thus an orange turtleneck and leafs of autumn
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The other day I put on my new favorite turtleneck, which I accidently found at The Red Cross about a week ago, and Amanda and I went to a beautiful park in our city, where autumn turned out to be hidden. As you can see for yourself in the pictures, there was to be found the most wonderful colorful trees and the ground was covered with leafs in different shades of autumn.
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the orange turtleneck is the Red Cross, the lace skirt is from Topshop, the orange lipstick is Mac and the Zebra Creepers.
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As you probably know by now, if you have been reading my blog for a while, I am not a skirt-kind-of-person. These last couple of days, though, I've become the opposite. Especially the combination of a skirt in a longer length, a belt and a turtle neck. So you will probably see more of that in the future.
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By the way, I am well aware of the fact that I need to dye my hair roots, I guess I will do something about it soon. Who knows?
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However, the Fashion Week of Umeå is over, but altough it is sad a wonderful week is coming up. My dearly missed sister is coming home tomorrow. She is staying for for the week during her birthday and then I am going back with her to Gothenburg during the Autumn holiday.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
The Red Cross fashion show, speaks for itself
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As I told you earlier, I went to The Red Cross fashion show this wednesday, partly to photograph but also because it is so much fun. There were a lot people there and the whole event went pretty great. Accept from the staff at The Red Cross it was also bloggers like The Style Gossiper and Ebba Zingmark who styled the models and the models were amazing.
I will not give you anymore details, I will just let the pictures talk for themselves.
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you have a costume for this year's fashion week?
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Okay, so I am right in the middle of fashion week, in my city. Which means different events to got to. I've already been to two of them, one to go. The first one was yesterday. A great fashion show by The Red Cross, which I will show you some pictures from later on, since I witnessed the whole thing. This evening I went on fashion event number two, with Amanda. It was, among other things, a release of JohannaN's latest jewelery collection. We mingled, drank champagne (a bit of a cliche, I know), were privileged with amazing live background music and checked out the latest collection of course.
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tomorrow I am going to another event, which I probably will show pictures from later, also. But until then, good night and sleep tight. I will not have a problem with that tonight I can asure you, I will go to sleep as little baby.
I am well aware of the fact that I am mumbling a little right now, but isn't that feeling just amazing?
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tack och hej leverpastej.
a surprising fairy tent story
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So I figured I should show you a special event from this summer that I created, that I am very proud of. It truly is more than okay to be proud of something you've accomplished, even if some people may express the opposite. We often tend to underestimate ourselves, which is very wrong and unnecessary and unfair to yourself. We are able to do much greater things than we know of.
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however, my dear boyfriend's birthday was coming up, and I thought I would do somthing special, which came out to be a sort of surpise thingy. While he was working I spent the whole day preparing for his home coming. Which, among other things, included buliding the most wonderful little tent, with anything useful that I could get hold of. It actually turned out pretty great. I cooked dinner, made dessert, put it in a basket and prepared a picnic outdoors beside the tent. Lighted some candles, wrapped the presents and turned on some music. When he came home there was a few notes of clues wainting for him, which was supposed to lead him to the picnic I had prepared. It was amazing to see the look on his face when he finally got there. It was very appreciated.
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I am well aware of the fact that a simple cake and some presents would have been enough, he would have been just as happy. But that wasn't the point. I think everyone deserve some kind of surprise, something unexpected. And let's be honest, the reaction and look on a person's face, when surprised, is truly irreplaceable. It is much more fun this way, don't you think, doing something even greater?
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Compliments in the rougher part of London
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If you ever go to London, you truly need to visit Covent Garden and Brick Lane. It was two of those wonderful places that I fell in love with during my stay there. Covent Garden has the most perfect dinner restaurants, the food is absolutely amazing. The third day we managed to visit four different places. Camden Market, Brick Lane, Covent Garden och Earl's Court. They are all great places, but I especially recommend Brick Lane and Covent Garden. Camden Market is, obviously, a market full of different things; chinese food (as you can see pictured above) and a lot of clothing stores with really intersesting and rather usual stuff. Brick Lane is a really cool place, the bit rougher part of London, but yet so cosy and they have huge and amazing second hand stores, one of them is the great store Blitz. You should check it out!
