leather dress

i bought a leather dress. it was on sale and fits like a glove. the leather is really soft, and in a dark grey shade which turns into purple towards the hem. i will wear it a lot this autumn.

















































































dress: nümph
cardigan, tights and shoes: h&m
bag: mq

pictures taken by my favourite person in the world.

sunday finds

yesterday i went to a fleamarket here in oslo, at birkelunden, together with maria whom i know from volunteering at by:larm in february. we had a great time and both of us found some bargains to take home. sadly enough (or luckily, depending on how you look at it) most of the porcelain was rather expensive, and even though i was tempted a few times i didn't buy any. instead, i came back with this:

























a very pretty, unused cocktaildress by mango which fits perfectly. it came with an ugly belt which i really don't want to show you. also, it only came with one strap (which you can take off), and even though i searched the bag i found the dress in, i couldn't find the other one. an hour later we came back and -whips - guess what appeared somewhere in between a few pairs of shoes, some t-shirts and a bunch of belts? yes, the second strap. made me very happy.









































a lightweight summerskirt with a lovely cross-stiched border. the length is not perfect as it hits below the knee, but with a pair of heels it should work. also, i plan to use it for layering. nice!

























and a pair of unused grey suede gloves. autumn can come now!

outfit week

due to extensive studying i kind of forgot to post these outfit pictures from wednesday to friday. as i'll be heading out in a few minutes to meet a fellow blogger from oslo, henriette from a red lipstick, i thought i'd just post all of them at once. nothing really special, plus one or two detail shots.

wednesday: lila legs

























shirt: kenvelo
skirt: h&m
tights: gina tricot
belt: zara
shoes: bullboxer

























thursday: flowergarden on my legs

























top: vero moda
cardigan, tights and skirt: h&m
shoes: zara
necklace: accessorize
bag: mq


friday: very pale legs.

























top: mango
skirt: thrifted
belt: monki
shoes: bullboxer

















bangle: accessorize

ceremony

last sunday my boyfriend's niece had her name-giving-ceremony, and i met a part of the family for the first time. it's not so easy for us to get to know each other's families, as they are rather large and spread out both on his mother's and on my father's side. not to mention that his lives in sweden and mine in germany.. anyway, i got to meet just the right amount of new people to not be totally confused, the ceremony was really lovely and the cake was delicious. my boyfriend was the official photographer, so of course he also took some pictures of me:








































dress: stop staring!
necklace: accessorize
bangles and belt: h&m
shoes: bullboxer

birds on repeat

today's outfit is almost a repeat of yesterday's. just breaking in the skirt =)

























skirt: monki
top: h&m
belt, hat and brown bag: thrifted
tote: mq
shoes: strauss

if you wonder what's in the tote: i just came back from grocery-shopping and it contains a box of black currants, a bunch of carrots, some sugar peas and a lime.

tonight we are going to have a typical swedish dish, called "pytt-i-panna". it's really easy, you use all kinds of vegetable and meat leftovers (such as bell peppers, squash, carrots, peas, meat balls, sausages,... whatever you like, basically), cut it into small pieces, add some diced potatoes and onions and stirfry the whole shebang. season with salt and pepper and if you like you can serve it with a fresh sallad or fried eggs. it's delicious!

the lime and black currants were for a cake which is right now in the oven and hopefully done soon...

birds

as promised, yesterday's outfit with the brand new monki-skirt. a perfect skirt for sunny weather and days in the park! (or at home, studying..)





















i love the birds in the pattern, and those pockets! they are huge, and so cool!

























skirt: monki
shirt: pimkie
cardigan: h&m
tights: gina tricot
belt: h&m
shoes: din sko

wonderful

my favourite person in the world surprised me with a bouquet of red roses yesterday. they are wonderful. he is wonderful, too. thank you!

shopping spree

sweden is great for shopping clothes. not only do they have brands we don't have in germany, they also have those crazy sales. ok, i can have almost the same in oslo, where i am quite often, but still, it's not 100% the same.
so of course when we went to sweden last weekend i went on a little shopping spree, mainly with two targets in mind: monki, and myrorna (which is the salvation army's thrift shop). monki was to be the first station and they did not disappoint me. even if i hadn't found anything else at any other store i would have been very very happy with my score:



















i don't really know what came over me, but i went out with only dusty-powdery-rose-coloured items. not bad for somebody who until quite recently said she doesn't like... pink. ok. this is not pink. it's old rose. a little purse, a belt, a tulle-dress, a skirt (which is not on the picture but will follow in my next outfit-post) and a top with lace-trim.

