I got a little surprise in the mail today. The moment I saw the name Bona Drag I knew it had to be good as I love just about every single item in that shop. It turned out to be Hannah, the designer behind With Hearts In My Eyes, and Bona Drag, who had sent me a skirt. And it isn´t just any skirt, it´s the patchwork skirt that I have been lusting after for a while. What a happy coincidence! The best thing about this skirt isn´t just the vibrant patchwork, but also the fact that it´s reversible. When I´m in the mood for something a little more casual, I can just turn it inside out and wear it as a denim skirt!

I wish I had the time to take proper outfit shots as I changed into the skirt at once! I am on the other hand packing as I am leaving for Stockholm tomorrow. I always get so stressed out when I am going somewhere even though I usually always have everything under control. Better shots to come though - I have a feeling I will be wearing this skirt a lot!

Skirt: With Hears In My Eyes at Bona Drag
Tank: Men´s H&M
Jacket: Zara
Earrings: Maya & Ruhi

Pearl of Maya & Ruhi was so sweet to send me these beautiful handmade earrings. I just adore the color combination and the little swirls! You can find a lot more in her shop, where I have been drooling over some great bracelets amongst other things.

While it´s kind of sad that so many friends of mine live abroad, I can praise myself lucky that several of them live in Sweden, especially when I want to order from Topshop as they ship to Sweden but not Norway. I used the opportunity for the first time today and got the Fantasy Horse Tee that is obviously inspired by the Maison Martin Margiela creations I have been lusting so much after.

Julia deVille´s jewelry can not be described as ordinary. Shocking, provocative and ironic are often better words to use, but there´s still something so beautiful and quiet over her work. If I only had the money I would invest in a little something for myself…

Do you remember the boots I paid a lot of money for a few months ago? I saw them and thought I just couldn´t live without them. Well, I ended up wearing them once, and that was on a day I didn´t even shoot any pictures. Then the pig got to them and chewed on the straps. I had it fixed and they look like new, but the feeling just isn´t the same anymore.

During all of this I was mailing back and forth with Sarah Brannon, the designer behind Chelsea Rebelle, who was recently featured in Nylon. She loved the boots and tried to get a hold of a pair of her own, but couldn´t find them. She said that if I ever thought of selling them, she wanted to buy them from me. So I thought, why not just make a swap? Better having a couple of her designs rather than a pair a boots I never wear, no matter how much I love them. I had already fallen in love with the soldier pants that were pictured in Nylon. They´re not available yet as they´re from her fall collection, but I am getting them as well as the collarette (a lose collar) that I imagine I can do a lot of fun things with.

This weekend I am sending her the boots and she is sending me a couple of her designs, and I am thrilled that getting the boots might have been meant to be after all, even though it didn´t turn out quite how I had imagined.

I woke up this morning with a lot lighter mood and planned on wearing my new dress along with a vintage fur coat. I jumped in the shower and got ready. Then I looked out the window - it was pouring. The day didn´t at all end up as planned, just much better. We started with breakfast at Hotel Havana. They have the best sandwiches in the world, no doubt. Then we took the tram over to the west side of the city and went to Tonica. The women there for some reason love my husband. They keep finding him stuff and giving him crazy discounts. He bought an Yves Saint Laurent blazer that he got dirt cheap. I felt a little left out as I didn´t find anything at all. I had my eye on a feather collar, but it was Tonica´s personal belonging.

Then we continued shopping other places and I got some things intended for DIY projects, as well as another pair of shoes at Zara. Now I can forget about the ones I was waiting so patiently for, but it´s no biggie.

We took the tram over to the east side of the city where I got some more craft supplies. Yellow taffata that I am going to use for a D&G inspired dress and some other things. After that it was dinner at Punjab Tandoori. Lamb Karhai and a beer for a few dollars. Yummy. I was so stuffed afterwards it felt like I rolled my way home.

This evening, unless I hear of some fun party, I´m going to spend working on my DIY projects.

I can´t get my mind off ruffles.

Sweet and innocent from John Galliano og Giles.

With a twist from D&G and Givenchy.

Magazine clippings from British Elle.

Dress from Sisley I wouldn´t mind having for myself.

For a while I´ve been fascinated by what I really don´t have any good name for - zippers and/or ribbons made into a pretty much useless garment. I started with the Acne grid skirt that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I contacted Acne as I wanted to get a hold of one for my own, but I quickly learned that it was only a showpiece whereas only one was available for stylists. In other words, it would never end up in my hands.

