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Showing posts with label Accessories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accessories. Show all posts

FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE/ TRUE BLOOM JEWELRY


When it comes dressing; dressing up, and the preferences that goes with it, it tends to be very cyclical for me. For most people I guess. So after some years of wearing minimal jewellery, I have strongly been enjoying to wear jewellery again, especially other earrings than just small studs.

So, quite suitably I was sent a very beautiful package the other day that made me very happy. It was from Anriikka, creator of True Blom Jewelry, with rose petals in a cool red tone, forever captured in bloom in resin.

I had roses like this in my little bridal bouquet when I got married.

True Bloom Jewelry is a Finnish brand that makes hand made jewellery out of hand picked flowers and leaves. The flowers are cast in bio resin that allows them to keep their delicate shape and natural colours. Bio resin is a plant based resin, which is more eco-friendly compared to other resins. It should also be a suitable material to those who are allergic to various jewellery materials.
Making flower resin jewellery like this is a slow process - one piece can take several days or even weeks to make depending on how many layers of resin are needed! As no flower is alike each piece is thus unique. Anriikka can also make custom jewellery out of flowers that you have chosen or picked yourself.

Resin jewellery is light and not heavy on the ears at all, which is a plus for me - I had extension plugs in my ears during the 00's; and even if they grew together quite well after taking them out almost a decade ago, the holes in my ears still tend to be rather "long", so I have avoided heavy earrings due to that reason; they stretch the holes out too much. These I can barely feel.

You can find True Bloom Jewelry's recently opened Etsy store here. Find the brand on instagram @truebloomjewelry.


Disclaimer:  This is not a sponsored post. While I was given this set as a gift the choice to blog about the items was my own.

HIDING

UNDER A NEW FAVORITE



As soon as I saw the first rays of light this spring I started to think about my must haves for the upcoming spring/summer season. You can find some of them in the link on my previous post but some of them are still coming one by one. Either in "pick of the week" posts or as new best buys. Or like this one, as a present from a best friend. 

You might know that I'm not at all a sun worshiper - I like to stay as pale as possible in summertime as well. I haven't come up with any better way to hide from the sun than staying under a huge brim.


hat SAMUJI, lace top ZARA, trousers LINDEX, earrings H&M

THIS WINTER'S SKIRT


So far this year I feel I have mainly been living in a turban,  a thin knit and in this forest green knitted skirt with a strechty waist. Easy to pull up over the dance leggings and tops, to add an extra layer underneath to when it got really cold, and good as it is with just tights when it's been closer to zero - winter has been a real yoyo this year.

The top is from Lindy Bop and the skirt was a Christmas clearance piece from Lindex.

I am often asked about where to get turbans; the black soft ones I have are from Kuokkasen peruukkiliike in Helsinki, but Etsy, for example, has a lot of turbans! Apart from the constant black beret, turbans are a must-have; you simply can not have too many of them.

Also this is pretty much the only place in our house where one can take any pictures. Everything else is still full of boxes, in renovation-mode or covered in some fringly sparkly burlesque-project mess. Uh.


STATEMENT EARRINGS

ACCESSORISING


Well well well.. Should I say "Oops..I did it again". I literally have different earrings for every day for the year to come. But some have shoes, others have bags so I think this is still quite an affordable addiction. And like I've said before, why shouldn't I let my ears shine when they are what they are.

Anyway my new favorites come from Uterqüe and they flew all the way from Spain in less than two days. 
Thumbs up - since I'm not a fan of waiting. 


earrings UTERQÜE, lace top ZARA, jeans &OTHER STORIES

ON MY MIND

PICK OF THE WEEK

Sunnies on my mind. These ones from Acne to be exact.
The question is only - in black or white?

WHAT TIME IS IT

DETAILS
Haven't been that into sleeves even though they were a big big thing this season. And tried avoiding frills as well, 
- however not that successfully. 
But here; a knit with cool sleeves and some big frills in the front that I fell for. Gonna show it to you later.


knit ZARA, watch DANIEL WELLINGTON

PARTY APPROPRIATE

THE BLING
photo by Vesa Silver


Living from week to week with parties on my mind, - party outfits to be exact. I've been using my money on all these sparkly things and there's not an end in sight before New Years. But that's ok, I will just have to learn to wear bling and glitter even on those ordinary days. Not even "have to" - more like get to!

Three Xmas parties ahead starting from tomorrow. I will try to shoot the outfits for you despite the minus degrees and a flu that will soon be killing me.

earrings ZARA, leather jacket DIESEL, top MONKI

ON MY PLATE

MAIN COURSE
You know my love for earrings, so it might not come as surprise that my dearest jewellery needed a prettier place
 for themselves than a jewellery box. I am also that kind of decorator who likes to keep everything important (such as my clothes and jewellery, his instruments and skateboard and our dog's huge toy baskets) on display and as part of the interior. It tells more about the people living there and makes a home feel more personal. 

earrings VINTAGEZARA and H&M, glass plate SECOND HAND

THREE SHADES OF RED AND SPARKLY GRAPES



Well, I've said it before, but: any lazy hair day or don't-know-what-to-do-with-my-face-day can always be saved by a turban. And some lipstick.

