Wearing: Zara – shorts, top and sandals, Marc by Marc Jacobs – watch, H&M – accessories 

So, I am in love with my new life. New might not be the best word to describe it, but definitely different. I told you I was moving to Oslo for the summer and working in TGI Friday’s Karl Johan. I have now been here for a little less than a week and Oslo is always a city I am happy to come back to. It is something about Oslo that I really like, but never really can explain. I think it has something to do with being familiar, close to home and that it is Norway, patriot as I am. My new job is awesome as well. I love Friday’s already and I am a real Fridoid, but I have only just done the Kingston store (which feels like home to me by now) and doing a different store was a scary though. But working in Fab Karl Johan is no problem at all and everyone is so nice, friendly and including. Not just that, but there are so many different people there. We have two backpackers from Australia, an English bartender, a manager from London, and off course lots of Swedish people. You can say what you want about them taking over Oslo, but they sure as hell are cool people.

I think this summer is going to be one of a kind – in a very, very good way. What are you doing this summer?

All from Zara and Acne

You know when you promisse yourself to get on with things that you want to do, such as this blog, and then life gets in the way. I am one of those people who that ALWAYS happens to. Not complaining, it is usually the good things in life that comes in the way – such as a spontaneous family holiday to Valencia. Beach life is definitely my thing, and a nice tan and lots of shopping later, I am now on my way home to Oslo for the summer. Valencia was magical. I needed the sun and the sangrias so bad and I feel like a brand new person now. Just to let you know, Zara is so much cheaper in Spain as well and I think me and my mum increased their weekly sales quite a bit this week… I must have the whole spring/summer collection now. No joke.

So, happily seated at Oslo Gardemoen Airport on top of one of my massive suitcases and with a Tine Ice coffee by my side (other people crave Norwegian hotdogs when coming home from abroad, I crave ice coffee) I am beyond ready to spend a summer in Oslo. Right now I am waiting for my cousine, who I am living with over the summer, before heading home to ‘our’ flat. I feel like a child again, excited for the holiday coming up. The only  difference is – this time the holiday is home.

All from Zara

I have a confession to make – I am a little obsessed with Zara. Not just a little, but to the point where the saleswoman recognizes me and treats me as her friend. “I went to this crazy party last night so I am a little hungover. Sorry to keep you waiting, but you are here so much you must be used to it,” she said on Sunday when I poped in before work. We don’t even just discuss her party habits, we discuss clothes as well. “Your wardrobe must be all Zara,” she said to me with a cheeky smile when I bought a pair of sandals and a necklace (definite spring must-haves) after receiving my last pay check. I had to agree with her. Flicking through my clothes when I got home that day I realised that my room would have been the perfect place for a Zara outlet. Why this obsession I ask myself? Is it just because I like the brand?

I think it is something people who are fashion obsessed do a lot – we bond with a brand. I have bonded with Zara over this particular store in Kingston that I really like and over their well-organized online shopping site. They make it easy for me and I always ‘leave’ satisfied, which keps me coming back. Not just that – the answer is as simple as  ’I am a Zara girl’. The brand fits me and their collections always hit right home – wether it is winter or summer, spring or autumn. As one of my crazy, fun and thoroughly honest friends told me “you look like a Zara girl, I can’t explain way, but you just do.”

This is not an excuse to go mental the three times a week when the news tick in on Zara online (even though I often do),
but I could definitely do worse than looking like a Zara girl. No insult taken.

I smiled when I uploaded this picture and though – hey, I have almost forgot how to use wordpress! Going from something i knew in and out, backwards and forwards, it was almost a new experience to log onto the software today and guess what – it excited me! After two months of not touching, thinking of or updating this blog I have enjoyed an off-line life where I haven’t been telling anyone what I am up to or what I am wearing. Why did I chose to just stop blogging? I needed not to  focus on you, but me. I needed to see if I would miss it, think about it and want to do it. Conclusion? I am not 100% sure yet, but I have missed it. Maybe I am a person for this sort of spot light and hiding a personal characterizing and a passion like blogging was not the right thing to do. I might not go on forever – I might not even go on for another week. All I know is that as I am writing this I feel relieved. I have missed this source of outlet and a place where the sky is the limit. I also have missed (don’t laugh) to show you what I buy, wear and crave. Fashion is something I am very passionate about and it’s just not the same without the ‘sharing’ part of it. I have so many creative ideas for outfits and blog posts spinning in my head at all times and I decided that keeping them in my head is no point – after all, sharing is caring, right?

