birthdays are sad

are birthdays always extremely boring and depressing?
yep, apparantly.



I think my dad even forgot me, even if he doesn't admit it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

yep. 21
now I can legally drink in the USA
don't need to get older than this, thankyou!

all about me

some days ago, after reading jennifers blog, I wanted this simple diary for christmas
been looking on amazon, and found other books in the same series..

If: questions for the game of life
All about me

books that will make you get to know yourself, youar partner and your friends, filled with loads of tricky and interesting questions..

wanna have!

acompany me

had to go home from school today,
couldn't keep my eyes open, and I felt really ill, like I was gonna be sick
so I slept all afternoon, and now it just 5 P.M but it feels like midnight, when by the way, I will have my birthday!

I'd like some company
I have wine & crackers?

24 hours

The last 24 hours have been great
yesterday evening started with Sanne A coming over, with a bottle of wine for me, and gingerbread, crackers, 3 kinds of cheese & chocolate... after a while came Sanne S & Anna, and we had a pleasant evening with loads of beer & music..

went to Inkonst to listen to some AWESOME dubstep. it was frickin' the best EVER! Mensah from england & Slin from estonia..really, really good..
then me & Sanne A met up with Dominique & Robin, and we went back to my place for some party until we fell asleep in my bed and on the floor sometime around 7 a.m.

this "morning" we had american pancakes & oranges for breakfast...then back to bed for a couple of hours.. Mathilda came over for some nice chill & talk and she brought a gift for me a super-soft cosy bath-robe!!!! craziness! I was just thinking about it yesterday, that I wanted one..
so what I'm doing now is putting my tired body in a bubble-bath with incense, music, candles & christmas soda. then I'm gonna cook some nice saffron pasta, and after that watch the other half of "eat, pray, love"

wicked evening!!

birthdays

November 27th and it's Amandas b-day.
2 years ago we sat in our apartment in barcelona, partying with friends..good ol' times..
tuesday is my b-day, so i'm celebrating a bit tonight, with friends, beer, and dubstep @ inkonst club!!

congratulations amanda!

eat, love, pray

wtched half of Eat, love, pray yesterday.
wanted to read the book since last summer, but never took the time to do it.
so I watched the movie, and unfortunately, I guess now, reading the book will not happen. in a while at least.
longing to see the other half, was just too tired to concentrate last night.

it makes me wanna travel again. cause thats me, it's such a big part of me.
but I will.

and eat
and love.

eat, pray, love - thats all. that's really all we need.

the selby

life. the selby

spotify

I've made a spotify-list that I listen to every day, mostly when I need to clean or sort things out in the new appartment.
it's perfect for evenings home alone, perfect to wake up to, or fall asleep to..
It will always remember me of these days, so I even named it after my adress,

Uppsalagatan 23 (click)

turquoise

check this out
I need a water-boiler (is it really called that in english..hmm)
anyway, I was close to buying one today, a black one..thought it's easy to keep everything black, with the toaster and other household-machines that I'll get..but then I saw this one now..
I mean yeah it's really ugly, it's quite small. but it's cheap..and..its turquoise!!! like everything else in my apartment...hahah..i don't know..if I get this I might have to buy everything else in turquoise aswell? but that might be hard to find...

THE APARTMENT

me & my amazing pillow!

had a seminare this morning, of courseI overslept..well, I didn't even oversleep, I just put the alarm one hour too late..but I managed to come after half of it, so atleast that's fine.
then this afternoon I've been walking around to different shops, supermarkets & thrift-stores looking for furniture, didn't find any. though bought a cheap (and probably shitty) vacuum-cleaner...and other things..like food.mmm..gonna make a cauliflower-soup tonight..with coconut-milk!!
oh, also got some baby-clothes for my spanish friend who is pregnant!! there were sooo many cute clothes..almost got some myself..well..for the future..


anyway, my camera doesn't work but I took some pictures with the webcam, just to show you a bit how it looks..at the moment I don't have alot of furniture, so it's quite empty, but I'm getting there!

siple diary

I found this simple diary at Jennifer..
never heard of it before, but now I'm wishing for one MASSIVELY!

for me, who lovs to read my old diaries, but always too tired to write something new..this is perfect..

here or here

chocolate makes me happy

I'm feeling a bit sad.
sometimes you have those days when everything goes wrong..
like when you go to ikea and buy 6 new glasses, but when you're home only 2 are whole.
and you buy some boxes but when you come home you realize they are the wrong size (but atcually it turned out I needed them anyway)....things like that.

then I realized I bought a cake-thing today, so I can bake cakes!
chocolate-cake coming up NOW!

birthday kid

should clean up here a little bit if I'm gonna have friends over on saturday evening. don't know how it'll be now though, since nobody seemed to have finish the exam and now they're all saying they can't go out on saturday..that's what I said 3 weeks ago and they all said they would!! Oh such a pity, wanted to celebrate my b-day BIG time, you only turn 21 once..

