The weather was OK when I stepped outside the door this morning to go to the local flea market. All of a sudden it was pouring. By the time I got there people were frantically trying to save their things away from the water which wasn´t an easy task with the wind. I only took a quick look around and when I was about to rush back home I spotted these red leather boots. I didn´t intend to try them on and the seller obviously just wanted to get away from there and offered them to me for almost nothing. It all went really fast and suddenly I had purchased them.

Once I got home and tried them on I realized that they fit perfectly and were in mint condition. It was then I started thinking about when I am actually going to wear them. The color red seem to scare me a little. I got a gorgeous red coat last fall, but haven´t worn it once. I got it secondhand, it´s oversized but can be tied at the waist, and it looks very expensive compared to what I paid for it. But I don´t seem to know what to do with the color, it´s like it eats up everything else. It was probably not a bad idea getting them anyway, I just need to use it as an opportunity to learn how to think differently about colors and step away from all my personal hangups and dos and donts.

Almost every Saturday over the last few years have involved thrift shopping in one way or another. It´s one of my absolute favorite things to do. I love searching through piles and piles of crap for those few gems, and I love to find things I never would have thought of wearing otherwise. Today I got a pair of pants. I have two pairs of jeans that I wear, no pants. I mean, I have them, I just don´t wear them. When I spotted these on a sale rack for $2 I figured it was about time to give them a go. They were too short and had an awkward cut to them. I lengthened them, made them skinnier and folded up the hems. I realize this may take some time getting used to and I might end up altering them even more before I am satisfied, but I am still pleased to have found something that is so completely different from everything else I own.

I also got a few more bow ties to wear in my hair or on my wrist.

An odd necklace. Update: Due to help from a kind reader I have discovered that the necklace is from the Finnish designer Pentti Sarpaneva and is actually quite valuable!

And a chain belt with tassels. I might turn this into something else as I rarely wear belts like that.

I can never seem to stop picking up new shades if I come across something special at flea markets or high street shops, and over the years I have build up quite a collection. Even though I have them in all kinds of different styles and colors, it´s the aviators that I most frequently wear. I figured I could just as well put some money in them and get a pair of Ray Ban aviators seeing that they are such classics. I had a look on eBay and I came across this shop selling them for no more than $9.99. The fact that they´re so cheap and that they are being shipped from China doesn´t really speak “authenticity” out loud. At that price it was too tempting not to give it a go though. I picked them up at the post office today and while I am no Ray Ban expert and even though they came with all kinds of proof of authenticity, I am still sceptical. That doesn´t really matter though, cause I do love the shades, although I would like to get a bigger pair as well.

The best sandwich in the world with Choritzo, Manchego and lots of aioli, an apple juice and a couple of fashion magazines… The sun is even shining today!

I am a busy bee right now so all I am leaving you with today is a couple of snapshots of a bag I got secondhand a while ago. At the same time as I think it´s really ugly I am madly in love with it.

Today´s non TV activity has been making friendship bracelets. I used to do these all the time when I was younger but now I couldn´t even remember how to. I kept making silly mistakes and they didn´t turn out as nice as I had imagined they would. But I guess it´s all about the thought behind them, not the final result. In case you´ve forgotten how to make these too, I found this tutorial helpful.

It´s so strange how my bangs are fine one day and the next I can barely see. It´s time to stop by Billie Bangs again.

Dress: My stepmom´s old dress.
Jacket: Zara
Scarf: H&M
Bracelets: Gift
Clutch: Secondhand
Shoes: Zara

I strongly believe that all things bad eventually lead to something good. After a tiff with my husband I stopped by H&M just to cheer myself up - and there it was. The dress I had wanted so badly but completely lost hope of ever finding. With the print that I love so much and already have on a shirt and a bikini. I knew it was supposed to be dirt cheap so I thought that the reason I didn´t find it was that it was sold out. It wasn´t and now it´s mine - another maxi dress. Oh, how many warm summer days are going to be spent in the backyard wearing this! The best thing is that it´s so long that I can easily wear it with heels.

We threw out the TV a few weeks ago as it took up too much of our time, and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing in particular to do once in a while. When we first met we sometimes used to buy a big bag of candy and take the subway to a random place we´d never been before. It sounds kind of silly and I remember my dad calling me during one of these trips and felt really sorry for me for spending my time that way. But it´s actually kind of nice. We decided to do the same thing today and go to one of those places we never got to. We ended up with an incredible view over the entire city.

Jeans: Cheap Monday
Top: Tie Dyed H&M
Scarf: H&M
Jacket: Zara
Shoes: Din Sko

Just a few snapshots of what I was wearing for a coffee in the backyard. It´s finally starting to get warmer, but I am sad to discover that the bangs tend to get a little in the way of shades…

Dress: Gina Tricot
Coat: Secondhand
Scarf: Secondhand
Shades: Secondhand
Spectacle chains: Self made
Tights: Secondhand
Shoes: Zara

I´ve never been a flats girl. Somehow, even though I am quite tall, they make me feel stumpy. But lately, as I´ve purchased a maxi dress as well as a long skirt, I´ve been playing with the idea of getting a pair of flats to wear with them. Today I came across these leather gladiator sandals at a thrift shop at $10 and I figured that was a price I was willing to pay to test it out.

The butterfly necklace is another thing I thrifted with spring in mind. I love that it´s so big.

At last I got a scarf and a set of gold bracelets.

I intended to stay far away from shops this week. Oh, well…

This post isn´t too much about fashion. But often dressing up for me isn´t about fashion at all, but setting a mood. We had a lot of left over food after yesterday´s lunch which lead to the idea of having a few beers today. This again lead to the idea of poker night. So we made BLT sandwiches, bought chips and set a table. I figured the most obvious thing was to slip into a glamorous dress, so I did, and just chose red nails and lipstick to go with it. So far I´ve only gotten one bad hand - and I found a heart shaped potato chip! Could this mean good luck in both love and games?

Dress: Secondhand
Brooch: Secondhand
Tights: Secondhand
Shoes: H&M

In case you haven’t noticed the link at the bottom of the blog, I have a photo journal over at Phiary. I put up a lot of the same pictures as I do here, but also some other ones and I have hunch there will be even more in the future. You can check out the diaries of lots of great photographers too.

I was so sick of staying indoors because of the rain, and after the last needle on the sewing machine broke, I ended up just sitting there. I figured it was best to get out for some fresh air. My husband and I got dressed to take a walk in the rain. We ended up at a huge empty building that was being renovated. It was all dark in there. Rooms with odd paintings on the walls and stairs leading to nowhere. The windows were shutting and opening due to the wind. It was really scary.

Trench coat: H&M
Belt: Secondhand
Umbrella: Secondhand

There was a sale at our local grocery shop so we bought heaps of yummy food and set a big table for lunch. We finished with a little glass of port.

Skirt: Secondhand
Shirt: Mango
Bow tie: Secondhand
Brooch: Gift
Shoes: Marc by Marc Jacobs