OOTD - I Love Copenhagen

Hi guys,

Yesterday my friend and I decided to NOT do what we usually do Saturday afternoon - go shooping ;-) We decided to take advantage of our beautiful city. First we visited Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket a very beautiful museum in the centre of Copenhagen to see the temporary exhibit "Gauguin - Polynesia". It is a very beautiful exhibit with some of the most important of Gauguin's works on loan from all over the world. If you are in Copenhagen, go have a look. The exhibit is full of beautiful colours and tells the story of Gauguin and his love for the Polynesian people and their nature.

Paul Gauguin.Three Tahitians. ©National Gallery of Scotland

While we where there anyway, we took a tour through the permanent collection of the French Impressionists. I really love the French Impressionists, they really had a lovely aestitic. Van Gogh, Pissaro, Czesanne, Monet, Latrec and Picasso. And my favorite: Degas with his beautiful ballerinas.

 Two Dancers (1890) - Edgar Degas

After the Museeum we decided to go through Tivoli on our way home. That was an idea everybody else in Copenhagen had as well! Tivoli is such a beautiful garden/amusement park in the middle of the city centre. At Christmas they fill it with lights and decorations and you can buy all kind of goddies.

 Images from Tivoli

Here is what I wore: 

 Grey Jersey jacket - Object by Vila // Black top - Ann Taylor Loft // Black leather and fur vest - Style Butler // waxed jeans - Ellos // grey and black sneakers - Adidas // Black fringe bag - Botkier // Necklace - Pilgrim // ring - H&M

 I bought the vest last year on sale. It was though still rather expensive but it is just so beautiful. It is lined with rabbit fur and the trim is racoon. On the back is a grey and silver leather inlay of a pair of angel wings (see close up further down in this post). It is a straight size item and it does not really close, but I like it better open anyway. I know it is not really PC, but I love fur... Real as well as fake.

 

Details of the back of the vest - silver angel wings.

I hope you had a great weekend as well. 

- Karina

OOTD - 11.11.11: My Birthday

Hi guys,

So today is my birthday. I am turning 33 (11+11+11 ;-)). My sister and I took the day off to spend some time together. We went to "pick up" my birthday present from her, you can see a little further down in this post what she got me.

I wore my new 2in1 dress (Alba) from Carmakoma. I got it yesterday together with the black tiered Champagne skirt. I got both from a local plussize store as a thank you because I walked in their AW 11 fashion show last month.

 Silver 2in1 tank top dress - Carmakoma // black leggins - H&M // black overknee boots - duoboots.com// black cardigan - H&M // black lace ring - H&M // star necklace - Pilgrim

I really think the silver dress is cute. It is casual but still pretty and shiny. And you can use the two tops as separates as well.  

 Long necklace in oxidized silver from Pilgrim with star charm. I like the fact that you can change the pendant if you want another look 

 Black lace ring from H&M.

And now back to the birthday present from my sister. Maybe you caught a glimpse on one of the pics above. I got a tattoo. Really big step for me (maybe it is an early mid-life crisis?! ;-)). It is my first tattoo. I have thought about getting one for years, but I could not decide on one that was right for me. 

But then the idea came to me a couple of weeks ago while I was looking through the blog: clamour4glamour.looklab.dk. The beautiful Camille has a number of tattoos on the wrist and they are so feminine an beautiful on her. So I decided that I wanted something similar on my wrist. I wanted to be able to show it off, but still to be able to easily cover it up with a watch or a bracelet when necessary for work.

I chose the swallow for a number of reasons. I love the story behind the old school swallow tattoos that symbolise a safe journey and always finding your way back home. And of course birds also represent freedom. I wanted an all black design to keep it simple. 

My sister got the same tattoo (as part of a larger design with her kids names). She is a tattoo pro, this was her 5th. I don't think I will get that many, because, no matter what people say; it DOES hurt like hell! ;-)

 - Karina

Back to the roots...

Hi guys,

So I decided to go back to the roots for a while... The hair roots that is ;-) Which means that I got my hair coloured in my dark blonde/redish natural hair colour. I am not at all sure that I like it, it went a bit darker than I had expected, so I will probably gradually get it blonder again. Or maybe I just need to get used to it. I have been bleaching my hair since I was 17, so I have not seen this colour in a long time ;-)

My colleague says it brings out my freckles in such a nice way, but I am still not sure myself. I will probably always be a blonde at heart ;-)
 
- Karina

OOTD - White Lace

Hi guys,

Here is an outfit I wore yesterday. It wore the cream lace top I got from HM.com last week.

