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So, yet another week of nice dress up has passed. Besides having huge emotional set-backs on the extended family affairs, I am looking relatively fresh,.all this hustlin'an bustlin,.huff, I so wish Tony could get a licence to drive so I could enjoy a glass or wine (and some biscuits that is) at the art-openings. However, as you know, when I´m not busy swinging that champagen-dress around the ballrooms, I tend to be your ordinary student case...This time I will once again raise my voice for the longjohns, this is really the season for this item. You have seen them before, and here they are again, this time in a brand new setting: the classroom, how suitable. But! As we all know, its not good to be too heavily clad inside these modern buildnings,(someone is a bit tiered here...half asleep actually) even though we live in the arctic. So, take of those fristads jackets boys, and that goes for snowmobile-outfits too,.it really clams the air in an uncomfortable way! (No, really... is that the reason?)So, everyone out there, make sure that you wear doubles, so you can take one pair off if things get hot!(oi! smarty pants) After all, it is University we are talking about here, yay! But I have to say that the chair is a bit...malplacé somehow...Who takes responsibility for that design anyways?I don´t know what to think of it, perhaps my next research will concerned with it.(uh hu right off to bed now) photos by Katri, my partner in crime,.smooth criminal. xo Also, I couldn´t stop you from enjoying the nails, they were a bit attacked by my dead-line hysteria, as you can see the lack of blood circulation in those pawns, nevermind that and focus please: this is anyway matté dark purple, one of my favs,.Have I told you I am going gothic? Yes I am. It´s ohhh sooo laast year, but we love it! (no, I´m not going gothic...I was just very tiered when I wrote this stuff, and halloween was just last weekend, so...go figure,.going gothic daa,. off to bed now

Green Wave

Look what I found in my sketch pad! It´s from 2008!
Surely that was the year when the green wave hit us, and gosh did we get hit hard in Stockholm. I guess my style is quite influenced by this neo-trend movement.

Last of Longjohns...

So, dear readers, on request I need to update this fashion site, I realize you can´t live without my advice when it comes to the usual "what should I wear then??" Fear not, Alfonsa is here to direct your moves into the warderobe of wonders! First of all, the reason for such delay, I mean is was summer, wasn´t it? Yes, and I figured all the fashionistas out there would die to catch a flash of me in my summer outfits,.but not so likely! When I look through my photos of the past months, I find non of myself dressed up for those summernite parties and tropical dancemoves,..nah. So, I have to re-think that for the next summer and perhaps hire Tony to be my private paparazzi. Eh, or not. Anyways, big change came upon our little camp. The Muurola life-style is over, we now are urban crawlers...I can desperately announce that we now live on the great rocky peninsula where the Kemi and Ounas- rivers meet! The historical ground of the pohjolan Paris, before the war,.and the charmingly re-built town of Roi afterwards (and no, we don´t talk about the war), nowadays its Rollo. The charcoal is gone, a fenix risen from the ashes, the rocky peninsula rocks. (+ Its totally fine to live in the industrial area btw, and our flat that was "tyydyttävä" is now scrubbed clean and has a real nice window facing south. we see rainbows, moonphases and lightning nicely) So, a last pic for the nostalgic trip back to the past...one of those Muurola days, hanging about in longjohns...those days are forever gone.

HH-pants again

Oh dear, Helly Hansen pants are soo hopelessly 'in' around here! Today spring really came to our door and we had morning coffe outside, Tiny tried to eat a leaf that was soo last year

Family Fresh

"Spring Tierdness" ever heard of that?

HH-pants Red

When I started dreaming about all those days spent in Helly-Hansen pants...I looked through some old flicks,.and I found one from last year! I was pregnant 6 months,.and my mother encouraged me to make go through some bits and pieces of my walk-in closet...it ended up being a total mess in her washing-room. She don´t love my clothing collection. I believed she had high hopes that time that I migth make some irrational choices to throw away some rags. I don´t remember if that actually happened or not, anyways: That´s when the photo was taken...oh Helly Hansen!

