Scandinavian Fairy Tale

Good morning!

Lately my inspirational sources are coming from web forums like Wehearit and Instagram. The main searching theme for me has been interior. My taste in interior has done a major jump from pink teenage girl to simple, wooden and Scandinavian type style.

My favorite colors within interior at the moment is; light wood, dark walnut wood. Followed by the colors light/dark blue, light/dark grey, black, white and beige. Which are all very simple and modern colors, that the last couple of years have become very common and popular.

I´m in love with very tall loft windows, you'll find them heaps in New York. They look so amazingly artistic and gives the room more like a cozy vintage look. As a creative person and living with two very creative flatmates, I have learnt to appreciate little things like windows that gives the room characteristics.

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These pictures are showing what windows I really like and the blue, grey and white color codes that I´m thinking of for our next bedroom. Hope this gives all of you guys a few decor ideas, I use about 2-3 hours every day just looking at pictures that gives me that inspirational bliss.

xx, Céline.

The Food Truck Garage

If you ever travel to Auckland and want something good to eat, go to The Food Truck Garage. So worth going to, their vibe is very relaxed with a 1970´s style and I absolutely love it. Their color combinations with the wooden/steel furniture is very entertaining and they have an open kitchen solution so what you see is what you get. It´s a restaurant that is not going to leave you broke after a meal, with a very good menu that changes frequently. Splendid customer service, with a super friendly staff.

While being there I had the Chickette Burger with Blueberry & Apple Soda water (so tasty) and a Date Caramel Sundaes for dessert. It was mouth watering and so filling without feeling like a piglet afterwards!

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Let´s just say if you're ever in Auckland, this is a place worth your time!

Xx, Céline.

Inspirational Board

Good morning beautiful people. After spending an hour looking at the ceiling today, I ended up feeling really inspired to finish off my inspirational board.

I wanted a working/study area, where I could sit down, relax and feel inspired to blog. The area is not 100% done yet, so I though sharing step by step pictures off my progress would be both inspiring for you guys and fun. My first step was putting together the inspirational board and I have to say I´m very happy with the results and I can´t stop peeking at the board from the sofa I´m currently blogging from.

The board is there to remind me of why I´m blogging and giving me inspirational vibes, for me the board represents what I think my blog is about:

Simple style

Fashion

Food

Hair/Beauty

Hard Work

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Enjoy the rest of your morning/evening guys.

Céline, xx.

Merge

Lately I have been a bit frustrated with my fashion sense / clothing style. Noticing that my personality is only coming across in some of my favorite outfits and not in every outfit, made me start to rethink on how to solve it. I´m a very ´first impression´ conscious person. And since I´m getting good at ´first impressions´ I want my style to be a 100% me, not half my style and half unsure of what I want.

We all know that throwing all your clothing out, starting from scratch and buying a whole new wardrobe worth of clothing is not something me as a student can really afford at the moment (though I wish I could). Figuring out while sitting down and having some thoughts around it, made be think the best way to go is taking baby steps by investing a bit here and there.

So my first trip in search of myself in fashion went to Merge, I went with Michael. He has a very clear idea of how I want my style to be and he also has a very good fashion sense, which to me felt like an added bonus to be honest. He turned out to do an amazing job at pulling out my first two outfits of four expensive / high quality items. I myself found one par of pants (dress suit type) that I knew would fit well with both what I wanted and what I need for my internship (more news on my internship coming up in a future post).

All in all I was a very happy girl at the end of the day, with four new pieces of clothing going into my future closet. Have a peak at my 4 new pieces of clothing that I feel represents me and what I´m after!

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Hope you guys love/like them just as much as I do :)

xx, Céline.

Bloglovin´ connection

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Autumn in Auckland city

foto © Celine Sørfonden

Waking up to such a beautiful and chilled morning made both me and Michael want to explore our neighborhood a bit more. 

I sometimes forget how beautiful it is to walk down the streets seeing all the red, orange and yellow colors on the ground that the trees leaves us when we start getting closer to winter time. Here in Auckland the degrees fall´s between 15-21 during this month, which to some people will be concidered as very warm. For me I find it a bit chilly and that is due to the humidity that comes with living on the other side of the world. I find autumn to be a very beautiful and delightful season of the year and being able to still experience the nice color of this season in the middle of the city is a great feeling. 

Sunday´s are my relaxing gaining back energy day, so the walk through our neighborhood was a very good way for me to spend some time with Michael. University work and some other paper work has also been sneakily taking an appearance into my evening today, which is what I am going to be occupied with for the next couple of hours before bed. 

Hope you guys have a great evening and enjoy your day! 

Céline, xx

Sophisticated yet comfortable

I love blazers, my mum started dressing me in one at a young age and since then I have just always loved them. It´s a funny thing seeing how your style changes with time, finding yourself in your clothing style seems to be a little bit troublesome sometimes. What you're wearing is the first impression that someone gets from you, so people find themselves being cautious when they choose what to wear.

I have found my style and I like being comfortable yet sophisticated. It´s important that the clothing that you are wearing is not making you annoyed by limiting your choices, like wearing high heels when you are out shopping or to tight jeans at a party. For me these little things make me not want to wear it at all, and make me dislike what I´m wearing. 

You might wonder why I put up these pictures and it was for you to have a sneak peak on what type of style I´m into at the moment. I promise you it keeps changing - sometimes I find myself thinking; ´Ah, that's nice´ then two minutes later I would realize that just months ago I wouldn't even consider looking at that particular item.

So taste, preferences and making your own style is a part of growing up and becoming who you want to be. And expressing that through clothing to show your personality and the way you want people to understand you by just using their eyes.

foto © Forever New 

All of these items are from the shop Forever New, here in Auckland, and it´s become one of my favorite stores down here! How has your style changed over the years, feel free to comment, I would be very interested in reading about it :)

xx, Céline. 

Little things

Today has been an interesting day, where I did a touch up on my nails, did some studying and went to class. Exciting news of the day was: we finally, after 5 days, got our shoe rack! I love it, like absolutely love it. So me and my boyfriend Michael moved into this apartment like 3 weeks ago and yes we are still in the stages of decorating it and getting things that we want for it, while handling work and university! Mildly put, it´s been a busy 4 weeks for us.  

foto © Celine Sørfonden

It´s a two bedroom apartment and we are getting a new flatmate in a few days, her name is Kate and she seems to be super awesome. We also went to our friends place today, we have a couple that are great friends of ours who we love spending time with. They made an amazing dinner for us and we just ended up talking for hours and we literally just got inside the door. 

So now I´m going to make a cup of green tea before I jump into bed and start my morning with a daily dose of university work! 

Goodnight everyone, I hope everyone ending their evenings has had a great day and everyone starting their day is going to have a great day. 

xx, Céline.

YOGA

foto © We Heart it

Good evening everyone! I have been doing Yoga for the last couple of days and its been one of the most painful, relaxing and most stressless ways to exercise for me.Yoga is an type of exercising that I find myself enjoying, the focus on your rhythm of breathing and relaxing your mind at the same time makes me forget about stress that sometimes occupies and clouds my mind after work and university. I wanted do share with you guys a few reasons to why I am personally doing Yoga:

Yoga makes you relaxed

You gain better control over your breathing

Yoga makes you feel more energetic

It helps to relieve stress

I do it because it makes me feel energetic and my body feels good after doing it, in a way it makes my whole being feel refreshed and new! Hope you had a nice day/evening and that Yoga is something you might consider trying out.  

xx, Céline.