I love lingerie

I have made plans to go to Swedish lingerie store Twilfit real soon and try on some of their goodies. I don’t really have the body for lingerie but I can’t help it. Lingerie isn’t my main priority right now, it’s buying clothes that will make me not freeze to death during the winter but… a girl needs a little treat every now and then right?

Never had anything corset-ish in my life because they rarely have that sort of thing in a A cup because we “don’t need” them so I have to check this one out. (Wanted it black but you can’t have it all)
Corset 449kr/49,59USD

Panties 149kr/19,74USD

Cute black balconette which is hard to find in my size (Rarely fits so keep your fingers crossed)

269kr/35,64USD

Panties 169kr/22,69USD

Garter belt 179kr/23,79USD

A nighty that really caught my eye and is the main reason I’m heading towards the store in the first place. 499kr/66,11USD

Love this rode but it’s 999kr/135,35USD so…

Cute cuddly angora socks with my name on it! It’s an autumn-must-have for 159kr/21,06USD

Hmm… I hope some of this stuff doesn’t fit or is extremely unflattering or uncomfortable, something or I’ll be broke...

I love this house!

Groombridge Place (some might recognize it from “Pride and prejudice” ) in Kent seem to have it all, adorable house, with a moat, a secret garden, a drunken garden and a ghost. I wonder what a house like that would cost…?

Groombridge Place, official site
Groombridge on Wikipedia

Australia

This was the first trailer I saw a while back and it looks decent but not great.



Then I saw this one and… looks pretty crappy if you ask me, looks like something we’ve seen before. Dull and ordinary. Let’s hope it’s a bad trailer and nothing else.

Paul Newman 1925-2008

I’m going to watch “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (one of my favorite movies of all time) with a big bowl of popcorn…

Twins by Marcy Dermansky

I’ve just started to read this book (which Aimée was kind enough to give me) and man… you are right, it’s pretty bad. I’ve only read 30 something pages and one of the main characters is a complete psycho who hates her parents, brother, everyone except her sister who she seems a little too found of. This is just… Sue, the psycho sister is what the twin in “Single White Female” must have been like before her sister died. There is no empathy at all and I cannot like her one bit.

Gardening

All gardening things will (probably) be posted on The Burtonesque Garden from now on because I have been bitten by the gardening bug (again, and a dead wasp ouch!) and feel like spamming like crazy.

Trying to catch the moon

Was not at all easy. It’s a very pretty moon with something rusty-red haze around it but there was no way I could capture it… How do you take good pictures of the moon? Anyway, I think this should be the beginning of me trying to take more pictures.

Lisa Marie as Vampira

Ed Wood was on TV the other day and Lisa is a cute Vampira. Is it just me or has she not stared in a movie since she and Tim Burton broke up?

Two dreams about owls

I dream the other day that there was an old in our oak on the back and I tried to get a photo of it but something was always getting in the way and people didn’t seem to understand why I wanted to take a picture of it and were not helpful at all.

Then two days ago I dreamt was walking on the hill behind our old place along with my childhood friend when suddenly an owl swopped down, a very clumsy landing and I rushed to get my camera, when I came back there were only two eagles there and I got upset for missing the opportunity to get an owl on camera.

According to Dream Moods A-Z
Owl: To see an owl in your dream, symbolizes wisdom, insight and virtue. The owl is also synonymous with death and darkness.

To hear the hoot of an owl, denotes disappointments and forewarns that death creeps closely in the wake of joy and health.

Picture: To dream that you are taking a picture, suggests that you need to get a good understanding and gain more information on some issue. You need to focus more attention to some situation or relationship. Perhaps you feel that you need to recapture some past moments in a relationship.

I don’t think my owl in my dreams has anything to do with wisdom or darkness, I like owls. Sure it’s getting darker now but… if I was thinking about the fact that it’s getting darker wouldn’t I just dream that? Owls to me does not symbolize death or darkness, they are a cool bird that I have never seen in real life (other than at a zoo). And taking pictures is something that I wish I was better at.

Sure it could be, if I really want to believe in this, about my newly found hypochondriac side where I think I have some kind of illness. I took me awhile before I realized that it was my rib and not a lump in my chest… But you can always make things fit if you really want it too.

Science of Sexy

Corny and silly yes but Dita was so cute in the beginning as a brunette, adorable. I barely even recognized her, because it is her, right?

They have this thing on the site, Sexy Talk and I thought that was interesting. What’s sexy to you? For me, I think it’s all about confidence; anyone can be sexy, big or small, short or tall, just if that confidence and anyone can pull it off. Sure, some nice stockings and a pencil skirt or a feather boa might help you get there but basically, confidence is all you need. This is all in theory since I’m not very confident so, I could be wrong…

Wonderbra by Dita http://www.sexysciencebydita.com/

What did I do today?

