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?! 

 

Hope you all had a nice Christmas! I could not miss posting Indian style for Christmas, which I actually styled for last Christmas while in India.😉

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.😉

Few days ago, we had an announcement from the Government office about Norway being fully open now, celebrating with fireworks in the city center. It was a good celebration with crowds gathering, which turned out into police having trouble to control them. This sounds good to me as its been a while hearing about crowds.. haha.. More than 90% of the population has been vaccinated.. without much hassle like in other countries (you know which one I am talking about!). We are very glad that Norway has such smooth and extra cautious procedures that make our lives pretty easy. Personally, I did not have any side effects from vaccines, and none of our families and friends either. *touch wood* Though we did not have major lockdowns or mask rules in Norway like other countries, we did have a low death rate, and people falling sick quite often during the last few months. Now it's the kid's turn due to the flu season arriving soon. Anyway, we are in a much better shape now, which means we ...

Apparently, I am starting the blog this year with a post complaining about my weight for the very first time.  Most of my life, I struggled being almost underweight. While, it didn't bother me much, I still remember my 20s, mom trying all kinds of food on me just to make me gain that-needed-bit of fat. Slowly, I got obsessed to have chubby cheeks for once in my life.  I have clear memory of how much of cashews, chocolates, ice creams, milkshakes I have gulped down extravagantly.  Nothing helped much. I can see that it is all working on me now in my 30s. Once you are in 30s, you don't need to worry - Whatever you eat or not, weight just follows you. Result: Mom is happy 😅 And me struggling to get into shape. On another note, Corona virus has been declared as pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). Our schools are shut down, and offices might be closed soon here in Norway. It's huge and it's happening. Don't panic, but be vigilant ...

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...