Category: Lifestyle
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There Is No Way Postponing My Resolutions After These Products
After I created my new year resolutions, I decided to move on really quickly. Somehow I always ended up postponing my resolutions. So I’ve started pilates right away. And decided to return my daily gym routines as well. I haven’t done any work out for so long. Because I am unfortunately not that kind of…
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Here It Comes My New Year Resolution for 2019
I’ve just finished reading my previous year’s resolution. I think I did a great job on that list. It supposedly was for college kids, and I realized how good it was. Because I enjoyed reading it at this age. And I am kind of surprised how wise I sounded. Yet here I am still with…
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Brunch Places in Brooklyn for Pancakes and Eggs Benedicts
I think I talked about this million times. I live my weekdays for the brunch time at the weekends. This is my long-time tradition since my years in Istanbul. I’ve loved that to meet my friends from the university during the weekend to catch up on our lives. I am still religiously following my brunch all…
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Becoming Digital Nomad, Leaving New York
It has been 7 years now and start to feel like either I need a chance (trying different states and cities eventually a new country?) or go deep on my New York experience. But that’s a big challenge in the last couple of years. Here is why it’s a big challenge living in New York…
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10 Best Williamsburg Boutiques
[This is the second post for Office Styling Guide.] I absolutely adore my life in Williamsburg. I could never imagine that one day I would say this when I was an Upper East Sider Girl. One day we decided to have a 1 bedroom apartment with a washing machine, and we ended up with our high-rise…
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Going to Playa Del Carmen with 6 Months Old Twins
I am excited and anxious mixed feelings all over. This is the first time travelling with my 6 months old twins. Either I might be crazy accepting such a journey or adventurous. Our journey has started with United flight from JFK to Cancun airport. I must have done something very nice to someone, Karma was…
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How do I move to New York from Istanbul in 2011?
I don’t know why I haven’t talked about on this subject ever. I mean I talked about this million times to my American friends but not here. That’s very weird actually. In this beautiful spring day, I’ve decided to talk about my story of moving to New York. Let’s hear me how do I move…
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My Twin Girls’ 7 Favourite Items in 7th Month
I’ve just realized that I haven’t talked about the girls for a while. I share them on my Instagram from time to time. If you want to keep updated with them, you can check @umaybike (Umay & Aybike) account on Instagram. But I am more a private person when It comes to my babies. But I don’t…
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5 New Year Resolutions for College Students in 2018
Writing about new year resolutions something I’ve done since 2010. So I decided to approach differently this year. Why not give back to others? This is how ended up writing on “5 New Year Resolutions for College Students in 2018“. Do I keep up with my promises? Not all the time. But even writing about…
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My Superstitious Beliefs About Pregnancy: Hair
It is incredible that I’ve already given birth to my twin babies. Today is their 105th day in this world. We have an incredible joy in our lives with their arrival. Everything seems very easy right now but It wasn’t like that when I was pregnant and you were my number 1 witness of that.…
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Celebrating Christmas in Islam
I remembered that my photographer Arriana and my dear friend Gabriel were very surprised when they learned that I am actually Muslim. This happened when we did our “Coffee Talks with Newest Yorker” video talk last April. So what this thing to do with “Celebrating Christmas in Islam”. Give a hear to my talk. I don’t even…
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Top Instagrammable Places in New York
Once upon a time, a girl from Istanbul decided to move to New York. She was dreaming a city like from Hollywood fairytales. Cobblestone streets and old brown stoned apartment buildings were in her dreams. Sounds like she was dreaming sex and the city 🙂 Le temps passe, our girl became a real Upper East Sider…
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Twin Nursery Project for a Small New York Apartment
This is a very special project for me but It is a very hard one. Because I wasn’t ready until the very last minute. I call it “twin nursery project for small space”. Because It really is a challenge. When I was in my last months of pregnancy, we haven’t still found our current apartment.…
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My 24 Hour Long Natural Labour Challenge and Birth Story
My baby girls are finally here. After full doubt of 9 months here, we are. My angels; Aybike Luna and Umay Bellatrix were born in Presbyterian Downtown on September 1st at 11:18 and at 11:19 am. So my birth post is another long story I had to get through at the end of my pregnancy.…
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How to Travel When You are Pregnant
Pregnancy is one of the most meaningful and beautiful things you have in your life. But these feeling and thoughts are simply not enough to be comfortable around. I am miserable since my last trimester so It’s a blessing but It’s hard. Traveling during pregnancy can be also hard but It can be super nice…
