It´s a little funny that in the middle of my vintage lingerie hunt this fashion spread should pop up in the very magazine I am featured in. In Amica you can see this lingerie, some of which looks really, really old while in fact it´s brand new. It seems like you can get the right vintage feel at Triumph, La Perla and several others. You don´t have to roam thrift shops and you don´t have to worry about who might have worn it before you got to it. The downside is that the really good stuff is still pricey. Lets hope the high street shops catches on.

While dinner was cooking on the stove, the entire family went to the park. While the grown-ups had coffee and chocolate, the little pig was playing on the ground. Oh how sweet life is when spring is on it´s way.

Skirt: Secondhand
T-shirt: American Apparel (I just discovered I had it today. I ordered a t-shirt off eBay and this one was sent to me as well by mistake.)
Earrings: Gift

Here I am in Amica together with Style Bubble, The Sartorialist and a couple of others. It´s always interesting how they ask a gazillion questions and manage to narrow it down to a little mention at the bottom of the page. But press is (almost) always fun and I am much more comfortable doing these kind of things than full blown interviews. Welcome new readers!

Several of you have asked what kind of make-up I wear, so here it is. Not all of this is in my daily routine as I usually don´t bother with foundation and all of that. On a busy day I´ll only wear concealer, pressed powder, mascara, a light eye shadow and blush. If I´m going all out, this is it.

Estée Lauder Spotlight skin tone perfector (base before foundation), Estée Lauder Individualist foundation, YSL compact powder, YSL touche éclat (concealer), Sebastian eye brow trio, Chanel powder blush in Sphère (I´d like a different color), Lancôme Hypnôse mascara, Lancôme Liner design (eye liner), Shu Uemura lash curler, old Body Shop blush brush, Sephora eye shadow brushes, MAC eye shadows in girlie satin, smut velvet and shroom satin, Chanel lipstick in barcelona red, Clinique superbalm lipgloss and nail polish, often either Chanel or Nubar.

All of these are products I am very pleased with and that I have ended up with after a lot of testing so I can happily recommend every single thing in here. What I would like to find is the perfect mascara (there´s always something wrong with them), the perfect color blush and more eye shadow colors (I tend to only wear pink, brownish grey and black).

I seem to be on a roll with this vintage lingerie hunt of mine. Two more pieces made it to my collection today, although they weren´t nearly as cheap as those I got this weekend. They seem to be in perfect condition though. I got them at a little shop called Et Dukkehjem (as in A Dolls House, by Henrik Ibsen). They have a lot of great stuff like this there and I have bought vintage lingerie from them before. The only problem is that the shop is such a mess, piles of clothes and bags with clothes in them, filling up all the floor and wall space. You really have to set aside some time to go through things or you´d just turn at the door. There should be a discount for doing half the job yourself, but the old ladies that run the shop are so sweet. They sit there gossiping all day.

I have a day off from work and these kinds of days really make you see things in a different way. While I had planned to sleep in, something that turns out to be impossible with a little pig that wants to be fed, I am kind of glad I didn´t. It´s so nice to get up early to catch the little sunlight that comes in through the windows of our ground floor apartment. I can take the time to admire the new things I got this weekend. Even though I didn´t find as much clothes as I had hoped for I found this great blue ceramic vase. Probably not worth a dime, but I love the look of it.

And the Bambi figurine (to the far right). It doesn´t at all go with the collection I already have, so it was actually the first thing I bought for a future nursery.

The white flowers. I don´t have any potted plants, but buy fresh flowers once in a while instead.

And I can enjoy a long breakfast with tea and hard boiled eggs with lots of butter.

I was going to just stay in today and do all kinds of little things around the house, but I know myself well enough to know that I will be getting restless soon. I will rather go out and stop by some thrift shops and cook a nice dinner when I get home.