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Photo: YLE / Miikka Varila So, you know I've been rather (add ""...) lately, and one reason is the fact that I am part of UMK,  which is the competition for the song to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest. I'm a huge lover of all things kitsch and camp and thus also a huge Eurovision fan (and prefer it at it's most glittery self) and I also have this thing of never saying No to anything as you never know what one thing might lead to. There are a lot of catchy tunes and both fun and interesting artists in the competition this year, and I know glammy rock n' roll is not up everybody's alley, so this will be an interesting ride. And I promise mine will be filled with a lot of glitter.

Well, it's that time of the year again when you either have packed some of your clothes away (if you are the organised type that actually does that instead of having to lean against your closet door to close it. Not saying I'm either one  though, ehrm), or have started indulging in some hardcore layering, in my vocabulary known as  winterizing . I wear quite a lot of my dresses during the colder season as well paired with thicker tights and something underneath plus a layer or two on top. It depends a bit on the dress weather it works or not; the thinnest materials seldom look good that way, but this cotton is a bit heavier. This is a cotton summery dress that I got from thai vintage store  Sugar & Cream Vintage , that you might remember me  writing about some time ago . It's in mint condition with hidden buttons in the front and, like in the red vintage dress I have from the same store , this one also has a hidden zipper in front in able to step into instead of ...

Me, online: So, now that winter is coming and we're out on the countryside for good I should really get myself a pair of practical boot...- uuuh hello what are these?! So yes; I am still trying to remember to get a pair of practical shoes, because I ended up with a pair of cute black velvet-y platform boots instead. Now ho would've thought. Well, in my defence, if you can manage to drag 20 kilos of suitcase for three days in a row on the cobblestone streets of Prague they could kind of be labeled as "practical", right? But no, these boots with their flocked surface are indeed not for the muddiest days. While on talks about the sliver lining (the one of clouds you know, that applies to events and situations) you can also talk about a golden edge in Swedish, which is applicable to anything or anyone that gives everyday life and existence even the tiniest sense of luxury. So this muddy-snowy-stormy November I'll let my gold lined heels act as the little golden edge ...

I'm home from Prague and started my week by visiting the rehearsals of the Tähdet Tähdet-show , where we got to coach fabulous singer Johanna Försti some burlesque posing and confidence. You can see it on Sunday evening at mtv3!

Yesterday we shot a thing with huuuuge hair! Today we filmed a thing with sleek hair and a cool leatherjacket. And now I'll go to sleep on a lonely mattress in my empty city apartment as I am off early tomorrow morning to Prague to perform ! I'll also teach a workshop on Sunday ; join in if you're over there!

It looks like this when you open the door: Which a) is just so wrong as it's only the 7th of November (yes, that is my sad frozen Halloween pumpkin under all that snow   -ffs this snow fell ONE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN. So wrong.) and b) would be cozy would we be three weeks from now and would one not have to go anywhere. I've been outdoors today, sadly, and driving home late at night was not very nice . For the moment indoors is not that nice either. It's all full of boxes; we have pretty much emptied the city flat by now. Or, I have , suitably we had to move out the month when I'm alone in the blizzard while Eddi is in a sandstorm in a dessert in Iran for four weeks, doing stuff geologists do (in this case; teaching research methods). These boxes will empty one by one as we get some renovation done upstairs while others will be repacked to wait for future times and possible new flats. So now we a) don't have to have Christmas at our place this year or b) should have C...

Well, I've said it before, but: any lazy hair day or don't-know-what-to-do-with-my-face-day can always be saved by a turban. And some lipstick. This time also wth some sparkly earrings. Or hang-ears, as Dag mistakenly calls them (' häng-öron' , from " örhängen " ; which is Swedish for earrings, "ear-hangs", or 'things hanging from the ears' as you could translate it.) The turban is made by Rubylea, vintage inspired grape studs from Collectif.

My friend and artist Aiju Salminen turned her whole building into a light installation yesterday! The big house is in the corner of two of the busiest streets in Helsinki  (I used to live just opposite, when I was still living downtown btw) so it got a lot of attention. The habitants were all in on the thing and put up coloured silk papers in their window to brigthen up the November darkness. The idea is not original, but has not been done in Helsinki before. Picture from Värivalotalo on Facebook.