anticlimax time

Today I was wearing my 0°C outfit:
Dress: Miss Selfridges
Hoodie: H&M
Jumper: from Grandma's attic
Leggings: H&M
Over-knee socks: Marks&Spencer
(+ DinSko boots & my new scarf which you haven't seen.)

I suppose the point of this outfit is winter & girliness............ I feel like going ice-skating in it. I like the fact that I don't have to wear a coat to go out but don't feel suffocated by layers either.



I've spent New Year's Eve mostly organizing my desk & drawers. And learning to start a car. No parties for me, but at least I'm going to be awake at midnight (because this post has taken three hours to make because my computer screen is still broken).

I'm adament about posting this before 2009 because otherwise I just might score an universal Lamest Post Of The Year title before the year in question has even kicked in properly.

BUT I'M SO HAPPY BECAUSE I CAN SEE MILES AND MILES OF DESK S U R F A C E. This has got to be the best New Year's ever :''')

Happiness is just a cut away!

I realized that growing my hair would mean looking shitty for the next 2 years just to reach something that might not be flattering either. Then I realized that I've wasted the past four months feeling unhappy about my hair & spending too many of my scraps of self-esteem on telling myself it's tolerable. (I have a limited amount, I'm convinced.) Then I decided that I'd immediately feel better if I immediately did something about it.


I'm getting it improved in the near future, I promise, having someone even it out tomorrow later today and then I'll go to the hairdresser's and... we'll see.


I have a deep-set negative attitude towards hairdressers, but truth be told, I'm only so suspicious because I can't get over the trauma I got having my hair cut short for the first time; I went to the hairdresser my mum used and the haircut I came out with was exactly what would look ~edgy~ for a 40-year-old housewife. I was 14. I was asked whether I was my own parent once.

Nevertheless, all my experiences since then have been positive. It's something I keep forgetting, but statistics agree that really I have nothing to fear.


(deliberately misquoting, sry.)

Old & New & Coming to accept high waists

On Saturday I had to pick up a concert ticket, so wearing my favourite last solution outfit: skirt by H&M and cardigan by Primark. Depressing hair cunningly placed under cap.

I also had a few hours for sweating in post-Christmas sales, all I bought was one normal-price item:
New skirt from H&M, with shirt by same. Pictures by Suvi. Yesterday.

Story of the Day: I used to be subconsciously afraid of high waists, probably as a result of realizing how unattractive my high-waisted jeans were sometime near the end of lower level, although why that would apply to all clothing I'm not sure. I've even come to like some high-waisted trousers - strictly on skinny people, that is, sry - but I've only recently come to terms with wearing high-waisted clothing myself. (I suppose the skirt with braces was like a bridge.)

One thing I'm proud of, though, is never pulling my tutu down to my hips when I did ballet. Most of the other girls did. Lolz on them.

I think I need to get some more practice on being photographed by others :D

PS: My laptop screen is acting up so I take no responsibility on any visual aspects, including spelling.

Merry Christmas?

if it's not too late to say that.

(I just had to buy these candle holders for myself...)


My favourite gifts were the tape measure brooch, the novel Virgin Suicides and the Armani code perfume. :)



Sry for naff post, I'm still exhausted from getting out of bed on Christmas Eve! I should put together a few posts I've been thinking about but... don't get too excited.

3:30 but I can see a LIGHT

I finally bought a pair of shoes! Truth be told, they're pretty much a desperate solution - they're synthetic - But apart from not having to wade in my corduroy Converse forever, this is especially significant because it proves that I'm CAPABLE of finding something I need and buying it - who knows, this could open a block on everything else too! I've recently also managed to get myself a new thing of foundation and some tights, so now that I've got into bigger things, my new coat should be just behind the corner.

Shoes >> DinSko Jeans >> Only

* I don't know how, but I can tuck my jean legs inside them with absolutely no problem, which I can't even say about all of the combat boots I've tried on. With skinny jeans.
* They have zippers on both sides which is well confusing. (>> I miss England. LOL. I've not said "well this and that" for months. Expect a post about loving English girls or hating Simon Armitage or something, I'm not sure yet.)

my outfit was a bit stupid today because I was in a hurry & took my mum's Global cardigan that looked alright on me in the summer, but for some reason it didn't fit me at all anymore! not that it matters because I spend most of my time covered in a scarf or even wrapped in a coat nowadays.

Dress up for your dreams

cardigan & skirt & tights H&M, top Primark, socks Seppälä, shoes Converse

Yesterday's colour was white for some reason. Now those shoes are off to the wash machine, en route to being stored away until it's spring and I can take them out again and be happy and feel like it's spring because I'm wearing them.

skirt H&M, cardigan Primark, hat M&S
on Thursday I spent two hours finding something to wear, only to fall asleep for 9 more hours thus missing both school and daylight completely. In the evening I got a parcel from England, including a lovely photo album and some things I managed to leave behind: mainly this packable organza hat that I bought from Marks & Spencer on May Bank Holiday in Scarborough.

I have no idea what to wear with it. I should probably figure out before next summer.



ps. this is posted on timer so I can alter my layout before attracting any new visitors :D

bedsitter

everything H&M. I tried to do something even slightly different with this dress since I keep wearing it almost every time I find it near-clean. I need new clothes but I've just made a very realistic budget which shows that all my income for the next seven months is going into travelling, gigs and coffee. (Except for my mother having promised to pay for a new coat and shoes, if I ever manage to find either.)

any post ideas, feel free to tell me.

playing the part

My current sources of inspiration: terrible & elongated colds, frozen radiators, leaking boots, pressing commitments, badly balanced timetables, constantly running out of some medicine or other...

Main objective: staying warm, retaining my chances to get well sometime before next year.
jumper> old, knit by mum/granny/someone ;;;;;; jeans> New Look

HOT, HUH? Liking my eye infection? Actually, I secretly like looking a bit ill... at least in photographs. Today's makeup is going with the good old "can't win it, join it" line: purple eyeliner and minimal effort. My skin is so dry I sometimes forget to apply powder, and believe you me, that's shocking.

what was I saying

On Saturday, I thought this post would have a point, but now after some no-time-for-anything I'm not sure what that would be. Anyway, my friend M had her birthday and we went out with some other friends of hers. So far this week I've only been sad, tired and sick.

I like that shirt but you can't even see the tiny little shiny dots... another time, eh.

Significant 2 centimetres of plait.