THE BLACK ALL-ROUND DRESS

Bachér Bachér Bachér Bachér.
You know, the scene from Being John Malkovich.

Well, anyway, I got myself a versatile comfy dress. It's quite ideal for nursing. I also wish I'd had it while I was still carrying. Well, the next time...
It was originally floor-length, which was very pretty but I tried to be rational and thus cut it off; footlong clothing is not easy to wear outside the walls of home. At least for me.

The dress is from ebay.

FIG FUDGE

I deliberately left out the words raw and vegan from the post. Or, sugarfree,  not to scare anyone away...

As I've said before, I love myself a chunky sandwich, creamy pasta and a heavy cake or just anything with chocolate, but I like to balance it up with very healthly foods as well; especially now after my pregnancy. And as you  may have noticed, it has been less cake and more raw food lately. But then again now I'm only three kilos away from where I was one year ago. As I have an incredible sweet tooth I am highly enjoying the fact that you can enjoy just as good sweets as the ones with sugar and butter also without those.

I've always been a huge fan of dried dates and figs. Dates are also the ones mostly used as sweetener and consistence-maker in raw sweets. Figs work very well too!

For the fudge you'll need:
6 dried, moist figs.
3,5 dl natural cashew nuts
1 tbl spoon cocoa powder
1 tbl spoon honey
vanilla powder (natural, ground vanilla powder; not vanilla sugar)

If the figs are very dry you'll need to soak the in water for an hour or two. Then just mix everything together into a nice chunky paste. Form a square of it, or flatten it into a mold, then cover in plastic. Put into the fridge for a couple of hours.  Cut into smaller squares and you're done!

TIKI OCTOBER

I popped by the re-launch of Kokomo tonight and all the Tiki drinks were free. Free tiki drinks! I could however not enjoy myself any complimentary tropical alcoholic beverages as I was also doing a show. You can't always have everything I guess. Not even when it comes to tiki drinks (damn it).

This is the autumn version of dressing "tropical"; if it's too cold for bare legs or very thin tights it's best just to add a big splash of colour all over.

The dress is Trashy Diva, the necklace a leftover from my hippiedays I bought the summer I was in Bali and yes, you must have noticed, the bag matches my fridge which means it is m i n t  g r e e n.
(There's lots of mint green in the shops right now. Almost too much. It was hard to believe it would ever come to this.)


Oh, and a little PS. here at the end;
my weekly give away at my blog's  FB page this week -ending Sunday as usual- is for a set of eco false lashes, with ecologic-and vegan friendly adhesive! 5 cent per contester goes to charity (to organizations in the US.) Enter via my site or straight trough here: http://bit.ly/PonDjs

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN.

...which could refer to whatever, really, warmer jackets and peppermint tea, Halloween playlists or the fact that it's only a mere eleven weeks 'til Christmas, but, what I am referring to is the time when not only I get older, but also the blog.

So, last week I got yet a year more in my book which at this point really is just all the same. But the Freelancer's Fashion Blog turned five years; that means I have now started my sixth year of blogging. That's something of a whoah! I think, especially since I know some of you have been reading along pretty much since the start.

Even though everything here is rather well selected I still scroll back myself sometimes, as the blog works as some sort of a diary. Not the posts per se, but I remember what was going on when posting what I did at the time. Quite much can happen in five years...

My first post was about my 26-year birthday party. In 2007. And do you know how old two-thousand-and-seven sounds? Funny how ninety-something seems like not that far, at least not almmost twenty years ago, when 2007 again feels pretty much the same. Sort of.

For the first year I pretty much only did drawings for the blog, mostly of outfits. The idea was also to keep it anonymous but then the whole thing developed into something more personal and totally different.  In any case I think it takes about a year or two for a blog, any blog really,  to develop it's style, as well hen it comes to the actual content and style of posting as pictures.

In the beginning it was mostly about hair and clothes, as were most blogs (I knew of) back then I think. From a clothing point of view I find it interesting how my own style has maybe "toned down" a bit, I feel it's more simple and classic now than a few years ago - but then I scrolled back myself and noticed it was still pretty much the same. I just had more flowers and bows in my hair I guess. And man did I look different as a blonde, now looking back! I know many of you come here for the outfits so here's a super concentrated totally random recap of the past five years in clothes.

 

 

 

(That double-me-double-cats photo was the first photo I ever posted of myself in March 2008.

And as you can see I, as many other bloggers, got a better and yet a better camera once I got started...

At some point I might upgrade it a bit still, we'll see.)

I have also moved a few time since Day 1; I've been blogging from three homes. Or, three and a half, sort of. At first I lived with J in a flat in the city.

Then I moved to my own flat a couple of blocks further.




Two years ago we moved with Eddi to more suburb areas.




And I started keeping a second home at the farm.

And then I got married and had a kid and started doing burlesque for real and lots of other things but you know all that already. And btw now you can also vote for me. It you live in Espoo, that is. 267!

So that's it. Let's see where we are five years from now?