THE YEAR IN REVIEW | a little trust and your time

2014 certainly wins for craziest year of my life. If you had told me in January that I would have started my own food business, left a career in digital marketing, hosted a cooking course, and opened (and closed) a pop-up café by the end of the year, I'd have asked which year - 2025? Somehow (well, with a ton of hard work, sleepless nights, and inhuman amounts of coffee), I managed to do this in an eight month period, and I am only now acknowledging what a huge accomplishment it was. It's my nature to sort of go where life takes me within certain parameters, so when a recipe that I came up with on a whim for a coworker turned into something more than I could have ever imagined, I couldn't help but follow the momentum and see where it took me. Add in restorative holidays in California, Belgium, Helsinki, and Barcelona, and seeing some truly spectacular concerts, 2014 turned out to be a pretty monumental year, even if I was mostly too stressed to realize it until now.

There's always one song that becomes the theme song to my year, and in 2014 that song was definitively "Balance" by Future Islands. Despite my smile in the photo above, I lost myself in as many ways as I found myself in 2014 (if that makes sense), and only now during the Christmas break have I realized how much of an impact this had on my relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and myself. I am thankful for this break and for everyone's unwavering support throughout 2014 to give me the strength to give 2015 everything I've got.

Wishing everyone a phenomenal 2015.
Xx Lotta

And you can call up to the moon
But if you want something to change
You've gotta change your life
And take your time

"Balance" by Future Islands
You can clean around the wound
But if you want it to heal
It just takes time

And you can call up to the moon
But if you want something to change
You've gotta change your life
And take your time

It just takes time
It just takes time
It just takes time
Hard work and your time

The sun will leave the room
Will leave you to the night
And that's alright

Because before the morning comes
There's a certain calm
And then there's light
It just takes time

It just takes time
A little trust and your time
You can change your life
It just takes time
A little trust and your time

And I can sit and talk
Because I was just like you
So arrogant and brave
Impetuous and blue

But trust me as a friend
And I'll do all that I can do
And I'd do anything for you
Because I want to see you through

It just takes time
Hard work and your time
You can change your life

It just takes time
A little trust your time
A little trust and your time...