Hills above ground
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A while ago Amanda and I made a visit to a few hills and fields near by her house. It was one of those places where you realize that your town atually is incredibly beautiful. The surroundings in these pictures are doing half of the job really, but the key is to manage to capture them in the right way, which I think we did pretty well.
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I also think these pictures have a kind of 60's glow at them. I guess the phone might be an important factor to that one, but also the colors and the fact that we are laying in the grass dressed up in long skirts and high heels - since that wasn't at all a rare or strange thing to do back then, like it, unfortunately is nowadays. Which, I think, makes it more important and fun to do it. So here we are, laying in the soft grass on hills above ground.
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Seems like only yesterday, just around the corner
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Here are the rest of the photos and the complete post about my high school prom. I have already told you that I had a great night, so this time I'm letting the photos do the talking. And for those who don't know this yet; tomorrow happens another, much more huge, thing in my life. I am graduating from high school. I can't believe the day has actually arrived. Seems like it was only yesterday we started our 100-days-countdown, but it obviously wasn't. Anyhow, tomorrow is going to be an awesome day in every way. Different things and activities will go on from 7 am to God-knows-when the next night. So excited.
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I also have to tell you that my mother and I have actually sewed my prom dress. I designed it myself, last autumn, but planned and figured out the sewing process I did together with my mom. It always takes a lot longer than you expect it to, so we have been working with this project since november, every now and then. Not constantly of course, but you get the picture. We finished it two days before prom(!), but I am so happy about the outcome. It turned out even better than I thought.
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So, my dress is designed by me and sewed by my mom and I. The shoes I actually ordered from Nelly. The corsage is designed and made by the swedish florist shop Interflora, and it is a pastel pink peony (which also is my favorite kind of flower, for those who are interested).
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tack och hej leverpastej.
Like the cherry on top
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Jonas took these photos of me a few weeks ago and right after that I was supposed to post them, so you could get a better hint of what my new shoes looked like. But since it has been so much going on the last few weeks before graduation and stuff, I haven't had the time. Now when things, like prom for example, have past I finally get o show these to you. As you probably can see I have used my circular flash in this photo session and I think it went perfectly with the feeling I was looking for. The contrast between my skin, dress and sunglasses came out really good and clear when editing, just as I had hoped. And I am so happy about the feeling my shoes are bringing to the pictures, they're like the cherry on top.
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However, the black velvet dress I found at the Red Cross a while ago and it has these cute flowers on it, but unfortunately they are really hard to spot here (at all..). Sunglasses are Cheap Monday and my shoes are Jeffrey Campbell from Envi Shoes and I actually bought them particulary for my graduation day, but I sort of couldn't wait until then.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
Would Cinderella fit in this world
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The past few weeks have been full of preperations for the high school prom and last night it all happened, it was time.
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Prom has been something I've longed for since pre-school. It has always seemed like the perfect night, when everyone dresses up in their most beautilful dresses and suits. Then they arrive at the ball in fancy cars, to walk down the red carpet with either a princess och prince on their side. For one day you would get to live the life of Cinderella or Sleeping beauty, or in the boys' case the princes in these stories. It would be magical.
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Since pre-school my expectations for this day had gone down a lot. The thought of being in a cinderella story didn't feel that realistic, so it was long gone. Yesterday I experienced this event and to be honest, even though I didn't feel like the actual Cinderella, I did feel like a princess during the whole night with my own prince by my side. Surrounded by other princes and princesses, we arrived in a fancy car, walked down the red carpet and even waltzed one time during the night.
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I am glad I got to experience this night for many reasons, but one is that I realized that princes and princesses are actually for real and not only in the royal house in Stockholm. Even though it's a shame those sides of us are so rare in everyday life, at least I know they exist.
The point, however, is that I had a magical night at prom and these pictures are just a preview of what it and we looked like.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
the movement of a midsummer sunset
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Our wheather up here in the north of Sweden has been crazy hot the last few weeks, which we're certainly not used to here. Not this early anyway. All of the trees and the flowers has therefore flourished much earlier than normal and right now it feels a lot like midsummer in Sweden. Which was our exact thought behind these photos, when we shot them at sunset the other week. That day we also hade one of our well-planned theme nights. This time it was a mix of romance and everything that comes with it and the feeling of the Romantic movement, which we tried to convey in these pictures. I think we did pretty well.
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I'm wearing a bustier from Urban Outfitters, a new skirt from the Red Cross (which makes me think of candy cans) and my new favorite rainbow shoes from Envi Shoes, Jeffery Campbell.
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tack och hej leverpastej.
