THE GREEN SKIRT.

Have you seen anything more spectacular than this stunning green vintage skirt with lovely pleats and gold buttons? I’m telling you, mes belles, this skirt is heaven! I felt the prettiest in it despite the fact that a grumpy old lady seeing me in the street this morning said: ‘Jesus!’ in the most méfiant way people can imagine.
Xoxo,
katika

LONG WEEKEND.

Hello mes belles, sorry for disappearing for the past two days but thanks to All Saints Day, Monday and Tuesday were both off, we got a long weekend and it was packed with programs!
It’s now the last evening and David had to go to his office to edit an advertisment so I’m alone in the house and I just realized that it’s the Sunday evening blues that is slowly crawling into the living room making me sad that the long weekend is not ahead of me but it’s over and I have to go to work tomorrow.
It should’t be like this but it’s so easy to feel this self-pity and despair.
Ok, you know what? I will try to turn this into something positive. I will make a list of the things that made me happy this weekend. Here you go, mes belles:
*a lovely Friday night with amazing Pinot Noir and girly chat with a long time not seen friend
*a funny and interesting photo shoot @ our place - being part of an amazing photo project that I will have to tell more about later
*an amazing night with another long time not seen friends with home made vegan food, great vine and amazing atmosphere
*lunch @ Momotaro, best ramen in town
*visiting cemetery @ my gradnparents’ lovely village
*amazing autumn colours of the forest en route
*a squirrel crossing the road en route
*Sena new album launch concert @ boat A38 with friends
*after-party yummy quesadilla @ El Rapido
*lovely lazy aftenoon walk on Margaret island with David’s French relatives, speaking French again, collecting beautiful leaves
*smell of banana-cashew nut muffins in the oven
Ok. I’m feeling much better as amazing things are happening to me. Each and every day. And no matter how much work is waiting for me from tomorrow I’ll be just fine. Have you realized I’ve been writing down amazing like 5 times in this post? Haha,that’s my new mantra word!
Oh, and I hope you’ll LOVE this beautiful gauged sleeves vintage dress, I feel so special anytime I’m wearing it. It’s the kind of dress I’ve been dreaming of when I was a little girl reading of Anne Shirley of Green Gables. Her love for gauged sleeves was just contagious. I’m wearing it with lovely tights from ASOS.
Have a great week, mes belles, full of amazing things.
xoxo,
katika

CORDUROY PANTS.

Mes belles, let me introduce you the newest addition to the garderobe, these high waisted, lovely khaki corduroy pants. They remind me to those pants I used to wear when I was just a small schoolgirl and it was my mom picking the clothes for me every morning. It’s always been a big fight as I was always messing up her choices, I kinda already did the garderobe mix’n’match thing, but more unconsciously. Then she realized it’s easier if she leaved it all on me so she just gave me some guidelines like ‘wear tights with the skirt it’s cold outside’ and I was the happiest person on earth picking my outfit every day. Soon I got my own pocket money and as it was not enough to buy new clothes at the local boutiques I went to my hometown’s only thriftshop and I remember how delightful it felt to find a velvet turtleneck top and a lovely kilt at the bottom of a pile, both in my size!!! I think that was the very moment I fell in love with thrift shops and the whole treasure hunt thing.
I have some gorgeous new items added to the garderobe this week, one of them is a super soft leather jacket from the ’80s with bat sleeves and bright mustard yellow, orange and turquoise colours. It’s the sort of jacket I may dedicate to a super extravagant friend of ours as it’s totally her style. Photos soon.
Oh and here is a photo of the corduroy pants, I hope you’ll like it. I wore it with a soft sweater from Vera Moda and my indispensable black boots. I just realized I’ve been using our bedroom’s blue door as a background for all my outfit photos lately but I love it so much!!! I hope you’re not bored with it, it adds a little twist to all outfits.
Now I gotta go, mes belles, it’s Saturday morning and I have to take Lulu down for a wee!
Have a wonderful long weekend!
xoxo,
katika

OUI, ALLO, BONJOUR!

PUBLIC SPEACH.

Today was a very special day as I had to represent the company @ a job fair @ Corvinus university. I’m not really used to public speeches so I was quite out of my figure in the morning. To calm my nerves I had this marvellous red berry spongecake @ a lovely café and it turned out all good at the end. My presentation went fine, the audience was great and I don’t know how captivating it was but by the end of the day HR collected hundreds of cvs from prospective trainees. I wore a lovely vintage outfit as a company representative hope it helped to sell the speech. Photos coming up soon, mes belles!
xoxo,
katika

RUBY RED.

Hello mes belles, let me introduce you to one of my favourite fall outfits: a gorgeous ruby wine colour vintage wool skirt (warmwarmwarm!!!) found in my mom’s garderobe, a cute peter pan collar top (a must buy @ H&M) and a lovely white vintage sweater with batsleeves.
It’s really the sort of outfit keeping you warm and making you smile.

xoxo,
katika

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?