Yeti- Boots

Spring time came fast to Muurola, I was actually expecting more water on the ice that day...Those shoes are so waterproof and soft to walk around in. I have to mention that I am wearing the absolute best pant ever in this fashio shoot! They are Blue Helly Hansen pants, I call them "medicine"...I would like to explain it closer, but I find it a bit difficult,.I think everyone who has ever been around these kinds of pants know what I´m on about...They are absolutely fantastic! Once I wore a pair like these for 4 months in a row...That was when I was on a fashion-study in the Norwegian capital : Oslo, also known as "Tiger City"..those were the days... !

OnePiece Zelda

Little Zelda is showing off her One Piece here, while I am making the bed in the morning she is having fun in the sheets. I think she looks like a pink mushroom... Also, notice our nice old-fashion wooden bed with some gold painted brim...yes we rent it too. Renting furnitures is one way to get by. Thinking of witch..!; we need a new bed coming up soon, since we are leaving all our rented furnitures behind already in May... when we´re expecting to hit the road again.

Thrift Shop Cool

Hm,.So there is this tune then play on the radio every now and then, We heard in while driving and figured out it was all about second-hand shopping,.Tony thought "popping tags" meant something to do with tagging walls,...but it doesn´t... The Velcros, The built-in onesie with the socks on,.and more cool stuff is actually mentioned in the song,.They might show up on this blog one day too! Anyways, if you missed it: So here are some well choosen parts of the text to the tune... Thrift Shop Lyrics Coppin' it, washin' it, 'bout to go and get some compliments Passin' up on those moccasins someone else's been walkin' in But me and grungy fuckin it man I am stuntin' and flossin' and Savin' my money and I'm hella happy that's a bargain, I'm digging, I'm digging, I'm searching right through that luggage One man's trash, that's another man's come-up I'm at the Goodwill, you can find me in the (Uptons) I'm not, I'm not sick of searchin' in that section (Uptons) Your grammy, your aunty, your momma, your mammy I'll take those flannel zebra jammies, second-hand, I wear your granddad's clothes I look incredible I'm in this big ass coat From that thrift shop down the road I wear your granddad's clothes ('kay all right) I look incredible (now come on) I'm in this big ass coat (big ass coat) From that thrift shop down the road (let's go) ;)

My Red Long Skirt

Oh, how I love this old skirt! I got it somewhere at the age of 15, it travelled with me to the USA, and back and forth,.and I wear it whenever I feel like wearing a long red skirt. These photos were taken at the fashionweek in Kardis, same week when picking the Penny Bun - Mushroom was the main desire of many locals...So out we went, celebrating and wearing the red long skirt too. Also, I once wore the red long skirt in combination with my blue wind jacket and some scarfs,.notice I usually wear many many scarfs at the same time,.its very trendy around hilltops especially.

Dark Clothes in Spring Time

Me & Tony dressed up for going to town, it turned out pretty dark...I think its time for a change, spring is here, surely I have to have something more coloured to wear in the coming weeks.Hope so.

Mid-Day in Muurola

So I rarely use thse fluffy foot-wear, but my father gave them to me as a christmas gift (last christmas) so I have to keep them. These pants are great wind-pants, rolled up, and matched with my grandmothers sporty jacket, so nice.coffe.

Trendy Fashion Shoot

So, I went to Roi,where I met this designer Reeta, she put some lipstick on me and we did a photo-shoot with her philippe starck ghost chair. It was just amazing, but then this tiny halfling wanted to steal the show. Thats ok :)

Finger Gloves

This pic is so last week, now I have like a bunch of new finger gloves,.how ever many pairs I have, these pink ones I´ve had since I was like 12years old or so,.they just stick around like some old leg-warmers. Yes they are too small in size, but they are there, that last second before closing the door, grabbing the car key and...wait, I am talking as if there were two of them, there are, but not in this picture. Its ok with fingergloves, they come and go, so small they can fit in small places,.and when you check there next time they are hiding, just to be found another time, just in time often.

