Saturday, January 26, 2013

Because..

The other day I started to cry while listening to a song. I was asked why I was crying but I misheard the question and thought I was asked about which song i was listening to - and the name of the song was  "because i'm stupid".

Good weekend !











Wednesday, January 23, 2013

When music brings the “∞#$@ out of me

Music has a wonderful power: it can make you sad, it can make you cry. It can make you laugh and you won't know why. Everybody has more than once experienced that the lyrics from a completely random song fits the situation you are in and that you can recall many things that are mentioned in the song from your own life. That's probably what that makes music so great - It understands us more than anything and describe the feelings we have, but don't dare to express. I caught myself crying the other day while listening to a korean song. I felt so sad and i did not even understand what the heck the guy was singing,  but i was so moved that i was making my own fountain of mount cheek.
 Music can always calm us and yet make us restless and i have experienced that  - for better and for worse. But for this time i want to tell about a situation i tackled in such a wrong way that i succeeded my test.

When I went to the examination for my drivers license I was so nervous that i started hymn.. At first it was really, but every time there was something that i was nervous about i started to talk loudly or even   started to hymn even louder.  When there was only 10 minutes left and i could sense that we were on the way back to the school. I was so nervous so i tried to turn some music on, but pushed a lof of wrong buttons and in fear to lose my focus on the road i started to sing for myself. The worst was that i had picked a song from Phineas and Ferb. I just kept singing: "I've got no rhythm" in danish. At first i could barely hear my own voice, but then it became louder and louder. The more closer i got to home, i felt more nervous and therefore sang louder.  The inspector laughed at me when the car stopped and thanked me for the six minutes long  one-line song... So my advice is that you are the person that likes to sing when you're nervous is to keep doing that if you have a good voice. But if you're like me, cranky and bad, then you'll have to find something else than singing that can make you calm...




Monday, January 21, 2013

under the cover

One thing i can't get enough of are coats. Honestly there's a lot of things i can't get enough of but for me coats are like dresses - like  a dress you can show off in the winter without freezing to death. 
Last time i was in Copenhagen I found a bunch of coats i would love to own. The few i've picked out here were on sale, so I don't think you would be able to find any of them and if you were able to, there would probably not be in the right size. 
But here we go !


The first one here is from Peak Performance and it costed about 700 dkr. after discount. It's dark blue,  really thick, warm and i love the buttons and the hood.




The second one is this batwing-looking cape from InWear. The fabric is thick but light and the best about it is that it has a hood and that it can be tightened around the waist. It costed about 800 dkr. on sale.






The third one is a classic sand colored Burberry-looking coat from Designernes Remix Collection. I love the color but unfortunately it shows my falws because it's bright color and it quite long for my short legs. It costed about 1200 dkr.




This one is from Zara and costed 1000 dkr.  The coat itself is very normal but it's the details on the sleeves that makes this one special. I love that it's covered with studs, because it makes look more edgy despite the sophisticated blue color ^^.



The red one i'm holding is my Peak Performance jacket i bought back in december with a 75% discount so i only had to pay 1000 dkr.

My hunt for coats couldn't just stop after a single shopping spree in CPH, so i found two online. 
I don't where the first one is from and sadly it's only available  in baby sizes. It's the lion one I would really love to have for myself, but i would have to buy it for my kid someday then.... yeah.. let's wait 12 years for that to happen. 





Coats from Burberry is never an exception on a girl's wish list so i have gathered a few that made me drool...






The last one i want to show you is from Kenzo. Immediately when i saw it i fell in love. It costs about 8.000 dkr. so i can do nothing than keep dreaming about it. 



Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Suddenly when nobody wants to share the chair


As the saying goes "sharing is caring", but sharing can put you in prison.

Monday, January 14, 2013

a girl can dream

saskia diez






clothrack Tati Clothes Rack by Mats Broberg and Johan Ridderstråle, from 5.900 kr.





Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Markdowns and yellow tags.

YO HELLO!!!

I've used the last few days of my holiday to relax and read. I've finished The Great Gatsby and it's a really short novel. It's about 200 pages and can easily be finished in a day. I was just plain lazy so from December 21st to 27th i read like 3 chapters(there are only 9!) and from 28th to January 5th i was about half done and read the last 100 pages on 6th.
School just started 7th and i have about 4 assignment spread over 2 weeks so there is no pressure at the moment ;]

I've been asked by my classmate to make a guide for the places i like to shop, because she thinks i "know" where to go in the jungle of yellow tags. Since Copenhagen is my favorite city and place (to spend money at here in Denmark), I'll make a guide about the capital of the rye bread and "king of Denmark"-sweets and some online-stores.