This time also wth some sparkly earrings. Or hang-ears, as Dag mistakenly calls them ('häng-öron', from "örhängen"; which is Swedish for earrings, "ear-hangs", or 'things hanging from the ears' as you could translate it.)

The turban is made by Rubylea, vintage inspired grape studs from Collectif.


KOSMOS

IT'S IN THE DETAILS

photos by Vesa Silver
KALEVALA Kosmos earrings
MONKI knit

After a long week of work and a bad day off I felt like rewarding myself somehow. And since jewellery was on my mind thanks to the inventory I did earlier, I couldn't come up with anything else than continuing on that path. These quite modern (not the typical Kalevala-style) Kosmos earrings were a real find. They made my day a little bit better.

TREASURE HUNTING

NEW-ISH IN
I did some treasure hunting in my old jewellery box the other day and found these beauties that used to be my great-grandmother's. 
It's a good thing I never throw anything really-really old away. However, an inventory on my jewellery was well needed.
 I'll have to do the same thing for my closet as well.

FINNISH FASHION: éN

OCTOBER




photos by Mikko Rasila
makeup and hair Eevaleena Liedes

New month, new Finnish fashion post. And the first one about accessories. 
The modern Helsinki-based brim hat brand éN was launched only a few months ago, in August. 
The hats are all unique and hand-made with an unfinished brim that makes them recognisable and distinctive. Thanks to different heights, brims and colours - they go for both men and women and for every style imaginable. A good hat can be a real life saver in case of a bad hair day. sunny weather or just a boring outfit.
Some delicious new colours coming for spring, stay tuned.

FRESH NEW LEATHER

NEW IN
ZARA ankle boots

Trying to upgrade my shoe collection a little, every year I notice that there's just one pair that I'm constantly wearing. 
Since Zara's shoes really fit me like a glove (or should I say sock) I knew where to find that go-to pair for this fall. 
It doesn't show in this picture, but they have a triangle shaped golden heel. Screamed my name.

TODAY'S OUTFIT

WHAT I WORE
photo by Vesa Silver
LINDEX knit
KATRI NISKANEN scarf
LUMI bag
LINDEX culottes
KENZO bracelet
H&M earrings

Accessorising has clearly taken over my outfits for good.
 Remember that time when I was young and naive and felt like accessories were dumb and unnecessary? Even though I feel like I started to find my own style at very young age I guess something has changed. Also when it comes to wearing earrings, I didn't really want my big jug ears to show. Which obviously is not the case anymore. Now I'm literally letting them shine.

PEARLS

WHAT I WORE

photos by Vesa Silver
WEEKDAY shirt
H&M TREND coat
ZARA earrings
MONKI jeans


THAT ARTSY COAT

The good thing about going trough and organising your closet in deep-mode (OK; I can actually think of many, but let's start with this one) is that you may re-discover objects and pieces you had totally forgotten about. I am going trough stuff in the city apartment and found this old coat of mine, which is rather cute with an artsy vibe and just right for the weather we are having right now.


Last time I wore it was when I was pregnant, actually. And I found some beauty store vouchers expiring in 2010 in the pockets! (Damn, 2010, that was so long ago already!)

The coats is from ModCloth from years back, velvet leggings some randoms and shoes old (do anone even care about these things anymore?) I do get a lot of questions about my turban, which nowadays is as high up on my can't-live-without-it list as my black beret, especially for those days when I have curls waiting underneath like now: mine is made of in terrycloth and from Kuokkasen Peruukkiliike; you can find these from a lot of wig shops. It is also rather easy to make your own!

Well, time for me to coat along now, ta-ta!


SMALL HOOPS

NEW INH&M earrings

My favorite accessories at the moment.

RED BOOTS

NEW IN
ZARA shoes

My first pair of ankle boots for this fall had to be these red ones. I don't know if you have noticed but almost all of my shoes, especially the ankle boots, are from Zara. They fit me like a glove and are so easy to walk in.

I'm having some kind of a red phase. Just loving everything in red. Warn me when it's getting out of hand, please?

HIDING FROM THE SUN

WHAT I WORE





photos by Sanna Koho
DIESEL hat
VINTAGE blazer
KENZO bracelet

My life as a vampire could seriously have been the alternative title for this post. I'm hiding behind my big sunnies or under a wide brim hat as soon as the sun is up. No tan for me, please. 

CHUNKY SANDALS

PICK OF THE WEEK
MANGO sandals

Better late than never, huh? 
I'm more of a loafer type of girl and don't usually go for sandals but these would look SO GOOD
 with a pair of super wide pants and a tight turtleneck.