c-c-c-cat!

Olis hauska joskus tavata toi tyyppi joka tota kissaa maalailee. Siellä se taas tuli vastaan männä viikolla.

Oon aivan poikki. Viime yönä nukuin alle 4 tuntia, uni ei vaan tullut. Kognitiiviset taidot on surkeaakin surkeammat tällasessa tilassa: ajatus ei toimi, puhe pätkii. Piti tännekin kirjottaa jotain asiapitoista, mutta en tietenkään muista enää mitä se oli. Menenkin nukkumaan tämän jälkeen, kello tulee yhdeksän ja se on jo virallista nukkumaanmenoaikaa.

Translation: That cat is my favourite. I see her all around the city. I'm exhausted and off to sleep now. Good night!

Mecco

Oon viime aikoina hamstrannu mekkoja ku viimeistä päivää ja kiitänkin jumalia että täällä on Dorothy Perkinsin liike. Kuvassa oleva mekkonen sieltä hankittu. Näitä oli myös punaisena, mutta veikkaan että se tulee sinne alennukseen, niin ehkä sen voisi sieltä napata silloin. Mikä tarkoittaa tietysti että pitää rampata tuolla mekkoparatiisissa nykyistä ahkerampaan kyttäämässä. Ja ostamassa epähuomiossa muutama lisää.

kovan onnen takki

Olen ollut viimesen viikon enemmän ja/tai vähemmän kipeenä. Tänään aamulla mittasin huimat ennätyslukemat 37,3, mutta ajattelin että ei kai se haittaa jos vähän ulkona käy pyörähtämässä. Päätin että kävelen ainoastaan siellä, missä aurinko paistaa, mutta huomasin onnistuneen alun jälkeen, että se on kaupungissa täysin mahdotonta.

Tää takki on varsinainen kovan onnen takki. Sen saamisyritykset tänne Pietariin sai jo melkein surkuhupaisia piirteitä ja siinä matkan varrella huomasin että sitä olis saanut puoleen hintaan H&M:n nettikaupasta ja että niitä myytiinkin myös täällä kaupoissa. Ainakin oli suuret odotukset, mutta nyt suhtaudun siihen vaan "ihan kiva" -takkina. Tollasen ruljanssin jälkeen pitäis kai hihkua onnesta joka kerta kun sen lykkää ylleen. Kiittämätön paskiainen (takki, en minä).

Sisäpihat. Niistä tykkään eniten Pietarin keskustassa. Harvoin täällä pääsee pakoon autojen ääntä ja muita ihmisiä niin hyvin kuin livahtamalla jostain porttikongista sisään. Melkein täysi hiljaisuus ja täysin uudet näkymät eikä ikinä tiedä mihin päätyy ja mistä tupsahtaa ulos.

Translation: Went for a Sunday walk today, it was sunny yet crispy, a couple of minus degrees. I've been ill for a almost a week now, so this cheered up my day!

red/black/white

Jos jotain oon tähän ikään mennessä oppinut, niin sen, ettei vaateostoksille lähdetä tälläytymättä ekaks. Muuten iskee kriisi. Entinen duunikaveri on lanseerannut oivan sanan sitä olotilaa kuvaamaan joka tulee kun lähtee kaupungille esimerkiksi suoraan töistä. Räyskäle. Tätä räyskäle-oloa välttääkseni puunasinkin eilen knaaman kondikseen ja lähdin käväisemään kaupungilla. No tukka näköjään jäi laittamatta ja sukkikset oli sitä laatua että haarakiila tais vilkkaa ja kävin niitä vaivihkaa nostelemassa erinäisissä porttikongeissa. Eli melko räyskäleenä sitä sit kuitenkin mentiin loppujen lopuksi :/

Ja oho, mekon sisään taisi jäädä hengari, ainakin ton olkapään ulkonäön perusteella...

Mekko on Dorothy Perkinsistä, baskeri H&M ja kengät Dr. Martens, viheliäiset sukkikset lähiprodukti.

Translation: Went shopping for basic T-shirts yesterday, because I've realized I lack basic clothing. This dress is quite new, from Dorothy Perkins, one of my favourite stores.

Sunday kind of feeling

Sunnuntai ja tein pesän lattialle tyynyistä. Kissa taasen on tehnyt pesän kainalooni, aina raivostuttavuuteen saakka. Se varmaan ymmärtää että emäntä on sunnuntailäheisyyden kaipuussa.