Earl's Court and Covent Garden I have told you about before, in earlier posts, but we had our hotel in Earl's Court and Covent Garden was this magic place with restaurants and troubadours.
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it was a great day and we met a lot of interesting and nice people. Basically everyone who lives in London is nice, truly. Two unexpected but nice guys, as you can see on the picture above, stopped because they wanted to be in a picture. Another nice person that we met on Oxford Street on a different day suddenly came up to us and said tht he just had to stop and tell us what nice outfits we had on, he just had to stop and say that. Amazing isn't it? We, Swedes, should really learn from them. To give compliments to one and one other.
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all of the clothes that I am wearing in these pictures are new. except from the backpack. The knitted black sweater is from Topshop and so is the amazing lace skirt and the blue Dr Martens.
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you've ever had breakfast at Tiffany's?
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Have you ever had breakfast at Tiffany's? I actually have, truly.
These pictures were shot the third day in London. We continued with our senior year project (that I told you about in THIS earlier post) and did the opening scene from Breakfast at Tiffany's, if you have never seen or even heard about this movie before you should look it up and watch it immediately, it is truly amazing. However, we did that scene just outside of Tiffany's dressed like this and it was so much fun. We got a lot of questions from the people who past by; what we were doing, if it was breakfast at Tiffany's, which designer we were shooting for and so on. We even got photographed by a street style photographer, which was the second time that week.
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I will most likely show you our movie scene that we made later on, when we are finished editing, but for now you can take a look at these pics instead.
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the floral cut offs couldn't bare it
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the second day, of our week in London, we did a lot of different things. The subway in London is just amazing, even though it is a huge city, it only takes a few minutes to go from one place to another. we were pretty amazed by this so we travelled a lot between places. This made us believe that one day was three whole days, since we had experinced so many different things in one day. It was pretty much the feeling we had the whole week.
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That day we, among many other things, went to Oxford Street for round number one of shopping. It was crazy fun, I can asure you. I have never in my life, so far, witnessed as many crazy-good-looking clothes at one place.
another, rather unexpected but fun, experience that day was a woman who suddenly stopped me to ask if she could take a street style picture of me. I said she could, so all of the sudden I was standing in the middle of Oxford Street in London, posing for a complete stranger. It was the first time that week, but not the last, it happened twice after that, in only one week. But I will tell you more about those times later.
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by the way, the bulidings in the backround pictured above we you can almost spot our hotel, it is only a few metres from where I'm standing. A beautiful neighborhood.
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hope you have had a great weekend and a good start of a new week, I have and I hope it will stay that way. God evening.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
Hyde Park, come again?
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so here we are at one of the most beautiful places of London, Hyde Park. It is this huge garden with cute benches and tall fluffy trees where you can sit and read books as if nothing else mattered. It is pretty amazing if you live in a big city that you can escape from all the noise and stress in town and instead be surrounded by peace and quiet.
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.However, this was the first time we went to Hyde Park that week. It was mainly because we were supposed to remake a scene from gossip girl, hence the dress. It is our senior year project, me and Amanda's, we are remaking movie scenes and will later on analys and do research about how music affects our lives. As you probably know, music is very important when it comes to movies, if you ask me, it is often the reason why you feel the way you feel in the particulary scene. Sad, happy, excited, yeah you know. And we will try to find out which differences there are between a scene with and without music.
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by the way, the exciting dress is from asos.com
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The silly parts of life are the best kind, don't you think?
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here is part two, of the Pink Adventures photoshoot, that I promised and told you about. All these pictures are taken here in Umeå, where I live. One really should do these kind of adventures more often, you get to know your city in a different way and you realize that it actually isn't half bad. Umeå sure can be beautiful.
