OH AUTUMN, MY FAVOURITE

Living in a city that's actually is on the same latitude as the southern point of Greenland it's generally considered insane to prefer any other season than summer. But still, I sort of secretly like autumn the most, even though it is more the thought of autumn that I like, than the real actual shit weather we have here most of the time anyway.

I associate autumn with all the nice colours, walks in beautiful crisp weather with huge scarves, cute little jackets and a beret, holding hands (well these days I'm mostly just holding my cigarette but anyway), drinking hot chocolate or warm blackcurrant juice. Even the occasional rain and fog is ok, if one indoors sipping on that hot juice then. Normally it just rains, is raw and windy and I complain, but lately it's actually been my kind of autumn.

It's said that if there are many rowanberries it's going to be a cold winter, but I'll just rely on the global warming that I won't have to freeze for the next six monts.

Part of my autumn-things is, as already mentioned, the whole dressing up nicely and semi-warm, looking gorgeus under blue skies and wonderfully coloured trees. My stockings are decorated with small leaves. Very autumn-y.


Dress - Vintage
Stockings - Philippe Matignon

AWARDED / TAGGED

I've been given the Arte Y Pico award by Casey (she has a very pretty blog so be sure to check it out if you havnen't yet). Thank you sweet Casey :)

The "rules"of Arte Y Pico are - you must pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting content, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language! Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to their blog. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself. The award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of the Arte Y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

There are many blogs I could pass it on to, I always find it a bit hard to choose... There were some similar awards in the summer, so I will try to "award" different blogs each time.

So here are the five ones I picked:

*Chick n' Kistch
* Lady Melbourne
*The Cupcake Diary
*From Betsy with Love
*Esme and the Lane Way

(the picture above is made from pictures of these five blogs or the blogwriter's etsy)






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I was also tagged by Ranna to list seven of my favorite songs for the moment. Now this is fun but also really hard because I listen to a lot of music all the time, (some of which you can read about under my label 'music') and I mostly listen to a band at the time, not a song. I did a similar tag early in the summer but since it's autumn now I'll try to pull myself together and list onlyseven songs or bands that I've listened too a lot lately...

1) Fatboy. They have a great new album out.
2) The Mustangs (well, and a whole lot of similar bands too...)
3) Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire . Hot.
4) Batmobile - Lucie.
5) The 22-20's in general. Hot band. Wonder why they split up.
6) Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing moon. It's been playing in my head for some while now. (Sometimes also the Nouvelle Vague version.)
7) Volbeat - Sad Man's Tongue.

I'm not going to tag anyone specific this time either so if you want to give this a go then go ahead! (...but I would be a little bit keen on knowing what for example Never Love you More, MissWoo and Betty Lou are listening to for the moment...)

DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS

Tulip-shaped dress - Vintage
Earrings - made by a friend

This weekend I'm going out in a blue dress.
My soundtrack will be this song.

AN ARTY MISTAKE / A DRESS FOR A BEER

Yes, this picture is an arty mistake but I am mainly referring to the dress in it.

A couple of years ago I strated fixing on a dress for myself - I had been making small drawings of such a dress for a long time already and finnally started with the project by cutting a suitable tunic I found on sale into pieces, colouring the fabric soft black, still with the origial pattern showing from underneath, and finally sewing the pieces toghether again with another fabric to into a dress. Over confident as I often am when sewing, I did not bother to try it on too much in between since I know my measurememnts pretty well by the eye.

Well, this time my project ended up being a reather arty mistake, looking all nice but being way to small for me to be able to wear (after some strange bends and moves I got into the dress but had to take it quite easy with the breathing. Getting out was another story then).

So, hours of works and tens of euros ended up haning on a rack in the fleamarket last summer.

But then Ina came by and said "nice dress", tried it on (fit very nicely) and I sold it to her for the symbolic price of one beer. Not that bad a deal in the end, since at least the other one of us ended up looking great :)
And hey, I eventually got my beer too.


See? Nice. (And yup, I have nice new Marimekko curtains.)



More nice stuff - Ina also has a new nice tattoo, a Matryoshka doll.
It's decorated with strawberries. That's nice.