KEinfluence

Oversized knit, wool and leather, sporty and comfortable wearing - layer it and zip it up, could it be any better? Everything I love, and by adding a brocade bomber jacket (which I have big plans to do get a hold of) I will be the queen of the street. I will find inspiration from the designers as shown below when I dress myself this autumn - where will you find your inspiration? 

Yesterday, as I told you, was the Norwegian national day - a day that most Norwegians love and worships. It was my first time abroad on May 17th, and I must say that it is a lot more fun to be in Norway at this special day. Camilla, Ole and I went to the Punch & Judy bar in Covent Garden, a bar where many Norwegian meets up to celebrate - if you went by the Covent Garden area yesterday evening wondering about where all the noice came from, I can tell you that it  came from many drunk Norwegian mouths that celebrated and sang the national anthem - we are loud when we get drunk.  

It was a fun evening with a lot of white wine, which now have left me with a hangover. "I've got a hangover ooooaaaooo..", and I have to pretend that I don't so that I can get through this evening - you see I'm leaving London tonight. Hello Oslo, I'll see you soon! 

AND I was thinking that it would be nice to blog about some London stuff when I'm in Norway, therfore I'll just give you a taste of yesterday's evening. Later I'll blog about my last day walking around in London, show you some of the places I like to shop in, and the rest of the pictures from yesterday.

MANY GRATULATIONS TO NORWAY AND MY FELLOW NORWEGIANS, it is NORGE DAY! 

"Jaaa, vi elsker dette landet... " and I got dressed for the occasion - the same outfit as yesterday, only I changed the dress from COS with a white dress from ZARA, because you have to look nice on Norge day! Of course I also changed my underwear, not that is important but by saying I ondly changed the dress would be a lie. 

Oh, I also added a Norge badge that Silje gave me. Don't I look nice? 

On my last day in London (not for forever, but for a really long time) I went some of the places that I love the most in London, and I realized that I'm gonna miss this city and the people in it so much! I cannot believe that's I'm done with year one at uni, and in September I'm coming with back to start year two, WITH MIRAIM. CAN'T WAIT!

I wore a dress from COS, coat from WEEKDAY, bag from ZARA shoes are CONVERSE and the sunnies are from CHANEL.  

Decided to do something really funny and make my life into a cartoon. 

... your life flashing in front of your eyes or, as in my case right now, being played on the screen? The fact that the on playing movie "Confessions of a shopaholic" reminds me too much of my own life is both hysterically funny and unbelievably sad. I must say that I do find many similarities in the life of Rebecca Bloomwood´s and mine. The differences are that my depht and need for shopping (at least for items with that big of an amount on the pricetag) are not as severe as Rebecca Bloomwoods. I'm not struggeling to get a job at a fashion magazine (yet), my hair is blond and not red, my parents does not (nor do they want to) own a mobile home, I don't have best friends like Suze (who are really good at "not-shopping") and at least, I have never MET anyone named Luke (in stead of that I do have some similarities with Derek Smeath, but we don't really need to go further into that).

Something something from my movie-like life. 

Silje was having fun Saturday night doing a tribal makeup on me, taking some pictures and editing them - pretty cool? I think so! 

Haha, that was a deep one! 

The Sun Visor

The sun visor is HOT this summer, GET ONE! I got mine from H&M, and I'm really happy I bought it even though Mari tried to convince me otherwise. 

Tried out Sidcup parklife today. It was nice and very zen, until we saw some rats... When we got over that it was very zen again.

We're doing parkday tomorrow as well, come join us and bring beer! 

I do think they call it SUN and Silje and I are going to spend the day in the park.

I'm sitting here this lovely Saturday morning with my coffe reading Grazia magazine, I very rarely read gossip magazine - not just because I don't care that much for gossip about celebrities, but also because I tend to get seriously jealous. 

In this issue there is one article about Rihanna's 'Happy Body' - apparently she has proudly been showing off her bikini snaps all over Twitter and Facebook, pictures that's not been edited. That shouldn't be a problem when you look LIKE THAT!!! However, this article gave me alot of inspiration! No, no, no do not worry, I am absolutely NOT uploading unedited bikini snaps of myself, or any bikini snaps what so ever. What I will do is upload what I really look like when I take outfit pictures, you see I only upload the ones I really like. 

Am I always wearing these ACNE boots? Yes, almost every day. Because they are COOL, and comfy! 

Dress from ZARA, sweater and from H&M. The rest I HOPE you've all seen before? 

With my last 200 kroner ( £20) on my bank account I bought this beauty, which is going to give me flowerpower, at H&M for  £14. Yesss.. I hope my mother doesn't read this. Or maybe I do. Maybe there will be money on my account tonight? Maybe my God, a beautiful, blond and skinny person, will be so kind and save me - you know to get food you need money, and to live you need food. Or maybe I don't need food, as I just had to cut the armes of one of my dresses because my arms are too fat. Hehe. 

I got a lot of weird looks from people passing me on the street today, probably from other people as well, but who knows... I hope that it was because they thought the outfit was as cool as I did, but something tells me that wasn't the case. Or maybe it was because they found it too cold to wear a skirt, but HELO I'm Norwegian. I'm used to it being cold. 

Usually I don't care about people looking at me, but today I actually changed tube because when one nasty man joined the other two sitting around me it just became too awkward. So I left. Do you know what happened when I was about to leave the tube? As I stood up from my seat I had totally forgotten that my phone was still laying on my lap, so it fell on the floor and went from one to three pieces. One of the nasty men turned out to bee a gentleman, as he caught it for me while I was busy starring at the phone. 

ANYWAY, the shirt is from LEVI'S, skirt from ZARA, scarf from GINA TRICOT, sunnies from Ray Ban and shoes from ACNE.

Helo all you beautiful people who read my blog! I love you, and I love my life... 

I got up at half six this morning because I couldn't sleep anymore, what's wrong with me? Sadly neither my parents nor the doctor could ever figure that out.. And two hours later I was off to uni (which now takes about one and a half hour to get to) to hand in my two last projects. OH MY GOD! My first year in London is over and I'm going home in one week... And this will be my first May 17th abroad (May 17th is the Norwegian national day, which we celebreate BIG TIME). 