turquoise

today I'm a little bit of everything
hungry, sad, happy, poor, rich

went to IKEA to buy some things I need..which are still alot, but the list is getting smaller..
wow, I now have like 6 bags from IKEA at home..craziness!! well only 2 from this time..I really really really really really really really love the corner in the end where they put everything with reduced-prices..sometimes it's shitty, but you always find something. today it was paradise!! There were several of those beautiful blue patterned blankets I love. so I bought one, cause I already had one at home..and then some curtains I've been wanting but they were waaay to expensive...they were still kind of expensive, so i tried to make it look like there was only 1, but the cashier got me in the end..too bad haha

anyway, tried to count how many days are left until my next salary/students-loan...realized I got it today soooo..one month to go..yey

also. why is EVERYTHING I buy turquoise?! my faovourite color is aqua not turquoise, i HATE turquoise?!? whatever.

finally at home

tired. really tired,
in my arms, in my mind...
but happy now spending the first night of many,
in my new appartment. at home.
there are so many things I need to do, like put my clothes in the wardrobe, but how boring isn't that?!

and I even managed to drive that huge truck today, though it's snowing outside..hopefully we managed without any scratches on the car, cause then I'll have to pay 500 euros á scratch..yey..

but there are still so many things i'd like to get for the appartment..like my sofas from home..OR, my big, soft, dream couch that was GIVEN AWAY here in Malmö! why didn't I see it before we had the car today?!?!?! oh my..it was all big and chunky and perfect to sleep infront of the tv in..
the ones I've got at home are nice but either too small or too uncomfortable (though really nice in retrodesign)

gonna eat my leftover pizza..put some stuff in the shelf I managed to put together eventhough screws were missing and whatnot.

it's too dark now, but maybe tomorrow I can show you some pics from the webcam if you'd like? well you don't have a choice

sweet dreams

regina spektor & snow

I just found this song, and I can't stop listening to it.
It makes me feel in love
though I've never been happily in love.

maybe it's just because Malmö looks so beautiful outside the window, covered in snow.
The houses around mine, look like gingerbread-cottages with icing. wish you could see it.

listen.

christmas

source: ikea

I'm packing the last things..well, as much as I can. I hate when you have to leave stuff cause you need to use it in the morning or during the night or whatever...
it's snowing outside. alot...probably when I wake up tomorrow it will still be there, and more of it! yes, it's kind of cosy but couldn't it have waited for like..1 (ONE!) day more? I'm moving tomorrow & I need to drive that frickin' 5 m long van with all my things in it..

bought some christmas-decoration today, lights & stars and stuff...but really wanna have a real christmas-tree this year, my first christmas in my first appartment :) with my mom & one of my best friends...and loads of food..and games..and maybe a nice movie, and just pecae & love!

oh! I found Settlers of Catan!!! we used to play it when I was a volunteer in France, and I loved it sooooo much, it's addictive and it takes hours to play!! you ind of need to twin land, and build cities and houses and stuff...

I just want to have a really homy home, cosy and all so that everyone just wants to come and visit me all the time & eat freshly baked cookies & buns, & drink tea & play games & watch movies...

lucky day

Oh my, I think I just woke up to my lucky day!
During the first 40 minutes of this morning, I found myself in 4 different lucky situations! 1 lucky thing each 10 minutes...I hope the day continues like this

first I checked my post,

• first one being an invoice for my salary at the clothingshop where I work extra. My salary was way better than I expected it to be, and also, during weekends you get 100% more (i.e double your hourly wage), and I only work weekends so...that's nice! I really need that money for buying stuff for the new appartment!

• second thing, I got a letter from a corean friend. first of all it was one of those vintage air-mail envelopes, I ALWAYS wanted to have one of those (does anybody know where I can get them?)..and inside this beautiful envelope, there were tiny little corean autumn-leaves..

• third thing, I got an e-mail from my spanish "sister" (the one who got married this summer), and she's having a baby!! I'm becoming it's swedish aunt! can't wait to go looking for baby-clothes to send them for christmas!

• fourth thing, I sold my first item on etsy!! somebody wanted my hand-jewellery-chain!

adios!!!

hunger

wow I have a male reader!!
(probably several..actually I now some others..but they are just to much of a chicken to admit it)
atleast I'm not writing in english for nothing then. (sorry for all the girly posts about dresses..hmm)

anyway, I'm soooo hungry!! just haven't been bothered to cook something, been busy packing my stuff..I have ONE box to put things in haha..but I'm creative, so bags, suits, baskets & plastic bags will work aswell..
only the clothes to go...oh those clothes, too many clothes!
what should I do with them? I have such a hard time separating from them..should I give them away to friends? to charity? or should I sell them? here? on Tradera (swedish eBay) ? or on eBay?

all these questions huh? it's enough with all the questions and analysises (?) I have to do for school!

but whatever..food..now

hello

are there any guys reading my blog?



just wondering.
I'd be surprised if I knew who was reading it.

