The Everyday Girl Blog

Summers can be less warmer with kurti fits like these.  This is a throwback post from my last trip to India in 2022, when the weather was supposed to cool down. Unlike me who loves wearing night clothes and shut myself indoors, I had to pull out the cotton dresses and kurtis to endure the heat. Love how comfortable and breathable they made me feel. I bought 3 of similar kurtis and I don't regret. How do you like it?  I love the last shot in this post.. wasn't intentional to advertise Tommy though.. or was it?! ;-)

Borrowing outfits from friends is so fun.. We were at a cabin for a weekend and suddenly planned to wear similar coloured outfits. I was left with no option and a good friend lent me this denim dress. I was so glad it fit me well and comfortable.  Had to take some good outfit pictures, so styled it with bag and shoes borrowed from other friends. Haha.. it was literally taking away what they were using just for the pictures. Do you do this too?! 

 

Bringing in some Easter vibes.. of course have to do this in Indian style ;) From Google: The Easter season is filled with yellow: chicks, colored eggs, yellow flowers reborn in spring and, most importantly, sunshine. Yellow flowers are symbol of friendship. (So are yellow heart emojis.) And in a religious context, gold represents joy, victory and triumph, as in the resurrection's triumph over death. So here I am, presenting this saree that I wore for an Indian festival in my recent trip.  I loved the color and the pattern so much that we bought the same pattern in different colors, and i am stuck with this beautiful spring color. I did not have time during the trip to get the blouse stitched, so fixed it with an old golden colored one. As i am neither an expert in sarees nor the draping, kept it simple with steps. And i think this draping style suited the saree pattern as well.  Paired the look with simple and my favorite ruby+emerald jewellery. And what is an India...

Recently I travelled for the first time during Covid in the last 2.5 years! It was the longest since I haven't taken a flight. I couldn't contain my excitement when the flights were finally booked to fly home after postponing the trips for few times due to covid. I feel as excited for fly-time as much I am for my vacation itself. This time I realized how much I missed airports - from baggage check-ins, struggling with liquids at security, shopping during transits, airplane watching, to watching movies and the food on-board. Don't judge me on the last part. I see those good times are slowly coming back, I missed flying! What part during travel do you enjoy the most? These pictures are a throwback to when transit times were non-covid and you are free to roll around at the airports.. and maybe do a photoshoot.😉

The last weekend trip that was cancelled was a plan to go to the quiet mountains for skiing. This time I missed most of the winter days due to travel and other priorities. It's almost spring in most parts of the world, but I am still looking forward to ski in the coming weeks - you know the desire when you live in Norway.  While the plan didn't materialize, reminiscing some snow pictures from the past.  There's a funny story behind these pictures.  One of the last summers, we actually been on a hike trip to Preikestolen and stayed at a cabin. In the next days, the plan was to make another hike, this time to Kjerag and one of my most favorite hikes. While we rested after our first hike at the cabin and tried enquiring officials about the weather on top of Kjerag so we could dress up accordingly, we were surprised with an answer that there is still snow everywhere but the hike was open. Which basically meant we needed winter hiking gear. Though we didn't dare to do a snow...

While polka dots have been trending for a long time and will be in forever, I never thought I would love neons as much until I tried it a couple of years ago.  Since my childhood, neon shades have been treated as such blocking colours, I didn't want to be an odd man out wearing them. And wearing them on a bright day can easily hurt the eyes of audience.  BUT.. one day or the othe r, you try what you got to try, isn't it?  And a little bit of  colour blocking wouldn't hurt anyone either!  So we did this shoot when I  unusually  had a chance to wear sleeveless dress in Stavanger. I wanted to keep it neon themed and chose to wear this light neon-pink polka dots dress that I got for my birthday few years ago. At the same time, didn't want to overload the neon, hence kept it simple with easy-going neon earrings and shoes styling with monochrome bag and jewellery.  Now I see that I'm slowly incorporating these colours in my everyday...

Happy New Year, people! Hope you all had a wonderful start of the year. Mine certainly did that locked me up for first 2weeks. Had a busy start of the year which has so far been so good.  India has just celebrated one of the largest festivals during last week. Its called Sankranthi or Pongal or Lohri depending on the region you are from and is celebrated in most parts of South India.  A festive week right after the New Year ending the cold days with celebration of welcoming Sun God and beginning of harvest season. Its a close to heart festival for farmers but it does is celebrated across India. Of course being away from India, we just welcomed snow on this part of the world and miss having bonfires, doing rangolis outside our homes. And festive fooood, how can anyone forget that. Though I wouldn't enjoy the 3rd day of this festival anymore as I reduced my meat intake now. Yes, the third day called Kanuma is dedicated to eating only meat :( Coming to the outfit of...