Right now (yes, RIGHT NOW (love it when resturants have wireless internet) I'm having lunch with Camilla at Le Pain Quotiden, Great Marlborough Street. We're sitting here being really curious about what's inside the building right across the street, 41 Great Marlborough Street. There is alot of really stylish people walking in and out of that door...

 And yes, I have already managed to break one wine glass... 

Have you ever seen Breakfast at Tiffany's? If you haven't than shame on you! I love that movie, I love movies like Breakfast at Tiffany's and I don't mean that everyone should like it, it is just my opinion that everyone should see it. I made Silje watch it last night, she did not like it.

Do you know how it feels to be lost, and don't know who you really are or what you want to do with your life? Many of us do. 

"He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's."
Holly Golightly. 

A "morning walk" to the store to get some MORE food. It's bank holiday here, I can't say that I really know what bank holiday is so I may just figure out that right now so that you too can learn what that is. 

Wikipedia about the bank holiday:
"A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom or a colloquialism for public holiday in Ireland. There is no automatic right to time off on these days, although the majority of the population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days, depending on their contract.^[1] The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially (albeit incorrectly) used for public holidays which are not officially bank holidays, for example Good Friday andChristmas Day." 

And the outfit of course is today trousers and top from H&M, coat from WEEKDAY and converse on the feet. Probably should have wore some concealer, but helo I DO NOT put on makeup to go to buy food. Actually I very rarely wear makeup, you could say that makeup isn't my strongest side of expertice. 

I love heels, it looks really good - if you can walk in them! I am quite good, or I do tend to wear heels from time to time - but omg it is like  a total workout wandering around in heels. You get warm and sweat, and that is two things that I am not too found about. They keep saying that you need to practice wearing heels, and I understand that, but everytime I decide on wearing heels I always regret that I did. And that I think is because that is what I have to consentrate on then, and nothing else. DO NOT FALL OVER, DO NOT FALL OVER... So annoying. But well, yesterday I made an effort and search for "how to walk in high heels" on youtube. Did you know that there are plenty of videos about that? Youtube is so helpful, and I actually learned a thing or two. 

If you hold in your lower abdominal muscles, the same thing you do when doing pilates, your body will stretch and you will walk much better in heels. LOVED THAT! So I tried it out while going to get the pizza we ordered form across the street. I wore my favorite black suede pumps (where the leather sadly has expanded and so the shoes now have gotten too big) and it all went so well. Except from the part where one car stopped so that Silje and I could cross the street and my too big favorite pumps decided to not work with me - which made me fall over. At least I fell when I was about to go on the sidewalk, it would have been unbelievably sad if the car hadn't stopped and if I had fell in the middle of the street and ended up in a hospital. Always look at the bright side of life.

BALENCIAGA - Harper's Bazaar May 2012

I have no words - this is just unbelievably cool! 

Both Mari and I are very found of taxi services and trying out new places to dine. And drink. And dine. And drink. And drink. Not too found of birds in general though, they seem to want to attack you everywhere you go. Last summer a bird got into my house two days in a row, and let's just keep that story short by just telling you that there were tears in the picture (my parents were on holiday at the time). Yesterday I tried to be nice to them and say "Hi!" everytime I passed them, so that they might would act the same way (you know you're supposed to treat others the same way you want to be treated), and I actually think it worked... 

LA CERVESA MAS FINA - I'm sitting here with Silje drinking beer while she is crocheting with Eiffel 64's "I'm blue" blasting from the radio . Ehm yes, we went to see the Marvel's Avengers today, it was a very good film for those who are into superheros, hot men and that sort of stuff. I know exactly what kind of superpower I would want to have, Silje does too, but do you? It has something to do with my eyes and Silje feeling blue (dabadi-dabada).

Wearing a sweater from ZARA, skirt from ACNE, jacket from Marni for H&M, bag from ZARA and shoes from... ACNE. 

Look into my eyes - see my superpower and... 

... you will end up looking like this! Oooooo

I'm sorry to ALL you english readers, but this entry will be in norwegian! 

Okei så nå driver jeg å tar i et tak her og gir dere et fornuftig innlegg, eller jeg skal i alle fall prøve på det ettersom jeg har fått forespørsel om å lage et innlegg som handler om hvordan det var å flytte til London, hvilke utgifter som lå i vente (de jeg visste om, og de som kom litt som et slag i tryne) og generelt hvordan hele opplevelsen har vært. Og egentlig er det litt humoristisk at jeg skal fortelle om dette, både på grunn av at jeg er veldig dårlig til å fortelle/forklare og andre grunner som vi kommer tilbake til. I alle fall så har jeg tenkt til å skrive et lite fortelling om "livet mitt før jul". Haha. 

Det var en gang en ung jente som på sin attende årsdag endelig fikk en tur til London av sin høyt elskede familie. Smilet hennes gikk fra øre til øre, noe du helt sikker kunne se bak fra (hennes bestefar tidligere har fastslått at det kan man), da denne unge jenten endelig fikk med seg sin mor til en storby som hun selv mente var en terrorfare. Da jenten, som forresten heter Katrine, og hennes terror-redde mor var i London satt Katrine med åpen munn omtrent hele tiden. De som kjenner Katrine vil nå med en gang tenke "ahaa, hun spiste", men nei. Katrine satt å beundret usikten. Fine bygninger med fine butikker, hun hadde aldri sett noe lignende. Selv om hun hadde vært i aldri så mange land fra før av så var det et eller annet med denne byen som gjode at hennes hjerte oppførte seg som LMFAO. Katrine sa til sin mor "Mamma, her SKAL jeg bo!". Og det var akkurat det som skjedde. 

