Tennisball At Midnight Whatsoever
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A couple of weeks ago I came up with this idea of having a photoshoot at night on a soccer field. So I brought my dear friend Amanda with me to the green field with white lines and photographed all night, almost anyway..
However, the pictures came out even better then I expected, thanks to the bright spotlights shining above us. We used my fish eye lens and it made the field look like a huge tennisball, which became a pretty cool detail I think. One really should do these kinds of photoshoots more often. In places that are different from the obvious ones, like this soccer field. It is also so much more fun to do it by night, or any other unusual time of the day, if you find a place with even one light source.
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The flowery skirt that I'm wearing I found at the Red Cross store in Umeå and it fits absolutely perfect. The turtleneck is from H&M, the wine-colored hat I borrowed from Jonas and the striped platforms are Jeffrey Campbell.
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colorful streets of Notting Hill need tie dye overalls
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Except from visiting Notting Hill that day, we also went to one of our favorite places, Hyde Park. The weather was marvelous and we bumbed into a lot of different, but interesting animals. Mostly squirrels and doves. The squirrls you could find all over the park, so cute and innocent. One even came up to me and touched my hand with its nose. Friendly creatures. We saw a lot of grey doves, but also one white one. It was the most beautiful thing. Unfortunately, hard to get a photo of it when it kept moving around. So I took a mental picture instead. So you'll just have to visualize it.
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tie dye overalls - a second hand somewhere at Camden Market. Shoes - Dr. Martens. Transparent body top - monki.
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after all.. I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy
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The fourth day of our week in London we went to Notting Hill. Strolling through alleys eating the most wonderful creamy gelato ice cream. I picked two amazing flavors, biscotto (the italian version of milk and cookies) and hazelnut. Truly amazing. We bought it at a cute little ice cream store called Gelato Mio, which I strongly recommend for those of you who will visit London and Notting Hill.
For me who has seen the movie "Notting Hill", as I am sure many of you have too, it was just fantastic to be surrounded by all these cute colorful buildings and houses and the blue shiny doors with golden doorknobs as they have in that movie. It kind of felt like you were Julia Roberts "Anna", just for a second, walking down the street with sunglasses and visitng small boutiques with books and other interesting stuff.
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I wore my new tie dye overalls that day, which I bought the day before at a great second hand store at Camden Market. They are wonderful, perfect for those days when you don't have the strength to come up with something to wear. Then you can just put these on and have a whole outfit done already. perfect. I will show you the whole outfit more clearly later. until then, stay tuned.
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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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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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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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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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London calling, How can I help you?
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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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your very own island /// Gotland part one
so as I mentioned like a week ago I, together with my family, visited one of Sweden's magnificiant islands, called Gotland. We stayed there for about a week and had the most marvelous time. There is a lot of pictures I want to show you from our trip there, so there will be two post parts, and obviously this is part one. And since one pic says more than a thousand words, it will be up to the photos to tell you all about it.
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and by the way, as you can see I have extended my camera equipment. I turned eighteen less then a month ago and received this most wonderful fisheye lens, that I had had my eyes on for so long, from my parents. therefore, the fisheye-pics.
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my surprise party decorated in pastels
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For those who do not know what today is, I will tell you. It is my 18th birthday! This is one of those days I never thought would actually arrive. But here it is and I couldn't be more happier. really. This will be, without any kind of hesitation, my best and most memorable birthday for life. I have been surprised in a lot of different ways this week and celebrated by my exeptional friends and family.
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these wonderful bunch of people above threw me an outstanding magnificant surprise party the other day, with the most wonderful theme, pastels. as you most likely can figure out by our dress code. I had absolutely no idea of what was about to happen. Jonas and I were on our way home, from some lovely days of tenting and watching the sunset and sunrise (which I will show you pictures from later). And when we drove up on the driveway the whole garden was decorated in pastels in the most imaginal ways. I have, with no doubt, never been so chocked (in a good way, of course).
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I had the most wonderful time with the most wonderful people. This I will never forget. Thanks to all of you, for the thousand time who were there and made it the absolutely best night of my life, so far.
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of course this is just a minimal part that night, I have a thousand of wonderful pictures that I will post later.
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a graduate's time to shine
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so this past week has been kind of crazy, in an awesome way. A lot of things has happend, which has made me end up with millions of photos. And I will do my best to show them all to you.
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firstly it was two of my nearest and dearest who graduated from high school, Jonas and my sister Julia, the two beautiful ones above.
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we went to all of the classic and swedish traditional parts of a graduation day. First, we went to watch all of the graduated students run out through the school doors, celebrating their freedom.
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afterwards all of the students get to go on their own trailer through the whole town. The atmosphere is magical at this time, with all the music pounding all over the city and the students screaming and showing off their happiness.
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later on there comes a time when the families get to celebrate their graduate. so we went home and ate cakes and cookies until it was impossible to even move. oh, how I like it. mmmm.
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since both my sister and Jonas graduated at the same time and it turned out to be impossible to be at two places at once, I wasn't able to share this happy day with Jonas. So that had to happen the day after instead. But who doesn't like to party two days in a row, right?
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Okay, so these are just a few of a million pictures I shot those days, but this pretty sums it all up. I can't even begin to tell you about my enthusiasm for next year, when it is me and my classmates time to shine. only one year to go.
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these silly little wounds will never mend, in white houses
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.okay so these pictures should have been posted weeks ago, but I totally forgot about them.
But I like them too much to not show them to you. Remember the theme night I was teeling you about a few weeks ago: "teenagers wear pastels" that Amanda and I had. A night filled with pastels in different ways. these photos were shot that night. I don't wear cute dresses like these very often. I think I should though, you feel so much more elegant. Like you are in a movie or something.
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whatsoever, the flowery lace top is from H&M, the two powder colored skirts from Monki and a vintage store in Woodstock. The shoes I found in a small store in New York and the shirt top is Gina tricot, actually, but the collar I made myself.
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laughs, don't you think?
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I have just recently finished a photography project that I have been working on. we were supposed to work with unsharpness in different ways. And this one, above, is my favorite. Mostly because it is such a happy picture, laughs must be the most beautiful thing. don't you think?
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lollipop lollipop oooh la di la di la lollipop
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the photos are shot by emma
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//sometimes it helps having bare legs indoors if you can't wait for the summer to start//