I don’t know if anyone has actually missed me (even though I do hope so??) but either way, I am doing this for me. I need this outlet space and I want to share my creativity with you. Whatever you want to take from it is up to you – but I do hope you’ll enjoy it as much as me. Glad to be back xx

Shirt: Zara  My new statement piece for spring is this Acne-inspired Zara blouse. Being on a student budget, the real thing was out of reach, so this one will have to do. I love the colour and the pattern, and after having worn almost only black for the whole winter, I am kind of excited to wear something a little more edgy. I would wear it with: 

Blazer, jeans and sunglasses – Topshop. Shoes, bag and blouse – Zara

Being a journalism student and all, I do write a lot. Under is an extract of something I wrote for a job application the other day. Feel free to give me some feedback! 

You wake up in the morning, roll out of bed and stretch for your phone to check what time it is. Shit, it is half an hour until you have to be at work. Instantly the morning drowsiness is gone and you speed around like a yoyo. Makeup – check. Deodorant – check. The last thing on the list is to get dressed and you open you wardrobe… Stop. This is when time halts and all the speed is gone. What the hell am I going to wear?

Don’t tell me you haven’t been in that situation, because we all know that would have been a lie. The half an hour that was just enough time to get ready suddenly needs a two-hour extension. And for what? Staring into you wardrobe? What could seem like an easy task has turned into a mission to find Narnia. You are digging deeper and deeper into your wardrobe and, just like Lucy, all you can find is dust. And it is not because you don’t have anything to wear – you just don’t have that outfit for that day.

It is not a secret that most of us are overly concerned about what we wear. In the 21^st century clothes is not just that – clothes. It is a signature that tells the crowd around us who we are. That is why so many girls stare into their wardrobe with a sullen look, like a kid staring at a out-of-reach cookie jar, and wish that the perfect outfit would magically appear in front of them. It is the want to get it right that makes it so hard. We put the pressure on ourselves to be the best we can be, to look the best we can look – every single day. Even on days when you think ‘screw this, I am just going to wear a casual outfit today’, you still plan and think about that outfit.

So why are we this bothered about what we wear then? I think the reason is that what you wear can say so much about you, and even though it is dangerous to be to judgmental when you only know the outside, clothes can give you the confidence to change the inside. Just think about last time you bought yourself a brand new outfit and wore it for the first time – how did you meet the world that day? With confidence. And why is that? Because those new clothes, aware of it or not, gave you the confidence to raise you head a little higher and walk a littler straighter.

Clothes and confidence goes hand in hand and even though it might not justify buying a new outfit every day, think about what you clothes do to you next time you get dressed. Maybe having that appreciation for your signature and your clothes can make it easier for you to get dressed in the morning. I am not saying there won’t be other Narnia moments where you stare into you wardrobe and wonder if there is anything in there, but perhaps thinking confidence can make the choice between that black and that grey top easier. After all, it’s just a colour – but that day it can change the world.

Some shots of the outfit from the last post and other randomness

Wow, it is the last day of February already! That is, in my eyes, absolutely insane. This past month, and actually, ever since I got back to England after Christmas have gone so quickly. Tomorrow is the 1st of March, which to me means – my birthday weekend! I am very excited to spend a weekend with friends, good food and cocktails. I have booked it off from work, so definitely going to be an epic one. xx

Wearing: beanie – Topshop, trousers, coat and clutch – Zara 

I have had a fun weekend of cocktails, LFW(end), friends and good food. Or, to be fair, this was all Friday. Yesterday and today was more like 12 hours at work. I made some money though, so wasn’t too bad. Now I am going to scroll through Asos on the hunt for a Birthday dress for next weekend! x

Just thought I would show you guys my newest buy! I have always wanted the real thing (you have probably all seen it) from American Apparel, but when I found this cheap look-alike on E-bay I couldn’t refuse it anymore. And – instead of paying £80 for the original, I paid £10! Pretty good :) I have it in white as well! Got it here 

Ok, so after being a little superficial since I got back to England after Christmas, I figured it was about time that I told you a little about what I am up to these days. In a way, nothing has changed, but then at the same time, a lot has changed. I still live in the same house, with the same people and I work at TGI Friday’s. That is not going to change for a while, but then, I have actually been lucky enough to have met a lot of new people after Christmas too, which I am so grateful for. As for next year, the plan is to move in with a new, close friend of mine, Birte. She is Norwegian as well, and we get a long so well. She reminds me a lot of my best friend from home, Anniken, and she is so fun to hang out with. I think it is only going to be the two of us – and to be honest, I love the idea of living with only one more person after living in a house where, practically, there are seven people staying at all times.  I think we will make a happy little family and I am really hoping to find a nice, clean (not moldy) apartment a little closer to Kingston. We have started looking, but most of what is available from the summer are not put out yet.

