Memories of one summer

So a bit more about my summer break, because I’m starting to get busy with third year and I’d like to remind myself about some of the cool/silly things that happened during the break...

Ropecon

Preeetty much the highlight of each year. One weekend of barely sleeping (and sleeping on hard floors), eating whatever, playing games, meeting new people, LARPing, hanging out... it’s just SO much fun and I love doing it.
This year I participated as a performer (for a second year in row)... well, only thing I did was some Bujinkan (Japanese martial art):
Once again we played games, swam, and ate a lot:

Granted, it was more of a... showy show than pure demonstration x)

Otherwise it was our little gang hanging, playing and enjoying the gala...:

Awesome costumes from a LARP at the gala~

And some other happenings. It was AWESOME.

Our same little group also spent a weekend at our friend Anna’s house in Mikkeli (the five of us have this nickname Rafiki).

This is not all the food we had...

We actually bought so much food that the four of us who had travelled to Mikkeli, ended up dragging some of the food back to Helsinki with us. But once again, it was one super awesome weekend~

I also went to meet my girls with Mari-liis at our friend Heini’s place. I missed them so, and it was really good to see them. They also enjoyed their presents:

Bella and Tara ♥

Don’t worry. Tara’s eyes are ALWAYS red. And Bella always looks like that. Shocked x)

They also got a cucumber from me, so I guess they were fat and content after my visit... I spoil them.

The day after I had been at Heini’s to see Bella and Tara, I went to get a tattoo:

The day after getting the tattoo done.

It’s from a photo my dad took YEARS ago. It was quite of an impromptu decision to take this tattoo, but I had been visiting my relatives earlier in the summer and had gotten a bunch of my dad’s photos he had taken when he was still alive, and for some reason this one just stuck with me:

This is not the full photo, but you see the bird and the clouds.

It was a family friend who did my tattoo, so I was in safe hands and felt relaxed and happy even though I was going through bad withdrawal symptoms from my depression/anxiety medication (NEVER again).

We also had a small photoshoot with Rafiki on that day, so I one of our pictures has all our legs, with my right ankle wrapped in cream and cling film :D

This is what the tattoo looks nowadays (healed):

Not as brutally red and bruised anymore :'D

Soon enough after that (and I had gotten emergency medication for my withdrawal) I had to leave Mari-liis’ comfortable couch behind me and head back to England to Danni’s spare room x)

And then it was just the matter of derping around and dressing like a wannabe-hipster-something:

Featuring Danni's living room.

Also, decorating my backpack for the coming university year:

Few inside jokes and then quotes from two TV shows. But which TV shows? ;D

And most importantly moving to our new flat and going out until Freshers’ Week started, and I was actually expected to do something...

So yeah, that’s my summer break in a nutshell... I guess it was more eventful than I remembered x)

Now, have another nail polish sample that I promised:

OPI Teal the Cows Come Home. 

Two layers of Teal the Cows Come Home alone. If I use only one layer, the colour's not deep enough for my liking.

Left hand.

With Silver Shatter. I accidentally used too much on my middle finger and pinkie and it didn't shatter as well as I would've liked :I

Right hand.

I managed to do this hand better... well, the two fingers x)

That’s it for this time, once again I ask you to stay human, and I’ll blog ya later! 

P.S.

If you are an American and CAN vote, I suggest you really vote for Obama. Just btw. Especially if you are an American woman. I could elaborate WHY, but that post would be too long.

SHOES.

Hello, once again! This time I’ll be telling you about some of my shoes... 

I don’t usually go buying shoes like crazy, since I rarely see anything that I like or want, but that DOES happen every now and then. During the summer break I actually managed to buy 2 new pairs, got one pair from Mari-liis and dug out few old favourites.

Let us start with the pair I got from Mari-liis (who bought them from Japan):

Bonita.

Surprisingly comfortable even though they may look a bit painful, I wore these for three nights in a row once and only my calves were complaining by the end of the third night.

Plus they make me so tall~

Now to the pairs I bought:

Jumex (not the juice)

I don’t know WHY, but these make me think of Lydia Martin/Holland Roden. Anyway, I will forever say that Mari-liis forced me to buy these. They are cute and adorable and I love them but she forced me to buy them. End of story.

Nike Lunar Forever

Got my first proper running shoes! They feel heavenly~

Now I just need to find the time, and energy, to actually go for runs... I’m just too lazy x)

Couple old favourites:

Dea Dia. Cute shoe shop I accidentally bumped into while visiting Shibuya.

Bought these in February 2008 when I was visiting Japan. They were WAY cool not to buy, and so I awkwardly asked for a bigger size than what was on display (Japanese people have smaller feet), and the store assistant even put the shoe on for me and tightened the straps. It love at first sight. I mean with the shoe and I.

Friis&Co.

I had been drooling at these for a while some years ago, but they were always a bit too expensive for me. Until that one day when I stepped to the same store once again and noticed that they had a discount on these shoes... which also happened to be my size. Needless to say I left the store with a smile on my face.

Not the comfiest shoes to wear for hours, but they look damn good.

I also may have bought some new shoes in England... after the summer break.

My defence is, that I had the best excuse to buy the first pair, and- DAMN. I don’t have a good excuse for the other pair.

Converse! with cute squirrels and reindeer (?)!

These babies I bought because I had been rather upset the night before and hence wanted something to cheer me up. So cute AND I got them with a nice discount~

Schutz. A brand I've never heard of, but the original price had been R$320...

Now these... I basically just bought because they went well with my new jacket and made my legs look amazing. I have no other excuse.

All in all, I now have WAY too many shoes, and don’t know what to do with all of them! I don’t know how some people can live happily with 15+ pair of shoes, when I’m already going crazy with less than that!

Oh, btw, this (what you see above) is my new awesome jacket that I got from London (Forever 21~) on my hunt for Victoria’s Secret (from where I bought a new bra and underwear ♥)
And you can't deny that my legs look really good in those shoes, despite the bruises on my knees (which are from DANCING, just FYI)!

Before I go, I remember I promised samples from the nail polishes I posted pictures of, so here we go with the first one~

Pearl Fashion UK - Pomegranate

Stay human and blog ya later!