A GIRL CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY DRESSES

Dress - Stop Staring!
Shoes - Sixtyseven You

But it's totally OK to stare.
As long as you don't start stalking me.

Before I'll go on a detox-week to the countryside, doing yoga, drinking green tea all day long and reading all those books I've bought during the past year but haven't had the time to even look at (Yeah right! I'm so going to fail my good intentions...) I'm throwing a small dinner party. I love occasions where I can wear my dresses. The fancier, the better. And I have a lot of dresses. That means I go to a lot of occasions too :)

Later we'll go out and I'll get even more reasons to do my detox-week. Let's see how it goes and how long I manage to enjoy the silence of the archipelago though - there are some pretty tempting gigs during the weekend also...

(You can't have too many dresses no. But you can actually go out too much. I have to rest a bit and try to skip those gigs I think!)

I'M BACK!

I had great time in Berlin, it's one of my favourtie cities in the world.
Spent some time in Riga too, mostly taking pictures of beautiful buildings...
Now I'm back home again just to leave you all soon again to continue my vacation on our summerhouse in the archipelago. ..

But forst for some updates.


I received the Brilliant blogger award from supersweet and delightful Vintage Darling and also from the stylish Greetz from Tiz. Thank you both so much! Since I've received the award eariler I won't pass it on this time.

Then Pratishtha tagged me with some questions.

So here we go:
What are the last three things you purchased?
Well, apart from milk and bananas and cat food when I got home I did get some other stuff while I was away - a pair of black Stefanel suede sandals, an American Apparel jumpsuit and a set of burlesque-inspired underwear.

What are the last three songs you downloaded?
Whisper by Morphine and some Danzig

Where were the last three places you visited?
Berlin, Riga, Jurmala

What are your three favorite movies?
A clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Steve Zissou

What are your three favorite possessions?
My computer, my tattoos and my bike

What three things can you not live without?
My cats, friends and family. Well, obviously. If you want a more shallow answer I'd say my mobile phone, my computer and my mastercard.

What would be your three wishes?
To be able to do all the things that I want to and to have the time to do all of it, to get mine and K's business going

What are three things you have not done yet?
Learned some of the languages I have on my "what to do within five years list", visited Russia, had a baby

What are your three favorite dishes?
most things with couscous, halloumi cheese and olives

What three celebrities would you want to hang out with the most?
Umm... Elvis, James Dean, James Bond (any will do but I'd prefer Daniel Craig perhaps)

Name three things that freak you out.
People behaving like idiots, stalkers, spiders

If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Strong, active, turbocherry !

Name three unusual things you are good at.
Boxing. Bending myself into strange yoga poses. Tassel twirling :D

What are three things you are currently coveting?
Going to the countryside for a while, visiting M in Oslo, going to Budapest.
Will do all three quite soon.

What three bloggers would you like to tag?
Magnesiun Dresses, Little Puch of Love and Chic and Kitch.

I'LL LEAVE YOU ALL FOR A WHILE NOW...

Romper - Tara Starlet
Shoes - H&M

Today was the perfect day for a sunny picnic by the water! And also a perfect day to wear my ridiculously small sun suit I got last week from Dolly Dagger (found the shop through this blog so thanks for that).

It would have been more perfect though if I would've actually made it out of bed and the house a bit eariler than three o'clock in the afternoon, making my picnic ridiculously short. (As in out, sit down, drink my bottle of juice and read the first three pages of the newspaper, listen to some Skatalites and Desmond Dekker, look at the watch, damn, read one more page and eat my sandwhich and then back home to finnish up some business...)

Anyway, this little bloggger is going on vacation now! I'll go to Berlin to catch u p woth some old aquaintances and to visit my good friend who moved there earlier this year, whose boyfriend surprisingly was in the movie I mentioned earlier. (Didn't work out with the director btw in case anyone wondered how it went. He turned out to be quite the stalker, uh). Then K will join me and we'll go to Riga.

If you start missing me too much while I'm gone you can always go through my old archives;)
I was a bit more creative and made nice drawings earlier in the blog so it's maybe worth a look...

So, see you in a while!
xxx

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Vacation Deals

STRANGE NIGHTS IN NICE HAIR

Sometimes things go like this...

Last night was the weirdest in ages! You could've though it was full moon...
(Have to add that I have the best friends in the whole world btw)

I went out with Julien, K and the other K and Ina and my evening started out as a disaster - leaping out a bit to quick from the taxi when arriving to this terrace-party-thing we were going to the slit of my dress broke (crappy quality!) making it a bit longer than ment to be - it ended just where my bum begins and for every step I took I was mooning a bit more. I figured I had three options :
1) tear the dress up all the way and wear it as a nice apron / just take it off and be in my underwear the rest of the night, either calling it a modern burleqsue-inspired art performance or a bachelorette party
2) taxi home and change, and taxi back or
3)be a wallflower for the rest of the night (hell no!)
...neither of which were that tempting. At that moment I was quite happy to realize that K is always late and was that yesterday too, luckily still at home, so we called her and asked her to bring needle and thread. When she arrived we leaped into the bathroom and ten minutes later the problem was solved. It was quite funny actually now afterwards.