Hva som skjedde de to årene mellom Katrines attende og tyvende årsdag har lite med denne fortellingen å gjøre, derfor hopper vi frem til 27.09.2011. Det var avreise dag i Skartlien Bergh residence, Katrine var på flyttefot etter å ha kommet inn på Fashion Design, Styling and Promotion på Middlesex university i L O N D O N. Denne dagen satt Katrine også med åpen munn, men det var ikke fordi hun var begeistret over utsikten. Følelsen inne i magen var smertefull og JÆVLIG. Dere må forstå at for en jente som er så knyttet til familien sin som det Katrine er, var det å flytte en smertefull opplevelse. For mange av dere vil det å lese dette gjøre at dere fnyser litt og tenker "herregud, hun skulle jo flytte til LONDON". Uansett hvor mye Katrine elsket London var det å flytte fra familien grusomt. Ja, rett og slett grusomt var det. Foreldrene hennes skulle være med nedover til London, noe hun var og fortsatt er utrolig takknemmelig for, ettersom at hendelsen bare skulle forverre seg. Da Katrine skulle si hade til sin elskede Attila, en Irsk Setter på syv år, brast hjertet hennes i tusen biter, og da hun måtte gi hadekos til sin 14 år gamle lillebror som hun elsker mer enn noen ord kan forklare... Ja, det gikk rett og slett ikke, hun måtte bare gi en klem og gå sin vei. 

De neste dagene i Katrines liv var... vel, jeg vil ikke skremme dere ved å fortelle for mye av denne historien, men det var mye oppkast, lite søvn og lite mat med i bildet. Katrine hadde gått inn i et panikkanfall - og jeg kan love dere at det var alt annet enn kult. 

Under disse brillene befinner det seg tårer

Katrine flyttet inn i en leilighet til 10.000 norske kroner i måneden nord i London, nærmere sagt Colindale. Leiligheten var utrolig fin, og det ble Katrines tilflugtsted når hun trengte å være alene. Selvfølgelig var Katrine klar over at som student skal man egentlig ikke leie noen leilighet til 10.000 i måneden, men dere har var også forstått at Katrine ikke er helt 100% normal? Nei dere forstår at Katrine desverre sliter litt med deprisjoner, og av den grunn ønsket hun seg noe du godt kan kalle et "tilflugtsted".

Vel, det var en liten fortelling om hvordan forventningene og flytteprosessen var. Mye penger på leie ble det jo selvfølgelig, og hadde jeg ikke spart opp nok penger gjennom sommeren ville jeg ikke klart meg. Lånekassen er også til stor hjelp, og om man bor i halls skal man absolutt klare seg på det man får/låner av dem. Har du derimot lyst til å gjøre noe annet enn å sitte å glo i veggen kan det være lurt å spare opp litt penger i sommerferien slik at du kan nyte London-life, da blir livet kul skal jeg love dere! Noen punkter dere som flytter rett fra mors-rede må tenke på er:

. Man må bruke sine egne penger på mat
. Jeg vet bare hvordan det er med kunst fag, og det blir en del penger på skolesaker!
. Hvis du ikke bor i halls kommer tv, internett, strøm, vann, og sånne nødvendige ting med i tillegg (hvis du trenger slike ting).
. Kollektivtrafikken, det koster penger. Nå bodde jeg i sone 4, som var 30 min med tuben fra sentrum. Det lønner seg og kjøpe månedskort om man ofte er i sentrum, det koster 1000 kroner i mnd. Du kan også kjøre buss i stedet for tube selvfølgelig, det er mye billigere med tar helvettes lang tid. 

Jeg vil gjerne avslutte dette innlegget med å si at selv om det var aldri så fælt i begynnelsen så angrer jeg ikke et sekund på at jeg flyttet til London. Jeg har snakket med noen norske venninner jeg har her nede, og vi har kommet frem til at de første ukene vil alltid være vanskelige. Du flytter til et annet land, og selv om du kjenner til språket fra før er det fortsatt hardt å sette seg inn i når klassekameratene dine har det som sitt morsmål. Når noen snakker til deg tenker du først over hva du skal svare, deretter oversetter til engelsk og så snakker. Du blir litt sliten etter hvert! Etter noen uker får hjernen din en liten bryter som du kan klikke på, og dermed er du engelsk. 

Mitt tilfelle var et ekstremtilfelle, men jeg kom meg gjennom det, og nå ELSKER jeg det. Virkelig ELSKER det. Så hvis du har lyst til å studere i utlandet så GJØR DET! Nordmenn er veldig heldige som har den muligheten vi har når det kommer til studier i utlandet, og den burde utnyttes! 

While you are sitting here reading this I'll go and see American Pie the Reunion, again. It's really funny and I think you should go and see it too if you haven't already, after you've read my blog of course! 

I love that I got this raincoat from H&M, I'm going to take some more close-ups of it at another time so that you can see why I love it so much. A raincoat is necessary for me as I HATE umbrellas, especially in London where the wind is so strong that you're not using the umbrella, you're fighting with it! 

Top and raincoat from H&M, trousers from ZARA, bag from Alexander Wang and shoes from ACNE - very simple, very ME.

I am sitting here trying to remember what the hell happened this weekend - gold fish memory.

Right, Mari arrived Thursday night, we got some sushi and went home to eat and sleep. Friday we went out sightseeing, again, not shopping. Or maybe we did do some shopping, but I'll guess you'll never know... The reason for me writing like this is because everytime I ask my mother for some extra money she keeps telling me not to buy designer bags and clothing, because then there would be some money left. I think it is just hilarious since I only have ONE DESIGNER BAG MOM!!! Ok so now that I've got that out of my way I can continue telling you about my weekend... with pictures. 

Ups.

Don't know you noticed, but changes have been done! 

It was so much fun spending the weekend with Mari. She is one of my very best friends and I love her so much!

She and I are so alike and we have so much fun whenever we are together. It's almost like we are the same person. Like she is my sun. It's like whenever I look into her eyes nothing else matters. I think I finally imprinted... Just kidding, about everything but having FUN all the time. I'm never bored when I'm with you hun!