Kuva on muutaman kuukauden takaa, käytiin läheisessä galleriassa katsomassa näyttelyä 60-70-lukujen Pietarista. Inspiroiduin suuresti näistä hienoista poseerauksista ja päätin että kai sitä vois itekin opetella jotain tuon suuntaista...


Nyt taidan jatkaa tätä pesäilyä ja kohta teen ruuaksi spagua, jota hätäpäissäni ostin lähikaupasta. Ja vois kattoo Dexteriä. Joo!

Translation: got inspired by the poses at an exhibition. So very Russian :)

Moikka!

a crisis

Last weekend I bought three new dresses, so for a while now I won't be having any crises with deciding what to wear (just economical crisis).

This is one of them, a basic one with some small details. Oh, it's polka dotted, but you can't really tell from the pictures. Also the shoes are new. I finally gave in to platform heels, haven't been able to decide whether I like them or not, but I think now there's no turning back no longer. I like how my legs look like thy were 10 meters long and how much more looks I get from men :)

Dress: Be Free
Shoes: H&M

Ja. Olen tässä mietiskellyt josko vaihtaisin blogin kielen suomeksi. Lukeeko tätä edes kukaan?

Hurrying to work

Shirt: BeFree, Skirt: H&M, Shoes: Dr. Martens

Finally I'm posting something else than a picture of me wearing outer wear. But the thing is, I don't have enough light in my flat, therefore I had to use the flash light, because my camera sucks :( I've been thinking of buying a new camera, but then again, I already have a better camera, which I never use... It's just collecting dust on a book shelf, don't kow why.

Ok, as the headline says, I need to hurry to work like NOW!

Die Bitch

I have became very fond of that jacket. I bought it over a year ago but it always felt somewhat not me. Maybe it's the fake fur that I added to it or some kind of a change in me, don't know, but I'm happy I didn't throw it away or sell it.

Weekend was really nice , yet too short as usual. Didn't get to go skating as planned, because it was snowing but instead we went to this Horror St. Petersburg "exhibition" (couldn't find a web site sadly). It was kind of a show in which the partisipants well, participated and it was scary at times. Although, the thing that scared me the most was the thought that some of the actors would say something to me during the show and I wouldn't understand anything :) I tried to hide behind other people most of the time... hard being a foreigner sometimes.

I made tomate soup yesterday and it turned out the best soup I've ever cooked. God I love cooking!

PS. In case anyone was wondering about the headline, it is translated from a "slogan" that's written on the first picture.

Maissi stole my contacts

Today was the first day I didn't have any fever, so I decided to go to work instead of calling the doctor, although I didn't feel so good yet. Besides, we only had like 2 hours of work, after which there would've been a party (I worked in an evening shift this week, not that we'd start partying in the morning here!). I didn't feel much like drinking nor socializing, but I wanted to something at least a bit fun after staying inside for three whole days. So we went for a sushi and also dropped by this 2nd hand but I didn't find anything there, as usual.

This morning my contact lenses were missing. They just weren't there in the liquid anymore and I swore I put them in it on Monday when I last wore them... Strange. Happens to be they were my last couple, so I have to wear glasses until I get new ones. But anyway it's a nice change to use glasses every now and then.

cat on my front door

I guess it's obvious that I've never really liked winter. In fact, I have always hated it. So it has been a big surprise that this winter I've actually enjoyed myself and it has made life so much better when going out of the house doesn't cause a massive anxiety attack. Or a total freezing.

Yes, I blame this change of opinion on my nice winter clothing, which I've never in my adult life paid a lot of attention for. This winter, however, I've bought two really nice, warm winter jackets and a pair of Dr. Martens (which aren't the most ideal winter boots, but the only ones I can think of). I had to turn 30 to realize that half of the year can be enjoyable, as well, and you can live pretty much normal life during winters too :) If you're well-clothed, that is.

Change of a season anxiety

Well hi there you all :) I've had an unintended blog pause for some undefined reason. Sometimes it just happens, I couldn't care less about blogs and blogging. And then there are times that it's all I care about...

So summer is over, it is very hard for me to understand it. It hasn't snowed yet here in St. Pete but in Helsinki it has and that is where I'm flying later today. I haven't figured out what kind of clothes to wear during the winter, I tend to leave it to the last moment and every year the same problem gives me a feeling of huge frustration and anxiety. I simply don't like winter wear.

Ok enough about winter wear, this is me last July in London, where I spent my oh so long holiday. I wish I could wear such little dresses all around the year...

nightgown

On Saturday I went outside wearing a nightgown. (No not really it just looks like one). All the items are thrifted except for shoes which are Fred Perry. Tights I bought (in case anyone's interested...) at my nearest grocery store, they were the cheapest kind. There's something really odd about the local tights, they don't break easily. And I'm really a one-time user of tights because I usually break them immediately after putting on. Hmm maybe I should start exporting them to Finland...

