BLUE COLLAR WORKER.

oh, and I couldn’t resist to share this photo, that’s Lulu in her new blue collar. Isn’t she the prettiest?

SUNDAY.

Hello mes belles, yesterday I have spent the most relaxing and tranquille Sunday afternoon at home, it was a typical October lazing afternoon, gloomy and grey weather outside, warm and lovely atmosphere inside.

I couldn’t rest though (the usual thing) I had this urge to make an apple pie. This was an American pie recipe, it’s so easy and rewarding, especially if you have some unattended guests popping in.

Lulu was the greatest sous-chef ever, snoring heavily on the couch.

I have some new vintage items arriving today, I’ll make sure to keep you posted!

Have a great week, mes belles, with less rain and grey clouds. I cannot beleive it’s actually already dark and it’s just 4:30 pm.

xoxo,

katika

FALLEN LEAVES.

hello mes belles, long time, no post. I know, I’m really sorry I’ll try to keep you updated even if my hormones are just making me moody and sad and not inspired at all to post anything. But it’s all gone now, I’ve decided to follow this great, wise advice (very cliché): ‘Mind over matter’.

Yesterday I felt a bit sick and gloomy and so sad that I almost started to cry in my self-agony at the office. To give myself a great treat I went home early, had a long and steaming bath with a great book on Indonesia and a cup of hot tea and aspirin and then I felt reborn.

Today I’m again the usuaal happy and busy me, wearing a beautiful vintage outfit I didn’t have time in the morning to take a photo of, but I won’t leave you without nice illustration for this post, mes belles!

Here you go, here are the lovely photos of last weekend’s excursion session, this time to a beautiful place called Királyrét. If you would like to translate it, it’s Kings’ Meadow, it’s in the Danube Bend and it’s hills and colourful woods and fallen leaves all over. It was sunny and the air was so fresh and smelled marvellous!

We started to follow a tourist sign, a blue square which turned out to lead us nowhere special so after a long, 3-hour walk up on a hill we decided to go back to a lovely clearing to grill some sausages. Wow, I think food prepared in such nomad circumstances are always the best! You cannot add the taste of smoke to your food at home. Or you can do, David the other day bought a small bottle of liquid smoke, but it cannot be the same!

Anyway. A last round of hot wine in the rest-house was a great treat after the long walk and in the chillingly cold evening weather and I’m not exaggerating if I say I had a greatest sleep at night after this trip for a long-long time.

I cannot wait to plan our next trip!

Now work and work. There are some lovely new vintage outfits recently added to the garderobe, I’ll make sure I’ll keep you posted on that one as well. You’ll only have to sleep a few more weeks and it’s all becoming available.

Soon, mes belles!

Love,

katika

the red beret.

AND THE FOREST BEGAN TO SING.

And The Forest Began To Sing (by Katika S.)

NEW IN TOWN.

hellos mes belles, today is a very special day as one of my best friends, Sophie’s baby was born this morning.
This is incredible. I know, that’s how life is, right? You grow up, get a job, have a boyfriend, get settled and then have lots of children, a dog and live your adult life. But it feels so extraordinary when it’s happening to you and your friends!

Sophie is a great friend, she is the one giving me advice when life seems too messy and tough, she is the one not giving me the words I wanna hear but always something wise and adult.She is my guru.

And now she’s become a mom. It’s awesome. She is going to be great, I’m absolutely sure. Her son, Beni, a double Libra is going to be the most well-balanced baby on earth.

Welcome Beni <3

You have now 7 aunties to count on.

Even if one of them is a crazy vintage lady.

xoxo,

katika

THE POLKA DOT SKIRT.

The Polka Dot Skirt (by Katika S.)

HELLO FALL

hello mes belles.
Fall arrived yesterday morning with a chilling wind, a mist of rain, grey clouds and grumpy people all over the streets of downtown Budapest. I know fall is summer’s cheeky little brother and he is a moody one but I LOVE this season. I love the colours, smells, how it brings people closer in their warm and cozy homes, love pumpkin & plum, the taste of beaujolais nouveau and roast goose and the fact that I can finally wear my fall gardrobe. Here is what I picked for today, a lovely vintage shirt with a retro floral pattern, my fave Levi’s denim shorts, a burgundi colour lipshade matching my tights and a funny floppy hat, making me smile. These pics were taken @ the park behind my mum’s place @ my hometown, the countryside can be so much nicer than Budapest not only during fall but anytime!
xoxo,
katika

FRILL DRESS.

