Ambiente 14

A few weeks ago I had the awesome opportunity to work at the Ambiente Fair 2014 in Frankfurt to my old boss Akiko! Ambiente focuses on consumer goods around the themes of Dining, Giving and Living meaning a loooot of home design and tiny luxury items. I was in heaven!

getting inspiration for Exhibition Stand Design

The curtainwalls are actually really long candles of the Company!

I made the most of my free pass and scrolled daily through the loveliest unaffordabilities whenever I had toilet breaks the chance. The Frankfurt Fair is gigantic so even tho I spent over an hour before and after my shift no-matter-how-tired walking around the different sections I could not manage more than a half of it!

Working with Akiko and her other colleagues was fun and the hours flew by really quickly.  I was happy to notice myself more confident and socially talented than at the Early Bird two years ago. To top that the International flair made me very happy of my language skills in German, English and Japanese and I even got to use Finnish a few times!

Some companys really put their heart and money into getting new customers. I for sure was impressed by it all. Might this be Bloomingville?

House Doctor for sure made me drool and I wish they could have sold some of their items after the fair...
Not that I left all empty handed tho! Some of the exhibitors DID agree to part with their sample items after the fair with some really student-friendly prices! I'll shoot some of my shoppings soon enough to show where my hard-earned money actually went into haha.

Sweater Weather

Autumn has something very contradictory in it. Warm colours and cold days.

Pictures from Moon to Moon

Even when your hands are empty, your heart is always full

As a student it far too often sometimes happens that you become acquainted with hunger and the feeling of poverty. Streching those last cents can get to you if you don't stay on your guard and remember to stay merry. I've been dancing on the limits of my bank account this summer as I don't get any student allowance during lecture-free-times. Working while in Finland wasn't really an option. My car has been running on mere fumes to put it more poetically and now those last breaths are taken. I have 10 days to survive until pay day.

To keep myself warm I watched again one of my all time favourite films  
The Little Princess. I love the books of Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden & Little Count Fauntleroy to name a few) and reading -or in this case- watching a film about those tiny strong heroesses really pump up my will-power to pull this through!

Sometimes things get rough but that's life I guess. I had this disagreement once with my boyfriend about saying that "things will be okay". He thought it irresponsible and impossible for one to make such promises. I can understand him very well but somehow still disagree.

It's going to be okay. I can promise that. I don't believe in God or any other higher power but this I do believe. Life is what you make it. You'll see. It will all turn out just fine.

Spell & the Gypsy

I've just discovered the Spring/Summer Collection of Spell for 2013 and it kinda make me go like "wait a second, why didn't I wear that at the beach..??" Lucky for my fellow sunbathers I suppose but dang it! Now my classmates will know where it came from when I start hanging around in my morning jacket at the Uni.

Check out the whole shoot at Spell & the Gypsy Collective!

Inspiration Trip

One Friday in August I took a day trip to the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt with Kevkev and Katrin. I'm not a fan of Frankfurt at all, but it's super convenient living next to a big city I have to admit. If you get bored with the nightlife of Darmstadt, you can jump in the train and try partying in Frankfurt, Mainz or Heidelberg instead! All convenient and cheap as I'm able to use all the local trains, busses, undergrounds and trams for free inside Hessen with my Student ID.

I imagine myself somewhat of a V.I.P tourist when travelling to different corners of Germany eventho I've lived here for more than 2 years now. I can speak German pretty fluently and am able to avoid the usual tourist traps and prices everywhere but I still feel like taking a miniholiday in a foreign country when visiting an unknown city in here. This time too, nevermind living 20 min away from Frankfurt!

At the end of the museum's visit, me and the Ks popped into some restaurant to lunch together before getting back. I usually don't dine out without my boyfriend's wallet with friends, so enjoying the sun at Zeil was quite a luxury.

yums yums!

Next time, blogging from Finland! Maybe yes, maybe not. I don't know what the capacities of my sister's laptop are and if it likes to co-operate with my camra. We'll see, no stress from my part haha.

Indian Summer

The Heat has inspired me to stay indoors and roam around blogs and tumblers in the search of some Indian inspired fashion. Pictures found through: X X X X X

Did I share this video already? Oh well, who cares. I love it.