photo © Indiedays

Just wanted to share these few snaps from Indiedays' blogger event which was held last Saturday at restaurant Maxine in Helsinki. It had been a while since I last attended this event, because the previous one was held during my blog absence and I didn't dare to go back then, having an unactive blog and all :'D

Other than last time, the venue was much nicer this time around and had a pretty nice view from the balcony! I asked Sini to come to the day event with me, but went to the evening gala by myself and ended up hanging out with Milja and Sara there.

The event itself was pretty dull, goodiebag was full of things I don't really need and I managed to miss the food in both events and I don't know how that's even possible :'D Meeting other bloggers is always fun though! The music in the evening gala was way too loud for chatting with people, so me, Milja and Sara sneaked our way to the "closed" part of the venue so we could actually sit down and chat with eachother lol.

Overally it was a fun day and it was nice to get to know some people better! I kinda wish in the future they would have a bit more variety in the companies represented in the event... They've been pretty much the same every year and I don't know how many times you can collaborate with the same companies.

See ya!

How many of you have heard of a book called "Blog by the book - blogiopas" (blogiopas = blog guide)? How many of you actually own it? Great. If you do, you've probably found a familiar face on it's pages!

If you still have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, let me tell you: couple years back, I was asked by Miki if I was interested in being included in a book she was currently planning back then. You bet I was! I was excited to get to a part of this project and started waiting for more details.

In summer of 2013 we had two photoshoots together for the book. One outdoors and one in the studio. We weren't allowed to mention anything about the book at this point, so the only thing I posted were these 2 pics on Instagram (one, two).

Later came the interviews, handled via email by Noora, who's the other pair of the fabulous couple. After that began the waiting for the finished book. I can only imagine how much work it is to put together an actual book!


In September of 2014 the long wait was finally over and the book was published! A publishing party was held and each of us bloggers got two copies of the book for ourselves. I gave the other one to my parents and kept one for myself.

The finished book looks amazing! The layout of the book is cute, but still looks professional and definitely is loyal to the style of it's authors.


The book contains tips for blogging, such as how to start a blog, what you should know when designing a layout for the blog and when writing the posts, how to come up with a blog name, how to deal with comments and interract with your readers. Also some good-to-know stuff about blogging and the law is included.

After all the blog basics, it also has interviews and tips from 17 different finnish bloggers, me being one of them!


Each blogger has four personal pages in the book which tell a little story of the history of the blog, what are their strong points and what kind of blog they are running.

All of us were asked to give 5 tips for blogging, and here's mine:

1. You can find your personal style with the help of blogging.
2. In order to stand out from the sea of blogs, basic coding skills are good to learn.
3. To study the code, try solving smaller problems first.
4. If you're running a quality blog, you can use it as a business card when applying for jobs.
5. Your blog's name might need an update, if it starts feeling foreign to you.

If you have the book or have read it somewhere, I'd be very interested to know what you thought of it! So please share your thoughts in the comments. This book is a great buy for those who are thinking of starting blogging. I wish there would've been something like this when I started writing mine :)

Also huge thanks to Miki and Noora for asking me to be a part of this project! The journey was a lot of fun.

I saw this post on Anniina's blog a while back and though it was a fun idea, so I too, went to check out my blog's keywords from Google Analytics and decided to share the funniest and weirdest ones from the past year with you!