Other than that, uni is still going great. I absolutely love my course and everything we study interests me. You can say whatever you like about studying literature, but I love it and I can’t imagine a future without it. I spoke to my tutor here the other day about what I was going to do when finishing uni and I think I want to do a MA and then a PhD in English lit and hopefully work as a university professor in the future. That would be absolutely awesome! As for my journalism, I am really liking that this semester too, mostly because we are writing our own news blogs. I still want to write in the future, but I want to write about arts and literature, and not about news.

So there you are – a little update from what is going on behind the fasades in this student life :) xx

Oh Zara… Why can’t you leave me alone?? Massive craving on these two and about a hundred other items on zara.com atm. xx

Shoes – Jeffrey Campell, top – Zara

I love Isabel Marant and mostly all of her look books. These two pieces I picked up with her Spring 2013 look book in my head, and I am already excited for it to get warmer so I can start wearing them.

This weekend has been crazy, in fact – this whole week has been crazy! I never thought I would say this, but there is actually a limit for what I can handle when it comes to partying. This week has been to much, waaay to much, which concluded in me being DEAD today. So dead that my pm shift at work seemed like going to hell and I had to force a friend to pick it up for me. There was just no way today. People make new years resolutions, I make new weeks resolutions and my resolution for the coming week is not to consume anything alcoholic until Friday. Or, Thursday maybe, as we are doing our fifth round in our ‘come dine with me’ collaboration and Laura (with her excellent cooking skills) are providing the menu (no good food without good wine, that is at least my motto). But thursday, that gives me four days of soberness which I plan on spending reading, writing (working on a new blog project), handing in an assignment and continuing my good habit of daily runs. If, after these four days, I have proved myself productive, I see no problem in continuing this nightly habit of exploring London. At least, that is what I keep telling myself.

xx

1. Favorite spot in my room. 2.Favorit necklace from Second Female and favorite magazine. 3.Favorite look-alike American Apparel sweater from E-bay. 

Uni is back on now and it all started with an early 9am lecture yesterday. I met Sasha a little early and it was so nice to catch up with her! We already made so many exciting plans for this semester, such as finally going to The Globe to see a play. Always wanted to do that! We were also introduced to all of the special studies you can choose from next year. I am so excited for third year already! Special studies in itself are exciting because it means focusing on one period or author for a whole year. I am a bit of a nerd, so I love the feeling of knowing everything about on subject – being a specialist in a way. Anyways, today I have one seminar and other than that I am going to try to get some reading done. I also have a sophisticated dinner to go to with Emily and Lucy tonight. Sophisticated because we are not actually going out, we are just eating and drinking cocktails at Brown.  Not our usual thing ;)

I looove colourful pumps. I never actually used to wear pumps, but after getting a thing for wearing jeans out, I have decided that pumps are the perfect shoe to match it with. Especially colorful pumps! I have been wearing so much black lately – my whole closet is in fact black. Moving towards spring I figured it was time to spice it up a little – and yellow is definitely a color I can like. Picking these babies up tomorrow and might wear them to a Heaven night this weekend already. xx

Wearing: Topshop - jeans, Vila – coat, Gina Tricot – beanie, weekday – bag, H&M – top, Second Female – necklace 

I still haven’t started uni, but even so, the days fly by. Yesterday I went to a dinner/’girls’ night (+Paul) at Louise’s where we ended up drinking more wine than eating curry (which was the actual plan). Anyways, had a fun night catching up with people I haven’t seen much since I got back from Norway. Today is going to be a quiet night in with Taboo (a very fun game) and brownies. I am already feeling sleepy, so it’s probably not going to be a late one for me tonight. x

Lovely outfit from this girl. 

Me and my friend have been talking about going to Bali for Spring Break and after waking up to snow today I decided that I might actually do it. I was going to save my travel money for summer, but Bali sounds so nice, and I have never been there – so hey, why not?

