Thankfully I have friends. Good friends. Friends I wouldn’t want to be without. And today Monica came over and brought Zita and her four puppies with her. Puppy therapy! I guess it’s meaningless to even mention, but I have a major crush on the single male of the litter, and it seems like it might be mutual. He’s completely and utterly adorable! Why is it that small, furry animals have such a therapeutic effect on people? Or at least on me? I’m forever grateful for today’s session of puppy cuddling, and it was so cool to watch Theo with the little ones. He was so sweet and gentle, trying to initiate play and running around checking up on them.

click for enlarged images

Aren’t they just adorable? One of the four puppies, the tricolor female, didn’t want to appear on any of my photos. I did however have a ton of the handsome little man, go figure. It’s almost impossible to get good photos of moving critters, but a few of them turned out good enough to share with the rest of the world. The first photo shows one of the white females in an awkward sleeping position – she was actually sleeping like that before we startled her by taking her picture – together with her mom, Zita. The second photo shows the other white female trying to hide inside their blanket, and doing a hell of a job! And the last photo shows Zita and her roaring little lion cub, while Theo is carefully sneaking up on them to be closer to the action.

Thank you, my dear Monica!

Photos © Øyvind H. ’10

The next time I buy something for my camera I think it’ll be a new objective, as I’ve been planning to buy the Canon EF 28mm F2.8 for quite some time now. I guess I’ll have to prioritize a new objective instead of all that tempting and oh so colorful makeup, so I’m actually able to shoot some acceptable EOTD’s for my blog.

One’s gotta love new gadgets!

Photo © Canon Inc.

Norges Handikapforbund, Norsk Forbund for Utviklingshemmede og ULOBA har gått sammen i en allianse for å kjempe frem en individuell rettighetsfesting av Brukerstyrt Personlig Assistanse (BPA). Kampanjen kalles Mitt Liv, og handler om friheten til å leve selvstendig selv om man lever med nedsatt funksjonsevne. Jeg er en av de mange som er avhengige av å ha personlige assistenter i hverdagen for å kunne leve et selvstendig liv, og har derfor BPA gjennom Trondheim kommune. Selv om kommunene har lovbestemt plikt til å tilby BPA, har ingen rett til å kreve ordningen. Beklageligvis finnes det ingen tydelig definisjon på hva BPA er, og ordningen blir derfor praktisert ulikt over hele landet.

Vil du lese mer om kampanjen Mitt Liv?
Du finner den på FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/mittliv2010

“Hvis jag kan få assistans på det jag är dårlig på, kan jag göra det jag är bra på.”
David Lega

I therefore decided to invest in a few of these Lip Tars. They come in every color you can imagine, and if you by any chance should happen to imagine a color which isn’t part of their selection, well, then you’re free to mix it up yourself. Fantastic! I went looking for some good swatches, and ended up choosing five pretty neutral colors. These thumbnails doesn’t show the colors any justice at all, so you’ll have to use Google to really see how these fabulous lip colors work.

Each tube contains 8 ml, and costs $12.50 (which would be about 78,- NOK with today’s exchange rate) if you choose to order them directly from Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics – and yes, OCC ships worldwide! You only need the tiniest little blob, and it should be applied with a lip brush. A tube of Lip Tar will pretty much last you a life time.

I tried doing some swatching of my own, but since these Lip Tars was a lot more liquid than I had ever imagined it was a little hard getting only the tiniest amount of products out of the tube. Please disregard the sloppy blobs! I’m happy to discover that all five colors look quite different in real life as opposed to the tube, but I don’t really understand why I would order a color like Melange. Anyway, they smell faintly of peppermint – which I like – and they look immensely cool to mix! I’m also happy to announce that they are completely non-sticky.

Photos © Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics & Shamini Thevarajah ’10

Photo © Shamini Thevarajah ’10

For quite some time now I’ve been wanting a key necklace. I didn’t want the classic ones from Tiffany & Co., and I didn’t want it to be too big either. A couple of weeks ago we were in town, and I ventured into Gullfunn where I discovered this little beauty. I prefer my jewelery in .925 Sterling Silver as opposed to gold, so I was very happy to find this little key – although I didn’t pay very close attention to the label saying “Diamond”. I was planning on buying it for myself, but Øyvind beat me to it and gave me this gorgeous necklace as a gift.

I’ll admit to be frowning slightly at the price since .925 isn’t usually that expensive – still not really noticing the “Diamond” label – but it came with a chain and was from aha® Design, so I figured that might be the reason. When we arrived home I yet again opened up the box to admire the necklace, and this time I actually noticed the tiny little stones which the key was set with. Hm, stones? And then I suddenly realized that my key was set with diamonds! Diamonds. Imagine that.

I love it – in addition to the coolness of actually owning diamonds – thank you my sweet!

Photo © Shamini Thevarajah ’10

I don’t have any hopes of getting my hands on the rest of these items, I know that Danish girl paid a lot of money for hers and I’m don’t want them that much, so I’m happy with my one gorgeous lipstick. Maybe M·A·C will do another collaboration with Playboy some time soon? If that happens I’ll be first in line to grab me a full set of product from this collection.

Photo © Temptalia

The first product I fished out of the envelope was one of Illamasqua’s nail polishes in “Jan”. It’s described as a “light dusky pink” with a glossy finish, an absolutely gorgeous color right up my lane. Illamasqua actually won Cosmopolitan’s Beauty Award for Best Nail Polish 2010, so I’m glad I got the chance to try it out! The second product was one of their Intense Lipgloss in “Fierce”, which is a “bright blue purple”. Do I have to spell my excitement here? The last two items in the envelope was a sneak peek of what’s coming this fall/winter! I’m quite honored. It’s an eye liner called Precision Ink, and I received one in “Abyss” (pure black) and one in “Alchemy” (spun gold), and they look amazing.

More info and a review of these products will come soon!

Due to some personal issues I’ve decided to postpone school once again, so I resigned from my spot last week. Don’t think it was an easy decision. I’ve spent several weeks pondering, talking it over with my family, trying to decide what would be best for me – but now that the decision has been made I feel only relief, and not regret. At least this time I don’t feel like a complete failure. I don’t have anything else mapped out for the coming year, but I’m sure new plans will emerge when time is ready. I haven’t worn any makeup for a very long time now, except for some mascara as I’m testing MUFE Smoky Lash Extra Black Mascara. It’s impossible to do a proper look when my pool of inspiration has dried up on me. What happened?

My neck is acting up again, and it’s frustrating wanting to do stuff without having the energy to follow through. Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the time of year. Maybe it’s just life. I hate the fall, go figure – and I hate the uncertainty of not knowing what’s coming in the near future.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if it suddenly appeared to be stuck in my mailbox some time next week.

Ragnaråkk, where I got both my piercings, celebrated their 6th birthday today with cakes and sparkling drinks – and a 30% sale on everything in the shop! I was planning on heading over there to pick up a bag and a hoodie I kinda wanted to get the last time I was there, but my neck has been bugging me severely the last couple of days so I decided to just relax at home instead. But since I’m blessed with such a loving boyfriend, he volunteered to go to Ragnaråkk for me, I now have both an Iron Fist-hoodie and a immensely cool handbag (with a skull) from Living Dead Souls in my possession.

Photo courtesy of Google