Jun 15, 2011
Jun 2, 2011
it's a sign
Today is a public holiday in Belgium, but to be honest, I’m not even sure what we are celebrating. So I’ve decided to have a lazy writing day and ended up moving furniture and unpacking books again, followed by a long browse through ASOS. No, I’m not complaining! Doing (almost) nothing is my favourite way of spending time, but the deadlines are getting near and I have to focus on writing.
But let’s for a moment get back to the fact that this is meant to be a fashion blog…or at least a personal blog…well, whatever may represent my thoughts and state of mind. Yet I realise that I haven’t been honest or open on this URL lately. Probably because I’m a happy sausage, because life is giving me one gift after another. And when I previously wrote a lot, I wrote out of boredom or confusion or misunderstanding…now I’m just happy, so nothing to complain about, nothing to ponder on, no more Topshop wish lists because I’m satisfied with what I own and how I look like…to a certain extend of course since there will always be that little gnawing mouse inside all of us, but this time it’s not out of frustration but out of ambition. Does it make sense?
And to steer off the subject, here’s a small selection of the photos I made in Gotland, collecting weird and mysterious signs.
But let’s for a moment get back to the fact that this is meant to be a fashion blog…or at least a personal blog…well, whatever may represent my thoughts and state of mind. Yet I realise that I haven’t been honest or open on this URL lately. Probably because I’m a happy sausage, because life is giving me one gift after another. And when I previously wrote a lot, I wrote out of boredom or confusion or misunderstanding…now I’m just happy, so nothing to complain about, nothing to ponder on, no more Topshop wish lists because I’m satisfied with what I own and how I look like…to a certain extend of course since there will always be that little gnawing mouse inside all of us, but this time it’s not out of frustration but out of ambition. Does it make sense?
And to steer off the subject, here’s a small selection of the photos I made in Gotland, collecting weird and mysterious signs.
May 30, 2011
shy blog
As unfortunate as it gets, IKEA has stopped the production of my favourite Olle chairs, the ones I saw about one month ago and chickened out on buying without a place of my own. Now I have a home and now I have to search for alternatives. A vague rhetoric question is why does IKEA stop producing the most Swedish of its chairs…we may never know.
Well, let’s see the positive side of things – I just got one moment closer to buying the Hay RU chair.
This month’s budget though will be spent on light fittings for the living room and this month’s energy…on fixing those aforementioned light fittings to the 3 meter high ceiling. I’m thinking about making the lamps myself from several coloured electric cords in red and yellow and simple bulbs…a bit like on this picture, just with more loose cords hanging under the ceiling in a coloured spider-web.
And with yet another interior-oriented post I wanted to thank those who read this blog and enjoy it, despite of it being hidden and timid. May be in a couple of years I will share a link to Cut The Cute with everyone, but so far I’m happy with my personal electronic space and I’ll be keeping it in this way intimate. It’s a shy blog. And therefore the shy yet most honest thank you to those who care to read and comment. I greatly appreciate it.
Well, let’s see the positive side of things – I just got one moment closer to buying the Hay RU chair.
This month’s budget though will be spent on light fittings for the living room and this month’s energy…on fixing those aforementioned light fittings to the 3 meter high ceiling. I’m thinking about making the lamps myself from several coloured electric cords in red and yellow and simple bulbs…a bit like on this picture, just with more loose cords hanging under the ceiling in a coloured spider-web.
And with yet another interior-oriented post I wanted to thank those who read this blog and enjoy it, despite of it being hidden and timid. May be in a couple of years I will share a link to Cut The Cute with everyone, but so far I’m happy with my personal electronic space and I’ll be keeping it in this way intimate. It’s a shy blog. And therefore the shy yet most honest thank you to those who care to read and comment. I greatly appreciate it.
May 29, 2011
Tomorrow I’m taking yet another trip to IKEA to hoefully come back with one more chair for the dining room, and then it will be time for the long-awaited purchase – the Hay RU chair in turquoise…and a bit later, the gorgeous multi-coloured wall clock from Habitat. So far these are the two darlings on my realistic list, but there’s surely the dream one too.
shy pastels
Having spent the entire day working in my garden, I still can’t get enough of design blogs. I wish one day I can take similar pictures here and virtually show you around the house.These are all perfectly coloured in shy pastels and touches of neon on white background. I love white because it makes the furniture stand out and I love colours because they compliment perfectly well my favourite material – wood.
May 26, 2011
less is a bore
I love the coloured details, the stripes, the grids the polka-dots. The most exciting of the news is that we’ll be seeing more and more of it in the season to come. At the moment my pattern combination motto is ‘more is more’.
colourblock
A long chase after the compensated soles is almost over. As the likes of Prada and Robert Clergerie have issued a myriad of coloured-soles-and-perforated-brogues hybrids to covet, there is always one Korean website to make an ‘improved’ copy of the sought-after item. Pradas seem to be sold out all over the universe, and too bad, not my budget anyways…neither is RC… so my trustworthy Korean website has produced these:
And I am soon to become a happy owner.
And I am soon to become a happy owner.May 20, 2011
I used to post photos of the objects on my table now and then on the old blog. Because my table is incredibly photogenic in pure white, rendering every object desirable perfectly poised on its surface. This is my latest selection of those objects living in a perfect symbiosis of the need and want.
My favourite red cup that makes coffee just perfect. The best toy created by mankind –Rubik’s cube, and the trompe-l’oeil one which actually serves as a pepper mill - is a gift from my darling. The best reading of nowadays – the second issue of Vestoj. And last but not least my latest vintage find – a Celine bag – I found it today at the flea market, and so far a brief research into the vintage Celine models tells me that it’s authentic and that I didn’t even pay 1/10th of what it’s really worth…a dab of white shoe stain on the corners and it’s as good as new.
I do admire the newly-found lean and mean minimalism of the two recent Celine seasons. Not being a fan of cigarette pants, colour-block or turtlenecks, I’m a mere onlooker, but the bags are a dream, whether of the latest creation or vintage. Now I just have to go with what I can afford.
May 11, 2011
Apr 25, 2011
mtwtfss in sthlm
Having mentioned the shopping lists…This is just a small selection of the gorgeous stuff I want to get my hands onto. All from Weekday – and comes by no surprise.
Apr 24, 2011
The Naked And Famous - Birds
The lack of updates on this blog isn’t a rarity anymore. I’ll try to get back to the regular blogging practice some time in the imminent future, but so far I’ve been enjoying the love, the heatwave, The Naked And Famous music videos and making shopping lists for Stockholm where I shall find myself in less than a week. Psyched!
Apr 4, 2011
Catclub
It stormed that night. No wonder some pictures came out looking like they were taken in a zombie land, 28 days later when yet another flock of birds crashed into the sky and hundreds of dead starfish get washed ashore in North Wales. 
Then it all went glowing in rainbow colours. I’m no good party photographer…I’m no party photographer at all, but a visual exploration of one space transformed by a flood of primary colours was rather amusing. No pot of gold at the end of it though. 
Then it all went glowing in rainbow colours. I’m no good party photographer…I’m no party photographer at all, but a visual exploration of one space transformed by a flood of primary colours was rather amusing. No pot of gold at the end of it though.
umool umool vol.9
Looking forward to this absolutely gorgeous book to drop in mail. Ordered via Motto Berlin, so let’s see how quick these guys are. 
Mar 30, 2011
the tiger sunday
Those are the Aspen Tigers, entertaining the Sunday afternoon crowd at Fontainas. I’m glad to have such lovelies to take pictures of. 
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