Nelly Wishlist

 New gymclothes and workout gear is on my wishlist this year.

Glossybox

In June I cancelled my subscription on Glossybox because I was moving, I had grown tired of them and had to much stuff in my drawers.

Today I feel for the promoton of getting 3 boxes at a reduced price. Lets see how long this subscription will lats.....

Sports bra addiction

It all started in early July when I realized that my sports
bra I use for work at the aquarium had lost its shape. When I raised my arms it followed and you can imagine when you have a job with a lot of lifting, twisting, carrying, moving, jumping etc its not ultimate.

I decided to just get a new one for work in a cool colours since I had two good ones for when I work out. But after I bought I new one I realized that my other two were a little worn and Adidas by stella mcCartney had a really nice canary yelow that I have been droooling over quite a while.

I bought that one as well, and then I realized I need a new one with thinner straps and bought that one and then I found a black/grey one that I can use as a layer when using tops that have no back etc when working out.

So that is 4 sportsbras in 1 month (july-august) guess what I just found online......

Yes another cool sports bra (no I did not buy it).

Is there a rehab centre for sports bra addiction?

Silver rings

In december I was with my mom shopping for christmas gifts. She was so happy because I actually wished for new earings in christmas gift. This thing with buying jewellery to me has been her achillesheel since I can remember.

With jewellery as with clothes I became quite picky in my teens (to say the least, this does not mean I had style in my teens) and there was a lot of fights over why I was not wearing some of the items I was given. I am also the kind of girl that accepts gifts and don't complain (to much). At one point I was given a silver necklace form my grandmam that I remeber at that point saying this is a guys chain and being told that this is not the case. I hated that chain (still do) but shut up and wore it a couple of times to please. Years and years later I was asked why I never wore that chain or if I had lost it and I said the same thing its a guy chain.

This never ending fight and me inheriting quite alot of jewellery resulted in me and my mother coming to an agreement that she is not allowed to buy and jewellery unless I specifically ask for it. This is the best thing that has ever happened to me. No Ihave not been able to point and say I want this, but I have been able to request whay type of jewellery I want (silver or gold this is, not fake cheap stuff).

Ohwell christmas it was looking at earringsI fell in love with thise clawring, not a basic everyday earing that I wished for. Anyhow today when I was downtown looking for new cool compressionsocks to wear when running Göteborgsvarvet in 2 weeks I stepped into Guldfynd to  have a look. And to my luck the clawring was on 50% sale. Guess who was happy leaving that store. Walking home i took a new route due to a running competition in town and saw that the antiqueshop was open. I stepped in to have a look at the paintings. I left the shop with two silver rings, a plain simple one from 1920 and a more elaborate from 1930.

I realized when I got home that these are my first silver rings I have bought since high school. I have been given three rings since. A silver ring from A for my bachelors of Science graduation, a gold ring I designed myself for my double bachelors and inherited my Daisy duck ring from grandma. Other than that I have bought one fake ring since high school.

Spring shoe shopping

I'm in desperate need of new spring shoes. All of my previous seasons shoes have ended up in the bin or are in the extreme short list for the bin (ie they are totally worn out I just have to accept it).

This weekend Freeport in kungsbacka had a shoe weekend. Give one pair to charity and get a voucher worth 150 sek to buy a new pair with.

I found a gorgeous pair of from vagabond and then I managed to fill the bikini quota for 2013. Beach 2013 I am ready!!!

Oh and a hot pink bra and a loosefit simple dress for madagascar also tagged along home.

My mom also managed to find some things.

A little bit of shopping

Having spent the weekend in Linköping I am now all relaxed with fully charged batteries, a new haircut and colour + new items in my wardrobe.

My friend M found out on friday that she got the PhD position she had applied for and we needed to celebrate. Friday was not an option since I had a 25th birthday party to attend and she is currently in an ICLD (insanely low calorie diet).
Yesterday I had a 3 hr hairdressers appointment and after that a hangover to cure. Instead we decided to go shopping today and not for gymclothes.

The only thing I needed were basic items like eye make up remover, ankle socks and a new eye primer.

 
I found those items and:

  2 necklases on sale

 a cute singlet almost for free (ok ok I am planning to run hot summer days in this)

a shirt that had my name on it. Its monkeys and Tucans on it!!

A scarf - see above argument!

Wear and tear

I am a person that loves to shop and buy new things. But I am also a person that never ever ever throw away items that are not worn to pieces.

I have managed to convince myself on several occasions that I need to give items to charity and that I do.

what I find interesting is how much underwear some people seem to be purchasing a year. I think on average I might buy 2 new bras a year and knickers I have no clues (I buy those when I'm in desperate need of new ones). Yes since I have a small bra size I know that I don't put as much strain on them as a person with a D-cup. But still. How many bras do a person need honestly?

Will get back some day on these thoughts.....

photo: Nelly

Sustainable wardrobe

This fall I have almost my complete wardrobe in one place, ony city. There are some exceptions that is still at my parents place, but this has given me a chance to actually see what I have, what I need and what I use.