Well, the night might have been weird and all but at least I had a fancy hairdo. I've just found those youtube tutorials everyone's been referring to here and there and I was inspired a bit by this video. That girl has amazing hair and does great hair-do's so check her videos out!






It didn't even take me that long to do this hair, but it's maybe because I twirl my hair quite often in a similar style anyway.

(I should colour my roots and get some more light-coloured bobbypins btw. Well, now to meet some friends for Sunday drinks. Over and out).

GODDAMIT!

Top & scarf - Carlings, Shoes - H&M
Trousers - Genlemen take Polaroids (coloured by me)


Today I woke up to maybe the best day of summer so far.

Which sucked since I had to work today.

Yes, I'm still on vacation, but I had promised to do a shift at "the-cothing-store-I'm-employed-at-but-never-work-in-but-still-have-my-discount-at"; the first shift since one in February, the time before that being someting like November 2007. (I'm not sure if the discount is worth it, goddamit I don't even shop there that much anymore!)

Well, I'm there and one hour before the other guy who will finish the day is due to come to work he calls me in the shop and tells me he's ill and won't show up. Seriously, fuck. I really wanted to go home and cathc some beauty sleep bvefore hitting the town big tie tonight. Thank god some of the sweet guys from another of these stores (there are three within five minutes from each other) came and stayed for a while so I could have lunch, and another guy other came to close so I didn't have to stay the whole evening. You gotta love those guys.

About the store... I kind of hate it in a way. They have their own designers and own brands. As an employee you can send in suggestions for designs, and if it is put up fpr production you get 1000 euros. Not much if you've actually designed something, but if you're a regular guy behind the counter and have a cool idea for say, a t-shirt, then one grand and your shirt in the store is quite nice. So, two years ago I drew up a whole collection of mine and my friend's (who was also my storemanager's at the time) ideas. Very what-we-know-they-would-sell and some of what we wanted for ourselves. The responce was that it was "really good, but a bit too much for them to dig in to".

Ummmm, what?

Someone gets a grand for saying "you should make a yellow tee with red stripes" and we had tons of ideas but it's too much for them to look at? Ok, fine, if they wouldn't have wanted those designs at all. But during the year after some similar things showed up in the store, like small details resembling, or the same model but different patterns or colours... Hmm, ok, might be a coincidence and I'm a trend oracle in that case, but this shirt really pised me off:

My drawing of a men's shirt in August 2006:


Sneaky pics of shirt in production fall/winter 2007:


Rrrrip-off!
Sure, I had ska-inspired checks and this shirt dogtooth, but they had never had shirt lined with checks before! And I had put the checked lining under the collar (and on it in another version), they had it inside. But the lining of the buttons and the cuffs are just like I drew them, goddamit, it's the same f***ing shirt!

Sure, fashion industry is a lot about copying or riping off, you know, what you see on the catwalks of the big fashion houses you'll see similar versions of in Zara etc. the season after. That's ok, it's the way it goes and it's a bit different when huge corporations do it as part of a system than when a company rips it's employers of.

So, I'm going to keep on being employed and shop cheaper and then maybe honour the shop with my presence behind the counter a couple of times a year.

I'll be there tomorrow too, all hungover and miserable, matching my eyes with the colour of my top, playing rautalanka-music. So don't come there. Well, unless you'll bring me an ice cream or something.
(hear hear, employee of the year speaking! :)

SHOES, CAKE, RAIN, SKIRT

(I'm so obviusly suffering from a bloggers headline-block)


Skirt - GT, coloured by me
Jacket - old H&M
Sandals - Andiamo

Now I'm going to write about a lot of things.

First,
we had planned to go on a picninc to the zoo with my mother but the rainy weather ruined it. We still had a nice day strolling around town; went to see two exhibitions (one of which was the Anton Corbjin retroperspective, it was great) and then we did some shoe shopping and had a piece of heavenly chocolate-lemon cake.

