park life

Leather jacket - Auntie's old

Cardi - KappAhl

Dress - New look

 

Leeds is a lovely city in the way that, if you want to, you can get out of the city and into the countryside in about five minutes. Although I haven't been exploring my area that much, I can tell you that Yorkshire has some pretty landscape, all the moors, parks and wee villages. Once everything comes to full bloom, it should be really beautiful! Today I've been to two parks, and though it was mildly windy, I had a lovely day:-) The first pictures are from Chevin Forest Park and the last four from Golden Acre Park. Also, stopped at the most charming lil' tea room and I do recommend checking it out if you're in the area. I had homemade lasagne, but all the cakes looked amazing as well! Days like this are always good.

thursday thoughts pt. 7

five bees

Although I am on a sort of shopping ban this year, I may have bought a couple of items at the same time when I ordered my Mother's Day gift. To be fair, those things are the only ones I have bought, except for a couple of pair of tights that I really needed. And when deciding on this shopping ban, I didn't want to make it impossible for myself. A gal's got to buy a pair of tights, if every pair she owns has holes in them.. But I did buy this Burt's Bees set and a book, even though I don't actually need them. I wrapped the book for myself as a birthday present and will open it in August. (That's allowed, I suppose?) And I didn't actually have a proper lip balm, and I love this Burt's Bees one! I've only used the lip balm and the milk & honey body lotion (that smells amazing) so far, and they're both so good. It's quite bad how I can justify all the things I buy so easily. Oh, well.

dream when you're feeling blue

  Dress - Vintage

Earrings - New look

Bow - 2nd hand

Just a few snippets of today's outfit. After having a shower, I quickly twisted my hair into a bun. I was going to change it before leaving the house, but ended up adding a bow and quite liking it. The only downside is that my hair's still a wee bit wet after a whole day.

Now I'm really hungry, and have a load of work to do, so I'll be seeing all you lovelies later! ♥

thursday thoughts pt. 6

you gave me magical, i gave you wonderful

 

Jeans - Vero Moda

Top&Blazer&Earrings - H&M

Scarf - Grandma's old

Ring - New look

I've kind of been waiting for it to be warmer so that I can wear this yellow top. It's just one of those items that I associate with summery weather and rarely use when it's winter or autumn. Bright colours are for summer! And also, I love how my outfit was based on primary colours, minus the scarf.

I've been fairly annoyed with my hair lately. After having my side cut for two years now, I've started to grow it out. I've started growing it out about five times before, but always given up and shaved/cut it short again. This time I'm determined to get rid of it. And it's the most frustrating thing ever. (Well, I'd say growing out a full pixie crop/short hair is more frustrating than just half the head, but still!) It's now in a stage where it's long enough to fasten with a hair pin and soon I can possibly leave it behind my ear on its own. As soon as it has grown enough, I'll probably just chop all of my hair short(ish). That is, if I can wait for that to happen and don't go back to my side cut... To be honest, I don't care about my hair enough to be bothered about the length of it. Although, it may be hard to believe after all this pondering.

dot dot dot

This is easily the nicest and warmest day of spring! I know I talk too much about the weather, but to be fair it isn't as boring as it's made out to be. I hope. Can't believe I actually left with my leather jacket on, luckily my bag was roomy enough so I didn't have to carry a jacket around all day. I enjoyed a pretzel for lunch. Honestly, this lil' pretzel/pizza place, Ditsch, is my favourite thing. I love big, soft, warm and salty pretzels so much. As for what I was wearing, you can only see a wee bit of my dotty skirt and red nails, but that is as interesting as it gets. Here's hoping there'll be many more days like this to come and that your week has started amazingly, lovelies♥!

thursday thoughts pt. 5

Inspiration kind of from here.

oldie (and a goldie)

AH. I came across these old pictures of me on flickr, and they brought back so many memories. If you've happened to read my blog for a longer period of time, you may have seen me blog about the music, fashion and dance show we had while I was in Scotland. Being an ignorant lassie, I pretended not to like doing the show as much as I did, but now two years later I can tell you that I enjoyed it. Loving my wee pose, haha!

Lately, I've been missing Scotland a lot, and really fancy making a visit. To be honest, I'm always longing to go back there. But now, after all Edinburgh is only ~4hours' drive away! That'd be so good, but there's also so many other places I'd like to go to. Places I haven't been to yet. But what I really was talking about was the old pictures I found. This one's the best, and they all make me laugh so much. Lil' divas on the catwalk!

white and bright

 

Jumper - Dad's old

Dress - Mama's old

Shoes - New look

Earrings - Self-made

(Strange claw-fingers - Model's own)

Yesterday I went for a wee walk, looking like this. And when I say looking like this, I mean I didn't need to wear a coat and the only whiteness was from my jumper instead of snow. Maybe we're getting a spring after all!

Also, I watched the whole first season of Downton Abbey. I've been meaning to start watching it for two years, and finally got around to it (ken, I'm late!). Can't believe all that fabulousness has been missing from my life, I love it! It's possible that I won't do anything else until I've seen all of the episodes.

thursday thoughts pt. 4

""Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.""

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

too many reaching for a piece of cake

Before the Easter break my flatmate, Angel, and I baked a wee apple pie, using this recipe. She had never tried making an apple pie, so it was pretty fun! Sometimes I forget how different people are and actually found it astonishing that someone hadn't done some basic baking like this. Then I realized that a lot of people don't bake at all. I can't understand why! Baking is one of my favourite things and most things I've tried taste far better when they are self-made. All in all, it was a good wee pie. Seems like I've been posting a lot of recipes/things I've baked (ok, only two), and I still have a few things I fancy trying. Sometimes I just get really excited about baking and cooking and don't want to do anything else!

mors janua vitæ

Here's some of the rest of the cemetery pictures from last Monday. It isn't the first time when I say I love cemeteries and graveyards. There's just something eerily beautiful about them, and the older the cemetery, the better. I think previously people put more thought into death, and therefore also the gravestones &c. The words used to be more thoughtful, sweeter and more personal, and that's why it's so interesting to visit all the graves and see what's written on the stones and what kind of graves people have gotten. I like all the simplest crosses, the elaborate and pompous headstones, statues, and the kind of graves that almost look like beds and bring to mind the grave being an actual resting place (like the one in the 10th picture).

Some headstones are really creepy, though. When there's only skulls and skeletons besides someone's grave, it makes you think what kind of a person they were. A creeper, a scientist or simply someone who liked bones? And the lady in the last picture made me feel a bit uncomfortable as well. (Have you read Conrad's Heart of Darkness? In the book there's the two women knitting in the waiting room and they are like escorts to the other room/death. This lady made me think of those sinister wee ladies, and I don't understand the door. Is it someone welcoming you to death or someone entering the doors of death? In any case, it's creepy.) But all the creepiness sort of makes the cemeteries even more beautiful.

//EDIT I did some investigating, and found this. The lady is Ethel Preston, died in 1911, standing in front of the entrance to her previous home. And the door is open, so that once they can be reunited with her husband, the door will finally be closed. However, he married their young housekeeper shortly after Ethel's death. Ah, I love learning about other people's lives!