Yhea the last part I should have knows clearly from having my wardrobe divided into three, but hey I'm only human. I like buying clothes and well apprently that is a bad thing, since I'm throwing away my money instead of saving them (yadda yadda yadda). For 8 months I have only bought necessary items like new running clothes, bra. I made two slipups: one pair of shoes for €5 and then a bikini for €8.
That was until I got my massive paycheck in end of august. Since then I have updated my wardrobe with some ehm essentials(links for pictures to previous posts):

• Sparkly bra
• jeans that actually fit like a glove
• thick knitted basic cardigan 
• black shirt
• denim shirt in a slimfit
• relex runners jacket
• fun dinnerparty dress

Then we have the things that I just fell in love with

• navy seethrough shirt
• navy dress
• bright coloured singlets (green and ornage)
• perfect black skirt
• runner tights

Things that I still need to get this fall

•  winter runner tights
• icebugs (if I continue to run in winter that is)
• winter/fall boots (I have no allaround boots anymore)

À trend?

I think I can sense a new trend in my wardrobe:

Navy/black skirt/dresses/tunics

3 of my latest purchases
Navy see through acne skir
Navy wyhred dress
Black gestuz skirt (gotta love the back)

The sparkly bra

Next in line after the dress was logging onto instagram and there on style by Tyra's shop was the sparkly sequin bra. I have been chasing funny bratops since Mexico, but only found lace ones. So I decided for the ooooh so descrete sparkly bra instead....

A little bit of shopping

My shopping an lasted until the 17th of August. Yes I broke my promise on my birthday when I found a dress I had been drooling over all summer on 70% of the 50% sale. Yes it was almost free from the original price.

I have worn it since and got so much praise for it.

Some gym clothes

This running thing and being bad in updating your outdoor gym clothes collection has resulted in a severe expansion of my gym clothes wardrobe.

This summer I have invested in some short:

Nike running tights

Reebok EA7

Adidas cool fit cotton

Cross jacket

Stay in place sports bra

Rönish Singlet

Nike lunarglide3+

Oops

Still working on how u can justify these into my shopping ban.

This far we have the arguments:
Fit like a glove - ok not good enough
Cost €5 - might work
Have three occasions to wear them in may - just need to wear them at these occasions then
Interior decoration for my shoe shelf - oh yhea still need to buy that shoe shelf

Dermalogica active moist

Show me what you got!

I finally dared to try dermalogical after looking at it for years.

Really like when your bag I full of extra samples to. And that they had pagage deals for the same price as one item.

Abdecita bikini

Its bin 6 years since last.

So when I found a new gorgeous bikini for €7 a piece I felt that it called my name.

Yes it's true I have not bought a new bikini in 6 years. Good iquality or high quantity?!

P.s the grey thing in the corner is Silvra inspecting my new purchase...

Working condition?!

I got a question yesterday if I really needed new runners and how I could justify buying two pairs when on a shopping ban.

To put some statistics in how much I wear on my shoes.
1) my runners are 2 years old
2) I tend to walk more than run, but I still run from time to time
3) since I got the Nike+gps app in October I have walked a minimum of 360 km (actually recorded)
4) Look at the health of my soles.... Yes it's an actual hole in the bottom of my sole


Do you still think its not justified to buy two good pairs for the price of one. Well not my problem

Super bargain

All this week I have been talking with my friends about what exercise shoes I should get: runners or reebok easytone?

I finally decided on a pair of easytone since I walk more than run.
Headed to Skövde today enter intersport and all last years colors are on 50% sale.

Imagine my luck when my runners are standing there in my size.

Hence I got two pairs for the price if one.

Linköping shopping part I

So I have been in Sweden two weeks and already had time to do some shopping. Yes no news there I have a problem, but this time some of the things were also necessary.

You would think that having been in a cheap country for 4 months that there would be NOTHING more that my closet need until early next year. and yhea that could be true if I would have been able to find pants that fitted me over there.

Since I came home I have needed to get a new pair of jeans, since all mine are to big and are getting quite thin (we are talking ripping any second thin), my seat pants are to big, didn't bring enough warm sweaters with me from home and also forgot all my tights with feet at home.

 Left all my nailpolish at home so bought this kit for €4 at H&M

 Knitted pale pink tunic on 70% from "Made in the shade"

 New gym singlet, not on sale but only have one workout top with me, wokring out more than 3x a week sort of makes me feel that I needed atleast one more "Rönish"

 Tights from Åhlens, great for short skirts and tunic before the thick knitted ones are pulled out of the closet

 Jeans 70% sale fram "Mason and Scotch"

"Stay in place" sports bra, as with the singlet one is just not enough when you work out more than once a week.

So what is not better to do than finding all these things while there is a 70% sale going on in the shops? Yews great idea, but it also means that more items find their way into the shopping bag. Like a new white top and fall jacket.
Some things are already in the laundry but will post them shortly.

Shopping

Maybe I should pull out my camera and photograph my new clothes that I have bargained on end of summer sale the last week.

Or hangon, I think I need to wash it all first. Seem to have lived in the clothes since I bought them (I guess that is what you call barganing big time)

Jewellery

How much Jewellery ois healthy for one person to buy in a 4 month period?