myrorna have become quite expensive especially when it comes to clothing. the only interesting piece i found was a blouse and it should cost 160sek, which is around 16euro, and thus far too expensive for a thriftshop-item which wasn't even vintage. anyway, i found some nice pieces of fabric for very little money:



































this hawaii-style print is going to be a summer-skirt. very beach-y!

then, i still had some time left before i had to be back for lunch. usually i don't go to mq, as their prices tend to be on the higher side, but i thought i might check the sale, because, well, you never know what you'll find. they had a kind of final sale with 50% off the former sale-price, meaning that most things were marked down by at least 75%. i went with a pair of trousers, a blouse and a coat:

























some of my swedish readers may well recognise those pieces. they were all part of an exclusive capsule collection by hanna lindström who won last year's fresh fish (a fashion fair and design competition for young swedish fashion designers). the collection was really hyped when it hit the stores in february, and when i went to karlstad in march i had hoped to be able to afford a piece or two. well, i couldn't. but now in august i could. the battle coat was marked down from 1500sek to 200, and the trousers from 700 to 100. guess who felt really really lucky!
both pants and coat are a little too long for my taste, but that's nothing that can't be fixed...

travel dress

this weekend i spent with my favourite person in the world in karlstad, sweden, where his niece was having her name-giving-ceremony (in place of being baptized). we took a bus in the early friday evening, and while this dress certainly was a good idea in the frst place for comfy travelling, it turned out not warm enough. the busdriver apparently thought it necessary, given the outside temperature, to turn the bus into a driving fridge, so i ended up feeling really cold, as my jacket was lying in my bag in the luggage compartement. brrrrr...

























dress: h&m
boater hat, bag and belt: thrifted
shoes: strauss

(and guess what happened on the return-trip? - yes, exactly, just the same. even though i had a cardigan with me inside the bus, i ended up borrowing my boyfriend's blazer. which might give some of you the thought of "oh, nice, boyfriend-blazer, isn't that one of the latest trends?" well, in my case it's not, as said blazer is not, as supposed to be, one size larger than me, but four sizes. or five. not trendy. but warm. which was the main idea, though.)

thursday outfit

ok, a few days late, but who cares. this is what i wore last thursday, the tulip skirt made another appearance, combined with white-and-blue-patterned tights. though later in the day it got so hot that i changed to another, slightly longer skirt and got out of the tights. i don't dare having the tulip skirt without tights, it just feels a little too short and i'm not ready to introduce the world to m underwear yet... (and, i know it doesn't look so short, but i do have a long torso, and while my legs might look longer in this picture, they certainly are not.)

























skirt: h&m trend
t-shrt and tights: h&m
shoes: din sko
necklace: marc by marc jacobs

a tulip skirt

this must be the shortest skirt i own, and i don't think i have ever presented it here on my blog. i love the gathered details and the fact that it consists of four overlapping pieces, thus making it look like a tulip on the left and right side.
also, i really love the print on those tights (which i sadly killed a few hours later - why can't they make a size s large enough for a tiny person like me???) and therefore i decided to show you a collection of details today:


















belt and gathers























tulip skirt



















tights and shoes

and here is the whole outfit put together:

























skirt: h&m trend
top and tights: h&m
shoes: zara
belt: gina tricot

little blue dress

today's outfit. yes, it's a blue dress. very dark navy, i admit, but still, blue.

























dress: h&m trend
cardigan: h&m
scarf: thrifted
tights: gina tricot
shoes: din sko

streetstyle me II

and as if one piece of streetstyle wasn't enough, jenna featured my leipzig-style on stil-los as well:

























thank you jenna!

skirt: thrifted
top: mango
bangles and bag: h&m
shoes: strauss

streetstyle me I

during our blogger-meeting in leipzig both jenna and i were featured on a streetstyle-site, namely tragflaeche leipzig, for the first time in our lives:

























now, aren't we cute? the weather was hot hot hot and we were trying really hard not to melt away in front of the camera... you can see and read more here.

(picture by tragflaeche leipzig)

in leipzig

lots of stuff has happened since i posted last time, so much that i just couldn't find the time to keep up with the blogging. now i'm back with new energy and i promise to post more often again.

so, amongst other things i have been on a short vacation to the fjords in norway, have studied a lot (and will do more of that during the rest of summer and all of autumn) and i have also been to leipzig for the weekend. while my favourite person in the world was enjoying himself at the games convention online conference, i explored the city and met up with some wonderful fellow bloggers:


















jenna from i say shotgun, nadine from strawberry kitten

























and laura from tagträumerin.

we basically did the whole fashion-blogger-meeting thing: shopping, talking, eating ice-cream, taking pictures, and we really had a great time together. as nadine already said, it feels like i've made some amazing new friends.