Don't just stand there!

I went to a flea marked with Hopy today! It was really nice seeing her and I had a great time. It's been o long since I went to a flea market - last time was in Japan!!! And when I usually go all the time, that's a huge gap between market visits. Hopy couldn't really remember when she'd last gone so it was about time for her, haha.

I thought this sign was cool and really fitting for flea markets. Buy something!! haha.

And so I did. My parents have been complaining about my lack of a proper autumn jacket and then I found this blue/black one I really liked ! And for the price of 40 DKK it was all mine.

I bought the sweater off a girlfriend's mom. They had a booth at the market so I ran into my friend, which was really nice. I hadn't seen her in months! I thought the sweater was nice. Can you believe it's from the 80ies?! Gosh, so old...

You find the most odd thing at flea markets. Like reindeer hairbands. Hopy is the wonderful model.

Later Yin came by to hang out. It was fantastic to just chill with her and talk. I've missed her a lot. She goes to my former high school and it's really wierd not seeing her almost every day.

Outfit of the day. My heels were compleately white from all the dusty stones at the flea market, haha! I'm going to clean them soon, I really can't wear them in their current shape.

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Designs for the masses

Today I went to the Designer's Forum here in cph. I've been there once before, last time 1 year ago - I think? It's held every fall and every spring and I think I'll go this spring as well. Because it's really great if you just remember to keep your eyes open!

You had to get a stamp on your hand (like in the picture) to be able to go in and out of the grand hall.

There was a lot of people, but less than last time I was there. Probably because of the rain outside that people had to go through to get to Forum.

I had a date with my friend Zarah, but she had forgotten that she had a shift at work, so I went with my mom instead!

A lot of the products being sold at the Designer's Forum is samples for next seasons. So actually you can buy things before everyone else and pay at least half of what they'll pay.

The whole reason I went was because I wanted to get a new bag for school. My old one is totally wrecked and at the Friis & Company booth always have bags for 100 DKK. It's really bag-heaven because there are bags for every type. One bad thing is that you need to sort through a whole lot of boxes to find all the different bags - and in the attempt of doing this almost all of my nails fell of, haha.

I kind of bought 3 bags - if you bought 3 you got them for 250 DKK. So very cheap bags! And then I bought a Björn Borg bag for 150 DKK. It was bigger than the white one, so I'll use that for heavier school days.

I also bought a little purse and two belts ! The Friis & Company stuff is never really pricy, but some of the other booths prices are really high. To compare: F&C shoes cost 200 DKK while shoes all other places cost at least 400 DKK. So I had to keep my head cool and just go past all the expensive, yet fabulous things.

I think I'm going to use these bags so much!

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Naivety 'n' memories

I did my nails!! I actually made them for Kita last weekend, but since it was all spent in cosplay I didn't get to wear them. But oh well, then I'll wear them now! I love how I can always correct the nail art mistakes I make - if there's suddenly too many things on the nail you just smack a huuuge rhinestone on and then it looks good again!

I love wearing nails. Gives me such happiness, haha, how dumb it may sound. I think my fingers are sort of short and chubby, but when I wear my nails long the fingers seems longer and slender - more feminine.

School is hard atm. Like, really bad. I spend 7 hours on my math assignment the other day and didn't even finish it. They've learned so much last year that I haven't and it's just impossible to follow what the teachers say sometimes - because I need background knowledge that I've never been taught. And it's hard trying to learn it all self-studying.

Not that I thought it was going to be easy. I just didn't think it would be this tough.

At times like that it's always good to remember good stuff from the past. Like me going to the Muse concert here in Copenhagen with the darling Simone. It was such a FANTASTIC concert - it worked much better on the stage we had than the one in the youtube video because they had a bigger stage here. My heart is beating furiously just remembering.

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Fish from the water

Don't leave, Ponyo by ~Zarsu on deviantART

Okay, kind of Ponyo spamming here. I KNOW. But I thought you might like the shots. THANKS SO MUCH to Sascha for taking these photos of our cosplays. It's really incredible she could cope with all the things she had to do that weekend - lots of photoshoots, being quizz master 2-3 times, being co-arranger and have friends staying over at her house. You are incredible, Sascha ! Haha.

It was kind of hard to get the shoot right. I had bare feet and legs so I could go in the water - which was freezing btw - but in the movie it's more Fujimoto that keeps coming from the water, and Astrid really couldn't step down into the lake with her cosplay on. So we had to do a lot of stuff that weren't really screen accurate.

