The last days have brought wonderfully sunny weather, and while I spent most of them locked in front of my computer, today I took some time to bike into town and check into our local charity store. I...
I took pictures of this outfit two weeks ago and never got round to posting them... by now weve got shorts + t-shirt + hay fever weather, and Ive been sitting in my attic proofreading and editing all...
Howdy folks,Im still bizarrely busy but I thought Id stop by for a quick hello! Life lately has consisted of endlessly evaluating and re-sampling and graphing data, further weirding my sleep schedule...
Life lately has been a struggle of too much work and too little play, and it will continue so for a while. To counteract the gloomy brooding self-criticizing mood I get into when Im stressed, here ar...
[via google images]My sewing machine is broken and I dont know if its fixable. Something is off with the knobs that adjust the thread tension, and no proper stitches can be gotten out of it any...
This weekend I...... rescued strawberries from among the garden gravel and planted them... re-potted the physalis I got from roommate... walked around in white dresses and didnt spill anything on the...
Though you wouldnt notice it at first glance, I actually did. Didnt want to wake the boyfriend on the one day he gets to sleep in... Its a good thing that I can identify this lovely silk blouse by to...
I wear heels occasionally, even though I know its bad for my feet.I wear heels because I find them aesthetic, they make me taller, because some outfits require them and some activities do, too.I wear...
I honestly dont know how I feel about this tumblr [clickety-click]. On the one hand, Ryan Gosling does absolutely nothing for me. I just dont think hes cute. [although this level of conside...
Long time no see, friends! A lot has happened in the past month, and Ive barely been able to keep up with my work and my social life, so taking pictures of me dressed up was less of a priority.Lets s...
[This is what it looks like when I get ripped off. I should probably consider myself lucky.]Like an artist constantly on the lookout for new shades of paint to add to their collection, I keep a ...
... and after working non-stop, almost sans weekends, for the past three weeks, I decided to take a two-hour-break and refashion a plain white t-shirt into this lace-edged beauty. Lace trim from my f...
From a visit in a neighboring city,a few weekends ago.
It was one of the "uncool" things I was mocked for at school. It was from the eighties. I started high school in the mid-nineties. Today it would be high fashion even without adjustments... S...
Above: How I dressed for the larger part of last weekend. Below: How I dressed for tango last Thursday. This is, in all sincerity, the best picture I could get under dire weather circumstances. ...
Two outfits, beautifully displayed, unaffordable. Some day I may try to re-create them.
My favorite jeans skirt is back! I had a skirt just like this back before 2010, but I donated it when I moved back to Europe because it had become old and ill-fitting from too many rounds in the drye...
It was love at first sight, but in true Victorian abjuration, I denied myself the pleasure of buying them until they were 50% off in the post-Christmas sale. Which was maybe overly virtuous, since it...
Nothing new, really. Im trying to balance work and play but theres always one of them suffering, and it had better not be work until Im done with the next big project... In the meantime, heres a libr...
One of my close-to-campus haunts is a little antique store stuffed with unique furniture, old books and records, even a vintage motorbike. The guy who owns it only works there part-time since his mai...
Filling my study folder with exam notes and my collage book with inspirational paper scraps. Parties with overworked friends that revolve around nerdy conversations and the hosts beautiful siam...
... whither Ive disappeared. By the way, Happy New Year to all of you!In mid-November, I decided that I really needed to be more productive, so I started simulating full-time-office-job working hours...
The chocolate market is back in town, and Im feasting mine eyes on the beautiful illuminations!
... just not very often. Im working full-time on my research now and consequently spending less time on the internet. I leave home early and only return after dark on most days (since dark = 5pm thes...
When I recently redecorated my room, I replaced my inspiration board with a green velvet ribbon pinned to the wall. I still use hair-clips to hold my bits of inspiration, though. Heres an impression ...
Julochka of moments of perfect clarity fame is doing a week of truthful blogging, reporting about the less-than-perfect things in daily life that are usually absent from the blogosphere. I love the i...
I made a new skirt from a pair of huge shorts I got at the charity store for 1 Euro, and a new bag from a bike-chain-stained old pair of trousers roommate gave me to cut up and sew with ages ago! I m...
This post is part of Oranges and Apples visual Friend Friday about makeup-less faces and photos!OK... this is awkward.Me! Without any makeup! Self-consciously smiling!Also, you can see that my right ...
Im back!Can you guess where Ive been?Maybe this will help?Or these guys (about as big as my hand):... thats right, Venice.We took off half a week between a holiday and a weekend and went for a very l...
For now its fall weather still. So I made this hat from sweater leftovers. It also fits my at times fiery disposition!
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