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As you probably have noticed by now there is a car showing in some of the pictures. It was the one who got us through the whole city during this adventurous day and has been by my side since the beginning of july. It was a birthday gift from my dearest Jonas. So from now on we are proud owners of this beauty, that we all call Bosse. A bit silly naming a car, you may think, but according to us it makes it a lot more fun and personal.
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Strolling with troubadours, right?
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I will write and post pictures from every day we spent in London, I promise. We'll start with day one, naturally.
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We arrived at Heathrow airport in the afternoon and with two suitcases and a bagpack each we struggled our way forward to the hotel. We lived in a wonderful place filled with beautiful small alleys, called Earl's Court.
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the first night we got to learn our neighborhood and then we strolled around in Covent Garden and found the most wonderful restaurant.
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Covent Garden became one of our favorite places that week, the atmosphear was idyllic and very natural in most ways. I just wish Sweden had that kind of impression. Troubadours were spread all over town, playing all sorts of music. people gathered around to listen, as was we, and a few romantic couples even began to dance. It was all really magical.
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my clothing in these pics includes; a top (ex-dress cut off) from Zara in Paris, black denim cut-offs from Beyond Retro, a backpack from Urban Outfitters and my shoes by Jeffrey Campbell.
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in conclusion, we experienced an pretty idyllic and pleasant night of strolling.
in conclusion, we experienced an pretty idyllic and pleasant night of strolling.
(I will post Day number two in a few days, so stay tuned!)
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London calling, How can I help you?
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Hej kompisar.
This past week I've been away on one of the most wonderful trip of my life. Dear friends, I have finally been to lovely London. Last monday Amanda and I packed our bags, flew over there and called it our home for a whole week. The main reason of this trip was to do our senior year project, more about that later on, but we have experienced countless things this week and I will do my best to show and tell you all about it.
// STAY TUNED //
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pink adventures // part one
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okay so I thought it was time for a new post, the last one is getting a bit outmoded. I want to present to you all the pictures from the birthday-surprise-day I got from Amanda in the middle of summer. We did a lot of great things that day and one of them was a pretty ambitious assignment. We dressed up to our most stylish self, dipdyed our hair and brought ourselves and the camera out for some pink adventures.
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The assignment was to work us through some particular places in the city and take photos, like we always do.. I know, but it was different this time. We brought out our silly and childish selves and were determined to not care what anyone would think. And since we both are into movies and the feeling that music brings into the movie, we also brought a speaker with us. So we played pretty loud music while taking photographs, which made everything so much more fun. wouldn't it be awesome if music could synced to the reality, just like in movies?!
It was a great experience, really, you really should try it, and the photos came out to be pretty awesome. so here it is, the first part. enjoy!
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By the way, if you're wondering what I am wearing; the top is from Beyond Retro, the white denim shorts are American Apparel, knitted vest is H&M, shoes is Jeffery Campbell and the black vest is designed and made by myself.
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my cup of tea with spots on it
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Honey I'm home! I have spent this past week in the south part of Sweden, an Island called Gotland. My family and I had rent a little cottage there. It became our home for a week and we had the most marvelous time strolling around in several different parts of Gotland. I will tell you more about that later when I am done editing some of the million photos I shot over there.
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These pics above, Amanda and I shot a few weeks ago next to the highway bridge down town. The clothes was something I picked out and style from The Red Cross (Röda Korset, Kupan City). But a few days later I went back there to buy the cute skirt with spots on it, I just couldn't resist my cup of tea.
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this kind of certainty comes but ONCE in a lifetime
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I have had the most wonderful weekend at Jonas house. He lives in this huge country house outside of the city, with a big yard, where you can watch the sunrise as well as the sunset. magical. However, at saturday we watched one of my favorite movies, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. there are not enough words for that movie, it is just so strong and beautiful. Some might think those movies are "such a cliché", but I am a HUGE fan. Now you know.