Like this. Father and many children. All happy - Fujimoto really isn't happy at any point in the movie. God, that man! Smile a bit, cheer up. But it's nice to think that they have been/will be like this at some point (outside the movie).

ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY!

.... Or not.

Once again, thanks for an awesome weekend girls and guys. I wore my cosplay for about 16 hours just on Saturday but it didn't even feel wierd thanks to you guys.

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Domestic oddness

As mentioned in my last post I went to Jutland for the weekend. The main reason being that Astrid and I needed to get a photo shoot of our Ponyo cosplays. But Anime Kita, the japanese culture association in Aalborg, hosted a 3-day get-together so I also participated in that. It was kind of like a mini-con - really cool! We were only 90 people or so, which made it all very intimate.

I flew to Aalborg. It was my first time flying domestic, and I was really excited about it, haha! It's much cheaper than going by train and half the money - almost anyway. It only takes 45 minutes! I thought it would feel like forever once you sat in the plane, but it was over freakishly fast.

Since it was a first for me, I had never been to Terminal 1 in the Kastrup Airport over here. I had pictured it old and shabby - it was everything but. It was really architectural and that took me by surprise. I had to basically unpack to take some snapshots.

At the Anime Kita building they had made this old childrens' game Who's Who?! in an anime version! It was actually quite hard. This one time Astrid ended up with only one character left at it was the one she had herself - and when you only have one left it should be the character your opponent has... Fun stuff, yesss.

There were soooo many competitions! I was in probably half og them and I won two!! I won the Anime song and sound Quizz which was very funny since I sat next to Astrid and Morten and we all wrote the exact same thing. At least we thought so. We were almost disqualified because of this, but Morten came in 2nd and Astrid in 3rd. Everyone had been in groups, discussing answers, so they couldn't really say we'd done something wrong. Even thought it was totally cheating, haha.

The other quizz I won was the Team Quizz! It was really fun. It lasted about 2 hours and in the end the tension had been built up so high. No one was a safe winner, and we only won because our answer to the very last question was correct. We won with 1 point.

My prizes were the compleate Silver Fang anime and 100 DKK to a shop called Gashapon.

I've really wanted those shoes. They were on sale in Monki, but they were sold out instantly over here in Copenhagen. Then Astrid mentioned that they weren't in Aalborg and she was going to buy some for herself, so I got her to buy some for me as well! Turned out they only had them left in my size, but she still bought them for me. THANKS SO MUCH ASTRIIIID. I would beheartbroken if I had to buy some shoes I loved for someone else.

We were all so tired by the end of the weekend. We had to style Astrid's wig one of the nights, so we didn't get to bed before 4. And the other night we came home at 2.

THANKS FOR A GREAT TIME, girls and guys! I really enjoyed every minute. Even when I was bicykling through Aalborg in my cosplay.

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Just Jutland

I've been away from home sweet home this weekend. I was going to do a blog just before leaving for the airport but things got a little busy and I didn't get to do it anyway, haha. I hate it when time catches up with me!!

But then there is always some thing that make you love life. Like this:

I've had a great time with nooo sleep so I'll just go crash down into sleep now. I NEED MY 10 HOURS! Really, sleep is something I cannot live without. Damn, I feel like the sickness I ALMOST recovered from is coming back...

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In sicness and hair - no, that sounds wrong

I've been feeling a little skeptical about this whole long-bangs project I'm going at. I've seen some gals really rocking the bang style I want with the length of bangs I'm currently at. But it's not really working out the way I wanted it to. So I've been thinking of getting short bangs again.

But I've decided not to. Because I used to hate how my short bangs looked after an hour. And I had to wash my hair every day - pretty unhealthy! I guess my bangs just needs some more centimeters to look great..

Aah, this is the kind of hair I dream of having, but will never dare to do. I'd have to bleach my hair and since I'm allergic to perfume and other cosmetic stuff I'm way to scared of getting burned to try.

Also... WHY. WHyyyy did I color my hair?! Really, I'm getting pre-tty frustrated. Not really because I don't like the color, just because my extensions don't match my hair anymore. AND I MISS MY LONG HAIR. "You already have long hair, honny" some people tell me. But guess what? I want it longer. Ragggeeee.

I'm sick. Again. Every time the seasons change I get sick. I hate that. Last year I spend a great deal of days away from school and all because of sickness. I'm so damn weak against cold. So I'm at it again with at least 10 cups of tea every day and all the Kleenex in the world.

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