Second,
Behold, as you may notice I've coloured the skirt now! I noticed that the skirt is not woven into gingham but the checks are printed on it, which made me a bit unsure of how well the red would colour, but I still decided to try. It was to be green at first, but when I was about to colour it my washing machine tilted a bit - it hadn't let out all the water from the previous wash. Impatient as I am I didn't care, the reslut being that the machine spit out the green colour at once as soon as it started and then just washed the skirt in the slightly green water. This made me very angry and as I didn't want ot wait for the next day to make it to the store again I just used what other colour I had home; sky blue.
(I did colour another skirt green later on instead. Pictures are coming up :)

But I like the result a lot! Undefined bluish-purple colour. It goes well with my raspberry coloured sandals, no?
(the photo does not do the colours 100% justice I think)

Third,
I was recently "book-tagged" byt the loveliest ever; Dotti: I have to grab the book that's next to me, open it on page 123 and quote the fith sentence plus the following three.

Most of the boks next to me are art books with more pictures than words so lets see what I can find... Ok found nothing, only pictures... On the bookshelf in the other room the closest book is, quite pretentiously, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men:

"He went out quicly. /Old man Cody stood and glaced after him. Then he helplessly looked down on the dead one, and his sorrow gradually started turning into rage and his rage into words./ You damn slut! he said angry."(I translated it from swedish). Hah! Quite funny.

Now let's see what MissWoo, Esme and the Lane way, Anna, Wendy and Beka are reading...

Four. Tonight I might give the director another chance, we'll see.

CAN'T THINK OF A HEADLINE FOR THIS ONE

Gingham shirt-dress : Sailor Jerry

Well, if yesterday was all sunshine today was a bit more mellow and rainy. Had lunch with an old colleague from a job back in the days and nowadays a "competetor" from the music quiz. It was delightful. After that I've decided I deserve yet some more dresses (honetsly, can that argument las forever?) and got myself a Stop Staring dress from Garageland.
Otherwise I havn't done anything.

I have five weeks paid vacation from this one place I work at. I was planning to work with my own business a bit more now since I haven't done much after all those meetings last month.
I was also planing to work out a lot.
Organize my papers.
Clean my closet.
Put up all of those clothes I don't wear anymore on huuto.net. (Ha! That's never going to happen!)

(I wonder if any of these things catually will happen during this summer, hrmmm...)

But as I just said, I went shopping and nothing more. And now I'm going to slip in to a cherry dress, put lipstick on, have some champagne and hit town.

KICK OFF YOUR HEELS

On Ina:
Skirt - Indiska
Top - Gina Tricot
Bow - the Hula Hula Boutique
On me:
Top - Diesel
Skirt - DIxie Grey
Shoes - Bianco
Bracelet - vintage, from Ansa

Yesterday Ina and I had a extempore picnic in the park after strolling around a while in town. We picked up all sorts of delishous stuff from the deli; salad, cream-cheese stuffed jalopenos and focaccia,a pack of cherry-chili choloate that cost as much as a lunch itself, fresh strawberries. I originally planned to go kick some savate, but I had too many cigarettes and a few beers and thtas was the end of my workout. Sometimes that just happens, but hat's what I love about summer. You can change yuor plans anytime and it's totally ok. You can just kick of you heels anytime.

Later in the evening I went on a date withe the director of the movie but ended up going home with the leading actor of that film instead. Sometimes that just happens.
But that's what I love about summer.

RAIN

Jumpsuit - my Mother's old
Beret - almost as old as I am
Belt - Vintage
Shoes - Dumond
Suitcase - Found in the trash

It's raining today because my vacation started.

Typcial.

But now I had a good excuse to wear my dear beret, even though it's summer. (I sort of missed it a little by now. And Monday's are quite often my bad hair-day, so I would have had to put something on my head anyway).

I'm pretty sure the sun will shine the rest of the week anyway.

"BECAUSE I'M WORTH IT"

Dress - Collectif / HulaHula Boutique
Flowercomb - the HulaHula Boutique
Shoes - Vernanice

Feelgood-school2: When nice colours and nice food doesn't do the trick anymore. Inspite of the great day yesterday, some of those same thigs I wined about earlier this week still bother me I'm afraid. Damn emotions. But, I'm no longer sad, only angy, so angry infact it made me all energetic and happy. Strange huh? And as much as I'd hate to admit it, getting myself some new stuff does make me feel better. So I went and got myself that one dress I've been checkin out forever (last piece left, fits like a dream). It has a pattern with pink swallows and palmtrees and a cute bow and I'm totally worth it. So now I'm going to go out and rock! Positive rage, ha! (if something like that exists? :)


I'm an arrogant little bitch tonight. (But I'm still nice in general.)

(While I was at it I also decied to stop just longing for MinnaParikka shoes - I'm getting myself a pair for autumn! I'm totally worth that too.)

((And I know it would look better if my shoes were without the white details toghether with this dress but, blah, no slaving to the details tonight. I just wanted to wear green shoes now))

EDIT : I did have a good night; some whiskey togehter with a couple of the best guys I know. Ran in to the source of my anger (or part of it) and I was firm, but fair. And a little bit arrogant too. Thank god I was wearing that dress.