 Cream lace top - H&M// Black waxed jeans - Ellos.dk// Black "biker" blazer - Ellos.dk//Red ballerinas - Pretty Ballerinas // Necklace - Pilgrim

 I Love the button details in the back.

Sorry about the quality of the pictures. I had to make them quite a bit lighter in my photo editor due to the poor lighting (at 7 in the morning).

- Karina

Bad lighting, bad blogger...

Hi guys,

I have been a bad blogger lately, I know. I have actually been wearing a lot of great fall outfits, but I have been working a lot lately, meaning that I am never home or even outside in the daylight. I am off to work before the sun gets up and not home until at has gone down again, which is why there are no good pictures to show you. I am wearing a lot of black on black these days (in the winter my rock chick side beats my ballerina side ;-)) and that really does not come out well on pictures taken with artificial lights and flash, even when I try to clean them up and edit the colours.

Maybe that is a sign that I should try and wear some more colour! I have bought a few items lately in colours (or at least not black) that I hope you will see in OOTDs very soon. For now here are a sneak peak of a few of the items.

 Orange dress from Asos Curve (via Ebay). 

The colour looks very different in the two pics. In reality it is a very nice burnt orange. Very in line with falls coulour pallet. I am going to style it with my blue suede shoes for a nice contrast or with black tights and black boots for a day time look.

Creme lace top with buttons in the back from H&M.

I love this nude creamy colour. And I am going to wear this top with black jeans, blue jeans, skirts, you name it! It is so great when you buy something so versatile. 

-Karina

OOTD - Autumn in the forest

Hi guys,
Today was a really beautiful autumn Sunday so I decided to grab my camera (Canon EOS 400D) and go for a walk in the forest to look at (and capture) some autumn scenes. I really love this time a year (when it is not raining of course) the changing colours of the trees, the crispness in the air and of course the chance to get out the knits and scarves again ;-)

Here is some pictures of the autumn forest.

My teeny tiny blue flowery car in the forest "parking lot". Isn't it just cute in the sunlight? ;-)

I also managed to get some pictures of my outfit with the beautiful forest as a backdrop. I wore the grey sweater (also mentioned here), my favorite scarf and the Adidas sneakers I bought in Boston.

 Grey sweater - HM (straight line)//Black leggins - HM (BiB)//Nude scarf - Black Lily//Black and grey sneakers - Adidas//Grey Studded bag - Liebeskind Berlin

I know that a plus size girl in leggins and an oversize tunic or knit is kind of a klichee, the stereotypical fat girl, but I really don't care about fashion rules or being a klichee. I wil wear what I want and what I like, no matter if it is a micro mini skirt or leggins. I like the oversize trend and leggins are just so comfy for a sunday afternoon.

 Grey studded bag - Liebeskind Berlin//Nude scarf with grey and black trees - Black Lily

Black patent leather and grey leather sneakers - Adidas

- Karina

OOTD - Knit and boots

Hi guys,

I am sorry for my bad blogging the post month or so. I have been really busy at work and everything else has suffered.

I was so chocked Monday morning by the sudden cold that hit my right in the face when I walked out my frontdoor. I really shouldn't be so suprised every year, especially this year where fall more or less started in the beginning of August! But I was... So this week I have been trying to adjust my wardrobe to the cold and this is one of the outfits I wore.

I lovely charcoal knit sweater/dress from H&M in a cotton/angora blend with cute pockets at the sides. So nice and cosy and easy to wear. Somebody might say that I plussize girls would need a belt to create a waist, but I really do not like belts much. I think they cut my figure in two and make me look strange and that would also ruin the oversize feel of this dress.

I also wore my new boots from Duoboots.com (I also mentioned them here). They are so beautiful. Soft, smooth leather with some very pretty details and the heel height is perfect for running around all day.

Charcoal sweater dress - HM (straight line) // Over knee boots - Duo boots // Necklace - Day, Birger et Mikkelsen // Tights - Evans

 Close up of ELVO Boots from Duo boots

Have you broken in your winter wardrobe as well?

- Karina