NEVER have I laughed so much as I did last Saturday. It was raining, raining and raining and we both looked like two wet dogs. Telling you all about every thing that went wrong that day, like when I was staring at the most beautiful man I have ever seen behind the bar at Browns then to get asked for my id when buying a mojito, is not important. However, the way the day ended is most hilarious. As we were walking from the tube back to my flat Mari said "Why can't anything good happen in my life soon?" two seconds later there was two very loud screams. A car driving through a pond leaving Mari soaking wet. Poor Mari didn't know if she were to cry or laugh, while me on the other hand was laughing so hard I had to sit down not to pee my in my trousers. 

SERIOUSLY ANNOYING when blogg.no stop working for a week!!! Found out it was because they have been hacked, and therefore they closed all blogsoft access from abroad. 

Below you can see pictures of me in a different scenery - still in London, but WITHOUT shoppingbags! Wearing shirt, jeans and coat from ZARA, necklace and shoes from H&M.

Hei på dere! 

Today Mari and I just went out not shopping. And I was wearing a top from H&M, skirt from Alexander Wang, jacket from Marni fro H&M, bag from ZARA, shoes from (trommevirveeeel) ACNE, the sunnies are always with me you know and they are Ray Ban Wayfarers, all this when I was out and, as I said, not shopping.

Am I not one of the luckiest girls in the world? LOVE GETTING VISITORS, and right now my dearest and sweetest Mari is here to spend the weekend with me. One of the first things I did when we arrived at my apartment yesterday was to raid her suitcase, you see she has A LOT of really nice clothing. Today I'm all Mari - which means I'm wearing her clothing, except from the undergarments.

Love to steal her clothes, I also tend to try stealing her shoes, but unfortunatly her feet is one or two sizes bigger then mine, so it looks more like when I was a little girl trying on my mother's shoes. You know how it was, or maybe you don't therefore I posted a picture of it. 

instagram. haha. 

Well, so a few of my friends have now complained about my blog beeing too impersonal so we'll have to do something about that! From now on you will be seeing more of me, don't worry I'm not going to post any super bold pictures of me or anything, but there will be more of my personality reflected through the blog from now on. I do hope that you will continue reading this blog, even though some of you might find me repulsive . Or something. Well enjoy! 

As Timbuktu says, HEJ HEJ HALLÅ! 

There has been some really busy days for me trying to finish all my uni work. We had our last hand in on Wednesday and all I can say about that is I'm glad we didn't fail! Oh well, next week we have our portfolio hand in, and I am supposed to be finished with two other projects by that time. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this course and I do believe it is the right one for me, but it is also a hell of a lot work!!!

AND to get to the point of this entry, when you have a lot of work to do you tend to get a fucked up sleeping pattern. Your skin does not like that, or at least mine don't! I also have exem, and therefore I've had problems finding the right skincare for me, but now I actually think I've found the right one. If you have exem it is so important not to use skincare with alcohol and perfume, and after I started using ACO skincare my skin became almost perfect, believe it or not. I love it and I think you should try it too! If anyone know of any better products than this please do let me know, but it's going to take a lot of persuasion to make me feel otherwise about these two products from ACO. 

Something I'm working on today, trying to finish some of my studiowork, finally! I'm so far behind it makes me sick. For some reason everytime I try to start doing some work I just end up staring at the screen, the ceiling or the wall. Productivity, ha? 

The weather isn't as warm as I wish it would be (a lot of weather-talk these days), but today when the sun was shining I just had to try wearing my new ACNE sandals. I combined it with my new jeans from ZARA, a nice and warm ACNE sweater and a coat from WEEKDAY. 

Yesterday Silje and I went to have breakfast, well it was probably more lunch, at La Gelatiera located in Covent Garden at New Row. The breakfast contained of three scoops of London's finest artesian gelato, which means ice cream in italian, and a cup of coffe (the best coffe I've had in London so far). Yum yum yum! If you feel like you deserve a treat, GO HERE. I promise you that if you like ice cream, you will not be dissapointed.

By the way, the Ice cream, which they make fresh in the shop (!!!), is all made of 100% natural ingredients. You can also actually see the gelato beeing made through a part of the floor, where the wooden floor is replaced with glass.  

I decided that it was time for a new pair of jeans to enter the family since my favorite pair of jeans, the black Levi's jeans, is worn out. Literally you can soon see my holy parts when I wear those jeans, so this time I actually bought something I really needed to have. Or at least something I needed more then many other items that I purchase. I'm so glad I found these jeans from Zara. I love them. 

Oh well, I did say/promise my dear friend Silje that I wasn't going to shop for a while so that I, as a student, can save some money. The only thing is that the term 'save money' doesn't reeeally fit into my lifestyle. So, on the first day back in London Camilla and I went out shopping. I was wearing a tee from H&M, jeans from Diesel, blazer from H&M, hat from H&M, shoes from ACNE and bag from Alexander Wang. 

And we are back on track! This has been ONE lazy vacation - okey, so I have been working on some projects. But there was also alot of relaxing, good food (made by my parents, so thank you for that!) and candy, you see in Norway that is a big part of the easter holiday - easter egg's filled with candy, a lot of candy. I was wondering why my jeans felt so tight - haha, no I was not! 

Well, is this the time were I apologize for being a bad blogger, again, or just ignore the fact and, once again, say that from now I will be much much better at it? 

Lovely Kjersti Pleym singing Little Lion Man. I can't believe that I didn't know you were this great Kjersti! 

The Boyfriend Look
Sweater from Massimo Dutti, Vintage Levi's jeans, Coat from French Connection, Sunnies from Chanel and shoes from ACNE 

On Saturday I celebrated my 21'st with my family - there was cake and presents for me! Yey! 

Wearing a t-shirt from H&M/ trousers from VERO MODA/ Blazer from H&M/ Jacket from MARNI AT H&M/ Sunnies from RAY BAN

I made sure that I shaved my legs yesterday, because the weather in London has been G R E A T this week since I wouldn't be able to wear a dress for at least two weeks. The reason for that is because I'm now in Norway on easter break. Yey! So good to see my lovely family again, and I've missed you Norway. 

Wearing a dress from COS/ belt from H&M/ sunnies from CHANEL/ bag from ALEXANDER WANG/ shoes from ACNE

Okei, I am very happy to announce that I will most probably have a life this weekend! My project is handed in, and actually quite ready for you to see.. 