batik

i want summer. now
from asos

armband

nice one..from asos

90210 beverly hills

11th of december we'll have a staff-christmas-party with all the monki-shops & weekday..
found out today that the theme of the party is 90's christmas, like 90210 bevery hills!
haha oh my god, i hate to dress-up, but actually this one might be fun aswell..just don't know what to wear! inspiration please?! what did we use to wear for christmas during the 90's? all I can think of is velvet-dresses, which unfortunately seem to be popular again!!! then people will just think I came with my regular dress...and shoes? what to wear!

give me some inspiration please, you guys are too quiet!

mi casa

what a day, what a day!
tired, full , happy & satisfied...
full because me & lotten just ate & ate & ate & ate..at my favourite indian restaurant..
happy, because I got to see Lotten
satisfied & tired because we spent some hours at IKEA buying stuff for my new place..ALOT of stuff..2 big blue ikea-bags , so full that things kept falling out..
mostly kitchen things like plates, glasses, forks, knifes, frying pans, etc..
everything is aqua-coloured! my favourite (ok actually it's turqouise, and i don't like turquoise but whatever)

looking forward to put everything on its right place, and start building my home!! :)

PINK!

been wanting these chairs since the first time i saw them..when i saw them they were 6 euros (for me, with the ikea family card!)..went back to get them, and then the price was 12..yey..not that bad really, but the problem is...for how long will i like them?
i need to get chairs this week, but my mom won't come down with my furniture & things from Linköping until at least 2 weeks..maybe I should wait & see what would fit better..I mean..I actually wanted to have white walls and colorful furniture/things..so maybe I should go for it? isn't it a bit too classic with black chairs?

help!

colors!

well, these plans are way ahead, and something I wouldn't have time or money to do right now..I don't even know if I can, have to ask the landlord..

but Johanna had a great idea yesterday when we were looking at my new appartment..the kitchen is nice, the walls are white/grey, and the cupboard-doors are also grey, so they kind of float together..it's ok, but what would make them really pop, would be to paint them in some nice color...now maybe i shouldnt start planning before i've put my furniture and stuff in there..but probably one of these colours would go really well, I'm really into aqua-green as you can see, but I have a really hard time deciding which one would be nicest?
it's hard for you to say, you haven't even seen my kitchen, but just in general..which one do you like the best?

probably my fabourites are 1, 2 & 8 (top left corner being the first, right corner below, being the last)

DECO

told you there were loads of nice decoration-things at urban outfitters too :)
free shipping until sunday:

mi casa

source: unknown

just came back from my appartment. my new appartment, only mine!!
it started out pretty bad, i met johanna cause she was gonna come look at it together with me..I had planned this little birthday-picnic-celebration with candles & cakes & I even brought the boiler to make some tea..

so, it was ice-cold and even snowing (!) a bit..we're outside the door and really excited...i try the key..nope, doesn't work. try the second key..no..the third key? nope..fuck..did he give me the wrong keys? and he didn't tell me the code..great..we stod there for like 15 min, hoping somebody would come..then!! there's a guy coming out from his car. he has keys!! hallelujah

I know they keys work for the other door (the one that is actually directly into my appartment), cause we used it when i was watching the appartment the first time..so..put the key in..nope..the other key..nah..third key..first no, it's hard, really hard, but then..it works, it kind of works!! and the door opens!!

i called the landlord, so now i have the right key for the firts door (which he apparantly had put in my letterbox but how was i supposed to get it without the key nor the code?)

anyway, we love my appartment..
i felt kind of like my mom though, inspecting some holes in the walls, and some broken/missing things..i want it to be perfect!

but it will be..it will feel like home..just need to get settled and get all of my things in there, and then my dream since about 7 years, is fulfilled..my own appartment

welcome!!

asos maxi dress

i absolutely love this dress! I could get married in something like this, just..cream-white
oh, wanna have it now!
can't decide which color is the nicest , though (yes, I think it's black, but I'm trying to start wearing other colors too)

from asos:

birthdays

belly full.
full of dill-stewed potatoes, and stewed leek..yeah..kind of liked stewed, realized that today hah!
anyway, I'm off to celebrate Johanna now, I hope she doesn't read this before we meet..

I'm showing her my new appartment, and it's completely empty so we're gonna have some tea & cake on a blanket on the floor. picnic!!

lots of love
V.

the selby

I bet nobody missed that I have a b-day coming up (30th) so here's another thing to put on the wishlist:

love love love the selby website, and now there's a book with pictures from his visits in artists, musicians & designers beautiful homes..
i want it!

URBAN OUTFITTERS

Got a newletter from Urban Outfitters (the european), and apparantly they have free shipping until sunday!
I shouldn't get anything..but if I would (or if I will...)
I'd get this:

the boots, aah the boots! doc martens <3 should expand my doc-collection..
the boots with high-heel are sooo comfortable, and you can't really see the beauty in them until you've tried them on!! didn't know they come in brown leather now, but next time I'm in London I'm definately getting them (they're cheaper in england)...give them to me, baby!

also, the pantyhose, they're both nice, but not as nice as these ones (kind of a mix of them both) from asos

what I want from theinterior/decorating-stuff will come in another post...