Get up and jump!

I really like jumpsuits. I think they are a good fashion - or are they out already? Who cares, I like them anyway. I have one black woolly one my mum used to wear back in the 70's - it's really cool. You always look smart in it! And it can easily be accessorized up or down with different belts or shoes. (The only downside is that going to toilet is rather tricky!) I have my eyes on this one at the moment:

The picture is snatched from Fashion Conscience's website!

It's fairly made of organic cotton. I must be strong though. I have too many clothes already. Not one quite like this however...

These shoes are made for working...

Now I fear this isn't a particularly frivolous pair of shoes but I needed something comfortable but relatively smart for work. I do sometimes prance around in heels at work if I need to be impressive but these are all right for the quieter days! They might be OK as summery everyday shoes too. They're from Bourgeois Boheme's own brand so they're fairly made and vegan. A tiny bit on the too sensible side (they're even called "Ertha"!) but I can always wear them with something more outrageous. I bought them from a very nice shop in Helsinki called Heluna Fashion - definitely a luxury to be able to buy vegan shoes on your way home! Just a few years ago you always had to order them abroad  - I actually remember getting my first pair of vegan shoes from Brighton via complicated postal order more than ten years ago!

Knitwear!

What can be more frivolous than a knitted woolly mini skirt? If you really want/need to keep warm you´re not going to really wear a mini skirt are you? They look really cool though. Here are a couple of my favourites!

This foxy one is made in UK by Reluxe using upcycled (Shame on me, I actually had to check this one! Apparently it means re-using some material from something else, like making sandals of car tyres - I guess here the yarn has served some other purpose before) wool.  There was a wide selection of patterns but I liked this one the best. You can get it at least from Fashion-conscience. (One of my favourite places in the World Wide Web.)

Now if I would be(or at least feel) very rich this would be it. It´s from the new autumn/winter collection by Finnish designer Minna Parikka. Made in Finland (so one would hope it´s fairly made) of viscose and dralon (what ever that may be) so it doesn´t even pretend to be warm and serious. And it comes in several different overly sweet colours! Mmmm!

Testing....

I just couldn't wait anymore! After a long debate with myself I decided to write this blog in English - mostly because I couldn't come up with a satisfactory name for the blog in my native Finnish! ( I was really pleased with this one actually.) Anyway, this blog is dedicated to frivolous but ethically and environmentally sound things in life - all that unnecessary but oh so deliciously fun stuff like fashion, cosmetics, edible and drinkable treats and so on. (Terribly materialistic, I know.) Just wait and see! Maybe I'll occasionally get on a somber mood and do a book review - I am a librarian after all.


I feel a wee bit silly writing in English since it's not my first language - maybe you could call it a second one though since my husband is a native English speaker. Anyway, using English multiplies my changes for reaching like-minded people I guess - there's only 5 million of us Finnish speakers around!


I'm pretty happy that I finally got this started - I've been mulling it in my head for ages. And now I have a legitimate reason to invest on a new camera too!