Sister's Birthday Celebrations

My sister turned 21 last year and we decided to host a small celebration for her. We went to have lunch with my mum at a new Italian restaurant in Bogota named Primi. The food was pretty good, although I didn't really like the fact that the menu is so small I had a hard time trying to choose what I wanted to eat.

We shared most of the dishes––as we always do––to have a bite of everything. We ordered prosciutto e mozzarella for a starter, and then ordered ravioli, meatballs, fish and vegetables, and tagliata with salad. We then have Nutella pizza for dessert.

We then went back home and had a small party with my sister's friends. We ate tons of cake and had a lot of fun, but what's definitely most important is that my baby sis was super happy and she probably won't forget this birthday –even if she didn't have a crazy trip to Las Vegas or anything of the sort!

Love,

Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio

Happy Halloween!

Halloween's coming, Halloween's coming

Skeletons will be after you...

I remember I learned this song when I was probably in Kindergarten, and I still can't help but wanting to sing it all day long whenever I realise how close Halloween is.

I don't know about you, but I personally love Halloween. I'm not much of a dress-up person, but I do love seeing lots of amazing costumes in the streets... And I also love celebrating. And having a week-long sugar overdose! So, to celebrate such a wonderful occasion, I hosted a Halloween party with my high school girlfriends last Saturday. We hadn't been together in ages, so it was a perfect excuse for a reunion. And nothing could have been better! We had lots of fun, chatting around, acting like weird monsters and making funny faces.

We also had some good food. And sweets! For the menu, I chose to give them some mummies, made of sausages covered with pastry and mustard eyes. The dessert were tombs, made of chocolate pudding and smashed Oreo cookies... Plus lots of sweets––including some other tombs, with ghosts around, made by some of my friends. For the drinks, we had eye cocktails (that can include whatever you choose, but the ice cubes must be made with lychees with something inside to make them look like actual eyes) and brain shots (which are rum shots with lemon and some drops of Irish cream –the lemon is essential to get the brain effect!).

Don't get spooked by a ghost!

Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio

Graduation Tea Party

My super best friend Maria (who is the loveliest person on Earth) decided to host a tea party to celebrate my beautiful sister's graduation from high school last Tuesday. It was an amazing evening, surrounded by our dearest friends (or, should I say family?)

We drank tea (duh, it was a tea party!), ate lots and lots of pudding, and had lots of fun! But what's most important, my baby definitely had the time of her life! She was the happiest person in the world, I could say!

Don't you just adore tea parties? And... Isn't Maria the best (although I can't say any of my other friends is any worse than her...)? I'm so, so glad to be surrounded by all these amazing people! I honestly wish our friendship will stay like this forever!

Love,







Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio