my christmas tree..

{M}y favorite christmas tree is a good old fashioned real green tree in early 20'th century ornaments.. but this is my frosty stardust tree... you know.. in the "if i were a christmas tree" category lol. I finished decorating it today. it has all my good things on it.. favorite music in gingerbread, candy canes, birds, vintage family ornaments, ornaments given to me, and photo hearts. this is what it looked like last year.

Happy holidays
&
Heartagram kisses!

diana f+ in london

i think the camera switched settings while in my bag.. lol.. to pinhole! these were taken in daylight before noon.. instead it looks like moonlight. kind of cool though. i call them london after midnight. lol.

st paul's and millenium bridge

st paul's cathedral

the man on this horse statue had great posture.
national gallery and a christmas tree,
i like how the people on the stair are completely black figures

trafalgar square

HANSON HANSON HANSON!

After 7 years of waiting to see them again(!), on tuesday we queued for 10 hours on their Shout It Out world tour. THAT'S how we got taylor just a few meters right in front of us at the concert. camp sweden.

They played lots of songs from each albums and i kind of died when they did the songs from middle of nowhere, which is my favorite... mmmbop, where's the love and a minute without you, it was such a surreal feeling, hearing those songs, feeling 11 years old again but seeing them older singing. i'm so grateful! stardust was all around! it was amazing. the fans we hung out with that day were awesome too. can't wait for more concerts now! 

we love hanson.

london. part 1.

{M}y sister and i hurried over to London for a few days this week to catch a Hanson concert. I rather wanted to see them in Amsterdam, but it was Stina's call so London it was. Apart from precious hanson, we lived in greenwich, and we had only a few hours here and there to do and see as much as possible. we planned those hours in the city down to the minute and ran around like crazy chickens. luckily most of the things we BOTH wanted to explore was all in Soho! i barely got to catch moments to photograph anything because we were always on the move. i'm fascinated by huge cities. i like all the white stone buildings in london city and statues., but huge cities also intimidate me a little. i see that my pictures above all point up, london is just filled with nice buildings.

the sun tried its hardest to shine on me and sofi on our field trip today.

sofi is in the photos.

question is... where is the snow?

crispy sunny sunday morning by the coast

it should be winter by now.
but it is still autumn.
so out i go into the forest with hot cocoa.
for that combination is balsam for the soul and
one of my favorite things to do in life.
sofi and i were out on an archaeological field trip
and these are some nature pics i took.

sofi found a dug up pit
cute white quartzite.

halloween 2011

i went to a little halloween party on saturday with this gang above. we listened to horror movie soundtracks and 69 eyes. stina as patsy stone, cissi as a prisoner and alf as hank von helvete from turbonegro. i wasnt in the picture because i took it. i was edina monsoon, patsys best friend, and strangely though i didnt have to dig deep in my closet to find something!! but i did have to dust off my black blazer with white polka dots on. it was perfect for the occasion. i loved being edina, she tries sooo hard to be fashionable lol. no one at the party knew who stina and i were dressed up as. that was sad. but next halloween... is it time for frank perhaps?

here is last years halloween.

it's halloween week..

rainy dark autumn with the smell of newly fallen yellow leaves on
the ground and black birds! woho! every season is worth celebrating.

from light to darkness comes also all the spooky shadows.. and hot cocoa.
i shall list a few of my favorite horror movies here later this week.

moonia and the dianaf+, summer to autumn,

hugging.
i'm so happy to get these
precious moments on film.


film: kodak portra 160VCi got 11 of 12 photos back on this filmroll.
that's a good roll.

so far, the dianaf+ has been a much more stable camera than
my holga120fn. that holga has much more tricks up its sleeve!
those two cameras definitely has different personalities!

i bought a 5 pack of this "professional" film, it was the only one i
could find at the time, so i'm stuck with it for a long time.
but i like it. the colors are vivid.

the most important thing to me though,
is what is on the film... !

2 diana f+ photos from this summer..

for lunch, i made waffles with blueberries for everyone!

mom's flowers.

hello october.

octoberfest..

stina brought back a piece from münchen for me.
she tried on the dresses as well.
i want one!