How pleased I am with it? Well, it can be discussed.  

Photography by LAURA BISSETT
Styling and editorial editing by KATRINE ASCIC 

What I long for right now is for it to be Friday, when my life will be separated from photoshop for a while and I am on my way H O M E. I cannot wait to spend time with my family, oh how much I miss my lovely Attila. Thursday is hand in-day for Fashion As a Narrative (we are making a fashion editorial), please let it be over with allready so I can post the pictures as evidence of why I've been so distante from the blog.. 

The simplicity
Top from COS, Trousers from H&M, Clutch from MONKI, Shoes from ACNE, Sunnies from CHANEL 

Usaully I don't have a favorite color besides black (do not try to tell me black is not a color, thank you!), but this view have lately changed for me. I dare say that green is now, my favorite color. 

The Clutch Bag
Green clutch from Monki 

Tonight I'm going to a flatparty, I think. 

You see, I have something to confess. I'm not particulary fond of massive parties, at least not the ones I have to dress up for. I hate dressing up, I mean, to parties and things like that. Yes, I study fashion and I don't like to dress up.. I just don't feel like myself when I do, and I like to know where I have myself. I guess that you will always find strange things with weird human beings. 

Right now I'm preparing myself with a glass of chardonnay, or several, with Nina Kinert. You should try it!  

Wearing Zara trousers, Bikinitop from ACNE, H&M tee and blazer, black leather bag with silver details from Zara and sunnies from Chanel.  

Well, so I am here, yet again, apalogizing from being a bad blogger. So much has been happening the last couple of days that there just hasn't been enough time for me to do blog. Hope that people still are reading and enjoying my posts, and please do leave a comment if you wishto. It will be very much appreciated!

xx Katrine

The reason why I've been bad at blogging on my personal blog these days, is because I have been blogging on WWW.LIGHTSIPDROP.WORDPRESS.COM. 

The blog was made for the fashion show we did today - please go on to the blog and look through our work!
This day have been really exciting, and I am so happy to have done the blogging. It's always extra fun when you can work with something you love as much as I do with blogging! Dear readers, I love you.
 

Jeg må bruke anledningen til å takke så mye for hyggelige mailer jeg har fått fra nye lesere som er interesserte i studier i London. Tilbakemelding fra dere betyr mye for meg, og jeg gjør mitt aller beste på å svare disse mailene så fort som mulig og beklager veldig om det noen ganger kan ta litt tid! I tider hvor jeg har ekstra mye å gjøre må bloggen settes til side for annet arbeid, uansett hvor høyt jeg setter bloggingen. Vi har deadlines vi må holde! Alikevel føler jeg i skrivende stund at dette er en svært dårlig unnskyldning, vi får se om det ikke kan bli litt natt-blogging fremover. 

Hold ut med meg videre! xxx

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS/

I want to say thank you to all of those who read my blog, and to all of those who send me such nice emails saying how much you like the blog and asking questions about studying in London. It means the world to me knowing that I have someone on the other side that like the work I put into this blog, and I want you to know that I do my very best to reply to these emails even though it sometimes takes a while! You know, we have deadlines to keep and sometimes the blog have to be put aside for other work to be done..

Stay tuned lovely readers! xxx

And yes, I'm not going to lie to you - this is what I look like most of the time, and there is a reason for why I'm not looking into the camera.

They brought me Caffe Mocca,  they made me breakfast and gave me roses - on Thursdag March 15th I celebrated my 21st birthday with the best view over London that you can get, and a lovely Chinese dinner (and drinks!!!) at Seventeen (Notting Hill Gate - unfortunatly I managed to forget my camera for the last part), with two of the best people in the world!

Thank you for making my day special, I love you.

DRESS/ COS    COAT/ WEEKDAY    SUNNIES/ CHANEL    SHOES/ ACNE

Sorry about the amount of blogging I've done for the last couple of days, I promised that I would be better at blogging, and I will try to keep my promise. Even though so many beautiful people take all the time I've got - which I am very happy about, couse I've had the most amazing couple of weeks. Love London life! And guess what, Miriam have decided on moving to London - and that makes me SO happy! 

The news about Miriam moving to London is not why I wore my new light purple dress from COS though, you see, on Thursday I celebreated my 21st´. 

SHIRT/ ZARA    TOP/ ACNE    TROUSERS/ MANGO   JACKET/ ZARA    SUNNIES/ RAY BAN    SHOES/ H&M

I'm so happy these days, cause I have my two bestest friends staying with me! Two of the people I love the most, Mathilde og Marianne <3 I love you. 

SHIRT/ H&M    TROUSERS/ZARA    PATENT JACKET/ MARNI AT H&M    SUNNIES/ CHANEL    SHOES/ ALDO

Rright now Silje is at my place doing the last bit of her costume design work from her last show - as I told you I went to see that show on Monday. I am so proud of you Silje! Your coat was amazing. So beautiful! 

Omg, the queue outside H&M in Oxford Street (one of them!!) was massiv on Thursday, but I managed to get in and  got myself one lovely piece from the collection. I don't think it will too hard to guess what it was, a little hint would be that it is a piece of clothing I just can't have enough of! 

Oh I really did have such a lovely time with Miriam staying with me. On Sunday we went out to have dinner and drinks (or actually it was the other way around) with another loverly friend, Silje. She is studying costume design at Rose Bruford College and personally I think she has such a great talent! Miriam and I went to a play her college did at the Unicorn Theathre, we just had to see the orange coat she had made for the play, and something else... 

I took the girls to dinner at Assagetti, one of my favorite resturants in London. Miriam had such a good time spending time with us that she is seriously thinking about moving here, what will make me more happy than that? 

TOP/ H&M  BIKINITOP/ ACNE  JEANS/ VINTAGE LEVI'S  COAT/ WEEKDAY  SUNNIES/ CHANEL  BAG/ ALEXANDER WANG  SHOES/ ACNE

I'm just shocked everytime I make a new post with the date as the headline - can the time possibly go by as quikly as it does? I shipped of Miriam to the airport 6 am this morning, which led to me not beeing able to get up when I was supposed to. 

