ARCHIPELAGO

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I spent all my summers as a kid at our place in the archipelago. Now I only have time to go there a couple of days a time, a few times per year. It's sad in a way, but then again, I once more noticed I'm so bad at relaxing. I just kept on thinking of jobs not yet finished and the blog and nightlife in the city...shame on me. Well anyway, it rally is a lovely place and I played around a lot with my new camera (since I fially got one!) We have a small beach, a big garden, so many flowers and berries, lots of rocks and cliffs. The old house is from the 1800's, the other from the 1920's.












What I also like about the place is all the things there. It would be wrong to call it vintage, it's just original and old. But sometimes I take somethings with me back to my plac ein town, and then it does become vintage - like my couch, a funkis-style teak sofa from the 1930's (that's when teak was still not an ecological no-no). It was just stored among a lot of other unused stuff in one of the rooms in the big house. Of course I'd like to take a lot of other things and furniture with me too, but that would take the joy of those things away from the other members of my family...


But some clothes always make me company back to town. Last year my mothers red-and-white skirt, this year a tiny flower-patterned jumpsuit with a very dress-like cut.


On Tuesday I'll go to the other part of my family's summerhouse, it's by a lake in the South-Eastern part of Finland. Totally different form the archipelago. Over there I've found a lot of my grandmother's wonderful dresses; let's see if I have not emptied all the drawers yet. Maybe something will follow me home from there this year too.

A GIRL CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY DRESSES

Dress - Stop Staring!
Shoes - Sixtyseven You

But it's totally OK to stare.
As long as you don't start stalking me.

Before I'll go on a detox-week to the countryside, doing yoga, drinking green tea all day long and reading all those books I've bought during the past year but haven't had the time to even look at (Yeah right! I'm so going to fail my good intentions...) I'm throwing a small dinner party. I love occasions where I can wear my dresses. The fancier, the better. And I have a lot of dresses. That means I go to a lot of occasions too :)

Later we'll go out and I'll get even more reasons to do my detox-week. Let's see how it goes and how long I manage to enjoy the silence of the archipelago though - there are some pretty tempting gigs during the weekend also...

(You can't have too many dresses no. But you can actually go out too much. I have to rest a bit and try to skip those gigs I think!)

I'M BACK!

I had great time in Berlin, it's one of my favourtie cities in the world.
Spent some time in Riga too, mostly taking pictures of beautiful buildings...
Now I'm back home again just to leave you all soon again to continue my vacation on our summerhouse in the archipelago. ..

But forst for some updates.


I received the Brilliant blogger award from supersweet and delightful Vintage Darling and also from the stylish Greetz from Tiz. Thank you both so much! Since I've received the award eariler I won't pass it on this time.

Then Pratishtha tagged me with some questions.

So here we go:
What are the last three things you purchased?
Well, apart from milk and bananas and cat food when I got home I did get some other stuff while I was away - a pair of black Stefanel suede sandals, an American Apparel jumpsuit and a set of burlesque-inspired underwear.

What are the last three songs you downloaded?
Whisper by Morphine and some Danzig

Where were the last three places you visited?
Berlin, Riga, Jurmala

What are your three favorite movies?
A clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Steve Zissou

What are your three favorite possessions?
My computer, my tattoos and my bike

What three things can you not live without?
My cats, friends and family. Well, obviously. If you want a more shallow answer I'd say my mobile phone, my computer and my mastercard.

What would be your three wishes?
To be able to do all the things that I want to and to have the time to do all of it, to get mine and K's business going

What are three things you have not done yet?
Learned some of the languages I have on my "what to do within five years list", visited Russia, had a baby

What are your three favorite dishes?
most things with couscous, halloumi cheese and olives

What three celebrities would you want to hang out with the most?
Umm... Elvis, James Dean, James Bond (any will do but I'd prefer Daniel Craig perhaps)

Name three things that freak you out.
People behaving like idiots, stalkers, spiders

If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Strong, active, turbocherry !

Name three unusual things you are good at.
Boxing. Bending myself into strange yoga poses. Tassel twirling :D

What are three things you are currently coveting?
Going to the countryside for a while, visiting M in Oslo, going to Budapest.
Will do all three quite soon.

What three bloggers would you like to tag?
Magnesiun Dresses, Little Puch of Love and Chic and Kitch.