Monday, May 2, 2011

Greek views and some news (loooong post.... grab a snack!)

 Hello lovely followers of this blog and random clickers!!
I hope you had tons of fun during your Easter holidays and precious moments with your loved ones! I know I did! 
 I really needed this week of rest as I was feeling like a million pieces scattered all around the place! I was over-active during the last period of 3 months, which led to feeling quite exhausted!! This post is full of nice views of the nearby greek countryside, the result of me and G. having a couple of road-trips during the week! This is what we saw!!


 We spent Easter Sunday with my parents, brother and some friends and the next day we visited G's parents in the village. The village is up a mountain and this is the view on the way there! Really typical greek scenery, I love it!!


View of the village, as you enter

Byzantine Church

 Then on Tuesday, we drove to Poulithra, which is a small coastal village about 100 km away. A friend of G's and his band were playing music at a nice sea-food taverna (greek restaurant that is), so we went there as "groupies"!!

Happy, dancing greeks in the taverna!

On the way....
 As picturesque as the village may be, this is a day I actually want to forget.... Because what is a greek blog about if you don't include a little bit of "tragedy" anyway?? 
  On the way back (btw the road to that village is dangerous - 80 km of nasty turns right at the edge of the cliff...) it started raining and the road got slippery. As a result G. lost control of the car in one of those nasty turns and we crashed on the sidebars..... We're very, very lucky to not even get a scratch!! But our poor old Peugeot is dead....


 As you can guess, the rest of our holidays were pretty much ruined and we spent the next days visiting car mechanics and taking offers on car parts. Turns out we need about 2.000 euro to fix it and it doesn't really worth the trouble because the car is more than 10 years old... We need a new car... *sigh*...*thinking of bank account*....*double sigh*.....

View of the sea to calm down.....
 So then we got engaged in various car conversations and cheched a dozen of car forums to choose what car we should buy! And then.... it's freaking Monday all over again and the end of all vacation!!!!! .....*some really nasty greek words* ...........* sigh *......!


 Oh well..... what's life without some tragedy that happens when we have other plans?? 
 On a happier note - I don't want you to think that you're not getting any outfit pics after finishing my remix! Oh no sir.... Kendi created a little monster here and it's unleashed and out of control!!
You thought I stopped blogging, didn't you??

 More posts of outfits, fancy new bling I've made, some tutorials, places we go, food we eat and extra greek blabbering and nagging on top of that, coming up next!! Kisses to all of you, my dear friends!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Grande Finale!

 Ok... not so "Grande" since this outfit is actually very casual and I wore it for shopping! But it is a "Finale" anyway, so in this blog we're celebrating!! 


 I don't blame you for not remembering what it is that we're celebrating, since it all started with this post, which was more than two months ago (in blog-time it's like a century....)!! Even I wasn't sure that I finished and I had to double-check the outfit posts! So I did and it is official:


I finished my remix!!

Outfit:

Skirt - My favourite (see this post)
Top - Calzedonia
Jacket - Ysatis
Belt - Asos
Shoes - every day flats from local store (10 euro)
Bag - Hunter
Bracelet - "Cherry pop" handmade by me (new)
Glasses - Dolce & Gabbana


Never mind that I did it with only 1,5 months of delay, I did it anyway! I don't have a job to get dressed for every day, so practically I didn't break any rules! I'm really proud and relieved: I can wear the rest of my clothes!!

Like my new bracelet? It's got cherries on!
 To make it an extra happy day, I got lucky in Louana's giveaway (for the first time ever!! I never just "win" things!). So I'm getting a gift on top of that, a lovely Moose pdf design by Lou, which is soooo adorable! I will definitely give it a try!! Check out Lou's goodies and my lovely gift here!


Thank you dear Louana!

 It's Easter tomorrow in Greece, so it's celebration time with relatives and loved ones and a looot of greek food! I won't be posting for a week as I'm in serious need of some VACATION! My boy is off work for the next week and we have plans to have a lot of good times together!! 
 It's also a stressful period for me because I'm waiting to know whether I'll get a job this year or not. (see this post for details). This is directly involved to my income and you can obviously understand why I'm kind of edgy this time of the year... Oh well... cross your fingers for me! 

 Lot's and lot's of Spring wishes for a Happy Easter everyone!! Enjoy yourselves!
See you soon...xxx

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Happy girl necklace!!

 Just a quickie post, to show off what I made today! A "Flower Power Girl" necklace and bracelet as a gift for a little girl!


 The little girl, Stavroula, is my brother's godchild, age 11. I made it extra happy and I'm pleased with the outcome! I think she'll like them!! 



 I added one of the "Flower Power Girl" rings (seen here) in a cute pink bag to complete the set! Tell me what you think please!! See you all next time!  


Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Bohemian Summer dress (part II)

 Hello my dear friends! How are you? I'm having a really fantastic week so far!! I'm very happy!


  Remember my bohemian summer dress from this post? You all left very nice comments for this baby!


 Since I love it so much that I've also bought it in navy blue (yes... the same one, with the same loud annoying pattern), I thought I'd give it another wear before my remix is finished! 


 After running boring errands downtown, me and g. took a walk at Kios nearby beach, which is just 5 min. away and so beautiful! Take a look....


Outfit:

Dress - "I&D" local shop
Top - Asos
Jacket - Ysatis
Belt - French Connection (Asos)
Shoes - Urban Outfitters
Necklace - handmade ("Blue Valentine")
Bangles - no idea (probably free from a magazine!)
Bag - Hunter
Glasses - Dior


  Oh wait... I didn't tell you why I'm happy! It's Easter Holidays for students and teachers here in Greece, which means - no school for two weeks!! Since my boyfriend teaches in a high school, we get all this lovely time together! On the downside, my mom is also a teacher and for the last two days that she's off work we've been kneading (is that a word? I just googled it!) and baking traditional greek cookies and tsourekia like maniacs! In total we've baked 250 cookies and 20 tsourekia!!! (we're giving them also to friends - we're medium crazy greeks!) I'm beat...!


Kisses till next time lovelies!!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Playing with textures!

 Welcome to my headless post! 
Let's just focus on the outfit today...! Shall we? Hmmm....


 Still proud of remixing (on my own), here is my outfit from last night at the movies! Puzzled of why the sun is so bright? Well, I absolutely hate taking pics with a flash, so I had to reconstruct the outfit this morning! 
 Notice the word morning here - like early morning without coffee first - and you can understand why my facial expressions just refused to co-operate, thus leaving me with head-less post pics.... And I am mean I tell ya, I decapitated all of them!


 Back to the outfit, the weather is springy, but crazy: changing from wind, to sun, to clouds, to wind again! So why not mix seasons in my outfit too? Here I present a spring top  mixed with summer sandals, skirt and belt; and a winter bag and scarf! You call me "crazy homeless headless lady" - I call me "innovative and fashion advanced"!!Ha.


 Fancy my air-crane pin? It's a company pin and I add it on bags and jackets, because I love that crane! 
  And you can also see my new  fashionable "bird-nest ring", out of real pearls and wire! On second thought, after 3 hours of bending wire it was kind of stupid to combine real pearls that cost 60 euro with 0,5 cents worth of wire... But I'll play the artist card and stick to it!!

photo found here
 By the way the movie we saw was "The Rite". Not the best movie ever, but kind of fun to watch, just for the sake of the talented sir Anthony!

Outfit:

Skirt - Sprider stores
Grey Top - Asos maternity
Belt&Scarf - both vintage, from mommy
Shoes - Urban Outfitters
Bag - "On pedder"
Necklace - gift
Ring - handmade 


Bye-bye dears!