you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

I've got a habit of bookmarking everything I a. find funny, b. think is great/beautiful, c. want to learn more about/try it myself, d. wish I could afford. So this includes pretty much everything I come across on the internet. Here's a few lovely things I've bookmarked lately (or not-so-lately)!

 

This is from here.

 

How good does these Jack and coke slushies sound and look? Too good.

 

Haha, this cat is so cute! From here.

This is so good! I could honestly listen to this song all day:-)

Have a wonderful weekend lovelies♥!

the butler did it

 

 

Dress&Vest - H&M

Scarf - 2nd hand

Bag - New look

Necklace - Gift

Tights - Seppälä

Shoes - Christmas present some years ago

 

 

As I previously said, we went to see "The Mousetrap" on Sunday. I had never seen it before and it was pretty good:-) But I bet it's a hundred times better when in English!
I did these messy tin foil curls, and realized it was the first time I had curls for about 2 years! My hair's naturally quite wavy, so I never bother to curl it - or straighten it for that matter. My sister used to make tin foil curls for me when I was wee, which was always nice. Another reminder from my childhood was the white tights. As a child all of my tights, that I can remember, were white. I hated tights. I much more preferred to run barelegged. I like the look of white tights on others but have been hesitant about wearing them myself. Now that I've got a pair, and I've used them for at least once, I might be convinced that older people than 5-year-olds can wear white tights. Suppose I don't look that much of a wee lassie either..

P.S. The title isn't a spoiler, and in fact there is no butler in "The Mousetrap".

make your life a little bit sweeter

 

 

Some weeks ago I made this vanilla syrup, following these instructions  from A Beautiful Mess. I use it mainly for coffee, but it goes well with hot chocolate too and mama occasionally puts it in her tea. Don't think there's any limit on in what you can pour it into! Flavoured coffees can be so good, and with your own syrups it's possible to have one whenever you want. I'm quite sure I'll be trying to make some other flavours soon:-) And also I need to find some prettier bottles or dispensers for my syrups!

let's all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born

 

 

 

 

 

This weekend I've already been to the marketplace and got my metre-liquorice♥. They're the best sweets ever! It's a shame I always give sweets etc up for lent and now I have to wait until Easter to open my wee bag of liquorice. Also, we've been skiing with mama, and I'll probably have another go later this weekend. It's been such a long time since my last time on skis. I'm not the biggest fan but suppose it's one of the things that are a part of winter (at least in our family). And a leisurely Sunday skiing can be really lovely, once you go slowly and have hot chocolate and biscuits with you. Tomorrow we're going to the theatre to see "The Mousetrap", should be fun! 

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend♥!

domine dirige nos

 

Top - Mama's old

Trousers - Zara

Slippers - Gift

 

Don't think I could be surrounded by more British stuff: the London shirt, the Union Jack cushion, the royal family tree behind me. I spent one evening updating this royal family tree my dad made years and years ago. Got to add a few royal weddings and also some deaths, I think it's really interesting to find out about the lives of the royal family. The family tree shows that obviously my dad thought so too. When he got to shake hands with princess Anne in the 90s, he apparently didn't wash his hand for a month or so...

Being home most of the days has made me really sloppy with my clothes. I'm ashamed to admit that sometimes I just wear my jammies all day long.. I hope I get a job so I'll have a proper reason to get out of the house!

fire burnin'

 

 

 

 

I love fireplaces. I wish I never have to live in a house without one!

one of the best things about winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

My sister was visiting yesterday, and we all went ice skating! We only had my pair of skates so we had to take turns but it was fun all the same. Maybe next time my sister will take her own skates with her.. Also, it was the first time mama skated in ~30 years. Now she's wanting to learn how to skate again, therefore you'll probably see more pictures of us skating and me teaching mama the technique:--). My sister and mama looked like they were going to explore the South Pole, especially when compared to me wearing a wee skirt. Can't wait to go ice skating again♥!

Have any of you had the chance to go ice skating this year? :-)

items

 

 1. Made this necklace when I was 10, now it only fits as a bracelet.

 

2. Calendar. I love how it has holidays from different countries, religions etc. - always a reason to party!

 

3. Got this wee cat from my godmother after Cleo died.

 

4. Mama's old shirt.

 

5. Les Miserables.

 

6. Some jewellery; first one's a gift from my sister, second from a friend, third a souvenir from Tallinn.

 

7. Still the old shirt of mama's.

mathematiques

 

 

 

Blazer - Grandma's old

Skirt - Diy

Top - H&M

 

Earrings - Seppälä

 

I'm supposed to be busy with maths just now but I have zero motivation. I've got a huuuge pile of maths notes from three years. Hopefully, I'll get myself to start revising before the exam. I even did a revision timetable, but well... I've already skived two days, haha. Really need to get a grip. Maybe tomorrow.

oat biscuits and rum

 

3oz plain flour

½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3oz demerara sugar

3oz porridge oats

3oz butter

1 tablespoon rum

1 tablespoon golden syrup

 

Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and oats.

 

Melt the butter with the syrup and rum, pour into the flour mixture.

 

Shape into balls, bake in 160C for 25min.

This is how I spent the other night. The recipe is from "The Cookery Year", it's a great book! Only after finishing I realized that 'shape into balls' doesn't mean actual balls, but circles. Anyway, the shape doesn't affect the taste! And as the recipe included rum, thought I'd have some rum&coke as well, even though we never have ice.. And to stay in the theme, I watched "The Rum Diary".

Hope you all had an amazing weekend♥!

in grandma's clothes

 

 

 

 

 

Dress - New look

Blazer & Turban - Grandma's old

Nomination bracelet & Slippers - Gifts

 

 

 

 

 

I went looking for fabric for my graduation dress with mama today. And it looks like they'll have a fabric just the colour of my shoes coming next week, so I'll be visiting the fabric shop again then:) I'm wearing something I've got from my grandma almost every day, I've got so many old cardis, blazers and scarfs of hers. The turban is a saviour on days when you can't be bothered to do anything with your hair! Also mama bought us some belated Valentine's Day gifts. Tulips and heart-shaped doughnuts. Arnolds doughnuts are the best, I could eat them every day! (Actually, can one say they're doughnuts if there's no hole in the middle..?)