I had the most lovely weekend, and I hope you did too?!. I just love having Miriam around, and now I'm living in hope that she will decide on moving here. Pretty please! 

After spending over six hours out in a not so warm weather we felt like going out and celebreate that the shoot went as well as it did! Don't even remember were we went after we ate dinner at Friday's, only that it was a lot of walking! I had a good time though, so glad Miriam is here! Cross my fingers that she will decide on moving to London. Will you cross your fingers with me? 

xx

SHIRT/ ZARA TOP/ ACNE TROUSERS/ MANGO COAT/ WEEKDAY SHOES/ ZARA

T-SHIRT/ ZARA TROUSERS/ ZARA BLAZER/ ELIN KLING FOR H&M BAG/ ALEXANDER WANG SHOES/ ACNE

OMG. Friday was so freezing here in London, and we wore too little clothing out in Camden where we were looking for items for Saturays shoot. We survived, and the shoot is now done and over with - I will tell you more about this and post pictures after the hand in. 

Look what I found on Thursday - aww so lovely to see you honey! Having the best time with this beauty! :) 

... to have Mari visiting me this weekend. We did a lot of fun stuff - by fun stuff I mean shopping and eating at excitng places like the Japanese restaurant Roka. Worth trying that place out, so cool and such good food!!! And I know have a costumers card at Libertys - I know I shouldn't but I just had to. 

TOP/ COS JEANS/ LEVI'S JACKET/ TIGER OF SWEDEN SUNNIES/ CHANEL BAG/ ALEXANDER WANG SHOES/ ACNE

Walking around in the streets of London yesterday with Mari on her last day here. Was so nice to have her over, and want her back several times! Had such a lovely time, and hopefully it might be a trip for us to New York this summer? 

I'll be 21 in a couple of weeks - I thank my self and Alexander Wang for this beauty! 

T-SHIRT/ H&M JEANS/ VINTAGE LEVI'S JACKET/ H&M BAG/ MARC BY MARC JACOBS SHOES/ ACNE

We have had a lovely day in London and now we have to run off to our dinner reservation at Roka! I post pictures and tell you all later, I also have some more pics from Fashion Week - so stay tuned guys! 

xx

A new day has come and Mari and I have just had a lovely breakfast that we actually made ourself - no restaurant for breakfast! It's so nice to have Mari here, we're having such a good time! Today we'll head down to Camden to look at some vintage shops, then to the central for some major shopping. Acne. Marc Jacobs. Everything. And I will be documenting it all with my camera so I can show you all later!

xx

Have you seen the pieces from the collection that Marni has made for H&M? If you haven't, then you should, and if you have, what did you think? 

Personally I loved it! I was looking through it going "I want that, and that, and that, and that..." and so on! And then there was this bag. This very beautiful bag. I NEED THAT BAG. Thank you and goodbye, now I have to plan how to get to the central of London when the stores open 8th March - can be a problem since I have to go into uni in the morning. But that is really just the wrong attitude when something this beautiful can be yours... 

Another week has already passed by! Can't remember when the time started to pass by so quickly. What I do remember is that as a child I thought that time passed by so slowly, and all I wanted to do was to grow up and be a lawyer. That didn't happen - that I studied law that is. Is life getting "shorter" when we grow older? Then I will try to enjoy every moment of it - like today! 

After the lecture in History of Art and Design I went to visit the Wallace house and saw the Wallace Collection (I will tell you more about this and upload pictures later), looked through some shops and had lunch with Ebony. I also ate some yoghurt from Topshop - and the reason why I tell you that is because it was so pretty! (Look at the last picture)

xx 

Det er så deilig at våren kommer tildligere her i London! Med 15+ og sola skinnende på himmelen blir jo livet mye lysere, på alle måter. Ha en fin kveld alle sammen, jeg har mye arbeid som ligger foran meg - får nemlig besøk på lørdag! 

It's not too bad to have a earlier spring than your used to! 15+ and a bright shiny sun on the sky, feeling fresh! 

SHIRT/ ZARA TROUSERS/ CHEAP MONDAY JACKET/ H&M SUNNIES/ RAY BAN SHOES/ ALDO

I didn't even know a person could be this satisfied. This weekend my lovely friend Mari is coming for a visit of four days, next weekend beautiful Miriam is coming to stay for six days (she is going to check out the university I'm studying at) and the weekend after that my crazy, stupid and lovely best friends, Marianne and Mathilde, is coming to stay for a week! It's also my birthday that week. I can not waiiit for all of this to happen! 

Can't believe that I'm actually living in this crazy beautiful apartment in LONDON studying something I love so much - Fashion! 

T-SHIRT/ H&M TROUSERS/ ZARA BLAZER/ H&M SUNNIES/ RAY BAN SHOES/ ALDO BAG/ ZARA COVER FOR MY MAC/ P.A.P

The weather is still quite nice here in London - Love that I can wear just a t-shirt, a blazer and loafers already! 

Today I met up with my team for a styling task we have been given at uni. Laura, Naomi and I got a lot figured out today, and I'm so looking forward to this shoot. Hopefully it will turn out to be amazing - keeping my fingers crossed, but I know that it's all coming down to how well we do out work. Therefore, we have to work our asses off!

Det er ikke mye som kan overgå Acne's visning, men after partyet var heller ikke så ille! Mange inspirerende mennesker til stedet, og jeg var så heldig og møtte på Columbine Smille - mitt stil ikon! Jeg var ganske fornøyd da jeg gikk til sengs den dagen!

There's not much that can beat the ACNE show, but I have to say that the after party wasn't that bad either. So many inspiring people, and I got to meet my style icon, Columbine Smille. It was a really happy girl going to bed that night! 

Have no words - the ACNE show and after party last night was AMAZING!

Ut av utrolig mye kunstnerisk og fint falt jeg pladask for dette skjørtet. VIL HA!

WANT THAT SKIRT. NOW!