I had keywords in both English and Finnish, so I decided to translate the ones that were in Finnish, to English (but the original keywords are still listed too!), so you would all be able to understand them. Here we go!

cupcake couture arrogant
(original: cupcake couture ylimielinen)
Cupcake Couture is the old name of this blog. But it seems like someone is desperately trying to find some evidence of me being a bitch, since this keyword pops up in the list every now and then.

goth blog
(original: gootti blogi)
Umm... Seems like the one searching with this keyword, got a bit lost. I guess my style and blog could be categorized as "alternative" and there might be some gothic elements to it, but I would never say I'm a goth. Well, I hope the person enjoyed my blog anyway!

clip-on extensions at a security check
(original: klipsipidennykset turvatarkastuksessa)
This one is also kind of common in my list. Well, I can tell from my experience that during the time I wore clips and had to go through the airport's security check, they never beeped nor I had to take them off. I guess that's what many people with clip-ons are wondering. Now you know!

long nails suomi24 sex & woman masturbates with nails
(original: pitkät kynnet suomi24 seksi & nainen runkkaa kynsillä)
I don't know why, but along these, a lot of sex/porn related keywords often appear on my list. Why?? Also many of the referring links to my blog are from quite suspicious (russian) sites, also which never actually have my blog linked anywhere (yes, I've checked a few). Does anyone else have this problem? Is it some kind of virus? I don't know about these things.
Anyway, if you're wondering the answer to the actual keywords, see this answer on my ask.fm account (warning: NSFW). Suomi24 is a finnish forum btw.


wire extensions surgery
(original: siimapidennys leikkaus)
"Leikkaus" can also be translated as "cut/cutting" but my first thought was surgery when I saw this. Sounds kinda brutal.

viivi vanessa virpi
Viivi is my first given name and Vanessa is the second one. Virpi, on the other hand, is a nickname given to me by my friends and it's actually a common old-woman-name in Finland. Which makes me wonder: why are some names considered as old-people names, when they've probably had those names as kids too.. hmm.
I find it kind of funny that someone actually bothered to google this, hahaha.

where is tuomas?
(original: missä tuomas on?)
Not sure which one of my friends you mean (or if this person was searching for either of them), but maybe you should ask from the person in question themself?

blak salvia/blac saliba/blacjsalivia
Spelling names wrong is something that pisses me off. A LOT. And I was hoping that the new blog name would be easier to write correctly, because people had a lot of problems getting "Cupcake Couture" right.
"Black Salvia" is probably the most common way to misspell the name. I would understand a typo but Salvia is a flower and Saliva means drool. It's a totally different thing guys!!
(not a keyword, but kinda related to this topic: I freaking hate it when people write my name as Vivii/Vivi/ViVii or other bullshit like that. Get it right please :D I get that double vowels might be hard for foreigners, but what makes you think the second part would be the long one, uguuu).

nail polish stand ikea
(original: kynsilakkateline ikea)
I know many people use Ikea's Helmer for nail polish storage and it's supposedly great, as the shelves are the right height for nail polish bottles. I on the other hand, have two acrylic wall racks that I got from cesars (they were just laying around, unused) but you can find those from eBay: here.


children's champagne
(original: lasten skumppa)
Planning on throwing a party for kids? Well, you might not find tips for those from this blog. The only possible explanation for this can be a super old post of mine, where I might have mentioned buying some kid's bubbly drink.

lies-love letters
(original: valehtelee-love letters)
"Valehtelee" can be translated as lies or lying. Anyway, sounds like someone is trying to dig up some love letter drama. How they ended up in my blog, I have no idea. I kinda wish someone would be old fashioned enough to write me a love letter (without lies, preferably).

hiding jug ears with a hair-do
(original: hörökorvat piiloon kampauksella)
Does this mean I have jug ears? :D I used to think so when I was younger and refused to ever wear my hair up, but nowadays I don't really care and I think my ears are normal. But well, having long hair and wearing it down is pretty much your only option if you hate your ears so much.

riotcolor's address
(original: riotcolorin osoite)
Oh no, looks like someone wants to know where Heikki lives. Which makes me recall a situation that happened a while back with Sini when she moved into a new apartment and someone had seen her and started sending her messages about "knowing where she lives" etc. That's just creepy and rude. If you happen to be neighbours with or know where a blogger/vlogger/musician/anyone you don't know personally lives, keep that information to yourself and most importantly, don't go telling that to the person in question. You'll just make them feel harrassed.