All from Topshop, Zara and Dr.Martens.

After I handed in all my exams on Monday (that’s why the absence) I decided I needed to treat myself to some shopping. All this time, when I have been working on my exams, this shopping trip has been my carrot. And then FINALLY, Oxford Street, here I come! I spent two wonderful days in London roaming galleries, going to exhibitions I have been wanting to see for ages, drinking coffee and shopping. I am telling you, life is good. I have also discovered that I am quit a danger to myself. This morning I had to clear out my wardrobe because there were no more room….. And I mean, I have a cloth rack, a drawer and a closet…. And I still need to give stuff away to my housemates. Well, my teori is that my ADHD and my workaholisism is keeping me to active for myself and therefore, this is just a natural reaction. Oh well, excuses or not, I am going to try to give it a break now and wait for all of the exciting spring news to hit the stors.

Other than my shopping addiction, life here is very good. I have had a week off from exams and work at the same time and have been enjoying myself a little more than usual. Tonight we are going out in London and tomorrow in Kingston – no stopping this party wagon. Next week I am back to reality with next semester readings that need to be done and five days of work. But first I am going to enjoy a whole other weekend of fun and days off.

Laid tables, homemade candy and champagne – I have had such a good Christmas holiday! Being home has been amazing, not to mention being with friends and family 24/7. I have lived with my two favorite girls and we have watched movies, made good food and had long nights by the fire in our beautiful house. Now I am back in England and even though I spent hours cleaning yesterday (there had been construction work done to our doors during the break and English handymen does not clean after themselves), it actually feels good to be back. Today I am going for a run, cleaning some more, going to the library and then tonight FINALLY I will meet up with Lucy for dinner :)

Wearing: coat – Cubus, belt and top – Zara, hat – Coz, shoes – Aldo

Just a little outfit from cold Norway :) My new coat matches the snow! xx

Instagram – follow me @camillahuuse

Just wanted to let you guys know that I am home – safe and sound. Right now I am relaxing with ‘Home Alone 3′, mandarines and gingerbread men. Loving it ! Not sure how much I will update during Christmas, but if I don’t, I’ll take lots of pictures and give you a good update when I get back to London.

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas! xx

Online shopping is one of my absolute favorite things to do (no surprise there) and lately I have been looking through a lot of the stuff they have at miinto.no. The page has really made a good impression on me – mainly because they offer a huge variety of brands. Everything from Second Female, Wildfox and Lisbeth Dahl (just to mention a few).

Really worth checking out! Above you can see some of my curent cravings. I absolutely love the necklace from Second Female. I have already bought it in black, but the yellow one is sooo cool too! Might have to get that one as well…

Check for yourself here:  www.miinto.no

xx

Some pictures from our Christmas party on Monday (that I wrote about earlier) and when Liva and I went to see the lighting of the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square and later met Thea and the girls for drinks and some food.

Today I had my last shift at work before Christmas, which was very weird and truly amazing at the same time. I am so ready to go home, work at Peppes, live with my best girls again, party with old friends and spend loooots of quality time with friends and family! And not to mention celebrate christmas, eat food and open presents! (haha, yeah I am still excited for all the presents!)

Fur coat – chicy.se, pictures – AngelicaBlick

Finally! I have wanted a fur coat like this for ages and today I finally ordered this perfection. I have envied Angelica every time she has posted an outfit with this coat and now finally, I am getting one of my own. It is just so perfect and you can wear it both casually and when dressing up.

I was so not going to buy myself anything before Christmas (taking that I have spent sooo much money on christmas presents this year – that is what you get for missing your family), but I got a lot of money back on my taxes, which I had not expected at all. Nice little early Christmas surprise which brightened my mood a whole lot :) I am actually in such a better mood today overall, ordering this coat + hearing from a person I did not expect to hear from last night made me very, very happy. The fact that I have a 12 hour shift ahead of me can’t even kill my mood today because I am on the exact same shift as my best friend and I’ll get to be with her all day. And did I mention that it is sunny outside? Yep, life is pretty good today.