I have watched it a billions of times, but Jonas had not. So I really did not have a choice but to introduce it to him. If you have not seen it yet, I recommend it with all my heart. you will NOT be disappoited, If you have a similiar taste, as me, in movies.
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I particulary love this qoute: this kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.
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EVENT // NYINVIGNING AV RÖDA KORSET
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okay, so this poster displays a big marvelous event coming up next week. But, unfortunately for those of you who lives outside of Sweden, it is in Sweden, in Umeå at The Red Cross (Kupan city), so I will have to take this in swedish.
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Det börjar alltså närma sig mot ett sort spektakulärt event på Röda Korset, Kupan City, nästa vecka (på onsdagen). Det är nämligen så att vi inviger Kupan City efter att ha piffat upp den till sitt bästa jag. Affären är nu fixad och klar, redo att möta världen, vilket vi firar med ett event där det kommer hållas tävlingar, lotterier, mingel och det kommer även erbjudas 25 % rabatt för alla kunder. Förutom dessa roliga aktiviteter, så kommer vi även vistas i Kupans fina atmosfär. Jag kommer definitivt vara där och jag tycker även att DU, som bor i Umeå, borde lyfta på rumpan och ta dig hit mellan 16.00-20.00. Det kommer bli bäst!
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tack och hej leverpastej.
RED CROSS // help people from a distance
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As I mentioned in the last post, I was working at the Red Cross yesterday and I thought I would tell you some more abput that. The thing is that I have been hired at the Red Cross. I am sure the most of you know what they do, but for you who doesn't, it is a global organisation that helps people in need all over the world by raising money in different ways. They have two second hand stores here in Umeå and from now on I work there together with Amanda as my companion every tuesday. We are in charge of marketing. What we do is that we pick out clothes that, according to us, are trendy right now and then they send them to the other second hand store down town. We also have the great honor to pick out outfits and take photos of them. Last but not least we post them on our blogs for marketing, like I am doing right now.
so, for those who lives in Umeå as well, I recommend that you make some visits at the Red Cross. I asure you, you will find some pretty cool stuff.
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Whatsoever, this is what keeps me busy every tuesday and I totally love it. I am doing something I love and for a good cause. what could be a greater combination?
it is such a mighty thought that you can help people from a distance.
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so, as I am sure you understand, everything I am wearing on these photos is from the Red Cross (except from my creepers and pantyhouse of course)
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this young lady // STAY TUNED
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I went to the Red Cross today and got some work done with this young lady, we had so much fun. looking forward to every tuesday from now on. but more about that later on. STAY TUNED.
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so many things I need to say to you, SOME DIE YOUNG
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last week my friends and I went out in the absolutely marvelous weather. nothing makes me happier than the spring, the smell of spring. When the sun comes back into your life, the snow is no longer hiding the streets and everyone seems so much happier, smiling for no reason. I want it to stay this way. I am so over winter. it is in the past.
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If you haven't noticed I have recently dyed my hair, same colour as before, but I just keep falling deeper and deeper in love with the ginger-type-of-colour. The one thing missing is freckles. I adore them as much as
ginger-coloured hair. I would love to have some of my own.
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by the way, I will post a few other photos on on this particular outfit shortly. I just have to show you more of my new favourite yellow top and my gorgeous shorts from Days in Denim that I made the other week, you'll love them.
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SEE YOU AROUND HONEY PUMPKINS
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for those who wonders, my spring break has been a blast. As earlier said I went downhill skiing with a bunch of wonderful people. the last two days of freedom I spent celebrating two dear friends that just had turned 18. Amanda and Lydia, congratulations once again!
Now I am heading for school. see you around pumpkins!
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the photos are shot by my very good friend magnus.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
---- DIVING to deep for COINS ----
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this week I have been spending my days at a clothing store named Kii. I have had a kind of internship there and I loved it so much, it was a bit hard leaving the last day. I had a great week though.
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this lovely grey jacket I bought a few weeks ago at monki. It is the best jacket ever, so warm and cosy! perfect since the weather intends to be windy the most of the time.
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