can you buy nail tips elsewhere than from online stores
(original: saako kynsitippejä ostettua muualta kuin nettikaupasta)
Yes, go check your local beauty supplier, they should have some basic ones.


japan bondage live
(original: japani sidonta live)
Umm.... I guess these words might have appeared separately in my blog, but never like this...

best lipstick for yellow teeth
(original: paras huulipuna keltasille hampaille)
Are my teeth so yellow that even Google thinks so?? :DD Anyway, I guess red and other darker shades work the best. Avoid nudes and other light colors.

black saliva nose job
(original: black saliva nenäleikkaus)
 Lol what is this? Is there many people wondering this, because also words "viivi vanessa nose job" and "nose job blog" appeared on the list... But no, I haven't had a nose job, I just like to do some contouring. Would you like a tutorial of it?

hairbrush that got stuck in hair
(original: hiuksiin kiinni jäänyt harja)
When something like this happens, do you go google for a solution? I probably wouldn't, unless I was super desperate. Besides, I don't think this has ever happened to me :'D

blacksaliva without make up 
I can't remember if I have posted makeup-less pics on this blog, but if you want to see me without it, check out these: 1, 2.
Also there were quite many searches for visual kei band members without makeup (for example: mejibray without make up, mejibray koichi no makeup, mejibray meto no makeup, kazuki royz without makeup). Why are people so interested in what somebody looks like without makeup? Try to appreciate the look they have chosen for themselves instead of judging the blank canvas :)


viivi name meaning
According to Wikipedia, it means "lively" and "lovely" and is a finnish version for Vivian. I actually just got to know this because I was curious and googled it :D I have the impression that finnish names usually don't have any meaning and if they do, they're not commonly known nor people really care for them or ask you what your name means. But when traveling abroad, this is kind of a common question I get from people. Well, I guess from now on I can actually tell a little about what it means :D

(jeffrey campbell) lita's for a 13 year old
(original: litat 13 vuotiaalle)
If you ask me, I wouldn't let a 13 year old wear 12cm heels. They would just look silly on someone so young.

long toe nails ew
(original: pitkät varpaankynnet hyi)
I agree with this one. Long nails on toes are horrible.

i'm a bald headed rat
(original: olen kulipäärotta)
Before you go all "wtf?", let me tell why I think this keyword has lead to my blog. You all know Moomins, right? The phrase "Olen kulipäärotta" is something Snork Maiden says, devastated, in the episode when a Hattifattener bumps into her and burns off her fringe. Which after Moomintroll comforts her and says "I've always fancied bald girls".
As Moomins are a big part of a finnish kid's childhood and a timeless classic (I've watched the series many times as an adult too), some of the phrases from the series get used as quotes in everyday life :D This one is probably one of the most popular ones and you can use it whenever you're having a bad hair day, hahah.
It is very possible I have used the phrase at some point of my blogging history.

pissis eyebrows
(original: pissis kulmakarvat)
I don't know how to translate "pissis" but it basicly means a girl who dresses kinda like the main characters of Mean Girls (well, not exaclty, check this google search to get better idea). They usually have bad makeup and bad eyebrows. How has this person ended up in my blog, is a mystery.... I think my eyebrows.. look... pretty good?


kerava style
What exactly is "Kerava style", I don't know, but my pictures apparently show up when you search for it, because I once had a photoshoot at Kerava. Kerava is a city close to Helsinki.

nail cancer
(original: kynsisyöpä)
Oh my god, does something like this actually exist? Sounds like something from my worst nightmares.

what to do when u meet your first date
Well, try getting to know each other better? Go eat, have drinks, whatever, but I think chatting with eachother is the most important thing and that's why I wouldn't go to movies on a first date. Preferably wouldn't do the following either:

pictures of how to have sex on my first date
Why does someone need a pictured tutorial for this.. and has someone actually made one??