I manage to find a cute coat but that was it. I don’t think it’s a very warm coat but it was cute. I can cross of autumn-must-have item number 2. I do not like shopping, I like the idea of shopping but I never seem to be able to find anything I like. I was standing there trying things on and I just felt stupid and awkward, I felt like a little girl dressing up and I wasn’t comfortable at all. Nothing really seemed to fit either (is there something wrong with me?), it was loose in all the wrong places and to tight at all the wrong places… Then just to top it off I ran it to this annoying salesperson desperate to sell and just couldn’t accept the fact that I didn’t like the raincoat they had at the store, so annoying. And then there was this bitch at the pharmacy, so rude. I asked her for some help to find something and she basically bark at me that it’s very easy to go online and find what I need so that I know what I’m looking for when I get there. Oookay, and her job is to do what exactly? Annoying but fortunately it was the last thing that happened before going home so it didn’t spoil my day.

Oh, I want a purple nail polish and a dark red one so I bought some but the purple one was too blue and the dark red one was not red enough and was closer to brown so if anyone wants some nail polish I have some. I also have a pink one which I have no idea why I bought in the first place, close to the counter maybe? (I tried to take some pictures of them but it was impossible to capture the right colors)

Burtonizing the garden

I fear that the garden bug has got me once more, I want a Burtonesque garden (I just promised myself not to waste money) and a Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’ is in my opinion very Burton so I have to get me one of those. And it’s cutting time, have to remember to take my garden shears with me and get as many cuttings as I possibly can of boxwood, yew, privet and lavender (and whatever I have forgotten to mention).

Picture from Nzplantpics

Found this guy by accident (I always do)

The style of wonderful illustrator Gris (which means pig in Swedish) Grimly is just what I like. And since I’m in desperate need of clothes a few t-shirts from his store would be nice.

Gris Grimly

Surströmming

Sometimes I think surströmming was made as a joke for tourist. Apparently my grandfather used to eat it but he’s from Norrland so it doesn’t count.

Does it really smell THAT bad? Yes it does. It’s a horrible smell and I remember when people were trying to be funny and putting this stuff in the ventilation in school, you couldn’t walk. You had to take a deep breath and then run like hell to the next class, the smell was all over the corridors.


Sweden looks nice, doesn't it :p

Having hair issues…

My hair is so worn-out it is in desperate need of a cut but what to do? I have that layered thing ala Jennifer Aniston and with the straightner and not visiting a hairdresser every X month it looks pretty dreadful and perhaps I should chop it all off but… I’m such a scaredy cat I usually go with the same dull cut every time.

I’m not very good with hair, I wash it and I straighten it and that’s it, I love when it’s winter and you can just pull at hat on an cover everything and not be bother with it. I have naturally wavy/curly hair and I’m not a fan, maybe it’s because it’s so damaged it looks so horrible when I don’t straighten it?

I like my hair long but it’s a little dull though, isn’t it? Which is your favorite?

From left A and B

C and D

All pictures from Hairfinder

What did I do this weekend?

1. Went to dreaded pre-birthday party clustered with babies and their affectionate mothers and one compulsive liar.
2. Finished my book I was reading, “Let the right one in” and read 200 pages of “Candy Girl” (only 12 pages left).
3. Ate too much Toblerone.
4. Light garden work.
5. Changed my sheets.
6. Did one load of laundry.

Yeah, I think that’s it… How sad is that one a scale 1-10? It’s a ten isn’t it? What did you do this weekend?

It will take me a while before I read another Austen

Perhaps (hopefully) a lot was lost in the translation… I found it long and tedious (at least I think that’s the word I’m looking for). Like a hundred pages in something finally happened and I was pretty annoyed with Margret because she doesn’t seem to serve a purpose in the story.

I got a package!

A nice surprised at about 9 o’clock in the morning, a package from far distant land, a mysterious place called, Rhodes Island… I love getting things (who doesn’t) but I think I like giving things even more. Shalyn read my mind and got me yarn, it’s knitting time!

Random facts about me

I just realized (well I just counted) I have six books about Jack the Ripper in my bookcase. And I haven't read all of them, think there is two of them that I haven't read, but which?

