Life in a Cold Climate

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Moods

Sitting Pretty

Pretty is generally not my thing. I’ll go for dramatic, try elegant or professional, attempt fashion or even sexy, occasionally, but not pretty. I tend to find pretty a bit boring, to be honest, and it doesn’t suit neither my personality (I’m too intense for..

Inspirations

The Garden of the King

I am not a gardener. Possibly because I spent my childhood summers in my grandmother’s garden, weeding and watering, and didn’t want to see a growing thing in close-up for decades after that. It’s more likely, though, that I simply lack the inclination and p..

Obsessions

Cloudberry Jam

It is fair to say that Estonia is not internationally known for its cuisine. When other nations have tagine and sushi and creme caramel, we have potatoes, blood sausage and some more potatoes. There is a bit of a local food revival going on in Estonia at the..

Lists

4 Interesting American Skincare Brands

I’ve been analyzing my beauty arsenal (I analyze everything, I cannot help it) and realized that my make-up is mostly by boring brands: lots of YSL and Chanel, with only a few less mainstream items. Skincare, however, looks more promising.* I’ve done some ex..

Solutions

Casual Green Tea

I am slightly suspicious of people who don’t drink tea. Seriously, why? I do it on most days (coffee in the first half of the day, tea in the second) and I agree with the Brits – it has a civilizing influence. What I cannot quite manage, though, is to drink ..

Lists

Scents of the Day: Part 2

Last year, I did a project called Scent of the Day. For a month, every day, I talked about a scent on Facebook. I have been asked by friends to make these musings available on the blog, as it’s impossible to find anything on Facebook. So I’ll copy my mini-re..

Moods

Thinking of Summer

I’ve been sitting on these pictures for almost a month now, because I promised myself that my blog will not do that stupid thing where you talk about summer clothes three months before summer actually arrives. But the thing is that as this post actually invo..

Inspirations

I Have Nothing to Cook

When people say they have nothing to wear, it usually doesn’t mean they have nothing to wear. It means they have nothing to wear that they feel like wearing at that moment. I have a similar thing with cooking. When I stare at the produce in the market and ca..

Etudes

The Art of the Understatement

Remember how I praised the virtues of a dark, statement lip? Or how I said that wearing pink in spring is, frankly, unimaginative? I hope you don’t, because what have I actually bought this spring? Two understated pinky nudes. To make things worse, these are..