Hvilken inspirasjon Louise Gray ga oss i går kveld - helt fantastisk! 

What an amazing show Louise Gray gave us last night - incredible! Such a huge inspiration! 

SWEATER/ COS TROUSERS/ ZARA BLAZER/ H&M SCARF/ GINA TRICOT SHOES/ ACNE BAG/ ZARA

Jeg tilbragte dagen med Dan i dag - vi dro for å få med oss noen visninger på London Fashion Week, og det vi fikk var mer enn bra nok. Louise Gray og ACNE sørget for at dette kommer til å bli en dag jeg ikke glemmer på lenge! Gode sitteplasser på et fantastisk Louise Gray show, og et herlig after party etter ACNES fantastiske visning - jeg har ikke ord!

Noe av det beste med hele dagen var mitt møte med mitt stil ikon, Columbine Smille - jeg husker nesten ikke hva jeg sa, og bena mine skalv... Ja, såpass godt liker jeg Columbine Smille.

Today Dan and I spent the day at Somerset House, known these days for London Fashion Week. We went to Louise Gray and the ACNE show - I LOVED them both, but as a totally ACNE fan I have to say that was the best one! 
I mean, wait until you see what they'll enjoy us with this fall. I'll post some pictures tomorrow!

Sitting front row at Louise Gray, drinking red wine at the ACNE after party after the such a show - WHAT A DAY!  And probably the best of all, for me, was that I got to meet my style icon, Columbine Smille!

Heading down to Somerset House with Dan today - having some lunch and trying to get to see some shows! These days I'm just enjoying life so much - I love London!

Gry was wearing this today, and the only thing I could think about, of course, was 'I WANT TO WEAR THAT!". So this is going to be a hard week for me. I really want a pair of blue low Converse and a pair of jeans like the ones above, but the thing is that I can't spend any money on shopping clothes, or shoes for that matter, until Mari comes next weekend!

TOP/ COS TROUSERS/ ZARA COAT/ WEEKDAY SHOES/ NILSSONS SHOES

I dag dro jeg på sushi lunsj med Gry og Henriette! Vi dro på Yo! sushi, en sushi bar du kan finne over hele London. Jeg elsker det, og synes at hvis du befinner deg i London, og liker sushi, så burde du absolutt prøve det ut :)

Today I went out for sushi for lunch together with Gry and Henriette - the sushi club? We went to Yo! Sushi, a sushi bar you can find all over London, and I love it and think that if you find your self in London, and like sushi, you probably should try it out :)

Jeg kommer ikke til å si 'Thank God it's Friday', fordi nå om dagen elsker jeg hver dag i London! Denne uken er vel en av de mer spesielle ukene i året her i London, det er nemlig London Fashion Week - og jeg vil så veldig gjerne se et eller flere show!!!

I will not say 'Thank God it's Friday' - because I love every day here in London! This week is special - it's London fashion week, and I want to go and see a show - so badly!!!

SHIRT/ ZARA TROUSERS/ VERO MODA DENIM BIKER JACKET/ LEVI'S

TOP/H&M TROUSERS/ZARA BLAZER/H&M SHOES/ACNE

Jeg er så heldig som har muligheten til å bo i London! I dag var temeraturen på linje med en norsk vår - så veldig deilig at det allerede begynner å bli varmere! 

I am just so lucky to be living in London! Do you know that today it felt like Norwegian spring? It's already starting to get warmer. LOVE that! 

Pictures from today! 

Went into uni 2pm for a lecture in "100 years of fashion in photography". Very inspiring! 

Det ble en sen kveld på meg - igjen! Prøvde litt forskjellig med noen bilder som skal opp på bloggen vår i Generic Fashion. Det må bli litt mer kreativt slik at det er mer morsomt og titte på bloggen. Så lenge jeg synes det faktisk er morsomt så har jeg absolutt ikke noe i mot det! 

It was a late night for me last night - again! Sitting up trying to collaging some pictures that will go up on our blog in Generic Fashion (about subcultures, and in our case - Ghetto Girls). Well, as long as I think it's fun, I don't mind at all! 

Jeg er så trøtt i dag! Fikk absolutt ikke sove i natt. Gikk lenge rundt og lette etter laderen til digital kameraet mitt, men jeg finner den ikke noen sted! Hvordan er det mulig at jeg har klart å rote den bort? Leiligheten min er ikke så stor! Og da lurer jeg på om jeg kanskje ikke har tatt den med til London i det hele tatt. Jeg trenger å bruke kameraet mitt! Det er for tungt å bære med seg et speilreflekskamera over alt...

Nå er det magasin- og sove tid før Henriette kommer opp!

I AM so tired - can't even describe it. Couldn't sleep last night, and that was because I DINDN'T LOOSE MY POWER CORD, IT RAN AWAY!!! How is that possible? Have I managed to loose it in my little apartment, or have I simply just forgot bringing it to London. I need to use my camera! 

Now I'm simply just going to look through some magazines, and hopefully fall asleep until Henriette comes over for tacos.. 

in my hair!

Hair elastic with golden metal ring from H&M.

SWEATER/ BIK BOK TROUSERS/ H&M WOOL COAT/ WEEKDAY BAG/ ZARA SHOES/ ACNE

Selv om jeg ikke har noen å dele Valentins dagen med, så er dette en fantastisk dag, så langt i alle fall! Jeg kan si at jeg nesten føler meg litt lykkelig... 

Det var første dagen på en god stundt med et kreativt fag - jeg gruet meg egentlig ganske mye, ettersom at jeg har vært borte så lenge. Man burde nemlig ikke være borte, i det hele tatt.
Alikevel så viste det seg at dagen ble mye bedre enn det jeg hadde trodd. Vi fikk en ny oppgave som går ut på at hene min gruppe (klasse) skal jobbe sammen om å lage et fashion show. Vi får alle ulike oppgaver, og jeg tror at min kommer til bli bloggen - som bloggeren, eller en av bloggerne. Det skal nemlig blogges fra begynnelsen av prosjektet til slutten, og jeg elsker det! Er det noe jeg liker å gjøre, så er det vel å blogge :)

Okey, so I don't have anyone to share valentine's day with, and frankly neither does it bother me. It is the BEST day in such a long time. I almost feel happy! No, I DO feel happy! 