Lets take the physical stores first!


show Tag-hunt on a bigger map



Magasin

"Magasin" is a department store and it is a great place to hunt if you are looking for something simple. The content of Magasin's rack section is mostly stuff that are 1 to 2 years old and since fashion changes by season, you should just hunt for the most simple and timeless pieces. Nobody can ever go wrong with a black dress, a fitted bra, handbags or a pair of skinny jeans, but make sure it's one of your first stop I after christmas, because they are short in stock with the small sizes. THEY HAVE A MONGO SECTION!!!(the only place in Copenhagen you can buy clothes from MANGO!).They have about 30% off on most gift sets and a box full of "old" makeup. It's mostly older colors that they removed from the standard range. Remember to check the food section ! They usually  give out chocolate covered almonds or licorice samples. 







Illum

Illum is just like Magasin, but with other brands and therefore also a wide range of stuff. Here you should look for bags and makeup. They have a built in  Sephora and food stores in the lower story.
I must say it's more difficult to navigate in Illum, but yet i still love the place. You have to keep your head (and body) cold because in january the place is packed and you feel like a cage hen. I like to glue my eyes to the built in shop The Collage, because they have a wide range of designer(dream)bags!! It's where i got my Reed Krakoff Uniform bag in back ;)





Fields

If you ever come to Copenhagen you must not miss the biggest mall in Scandinavia. It's located a bit out of the city but it's really close to the airport (10 min with train from CPHA and there are many hotels there). There's about 140 shops and some of them are pop-up boutiques that only exist in a limited time. I love to find stuff in there because it's really cheap! The third floor is a restaurant area and there are shops for every persons taste and the basement is for parking lots. Shops in there that i like the most is H&M, MonSoon, Esthetique, Monki, Gina Tricot, Magasin(yes there's a Magasin!!), Sportsmaster and the very best ZARA!!







Fisketorvet

Fisketorvet is another mall but it's located  in downtown Copenhagen. It's really close to the central station and Tivoli and it's convenient to get there by public transport. It has almost the same shops as Fields ( but no ZARA, Monki -.-) and there is a cinema too! Parking is free the first 3 hours and if you're like me, you'll stay there for 4 =]







IC Company Factory Store

One of my favorite places that my wallet also like is Company's Factory Store. Unlike the other places i have mentioned this is an outlet and therefore it is located near the harbor, which means outside of centrum where the other places are. They have brands like Jackpot, Cottonfield, InWear, Matinique, Part Two, Cottonfield Woman, Soaked In Luxury, Designers Remix Collection and theres always at least 30% off. In different seasons they have markdowns on 75% and sometimes the unit as low as 97% off the original price. I bout a pair of Tiger of Sweeden jeans once and they cost 1000 kr. but i got then for 30 kr :D. My new red winter jacket from Peak Performance is also from there and it got it with 75% off. Now you would think that they sell old clothes, only big sizes and broken pieces but they don't ! Most of it is the same that they sell in the stores! If you find like a shirt that misses a button you'll get 10% off that price which is the same as in the other stores. There's not a wide range of sizes because  it's mostly for tall and thin people. They do sell clothes from the older collections, but most of it is timeless pieces so therefore it's easily to find something ;)

In the "Tag Hunt"-Map I have plotted other outlets that i haven't written about yet. Feel free to check it out ;)







Next it is the online stores!!!
I do not always feel comfortable when it comes to netshops and that's not because details like shipping, billing etc., but the sizes. The best about the online stores is that they offer a wide range of choices; designs, colors, and brands too. The difficulty is to find the right size for you body and usually there's help to find.





ASOS has their own brand, but they also sell clothes from other high-street brands and other brands you usually can't find (can't find if you live in no-where-denmark -.-). It's difficult to browse through ASOS without finding something that you must have! When you find something you want you can just click on it and they will ask you about color and size. Right next to the box there is a size chart that helps you to calculate your size into EU or UK.
The best about ASOS is that there is no delivery cost(there may be taxes for countries outside Europe).








I haven't tried to buy anything from Nelly yet, but my many of my friends like it and say they have stuff that you can't find anywhere else. Like ASOS they mostly sell their own brand but do offer other brands, but they do only ship to some few european countries.







I love Bubbleroom and they only ship to Scandinavia !! Though the dresses are pricey they are really cute!! i could stare at them all day XD








- I haven't bought anything there.... yet..... I must admit i puked rainbows when i saw all those 
AHH-dorable  shoes on one site! It's one of my favorite shops and that's because they just have all the good that the others doesn't :O







- If i lived in the states i would order all of my beauty supplies from Nordström. They often have campaigns like buy for 20$ and get a bag full of makeup worth 100$ for free XD
Then i would go to the closest Nordström rack to shop designer brands XD.








** All the photos are borrowed

Friday, January 4, 2013

Wednesday, January 2, 2013