counting stars

 Earlier this week my package from Chicnova arrived and naturally, I was super excited to open it. I'd never ordered anything from them before, so I had no clue about the quality of the clothing etc. However, I had high expectations as I think some of the stuff on the website is a bit on the pricier side. Anyway, I'm happy with everything. All fits good and seems a fairly good quality(apart from the belt, which I think will break soon, but it was a freebie anyway).
Earlier today when I was drinking my coffee, it started snowing. I got super excited and grabbed my camera immediately to take a few pictures. Christmas is my favorite holiday after all, and the only real Christmas is a white one, at least for someone from up north.
I've started youtube again properly, and I hope you'll all go and subscribe to my channel Melnatalks, where I'll be uploading anything from daily vlogs to short film-like things. A Christmas market vlog will be up later today, hopefully, and the sweater weather tag later this week.

I think I'm actually going to manage to finish my nano. I've got 9,900 words left to write and then I'm done. Or more like, then I can start editing like a crazy person.

Anyway, hope you're all doing well!
Until next time...

mellan ett & noll

Foggy mornings are one of my favorite things to take pictures of. I just love the fact that everything looks like a ghost town. I can't even imagine what an actual abandoned town would look like in the hours of fogginess, probably haunting. The mint jumper is from the flea market, and I adore the retro feeling of it.

I discovered that writing about the good stuff is more painful than writing about the bad, weird huh? I guess that's why I haven't made any progress on my book lately... I need to feel inspired again, the question is: when will I?

dining

My friend Sanni came all the way from Tampere to visit me, and we spent a lovely two days together. Earlier today we went to the flea market, where I bought this lovely yellow dress as it's still very summery here in Finland (believe it or not). We decided to cook some dinner, which turned out tasty. I also went to a Karaoke bar for the first time, which was an interesting experience... 

Latergram

Here are some outfit pictures I believe I haven't shared on here yet. Some of them are from when I was still in England, and I've started tp want that ginger hair back again! Opinions?

Those late summer nights

So I wen't thrifting for the first time in a while. I was quite surprised of the prices people had put on their used clothing. Attention thrift sellers in Turku, no smart person pays more than 5 euros of something that's been used before..
Another thing which annoys me is missing price tags. I found the prettiest skirt ever, acid wash denim pencil skirt. Haven't seen loads of them around at all. But because it didn't have a price tag, I couldn't buy it.
Got a lot of stuff on my mind at the moment. Gonna go spend a girls night with a friend.
Have a nice one !

this one's for you.

So, I finally decided to break the more than too long silence over here. I'm in the middle of a Breaking Bad episode and eating rye-nachos so I'll try to make this a quick one.

Earlier today I went out with some friends to have a small photoshoot. We ended up at an old prison called Kakola. Sadly, we noticed that all the entrances had been solidly locked and there was no way we could actually have entered the building. So that kinda sucked. It was still fun though. I think we had more of a laugh than took good pictures...

I've been working on a lot of projects lately. I've written a lot of my original music, I now have enough to play a 45 minute set of completely my own material. The music of this post is my own, probably one of my best works. You can find me on soundcloud under the name melna morning. I've been painting and doodling a lot, which I intend to tell you more about in a future post. I also discovered my love for poetry a couple months ago, and I haven't stopped writing since. My poetry is way too personal to be published anywhere though, I only show some to my closest friends.

Anyway, I'm going to get back to Breaking Bad now!
Good night, muchachos

pancakes.

I've been having a super boring weekend, but sometimes it's good to just sit at home and chill. I've actually enjoyed not moving too much and watching extremely mediocre films on Lovefilm. Today however, I wanted to do something different. I found a recipe on Isas blog for banana pancakes. They seemed too yummy not to try, so I actually cooked, haha. 

Here's the recipe:

You will need

six average sized pancakes

1 banana
1 egg

1 dl milk
1 dl all purpose flour
1 table spoon of liquid honey
a bit of salt and sugar

Directions
Smash a banana in a bowl with a fork.
Add the egg, mix.
Add milk and honey, mix.
Add flour, salt and sugar, mix.
Let it be for about half an hour.
Cook with a lower temperature than regular pancakes since the sweet mixture burns easily if the temperature is too high.
Use butter or margarin for cooking.

open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world.

Good music is good. Make sure to listen to that tune linked to this post. Probably one of my favorite mumford & sons songs.. They're all my favorites, haha!

Spent the day at Ruissalo taking pictures with Alice. Only a few of mine were good, as usual. I had a nice day, though, and I guess that's what matters.

I spent my last five dollars..

How do I spend my days off from work? In the middle of nowhere celebrating my cousins confirmation. Had a good reason to buy a dress though, and decided to buy new chucks too. White ones, for a change. I've eaten too much of the good food that was served on the confirmation party... oh my. Next week I'll be working on my miike snow cover, which I hope will have a proper, nice music video.

spelar pappas skivor ifrån 6 till 9

A couple outfits from the past days. I'm in love with those tights, but they're already kinda broken. I'm a master on ruining tights and leggings. It's because of my sharp nails, I guess...

It's my birthday today! Right now I'm painting my nails bright pink and just getting ready for tonight. We're going to have a eurovision-theme party, since it's the eurovision song contest finals today! More about that next time.

we can burn brighter than the sun

  T-shirt: Green day concert

Jeans: Weekday  

A quick update with an outfit of the day (sorta) and pics of my new shorts from H&M! I was in desperate need of new denim shorts, since all my old ones are too big. These are close to perfect. I would've preferred really high-waist ones, but I couldn't find any. And these were much cheaper than all the other denim shorts out there! only about 15e.

I need some sleep, it can't go on like this

(Eels - I need some sleep)

Knit & scarf: Carlings

Shorts: H&M

So, to celebrate the exam week ending, I bought some highly overpriced macarons from Stockman Herkku, which by the way is my favorite grocery store mostly because of it's amazing variability. They were really tasty, though the best macarons are the ones I had in Paris...

I'm so tired I can't even... Seriously, I can hardly keep my eyes open. I think I'll hit the bed early today!

Oh, by the way! I finally know where I'm going to stay at my exchange year. It'll be in England, somewhere near Cambridge if I remember right... I'm so happy!

so put another record on

(Olly Murs - Heart Skips a Beat ft. Rizzle Kicks)

Minni celebrated her birthday today, and there was some kind of "hipster" dress code at her party. Well, everyone looked really funny. I just kinda came in my normal clothes, since I don't really have anything special in my closet. Anyway there is a crappy outfit picture, a better one here at my lookbook!

We cooked good food, but we made way too much rice!

Also, I've been drinking lots of that organic tea.. It's really good!