Then today, while browsing eBay I came across a rather interesting Helmut Lang piece. It´s a top made out of ribbons and a giant zipper. It is just as useless as the grid skirt, but if you look at it more like an accessory than a garment, it makes a little more sense. It would be that little extra worn over a dress, a skirt or a pair of jeans, and can completely change the way a garment is perceived.

And, like in an old spring show of Ann Demeulemeester, it´s really more like an odd piece of jewelry than a garment.

After realizing that I would never ever own the Acne grid skirt, I started thinking of making one of my own. I never really got as far as buying the needed supplies, until today when I saw the Helmut Lang top. I could have placed a bid on it, but it just happens to be that I for some strange reason purchased a giant zipper like that on eBay not long ago. My original plan was to wear it more as a necklace, but after trying it in front of the mirror a couple of times, it ended up in a box waiting to be used for some future DIY project.

Anyway, this is my plan for today, creating something like both the skirt and the top. We´ll se how far I get as I bought all the ribbons that were left in the shop and I still don´t have enough. And who knows, it might end up as a major disaster, but it´s fun just having a project to work on.

I´m so fed up with winter. I pictured spending Easter sitting in the backyard drinking tea and reading magazines, and while spending it indoors hasn´t been all that bad, I would now like a change. Since I am fed up with dressing for the cold weather, I ended up spending the day wearing a comfy old dress and hoody and constantly throwing new logs in the fireplace. Hence no outfit photo. And after many days of closed shops I feel like going thrift shopping again at my usual places. Instead I spent the time browsing the fall runway shows once again, and this time it was the soft shades that was brought to my attention, probably because I long for spring so much. I´d like to find garments in soft sades like light pink and peach, I´d like ruffles and sheer materials and I´d like oversized sequins and soft knits.

Christopher Kane, Luella and Rodarte.

What better day to receive these boots than on my birthday? (I am 26 today!) I´ve been mad about fringes for a while now and a pair of leather boots with fringes is one of the things I´ve been craving. Weeks of searching through eBay with no luck made me beleive I would never find them. But one day I suddenly found the perfect pair from the seller Totalmodness (which seems to be a seller with an eye for vintage goodies by the way) and I ordered them immediately. I can happily declare that they fit perfectly and look even better in person. They don´t even seem to ever have been worn!

Fringed boots as seen in the shows of Anna Sui and Gucci.

I don´t think I´ve ever before seen so many florals in the fall/winter collections as this time around. Normally I´d consider it more of a spring print, even though I have never been able to draw a clear line between my winter and summer wardrobe. I have that one floral summer dress that I´ve worn many times with black tights and a leather jacket on cold days, but that´s also just about it. This will definitely make me rethink a little how I do separate the seasons, cause even though I wear tweed in summer and mini skirts in winter, I guess I´ve been pretty conservative when it comes to florals.

Middle three are Rachel Comey, Jasun Wu and Derek Lam.

I remember very well when the trend shifted from the pointy toe to the more rounded ones. I only managed to buy two pairs of pointy toed shoes before I got sick of them and desperately wanted a change, but it was difficult to find anything else. When other styles entered the market I wished it would never go back to the way it was. The pointy toe just wasn´t for me. Since then I have more or less kept to the rounded toe, except a few pairs of classic pumps with something more in between the two and a pair of oxfords. Now however, I must say I find it interesting to see signs of the trend shifting again. Pointy toed boots and pumps were used in many of the fall collections, here from Chado Ralph Rucci and Balenciaga. I am still a little sceptical to the boots, I guess there are just too many bad memories associated with them, but as long as there are multiple options in shops, I will be happy.

A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that she had developed this thing for zippers. Looks like she might be in luck cause there are tons of them on the runway. It would also be a super easy DIY project: Take a boring black skirt, cut it open at front and sew it back in place with a zipper. I plan on giving it a go.

Top three are Phi, Dsquared² and Rick Owens.

Both A.F. Vandervorst and Bruno Pieters layered two blazers on top of each other. I wonder if I can find a way to make it work for me. There were lots of other interesting layered looks in the collections as well.

As I mentioned earlier, there´s been a lot of the long feather-like fur on the runway, especially Gareth Pugh´s is much like the Ann Demeulemeester collar I got yesterday. I love this as a change from all the more traditional furs.

Gareth Pugh, Anna Sui and Dolce & Gabbana.

The more ordinary sheep fur is something else I like from the shows. I got a huge white collar like this a few weeks ago. It looks really dramatic and I got is as a substitute for a sheep fur vest I´ve been craving for quite some time. Fur collars in general seem to be making it big, but I´d like to get my hands on a vest like this too.

Pollini, Topshop unique and Dolce & Gabbana.