new years eve.

my friends had a metal dinner party but that will be a
future post when i get the photos back from the developer.
aren't M's tiny ears adorable covered in all that fur?!
she is so cute i could die.

peach days are my favorite.

2011...

here follows some things from this year that is on the blog..

in the winter..

-i drank hot cocoa every day.
-i took my holga out to play in the snow after i had..
-..broken the holga's flash at stina's birthday dinner.
-i organized my archaeology and brought it online for reals.
-a group of friends went skiing as if it was 1983.
-for easter, my sister and i went out into the woods with snowmobiles.



in the summer..

-i came up with the best idea, drawing as many ville valo drawings as i can.
-i went above the arctic circle to see the helsinki vampires.
-i went hiking in the Jämtland fells here , here and here
-i live 15 min from the beach and somehow only went there ONCE.
-had lots of archaeology excursions by myself (see the archaeology archives).
-i took lots of diana photos of Moonia.
-i ate sushi. every week. which was crazy and not like me at all.



in the fall & winter....

-i turned 26.
-i decided to only shoot black and white film rolls in the fall.
-i was edina for halloween. stina was patsy. no one else figured it out. fail.
-went hiking around the city a few times.
-started my final master's year.
-i went with my sister to london to see 3 very talented hanson brothers. it was like an early christmas gift.

i saw both hanson and 69 eyes this year..!
now where is that HIM band..

here is last years review

julblot and julpynt

happy eve!

december blot.. with snow!

{A}ll of november has been warm.. meaning it's been raining(!), and i've been really sick with flu half of december, so my jul spirit only kicked in this weekend. jul without snow, is simply not jul, but snow is slowly coming. even the horses are upset.

i made gingerbreads this past weekend and i've started early on the beverages, elf porridge and exotic spices. usually there is blot all of december, it's a little stressful to only have this one last week to do everything. when december is over, the blot ends!

Darkest day of the year is on thursday(!). I have so many candles lit. its just very depressing(for a little while) to go to sleep in the dark and wake up in the dark. luckily its only for a few weeks. but where there is darkness there is also light, and it's coming back now! happy winter solstice!

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.