Tonys Patch

So, Tony has a patch,.I think it is quite visible... Don´t know where he found it,.personally I think it is a bit "out there" awaking feelings of uncomfortable second-world-war memories...hmm... and at best some hardcore festival in Umeå already forgotten, or perhaps a demonstration somewhere involving patches, trying to outsmart the enemy. Anyways, he insisted on having it nailed to that spot, some sort of add-busting trick, telling me about the matching colors of red on red. He likes it and that is the most important.

Kitchen-chic

So, here I am in the kitchen, by my favourite pan at the mo: the two layers multipurpose steam pot -perfect for baby-food-cooking. Also I am wearing those cut of dotted leggings from the 80s (that I found somewhere in a run down cabin, I´ve been wearing them for years and they are so broken and worn out, still then just end up on me over and over) and a nicely tied flowery scarf on my head. Sorry about those legs looking so spidery thin, that´s life being a poor vegetarian.

Casual Evening in Muurola

Well, it was quite casual until Tony insisted on me lifting around that old washed up branch of ours...

Winter Hat

Check out this nice winter hat that Tony is wearing! So nice in the sunshine!! Lil´Zelda is just a beauty in anything... Here in her purple overall pointy-hood with matching burly scarf from a russian second hand stand somewhere on the road to Kirkenes.

Wool Shirt

This is my second best wool shirt, I like it so much, it is thin so perfect for wearing in spring/summer. Note also the nice yellow bag decoradet with colorful mushrooms, perfect to carry small things in.

Baby-Vaunu

Ok, so this is the red baby-pusher thingy, some american told us to call it "baby-trolley" I don´t think so...I just call it barnvagn. So the baby-vaunu is perfect, but look at those knitted leg-warmers! Terrible, they come from somewhere in my mom´s magazine, and I´ve been wearing them since yr 2000,.they seem to always find eachother, time after time,.and never loose shape, that thread is pretty cool. Also, I have that shell-jacket which I wore when I was pregnant, I still wear it, very practical and it doesn´t crowd the warderobe like Tony´s jacket does. Hm where are those jeans anyways?

Hair Tutorial

So this is one of these bohemian hairstyles, I did one before and after, again Tony is the man behind the camera. I think I will wear this style out on saturday nite, since we have a baby-sitter and a place to sleep too,(on previous attempts one or the other detail was missing),.but this time,.I´m building it up,.soo what will I wear for a fashionale outfit then? Don´t know yet.

Shoe Style

This doesn´t happen so often these days, I think I had some flashbacks from my earlier years when I found out what shoe style I had picked at Karlsöya!!I love those shoes still, but then they were wet from dew and real hard to tie on, also I had to do it over again after the flick was taken.

Pink Jacket

This pink jacket took 2nd prize in the Muodos fashion week 2010. It was popular back then to dress up and sing like lady gagga before going to Parkalombolo for an All In - real deal hell of a good time!Just a flick from the stage, I liked the red banner very much.

Attic Army

This cool overall took the prize in muodoslomplo fashionweek 2010.

I´m addicted to fashion!

Check out what Oliver´s wearing when he´s all excited about getting back into his garage! The outfit works in any weather, any situation but I do think he could have added a colorful hat.

Dark Skirt

This is my new skirt the first time I put it on, Tony did the photo-shoot...It turned out as I sort of tried to tell him, about the window,.too dark!

Fashion in Muurola

Me and Tony live in the centre of the world and it really feels like everything is encircling us. This is what we wore one day, just so you know it, we felt pretty good in our clothes and the world didn´t cave in on us that day.

Woolsocks&Armchair

My mother told me that I shouldn´t wear longjohns when I go out in general, so I don´t...but in my rented fake leather armchair from the 90´s I can wear them in combination with these green wool socks and it feels soo rigth.

Green Jacket

That jacket Tony is wearing!!...I think it looks terrible, I just shiver when I see it. But he loves it and it is very practical,.actually I´ve tried wearing it a few times when going out to get some firewood, and I start to appreciate it more and more.

Fluffy Hat Driver

This is what one can wear on the head when driving to town, the hat is too big, but I forgot it at the party anyways. I will get it back from Kirsi when I go there next time, hopefully soon so I can see how much their puppy has grown.