You can't go out cause your roots are showing

Today I'm wearing:

Top: 2nd hand H&M
Skirt: 2nd hand
Heels: 2nd hand
Roots: yes, showing

I've been on a sick leave yesterday & today, having a slight fever, which I guess is stress-related... The past weeks I've felt like time's slipping out of my hands and I cannot concentrate on anything 100% and I've also felt very bad about myself. But now that I've spend two days watching Desperate Housewifes on dvd, cooking, going to the 2nd hands & sleeping enough I feel like me again. I get so much joy of doing everyday, normal things, but when I'm under a stress, I don't get anything. I just feel like I'm giving and giving, not getting anything back. Well, enough about that, I don't want to whine about my life here :)

This coming weekend is (again) so full of events that I'll probably just skip all of them again haha. The Spb tattoo convention is the only event I wouldn't want to miss, although I've never really understood what's the point of them (cos I've never been to one so far)?? Just hang out, drink beer and watch other people get tattooed? Well it doesn't sound so bad after all :)

Poseur

Apparently I know only one pose and use it every time :) But I am one of those persons who totally freezes in front of a camera, I cannot be relaxed. Should learn how.

Yesterday we were supposed to go see some bands/burlesque and later to a friends birthday party, but ended up staying at a bar and skipping all the plans. Might I add they dj played good music, so it wasn't just a random bar night.

Dress: 2nd hand (Only)
Bag: vintage
Cardigan: H&M
Shoes: Ellos (I guess)

In black-white-red we trust

Dress: second hand
Bolero: H&M
Bag: vintage
Mary janes: Bluebabe

I trust in the combination of black, white and red. It always works. However what didn't work was the shortness of the dress, but like I said before going for a walk, no skirt/dress cannot be too short here in Russia...

black skirt-syndrome

Me some weeks ago when it was still summery. And I had just woken up from a nap so I look rather tired (and once again, wearing a black skirt, phew... but the background is nice)))

New Hoods

Dress: Fred Perry
Shoes: Fred Perry
Purse: vintage

(I wish I could stand behind the statement, but sadly I'm not a vegan.)

On Sunday we went for a long walk at the new hoods. I am moving to a one room flat next week, two metro stations from my current flat, which means daily commuting to work. But I don't really complain, the area is much nicer than the one I'm living at now and the flat itself is kind of cute, for example there's a pink bathroom and a piano in the living room. Can't wait to move!

Incidentally, I found out that near by the new flat there's a Troitskii Most, a vegetarian restaurant/cafe, which I recommend to everyone visiting St. Petersburg.

The Day of Victory

Last Sunday was a big celebration day here, the day of Victory. Went for a walk in a nearby park, but the walk was really short as the storm surprised us and we had to run home (or was it already on Saturday, can't remember )).

This is what I was wearing.

Shoes and bag: Fred Perry

Other stuff: H&M I guess

(Me: looking too sporty for my taste)

Tomorrow we are going to the dacha of Alexey's family, I've never been to a dacha before so I'm quite excited!

Goth.

I went for an evening walk the other day to test drive my new heels I haven't yet worn. It was also the first day I got to wear my jeans jacket! I'm thinking of challenging myself to wear heels every day for one week, because I too often go for comfortable Converse or some other flats.


Bread. (and I look like a pale goth ))




Now I'm wishing you all a happy 1st of May and leave work to have dinner at Idiot. I love the place even though it is a bit too touristic to my taste. But they do serve very good vegetarian dishes and offer free vodka with meals :)

This is an official outfit post

I've cut my hair recently quite a lot. It's so much easier that way and maybe it suits me better too? All my life since childhood I've had a short hair, with just a couple of exceptions once in a while, but then I usually just cut it. For more than ten years I have cut my hair myself, for some reason I don't trust hairdressers... Should, however, get over with that fear and make an appointment, it would be such a nice treat.

On Friday I finally went and got my locks on my chest colored. A little bit of them can be seen in the picture. I still need to figure out where to tattoo the keys to :)

Love the wallpaper in our kitchen.

Top: Garageland

Skirt: Zara, Rome

Shoes: some shop in St. Petersburg

Purse: vintage

And just before leaving for an allnighter Trojan sound system. Had a fun night, but now I'm paying for it. Thank god for Pilates on Mondays, it's always such a good way to start a week.