Picture from Punch 1888, found at Wikimedia

Dreams

At first I didn’t think too much of it but then I had another dream with similar team. First dream took place in one of my old schools. I had a few spare moments and I went shopping and I got a book, more like a pamphlet, about Jack the Ripper. Even in my dream I was like, “What? Why? Shouldn’t I save my money instead?” I put it in my bag and then I put my bag in this big closet back in school. Then, later I see this bag on the floor and the only thing missing is my book. I apparently know what class the thieve goes to so I head over there during class and make a silly speech, “I know someone here took it, I’m not mad I just want my book back.” First there’s silence and then a girl rats the thief out and I get my book, pretty messed up now, bent and such. So when I start to walk out of the classroom I get more and more angry, what did the guy do to this book anyway?
“No this is not okay, you better pay up.”
“You said you weren’t mad.”
“I lied, deal with it!”
He gets his wallet up and snatches some money out of it and start walking again, yelling, “Go and get a proper book about Jack, I recommend Donald Rumbelow.”
Waking up I thought, if I got the money for the book he could have kept it.

Then a few days later I have another dream, I’m in town or something, this big weird black and white metropolis kind of city and there are these girls that are sort of lost and I help them out and we end up at my place where they want to look at in my closet. There’s this odd feeling, my mother is there as well. I see one of the girls, while speaking in this mock impressed voice take a bra (still on a hanger) and puts it in her bag.
I confront her and snatch the bra up and that’s not the only thing she has taken. Mom and I go through their stuff and take back whatever they have stolen and throw them out. Waking up I’m like, wait, they were standing by the jewelries, I should have checked and see if there was anything missing.

Two dreams about someone stealing from me, that can’t be a coincident can it?

Books so far…

101 books in 1001 days
1. "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey
2. "The Canterville ghost and other short stories" Oscar Wilde and others
3. "Twilight" Stephenie Meyer
4. "En liten chock" Johanna Lindbäck
5. "A great and terrible beauty" by Libba Bray
6. "Just listen" by Sarah Dessen
7. "Read like a writer" Francine Prose
8. "The Jane Austen Book Club" by Karen Joy Fowler
9. "Underneath it all" Traci Lords
10. "The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want" Cameron Tuttle
11. “Sense and sensibility” Jane Austen
12. "Write away" Elizabeth George
13. ”What I loved” Siri Hustvedt
14. ”Let the right one in” John Ajvide Lindqvist
15. ”Candy Girl” Diablo Cody
16. ”About a boy” Nick Hornby
17. ”Fear and loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson
18. ”Twins” by Marcy Dermansky
19. ”People of the abyss” Jack London
20. ”Snabba Cash” Jens Lapidus
21. ”Bridget Jones: The edge of reason” Helen Fielding
22. ”Alice's adventures in wonderland” Lewis Carroll
23. ”Strips of the sidestep wolf” Sonya Hartnett
24. ”Memours of a Geisha” Arthur Golden (Audio book)
25. ”Outhärdeligt” Hans-Eric Hellberg
26. ”The rules of attraction” Bret Easton Ellis
27. ”Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese” Dita Von Teese
28. ”The uncommon reader” Alan Bennett
29. ”Geisha, a life” Mineko Iwasaki
30. ”Brave new world” Aldous Huxley
31. ”Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness” Gris Grimly
32. ”The Tales of Beedle the Bard” J.K. Rowling
33. ”Ravens gate” Anthony Horowitz
34. ”Förföljaren” Magnus Nordin
35. ”Wives and daughters” Elizabeth Gaskell
36. Emily The Strange
37. ”How to be popular” Meg Cabot
38. ”Friday night kniting club” Kate Jacobs
39. ”My so-called life” Joanna Nadin
40. ”Berserk” Ally Kennen
41. ”Freaky green eyes” Joyce Carol Oates
42. ”Good grief” Lolly Winston
43. ”Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging” Louise Rennison
44. ”The devil Latch ” Sonya Hartnett
45. ”Star-crossed” Rachael Wing
46. ”Anna d'Arc” Mårten Sandén
47. ”Witch Child” Celia Rees
48. ”Jag såg honom först” Eva Susso
49. ”Stenhjärta” Ingrid Olsson
50 ”Ett litet hål i mörkret” Ingrid Olsson
51 ”Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen
52. Love Letters of great men
53. ”Wuthering Heights” Emily Brontë
54. ”Fucking Åmål” (screenplay) Lukas Moodysson
55. ”Rör vid mig” Malin Isaksson
56. ”Dead until Dark” Charlaine Harris
57. ”Hex Education” Emily Gould and Zareen Jaffery
58. ”The Luxe” Anna Godbersen
59. ”Great Expectations” Charles Dickens
60. ”I am legend” Richard Matheson
61. ”On Writing” Stephen King
62. ”Atonement” Ian McEwan
63. ”American Eve” Paula Uruburu
64. ”Cranford” Elizabeth Gaskell
65. ”Anne of Green Gables” L. M. Montgomery
66. ”The Duchess” Amanda Foreman
67. ”New Moon” Stephenie Meyer
68. ”Eclipse” Stephenie Meyer
69. ”The Picture of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde
70. ”Little Women” Louisa May Alcott
71. ”The divingbell and the butterfly” Jean-Dominique Bauby
72. ”Romeo and Juliet” William Shakespeare
73. ”The Devil's Footsteps” E E Richardson
74. ”Breakfast at Tiffany's” Truman Capote
75. ”The Importance of BeingErnest” Oscar Wilde
76. ”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Seth Grahame-Smith
77. ”Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper” Gypsy Rose Lee
78. ”A Model Summer” Paulina Porizkova
79. ”Made in America” Bill Bryson
80. ”Mansfield Park” Jane Austen
81. ”Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs” John Lydon
82. ”Lulu in Hollywood” Louise Brooks
83. ”Krigets Färger” Arkadij Babtjenko
84. ”In a Sunburned Country” Bill Bryson
85. ”En olustig början” Lemony Snicket
86. ”Emma” Jane Austen
87. ”A Study in Scarlet” Arthur Conan Doyle
88. ”My Story” Marilyn Monroe
89. ”Gossip Girl” Cecily von Ziegesar
90. ”Tänk om det där är jag” Johanna Lindbäck
91. ”Save the Cat” Blake Snyder
92. ”Rebel without a crew” Robert Rodriguez

