Rainbow hair!

 

So I just did what people have been doing a lot this summer (or this year I guess). I went to the hairdresser and got myself my own rainbow hair. Or ponyhair. It's not actually a real rainbow per say, but it has different shades of purple and pink and it's only the half of the length of my hair. But I love it. This awesome color was done by Elina @ Parturi-kampaamo Rasta.

Wow it's already August soon! The last day of July is on hand and tomorrow we'll be on August. Really? Oh god. Time really flies. Soon I will be celebrating my birthday and starting my four week long summer vacation and head to London and come back to move my things to my new apartment. When did the year go by so fast, just tell me?

 

On other things. About a week ago we went to this berry farm with my mother and we were supposed to just go buy strawberries (they have like... ten types of strawberries and I wanted specific ones). Unfortunately, my type wasn't pre-picked and so we headed to the picking area. In just an hour and a half me and my mother picked 12.6 kilos of strawberries for the winter. Most of them for me really... Haha, I'll be heading to the berry farm again after I come back from London since I'll go pick some raspberries too - I've used almost all the ones I had picked on a year or two ago. They've been frozen in my grandma's big freezer but god they're good. I'll also head for the forest very soon to pick up some blueberries too. Hopefully I'll have lots of them too so I'm able to bake pretty much anything berrylicious in the winter!

 

I baked some Oreo cupcakes! Ugh they were so delish! I usually dislike chocolate in baking cause it's just too sweet for me and I can never eat it a lot in desserts and pastries (and I really dislike white chocolate, that only goes with some selected ingredients). But it's fun to do it from time to time. I also placed one Oreo at the bottom of the cupcake and it was surprisingly good, but also very filling. The original recipe was from Cupcake Jemma, but I just modified it a little (since we don't have all of those products here in Finland).  

And oh, last saturday I agreed on helping in a music festival, mainly serving at the bar. I had such lovely co-workers there (and I volunteered since I was thinking of going to the festival to listen to one of my fave artists anyway so I got in "free") and it was just so much fun. I'll definitely do that again sometime.

Last but not least, oh dear I can't wait to get to London. I've been there two times before (one time with my current travel company though we did quick tour in a day). We have booked an afternoon tea cruise at Thames BUT we're looking for some cheap/free activities in London, so if you have any suggestions for us, please leave a comment below. I would also love to hear your recommendations for nice "photoshoot" locations just in case I get very artsy on my trip and manage to coax my friend to snap some cute outfit pics!

I can tell you that we have Camden and the usual sights in our tour already, but what are the hidden gems in London? What is your ultimate favorite place in London?

with love,

Welcome to my crib: PART 1

So at last I'm able to make this little post about my new apartment. I'M SO EXCITED, OKAY? It looks fabulous already with all the walls painted and floor installed. So before I start, here have some before pictures and before video!

So from to the top to bottom, left to right: bedroom, entrance, kitchen, room 2, entrance to kitchen + room 2, living room. My bathroom is only going to have some very minor changes, such as installation of these walls around the shower so that's a bit irrelevant to this post and therefore I won't include that in here.

Now first and foremost, I'm quite a colorful person (or so I've heard) and it's not really my style to go all white. So I chose not to have tapestry in my apartment but in fact, all the walls in each room are in the same color (so no one wall enhancements either). The only tapestry I'm going to have is going to be in my kitchen and that is for the space behind the tap and so forth (so we're talking about a really small space here).

I have already bought lamps for each room - my bedroom is going to have a lamp my grandmother gave to me for this apartment, but you guys will see that later, when I'm all done. I have ordered my washing machine and my fridge plus my kitchen (and bedroom closet) is on the way but they'll arrive in late August (cause the factories are on a holiday in July :/). There are still some minor things to do, like painting the balcony door and putting sockets on and whatever, but the biggest changes have been made and now all we can do is wait until August.

I already bought a couch too. I was in luck when I went to Ikea to buy it and they only had TWO pieces in my selected color available (the color wasn't in production anymore) and I got 70 euros off the couch too. So I bought it and we took it to the storage in my building. Unfortunately on part didn't quite fit there, nor did it fit the elevator. So I carried it to the 5th floor. My mom helped me for the first floor but I decided that I could carry it on my own (memo to me: wrong move. broke my back and my ankle [again], don't do it).

So now, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the apartment 2.0:

 

So yes my bedroom is pink, my entrance is light lavender, my living room is bright green AND my kitchen is light brown (more like "cafe latte" color). I love it and I can't wait to get to decorating. Luckily I've bought the most expensive things already so the only really expensive one I still have to buy is a TV. Other than that I still need a few cabinets to my living room, a bed (already decided on that too) and some minor stuff like tv table, chairs and a bench and mirror to the entrance. But that's about it with the mandatory things and then it's all about the small things (most of which I already have).

Which is good cause I'm going to London! Yes, I already mentioned this on my facebook, but I'm going to London for a week in late August (18th-25th to be exact). We're staying near Hyde Park and we have already booked an Afternoon Tea Cruise on Thames so that will definitely be a new experience for me and I'm so excited. I'm also definitely going to visit Harrod's Food Hall again AND the Ice Cream Parlour because it was so heavenly the last time I went there.

What else is new? Well I bought a new pink dress. I actually just realized that I'm a pink person and I have many accessories in pink but I have only a couple of pink dresses. So yes, this dress will probably make it to London too!

Last weekend I also had the pleasure of being a wedding photographer to a very lovely couple and the photos have turned out so great (so far)! Now I'm just waiting for my vacation in August (I'll start my vacation on 17th of August, the next day I'll leave to London and after I get back, my kitchen will be installed and I'll move my stuff in).

What do you think of my new apartment? Would you have your apartment colorful or neutral?

xoxo,