You are needed. 

-Better days are coming. 

-Just because your past is dark, doesn’t mean your future isn’t bright. 

-You have more potential than you think. 

- Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

Please remember to look after yourself and know that you are more than worth it and you deserve to be happy. Keep smiling butterflies x

I just want to tell you a story. Will you listen?

You probably don’t know this woman: her name is Franca Viola. She was born in Alcamo, Sicily, in 1947, during a time where, see, things for women were deeply different. This is her when she was 17. 

She was 17 when, on the 26th of December, 1965, she was kidnapped by her former boyfriend, Filippo Melodia, the son of a local mobster, and a few of his friends: she had broken the engagement with him a couple of years prior, when she was 15 and he was 23, and he couldn’t accept it. He kept her segregated in a farmhouse for 8 days and raped her, before she was found and freed by the police.

At that time, the Italian law stood with her kidnapper and rapist, as it stated that if the rapist married his victim, then the crime was virtually erased, and, had the guilty part already been prosecuted and convicted, the trial and the sentence would cease. This kind of marriage was called “rehabilitating marriage,” as it was believed that the victim, and her family, had to fix the dishonour caused by the rape. 

Incredible, isn’t it? Not really. In an area where families still used to hang the sheet dirty with blood to their balcony after the first wedding night to prove the virginity of the woman to the entire town, the law and the public opinion still expected women to marry their abusers to mantain their honour. 

Franca refused to marry Melodia. Knowing that the entire town - and, later, the whole country - could turn its back at her, knowing that she was going to be mocked, frowned upon, and insulted, she denounced him. Her family, who, contrarily to many other families, stood with her and supported her choice, needed to be guarded at all times by a handful of policemen, having been threatened by Melodia and his family. Franca was assisted by a brilliant lawyer. The trial ended up being reported by Italy’s major newspapers, and Franca, the first woman - girl - to refuse rehabilitating marriage, quickly became an example of bravery for many, many other women.

In court, Melodia tried to turn the judge against her. He said she’d already hooked up with him when they were together. He tried to escape conviction.

He was convicted for kidnapping anyway, and justly. Eight years later, when he got out, he was shot dead by an unknown killer.

Despite earlier threats that she was dishonoured, and that she wasn’t going to find anyone willing to marry her, she married Giuseppe, a childhood friend, in 1968, who stated that he wasn’t afraid of any possible acts of revenge from Melodia. He allegedly said said, “I’d rather live ten years with you than a lifetime with another woman.”  About her dad, who supported her every step, Franca recently said, “My father Bernardo came [to get me] unshaven, with a week’s old beard: I could not shave if you were not there, he said. What do you want to do, Franca? I will not marry him. All right, you put your hand, I will put one hundred. This sentence, he said. I just want you to be happy, nothing else. He took me home and he did the great effort, not me. It was him who put up with those who no longer greeted him, his friends gone. The shame, the dishonour. His head up high. He wanted only what was good for me.”

When he heard about her wedding, even Pope Paul VI asked to meet her to congratulate her.

Her trial was the final push to erase the law about rehabilitating marriage and honour killings, which also allowed “mitigating circumstances” if the killer had acted upon jealousy or to restore his honour (for instance, if a husband walked in on his wife cheating on him, and killed both her and her lover). But that didn’t happen until 1981.

Rape was finally considered a “crime against the person,” instead of a crime “against the morals”, only in 1996. 

She still lives in Alcamo; she says that, sometimes, she still sees her kidnappers, and whilst she greets them, they lower her gaze in shame. Franca has never, not once, lowered her gaze, and that’s why she changed history. 

This is just a tiny post to remember how small acts of courage can change history and change the shape of a nation - and as a woman, an Italian, a Sicilian woman, I want to thank Franca for saying ‘no’ and - perhaps by chance - changing the history of Italy. 

amortentia archive

Hiya lovelies; below is a list I’ve fashioned of various amortentia scents that may be used for your hp character in fanfics, roleplay or aesthetics, etc. Feel free to like/reblog to index or use.

n a t u r e:

pine / pine cones

crisp (autumn, winter) air / cool air

wet grass / grass / freshly mowed grass

tree bark

lavender [or other flower] meadow

cool spring rain on pavement

hot summer rain on grass

air after a rain storm

forest

garden soil

dirt / mud

autumn leaves

campfire

split / axed / cut wood

morning dew on clovers

ocean / lake / sea water

seashells

beach after a thunderstorm

beach sand

seaweed

lilac scented summer breeze

tropical summer night

northern summer night

roses / lily of the valley / gardenia / other 

sanded wood

wet wood

a garden after rain

sap from plant stems

aloe vera flesh

sage leaf

burning cedar

snow

frost / icicles

f o o d:

chocolate

maple syrup

freshly baked vanilla/chocolate cake

cupcakes

buttercream frosting

brownies

eggnog

peanut butter

nuts [cashews, almond, walnut, etc.]

pastry dough / dough

berries [strawberry, blueberry, lingonberry, etc.]

citruses [orange, lemon, etc.]

pineapple / banana / apple / various fruit

oatmeal

baked bread

spaghetti

sauteed garlic in butter

bacon

milk

nut brittle

hot chestnuts

coffee

toast

chai / peppermint / floral tea

cinnamon

caramelized onions

vanilla

herbs [mint, basil, thyme, etc.]

coconut custard / custard

cheddar / gruyere / swiss cheese

vanilla / chocolate pudding

trifle

cookie dough

cake batter

popcorn

waffles / waffle cone

cotton candy

simple syrup

honey

cucumbers

white rice

caramel

pretzels

hot cocoa

fresh baked cookies

marshmallows

cinnamon on whipped cream

h p   r e l a t e d   f o o d s:

butterbeer

firewhisky [think fireball whisky / big red gum]

treacle tart

pumpkin pasties

pumpkin juice

treacle fudge

gillywater

mulled mead

red currant rum

chocolate frogs

cauldron cake

drooble’s gum

licorice wand

elderflower wine

nettle wine / tea

h o u s e h o l d:

old furniture

freshly washed linen

dial  / irish spring soap

cigar / cigarette smoke

bleach

cast iron pan

fresh laundry

the inside of a helmet

pillows

perfume

napkins

baby powder

new shoes

boots

soy / beeswax / wax candles

the smell of ironed clothes

broomstick

dishwasher steam

wreath / christmas garland

metal

shea / cocoa butter

toothpicks

leather

new car

cat / dog / pet

carpet

clay / play-dough

paint

s t a t i o n a r y  /  l i b r a r y:

pen / quill ink

parchment

brand new notebook paper

old / new books

paper

work desk [oak, mahogany, etc.]

sharpened pencil / pencil shavings

plastic [ruler, journal binding, clips, etc.]

crayons

marker

cardboard

manila folders

glue

binders

textbooks

tape

styrofoam