Ends January 18 2011
Books left: 10

Knitting hats!

I’m going to knit hats for everyone so make sure to let me know what color you want, you can also give me a picture and I’ll see if I can make you a similar one. Autumn is coming so I better start knitting. I’ll be making myself this one, but bright red instead of raspberry.

Picture from Drops Design (pattern 109-10)

Movies so far

101 movies in 1001 days

1. Le Amants du Flore
2. Chocolat
3. Exorcist, The beginning
4. Chain of Fools
5. The Tailor of Panama
6. Tur och Retur
7. Becoming Jane
8. The Gathering Storm
9. Van Helsing
10. Gangs of New York
11. Wasabi
12. Prisilla, Queen of the Desert
13. Keeping Mum
14. Cold Creek Manor
15. Kindom of Heaven
16. House of wax
17. Transamerica
18. Bandidas
19. L'Homme du train
20. The Medallion
21. New Police Story
22. The Orphanage
23. One Hour Photo
24. Fever Pitch
25. The Good Girl
26. Saved!
27. Fantastic Four
28. The wedding Banquet
29. The Pacifier
30. Dawn of the dead
31. Hitched
32. Get Smart
33. About a boy
34. Vampire Bats
35. The Royal Tenenbaums
36. Thirteen
37. Casanova
38. The Jane Austen Book Club
39. Lord of War
40. The fog (2005)
41. When a stranger calls (2006)
42. When a stranger calls (1979)
43. Shaun of the dead
44. Memoirs of a Geisha
45. Patrik 1,5
46. Gothika
47. Danny the Dog
48. Cold Prey
49. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
50. The Astronaut's Wife
51. Murk
52. Closer
53. A Very Long Engagement
54. The Libertine
55. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
56. WALL·E
57. Johnny English
58. Peter Pan
59. Cinderella
60. Kung fu Hustle
61. Australia
62. Laura
63. It's a Wonderful Life
64. Nick of Time
65. The Producers
66. Veronica Gueirn
67. Sense and Sensibility
68. Pandora's Box
69. Being there
70. Zatôichi
71. Cashback
72 Dark Knight
73. Bride Wars
74. Der Untergang
75. Ladykillers (2004)
76. Billy Elliot
77. Frost/Nixon
78. Milk
79. Chinatown
80. The Reader
81. The Wrestler
82. Casablanca
83. Babel
84. The Hot Chick
85. The Lodger
86. Metropolis
87. Slumdog Millionarie
88. Twelve Monkeys
89. Heathers
90. Singin' in the Rain
91. Night Watch
92. Atonement
93. Cheaper by the dozen 2
94. Ziegfeld Follies
95. Pan's Laburinth
96. Twilight
97. Hotel Paradiso
98. Being John Malcovich
99. Gypsy
100. Million Dollar Baby
101. Waxworks
DONE! May 31 2009
102. Once Upon a Time in the West
103. Rebel Without a Cause
104. Cleopatra
105. Elizabeth
106. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
107. Marie Antoinette
108. The Savages
109. American Graffiti
110. Velvet Goldmine
111. My Own Private Idaho
112. Run Fatboy Run
113. Role Models
114. Sunshine Cleaning
115. Mysterious Skin
116. Slap Her... She's French
117. The Messangers
118. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
119. Igor
120. Black Sheep
121. Murder by Death
122. Rebecca
123. Ringu
124. Professione: reporter
125. The Nanny Diaries
126. The Golden Compass
127. Beetle Juice
128. The Grudge
129. Miracle at St. Anna
130. The Black Balloon
131. Once upon a time in Mexico
132. Love me if you dare
133. La vie en rose
134. The Fall
135. Tristan + Isolde
136. North Country
137. Arizona Dream
138. Whatever It Takes
139. The Kid
140. Georgia Rule
141. Foxfire
142. Serendiptiy
143. Because I said so
144. Sugar and Spice
145. Young Adam
146. Bin-jip
147. It's a Boy Girl Thing
148. Miami Vice
149. The Buried Secret of M. Night Shayamalan
150. The Broken
151. Ritana
152. Casino Royale
153. The Devil Wears Prada
154. The Prestige
155. Lesbian Vampire Killers
156. The Day After Tomorrow
157. V for Vendetta
158. Saw
159. An American Haunting
160. Day Watch
161. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
162. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
163. The Order
164. The Nines
165. Disturbia
166. Oldboy
167. Knocked Up
168. Just My Luck
169. Four Feathers
170. Mystic River
171. This is England
172. The Machinist
173. Ragtime
174. Crash
175. The Bourne Supremacy
176. The Bourne Ultimatum
177. The Spiderwick Chronicles
178. Hellraiser
179. Sid & Nancy
180. Paris Je t'aime
181. The Frighteners
182. The School of Rock
183. Cops and Robbersons
184. The Brave
185. Benny & Joon
186. Priceless
187. The Other Boleyn Girl
188. Definitely, Maybe
189. Great Expectations
190. Wanted
191. Cry-Baby
192. Miss Pettigew Lives for a Day
193. Lars and the Real Girl
194. Silent Hill
195. The Transporter
196. Tais-toi!
197. An Ideal Husband
198. Mama's Boy
199. My Mon's New Boyfriend
200. Freddy vs Jason
201. The Heartbreak Kid
202. 30 Days of Night
203. Brokeback Mountain
204. Friday the 13th Part 2
205. Friday the 13th Part 3
206. Halloween II
207. The Boondock Saints
208. Dead Silence
209. The Duchess
210. In Bruges