I went to uni today, and it was a bit frightening since I've been gone such a long time now. Everything turned out great! We got a new project were the whole class is working together to produce a  show. A fashion show that is!
We all get different tasks, and I think I'm going to be, or at least one of the bloggers. I love that! The blogger/s are supposed to blog from the beginning to the very end of the show. Posting all the work. I love to blog, and I'm so looking forward to this - even though we have  A LOT of work in front of us! 

Jeg sa tidligere at ettersom jeg er så glad i neglelakk, da spesielt Chanel sine, så skulle jeg vise dere mitt nyeste tillegg i kolleksjonen - en av Chanel's sommerfarger, June.

I told you earlier that since I love nail polishes as much as I do, especially the Chanel nail polishes, that I would post some pictures of the newest in my collection. This is one of Chanel's summer colors, and it's called June. 

En avslappende søndag med et langt bad duftende av kanel og vanilje aroma, i tillegg til Sex og Singelliv på skjermen - slik gjør man seg klar til en ny uke! 

A relaxing Sunday in with a long cinnamon and vanilla scented bath while watching Sex and The City - getting ready for the new week to come! 

GRATULERER MED MORSDAGEN <3 Jeg er veldig glad i deg, mamma

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY <3 I love you, mom

WEARING: SHIRT ZARA / JEANS VINTAGE LEVI'S / SUNNIES RAY BAN

Dagen i dag gikk til å ligge i senga og spise knekkebrød (nærmere forklart Wasa fullkornsknekkebrød som jeg fikk tak i på Scandinavian Kitchen - en skandinavisk matbutikk og kafé som ligger i London) og shoppe. IKKE morsom shopping, for shoppingturen gikk til Asda Superstore for å handle inn mat for uken. Jeg skal love dere det at noe av det værste med å bo hjemmefra er å måtte handle inn sin egen mat. De 800 kronene kunne vært brukt på noe annet! Klær for eksempel. 

Etter den grusomme butikkturen min krøp jeg igjen under dynen for å spise enda mer knekkebrød, denne gangen med Jarlsberg (mitt favoritt pålegg!!!) som de til min store glede selger på Asda (TAKK ASDA!). Hvis noen lurer på grunnen til at jeg ligger under dyna, er det fordi jeg har klar å bli forkjølet. Og det etter at jeg dro fra Norge. Hvor det er mye kaldere enn her. Hvordan går det? 

This day have been rather useful - laying in bed eating crackers and doing some shopping. OH NO! Not the fun shopping, but shopping for groceries. I can tell you that it might be the worst thing about living away from home, having to spend your money on food. Those 80 pound could have been used on something else. Clothes, for example! 

After my awful trip to Asda Superstores I got straight to bed again, eating some more crackers - this time with Jarlsberg cheese (my favorite - thank you ASDA for selling Jarlsberg, it makes me really happy!). Btw, the reason why I'm in bed all the time is not because I got myself a boyfriend but a cold. After I got to London. And I was in Norway where there is -20 degrees for a long time without getting sick. How is that possible?

Dette gjør meg veldig glad! 

I forrige uke kjøpte jeg meg et nytt par solbriller, fordi jeg alltid går med solbriller og fordi jeg rett og slett syntes at det var fortjent! Jeg kjøpte de store Ray Ban wayfarer brillene - faktisk har jeg aldri sett dem før forrige uke. men Selfridges har vel alt! 

This makes me a happy bunny!

I bought a new pair of sunnies last week, because I always were sunnies and because I felt that I deserved a new pair. I got myself the big Ray Ban wayfarer sunglasses. I've actually never seen them before - but I guess Selfridges have everything! 

Siden jeg sliter LITT med hjemmelengsel prøver jeg nå om dagen å gjøre den stilfulle London-leiligheten min litt mer hjemmekoselig. Den har på en måte vært helt uten karakter, så for å gjøre den litt mer Katrine-stil kjøpte jeg inn noen hvite blomster. Jeg er veldig glad i hvite blomster!

I'm trying to make my fancy London apartment feel a bit more like home, or at least more like me! I therefore bought some flowers for decoration. White flowers - I love it! 

    ATTILA <3

Jeg har fått dilla på blått. Og spesielt lyseblått. Selv om det er en av fargene som kanskje kler meg minst, så har jeg det nå også på neglene! Og vet dere hva? I slutten av mars kommer Les Jeans de Chanel. Tre neglekkfarger inspirert av jenas - selv ønsker jeg meg den lyse Coco Blue mest (selvfølgelig ønsker jeg meg jo alle!). Jeg har jo heller ikke vist dere den nyeste Chanel fargen i samlingen - fikk tak i 539 June, som er en av sommerens farger, på Selfridges her om dagen. Jeg skal vise dere ved neste neglelakkbytte! :) 

Blue nailpolish from TOPSHOP - L O V E IT! Blue seems to be one of my favorite colors at the time. I can't wait for the jeans-inspired nailpolish collection from Chanel to arrive in stores at the end of March - personally I'm going to try to get a hold of the light blue one, Coco Blue. I'm obsessed with the Chanel nailpolishes - Oh! I forgot to tell you about the newest one in my Chanel nailpolish collection! I got hold of 539 June, which is one of the summer colors, at Selfridges here the other day. I'll show you when it's time to change nailpolish! :)

SKIRT ZARA / SWEATER COS / BRACELETS MADE BY ME

Jeg er særdeles LITE glad i og stivpynte meg - er det noe jeg ikke liker, så er det det!  De eneste gangene jeg føler meg vel stivpyntet, er på spesielle anledninger når jeg har på meg bunaden min. Derfor velger jeg, når jeg skal pynte meg, å blande casual med fint - slik som jeg har gjort her!

I don't like to dress up really because it makes me feel uncomfortable and less like myself. Therefore I usually mix the 'going out' item with a casual everyday item - just like I've done this time