FRILL DRESS.
hello mes belles, let me show you the most adorable frill dress in the world with its golden shade, perfect length and lovely frills all over. It’s like a dream. Every morning it’s so hard to wake up early but after figuring out the perfect outfit for that day, I always feel so chilled & happy. Ready for a day stuffed with meetings and challenges. I’m working for MTV Networks, I’m responsible for 2 music channels but while I’m a dedicated employee during the day, I turn into a hopeless romantic right afer leaving the office, obsessed with vintage clothes, gourmet food, lovely wines, love & happiness. Usually I try hard to balance these two sides of life and I end up being up late at night doing all the OTHER things feeding my soul. I’m so very happy as I’m on holiday tomorrow so I’ll finally have time to get my bike fixed, pick up a big bag of vintage treasures, have lunch with my best friend from primary school, shop a bit @ Ikea and spend my evening with my adoreable sis. Lovely plans ahead and yep, David is on travel so it’s going to be a chick chic day indeed:)!
Have a lovely evening mes belles, xoxo

SUNNY OCTOBER.

bonjour mes belles,

It’s so beautiful and sunny today in Budapest, it’s a sin to work in the office today, I have to though!

If it was a day for myself I would wake up without my annoying alarm clock around 8, would have a long and lazy latte session on the couch with lulu in my lap, then we would go for a long walk in one of the nearby parks then I would have an amazing ham&eggs breakfast @ the new, lovely café, Nostro run by two expat Italians….

I love daydreaming…

Till then, here are some of the photos taken last weekend in the woods near my hometown.

Hope you’ll like the beautiful vintage lace dress, I’m totally in love with it!

Dress soon available <3 !

xoxo,

katika

PROUD.

hello mes belles, this is a stamp created especially for David’s creative agency, prOud.

TOO CUTE.

sorry, mes belles, this is going to be supercute. that’s Lulu sleeping with her new buddy.

WEEKEND.

hello mes belles,

This absolutely crazy, I think I need a training on time management or something, every weekend passes by like a sigh (ohoho, I’m very poetic today). I’m planning ahead so many things to do and then I’m ending up sitting on the couch on Sunday evening wondering about how come I didn’t really have time for any of those things on my list…

It’s not like I’m not doing anything at all, but I’m working so hard in the office from Monday to Friday that I really wanna squeeze all the things I LOVE to do in these 2 days and that’s it. It’s Monday again and still a lot on my list..

I did some really exciting things though!!! On Saturday, it was so very sunny that it almost felt like a late summer day, which is kind of weird for the first day of October. But we did profit from the lukewarm sunny weather and visited my second dad (ex-husband of my mom and not my biological father but a loveable friend though) in a tiny and adorable village in the Danube bend and went on a trip in the woods to do a little photoshoot on the latest F/W vintage items in my garderobe.

OMG, you gotta see the photos soon! David is so great with his camera, I find the photos he made truly amazing, a perfect fit for these beautiful vintage clothes! I cannot wait to make a post on that very soon!!!

On Sunday we did another photoshoot, this time for one of my best friends, Titi, she just turned 30 and as she is stilly young and beautiful we offered her the photoshoot as a present, so that she can show her kids how their gorgeous mummy looked like when she was young & fabulous & crazy. Mostly crazy.

The photos were made by a professional, a great friend and a true talent, Andy.

I cannot wait to show you the results - but till then, here are some werk photos.

Location - our home. Photo assistant - Barbara. Make-up, hair & styling - me:).


Have a lovely week, mes belles!

xoxo

PRAGUE.

oh, and this is the magnificent view of Prague from the hotel rooftop. Pleaae note my new favourite lace-up boots. night night mes belles.

I just got home from Prague from a 2 day conference and I HAD to share this photo with you because mes belles, this is the most wonderful restaurant in the city. It’s called V Zatisi and the food & service is IMPECCABLE. I had foie gras & deer. I felt really sorry for the deer though and how morbid, I wore my Bambi sweater… xoxo

haha, I’m cute & adorable!!! xoxo

LULU.

Hello. I’m Lulu the pug.

PLUM PIE.

The other night I passed by my fave grocery store while walking Lulu and I couldn’t resist the lovely plums staring at me from the shopwindow! One word came to my mind: PLUMPIE! I was tired as hell but I made it and yet it was rewarding, the house smellt like heaven and tadaa that was the result, a golden-purple colour yummy pie!!! xoxo mes belles