Have a wonderful weekend lovelies xx

Life is not always sparkling and rosy, not even when you live in the world’s greatest city. It is easy to get yourself lost in the size, the masses of people, the noises and the crowds, especially when it gets colder outside and people are busy covering there faces with scarves and hats and no one bothers looking your way. I feel a little lost right now, I will confesse that. 2012 is almost over and its been a year with many ups and downs and I am ready for it all to be over so I can start fresh. Right now I feel like hiding under my covers til that last day is gone, but I know I can’t. I am cold, lonely and homesick and the week I have left before I finally can go home feels like a year in itself. The last couple of weeks have been a challenge and even though I have hid it well and I am proud of that, hiding it often makes it worse. Smiling covers scares, but never fixes. I am bruised and marked so many places right now and all I want is to go home for Christmas. One more week, may the days be ever in your favor.

Wearing: shoes – office, leather shorts – Zara, sweater – choies.com, bomber – Vero Moda

Two more weeks now and I am going home. I just looked at my calendar and basically every day is filled with plans and stuff to do, so I have a bussy two weeks ahead. I still have the last little bit of module reading to do before they post our take home exams too – we don’t get them until the last day of uni which means that I have to take them home with me and hope that I will get something done over Christmas. I am so, so, so ready to go home now! Never been more excited.

Yesterday we had our annual Christmas party with the Scandinavian Society, which was so fun! I think everyone had a great time – at least it seemed like it when we were all dancing around the bar at TGI Friday’s singing “Så går vi rundt om en enebær busk”.

The rest of this week I am going to read a lot, on thursday I am going into London to meet some friends and see the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square being lit and on Friday I might go out with Julie and her friend who is visiting from Norway.

I have got a new place to tell you about! The last two weeks I have been to Zoo bar by Leicester Square two times and it is really good, fun and cheap. It is a bar/club and what is really good about it is that they have a bar and a more “quiet” area upstairs and then they have a huge dancefloor and a club part downstairs. Perfect for casual drink nights out! Another thing which is really good is that they have student nights mon-thurs, and drinks are really cheap those nights!

How to get there: Leicester tube station

Entry: £5

Drink prices: 3,75 for a double vodka + mixer

Found it here

Last night we went to London to see our friend, Catharina, perform her first concert in central London! She is absolutely amazing. You can check her out here. We also had a couple glasses of wine while we were at it, and it ended up being a very good night out. The place she performed at, East Village by Old Street, was a very cool place.

I started my day with a caramel macchiato, my absolute favorite. The red cups have arrived at Starbucks! This is one of the things in England that definitely gives me a Christmas spirit. For some reason, the day they arrive at the stores Christmas seems so much closer :)

More red - phone boxes. Somehow I do wish that they could have dressed up a little for Christmas as well.

I spent some quality time with my friends Constable, Turner, Hogarth and Gainsborough at the National Gallery. Even after being there numerous of times I still have my favorites and I don’t think that is going to change any time soon.

Christmas at Cartier (where I definitely have more than enough with the window shopping) and the Southbank Christmas market.

London Love. I love this city more and more, and then especially after a day like this when all I did was walk and admire. I don’t think you can learn to love the city before you get the connections. Before you know where things are, where you can walk to get from one place to another and when you know the small local places along the way. Oxford Street is London, but what people don’t understand is that it is such a small part of it. London is so much more and I don’t think you can learn to fully  love the city before you understand that.

Wearing: dress and scarf – Topshop, boots – Office, jacket – Vero Moda, leather gloves – old

One thing that I don’t like about it getting colder here is that it rains a lot more. I mean, England is known to have a lot of rain, but the closer it gets to Christmas – the more it rains. Sometimes I actually miss the snow, just because it is so much more Christmasy and because I almost did not see any snow last year. I am hoping for snow for Christmas this year – that would just make coming home ten times better :-)

   Yesterday’s – more coming!

Yesterday was such a nice day. I went in to London early, on my own, to meet my stepdad- but I did not actually end up meeting him til quite late. I felt like I had all the time in the world and I did not stress with anything. I got off at Waterloo and instead of taking the tube I walked. On my way I stopped and had a look at the Southbank Christmas market, an art exhibition and off course, my favorite place in London – The National Gallery and room 34 and 35. I also walked up Bond Street and let myself dream about what I would do if I had unlimited amounts of money. Leaving Kingston with the idea that I would not go into any shops (because I was saturday and I hate the amounts of people you find in Oxford street during the weekend), I actually ended up buying half of my Christmas presents from small, random shops I passed along the way. Such luck!

I ended my day drinking cocktails with a lot of people from the scandinavian society and even though I did not go out I had a very fun night!