If freckles don't mean anything, does anything mean anything?

Erm, well, yes, there is no denying that I have completely vanished from this blog, again. "Twice a week" is becoming quite a running joke isn't it? I do have a good excuse though, I really do. I simply had to study and study and, well, study, but today I finally passed all my tests and handed in a written assignment, so I'll have more time to blog - fingers crossed - now... or at least when I return from my summer holidays. Hope you all are fine until then!

In many ways, they'll miss the good old days, someday, someday

I'm so, so, so sorry for neglecting the blog the last weeks, university and end- of term assignments have a firm a grip on me most of the time. However, I did manage to snatch a photo of my outfit a little while ago - oh my, props to all those fashion bloggers out there! Taking photos has turned out be rather challenging, the self- timer kind of has the ability to catch you in the weirdest moments, some angles of the camera are really unflattering and the light does not always cooperate, either.

If your wondering why I'm dressed so wintry - summer has been quite an unreliable business here and right now it's pouring outside. Oh well. At least I did have a nice day today anyway which was spent shopping with my best friend (everyone deserves a break from studying from time to time, eh?). I found a really nice red dress at the H&M sale which has galloping ponies all over it - I'm not much of a horse- lover myself and normally I'd rather go for a more classic print but for some reason I just really, really love this dress.

On a site note we had quite a fancy drink with our lunch, the bottle was just so pretty (a rather shallow reason for picking it, I know, but it did taste rather nice as well). Maybe if the weather gets nicer, I'll try out recreating it, ice- cold green tea with a hint of honey could be an awesome refreshment!

Up in the cloudy stratosphere, gravity is weaker when you're near, my dear

Just recently I bought this bracelet to celebrate the one year adversary of my graduation (phew, time has flown!). I really like the idea of one staple jewelry to wear everyday like a sort of lucky charm but I guess it would be quite boring wearing the same earrings or necklace day after day - with bracelets it's quite a different thing! In real life the pendants don't look so big by the way, the perspective is quite misleading. Do you have a specific accessory that you wear regularly, dear reader?

Strawberry fields forever

Today we went strawberry picking and now we have baskets full of juicy sweet strawberry waiting to be turned into jam, strawberry cakes and other delicious things.

I've been meaning to post an outfit picture but I've quite forgotten how difficult it is using the self- timer and finding a nice background - I'll work on it, promise!

third eye

May I say how proud I am to present "Henry" to you? He arrived yesterday in a little box and I cannot say how thrilled I was to take him out to see his new home. It was simply love at the first sight when I picked him up at a camera store between all the other waiting cameras... there was just one not so tiny problem: He was twice the price that I had intended to fork out. Oh well, some time of saving up and reading innumerable pages on geeky camera message- boards on the pros and cons compared to the Canon s95 later, I was still convinced that I wanted him and you can guess the rest. Hopefully, he'll help me take many nice photos!

I've actually sketched several versions of this post on bits of paper (when I should've been sleeping I might add) as the blogspot writing editor has the strange ability to freeze my brain when I try to start typing - hands raised expectantly but no words coming whatsoever...

Please generously ignore the fact that I have failed to live up to the blog's title last week (and just the second week of blogging, too! Oh dear) as I was Internet- less for most of it. I guess I should rename it "Once/Twice/Whenever a week".

So I was reflecting that I simply stumbled into the blogosphere without introducing myself properly and I was therefore going to write things about me being a psychology student, about my love for English (by now probably everyone guessed correctly that I'm not a native speaker but studied it at school) and some favourite things of mine (cats, chocolate, sewing machines etc.) but it just didn't come out right.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm just one more blogging girl taking photos of cutesy puffy dandelions, cracked tea cups, vintage dresses, posing for somewhat narcissistic outfit posts and further defined by a love for cats, typewriters and granny boots - how cliché, you might think now, just what was missing from the blogosphere.

Oh well, you might be painfully right, dear critical reader - but I still think it is rather intriguing finding the individual in the stereotypical and being able to create a different version of yourself even if it seems a little prettified and retouched - or to speak with "Tokyo Police Club" :

"A tiny kingdom at the bottom of the trees

Where I was always a winner and I was usually right"

I'll try anything once

These are my new ridiculously high 12cm heels that I completely fell in love with - it's rather sad that they don't seem to entirely share this feeling as they make me look like a wobbling stork (though not as long- legged) when I try walking in them. A wobbling stork with rather nice shoes, though.

(P.S.: The strange white things on my tights in the first picture is dirt on you monitor of course - and not bizarrely huge amounts of adhesive cat hair... Pssh, how could anyone think that?)