2010
211. The Covenant
212. Ordinary Decent Criminal
213. Harsh Times
214. Terminator Salvation
215. St. Trinian's
216. The Goods: Live Hard Sell hard
217. Mansfield Park
218. Inglourious Basterds
219. A Crime
220. Mansfield Park
221. District 9
222. The Hangover
223. Eight Legged Freaks
224. The Stepfather (2009)
225. Friday the 13th (2009)
226. My Bloody Valentine (2009)
227. I Sell the Dead
228. Dead Snow
229. Black Water
230. Confessions of a Shopaholic
231. House Bunny
232. Das Cabinet des Dr. Galigari
233. The Accidental Husband
234. 1408
235. The Accidental Husband
236. Music and Lyrics
237. Miss Potter
238. Two Weeks Notice
239. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
240. Sherlock Holmes
241. The Boxer
242. The House of Mirth
243. Seven Samurai
244. River Wild
245. Per qualche dollaro in più
246. Superbad
247. High Tension
248. Prey
249. Rec
250. Drive Thru
251. Franklyn
252. Harry Brown
253. Repo! The Genetic Opera
254. The Crow: City of Angels
255. The Wolfman
256. Leap Year
257. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
258. To Be or Not to Be
259. It Happened One Night
260. Die Hard 4

Ends at April 2 2011

Three more movies… (busy weekend)

Wasabi: Silly but it was expected, love Jean Reno though
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Never got around to see it, just seen parts of it and liked what I saw and finally I got to see if from beginning to end. Loved Bernadette.
Keeping Mum: Maggie Smith (she would be a nice Mrs Marple) is so cute, so was Emilia Fox. Cute family movie with a lot of, “shall I put the kettle on”.

Movies left: 88
Days left: 978

I love the teapot, where do you get one of those?

Polly Put the Kettle On

Polly put the kettle on
Polly put the kettle on
Polly put the kettle on
We'll all have tea

Sukey take it off again
Sukey take it off again
Sukey take it off again
They've all gone away

Picture from Wikipedia