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Dubai – A City Makes You Think About The World
When I first heard the name called Dubai I was in middle school. I was reading about it in a newspaper. It was talking about this handmade palm shape island and it was telling that almost all of the private residence in this island already sold out. Most of the residence belongs to celebrities like…
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The Most Beautiful Shoot I’ve Ever Have: My Baby Bump Photos
This is one of the most exciting photo shoots I’ve ever had. Sorry, Arriana. I love you but these photos are my favorite ones so far 🙂 I never looked this beautiful in any photos I guess. There is no doubt that my baby bump photos are gonna be my favorite ones for so long. I…
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What is Babymoon? The Best Destination for Babymoon – Maldives
Babymoon is actually a vacation you decide to go before the baby or babies (in our case) arrive. We didn’t think of this vacation as babymoon in the first place. We think It’s gonna be hard to go to Turkey with the babies so often (We only visit Turkey once a year If something extreme happened).…
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5 Hidden Places in Istanbul from an Old Istanbulite’s Eyes
These 5 hidden places in Istanbul were my favorites when I lived there many years ago. Istanbul, my darling city, I never get bored writing about you or visiting you. Before New York, you were there, and you will always be there. (If we get rid of all this political nonsense in the country, I…
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Enchanting 4 Cities To Visit in Turkey Other Than Istanbul
Since I am visiting my hometown, I decided to share some insider information about Turkey. If you are considering going to Turkey for your vacation, here are 4 cities to visit in Turkey other than Istanbul with their culture, nature, food, and coastal beauties 4 Cities You Should Visit in Turkey Vacation Other Than Istanbul…
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Adana The City Of Craziness and Non-Existing Baby Bump
Here I am with non-existing my baby bump. The place everything started. I am in Adana where is south of Turkey, also is my hometown. Adana is the 6th biggest city in Turkey. It’s best known for the very famous food called “Adana Kebab”. Which is why I call the land of kebab. I think my…
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My Lost Pregnancies and Story of Successful One
Yes, I’m pregnant. It’s very interesting for me to share one of the most intimate things of my heart, of my family with the whole world. I have struggles to talk about my personal life openly from my blog. Because even though I share my daily looks and my daily routines with my followers, this is very…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers: Gabriel Hamsi
I know I know I am terrible at doing some of my scheduled things. Unfortunately, this is one of those things of mine that I have to reschedule over and over. Of course, I am talking about my video series “Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers” which is supposed to be in every two months. Because of terrible…
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Organizing Beach Wedding in Turkey
Organizing a wedding is a difficult job. Organizing beach wedding in Turkey was even more difficult—maybe not all of Turkey. A developing summer city in Turkey is a better phrase, indeed. I can’t believe It has been 4 years already. When I was not married, I used to ask people how long they had been…
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The Best Blog Platforms – How to Choose the One?
And here, The Best Blog Platforms talk starts. Previous Week: How to start a Fashion Blog Congratulations. If you came this far to read my post about blogging, you finally made your decision about starting a new life. I warned you about the hard parts of this business in my previous post and probably we’ll talk more about…
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DIY Pom Pom Sneakers
I love my no screen days. Since I started to put my iPhone aside, I started to work on interesting and more relaxing stuff and reading more than ever. Today, I want to write about my one and only DIY project so far. How to make pom pom sneakers that cost of $6. First of all, I…
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Saturday is No Screen Day
Living without your iPhone is the next big thing. No Screen Day is nothing new actually. There is a Screen-Free Week. Every year, the first week of May is the “screen-free week”.This concept started by Adbusters magazine some other contributors to call Americans have TV-free Week. My idea of No Scree Day is little more easy and…
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2017 Resolutions and How to Remain True to Them
I hate writing about resolutions. But I can’t live the idea of being without a list. So I do my resolution lists every year no matter what I accomplished the previous year or not. This year I also wrote about my previous year summary. It is basically what happened in 2016. Resolutions of 2017 -After…
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My 2016 with Bad Sides and Good Vibes
2016, Here we are. Another year yet come to end. 2016 was an interesting year for me. I think it is better to write my achievement and my disappointment about this year to summarize and to draw a picture of this another year of my life. I want to start to things are disappointed for me.…
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There is Something Wicked About New York
I don’t know who is the craziest? me or New York weather? Even though the light of my photos is great, It was a very cold day when we did this shoot. New York is insanely cold since last week and getting colder and colder. I’m even ok with 0 Celsius now as a born…