st.petersburg cruise whores
(original: pietarin risteily huorat)
I've been on cruise to St. Petersburg and back and it was the shabbiest cruise with the worst food ever and I can't really recommend it to anyone :D Maybe it would've been better if it wasn't lacking the whores this person was looking for!


does eyelash glue get into your eye easily
(original: meneekö irtoripsi liima helposti silmään)
No. Or well, I use the best brand there is, which is DUO. No problems at all with that one. Highly recommended!

first to eat, last to eat
(original: syömäs eka, syömäs vika)
Does this have something to do with the song Salil eka salil vika by Musta Barbaari? :'D While the song is about being first at the gym and being the last one to leave, I have no idea what the keyword here is about, haha. Well, fits me better than the song, lol.

viivi boyfriend
Why, are you interested? ;D I'm not seeing anyone at the moment.

flashing boobs while bending over
(original: tissit vilahtaa kumartuessa)
How about wearing a less boobie-licious shirt? Nothing wrong with boobs tho, boobs are great.

good emo photoediting apps
(original: hyviä emo kuvanmuokkausohjelmia)
Hahahaha, is there actually specific editing softwares meant for emos? :D And do emo kids still exist?


That was my funniest, weirdest and most random keywords! :D This post was super fun to write. If you have a blog, let me know which is the most odd keyword someone has ended up to your blog with? It would also be fun to know how you have ended up in my blog the first time too!

Hi guys! It's been half a year since I last updated my blog. Let me tell you a bit about why I went on an unplanned hiatus in the first place.

Remember when I last re-opened my blog and stated I strictly wanted to post about style only? Well, seems like that was where I was wrong. Cutting out many possible post choices only made it harder for me to blog. I felt like nothing I wanted to post about, was good enough for this blog. I raised the bar too high for myself. I took outfit photos but never posted them because I felt like there wasn't enough pictures or they weren't diverse or good enough. And that led to me not wanting to blog at all.

But I thought that all would be fixed after I got to Japan, because that would be interesting enough to blog about, right? But it turns out when I got there, I realized I wanted to enjoy the trip and live in the moment, not stop in the middle of something and take outfit pics in the deadly heat of japanese summer. Everybody who has ever blogged, knows it's a lot of work to deliver something as simple as an outfit post.

Also I didn't wanna bother my friends to do the photographing for me, because if they don't blog themselves, I have no way to return the favor. It would just be annoying to them. And taking good outfit pics by yourself is... well, hard.

Another problem I've had for a longer time already, is that my current camera is way too big and heavy to be carried along with me to places and many times that I've actually had it with me, I haven't even took it out of my bag to take the pictures I wanted, because it was "too much work". Taking pics with my phone is much easier and faster, but I used to think that the quality of them wasn't good enough for blogging (which is funny because if you look at the pictures in my posts, the quality still isn't the best because I just aren't that good with cameras haha).

Anyway, I've been thinking about getting a smaller camera soon, so it should fix that problem.

After Japan, I totally lost my inspiration for this blog and thought about closing it for good many times. I had too much stuff I should blog about, but I didn't, because I didn't know where to start and didn't have any will to do it.

But for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to do it. This blog means too much to me and it's been a big part of me for the past almost seven years. I didn't want to end something I would regret later. And I'm glad I didn't, because I recently got my motivation back! I finally realized what my readers and friends have been telling me all along: "I liked your blog better before". Reading my old posts, I understood that was true and it's okay to post about normal life and not everything needs to be super duper amazing. Even though I had people constantly telling me that, I guess sometimes you just need to figure it out by yourself. Especially when you're the kind of person like I am who always thinks they're right lol.

Trying way too hard to be perfect, took all the fun away from blogging. Also trying to keep the posting schedule too tight made me super stressed, so in the future I'll try to not think about it too much. I don't want to make any promises I can't keep.


That said, the future posts might be about anything, but if something is for sure, I will keep posting about my nails (because that's a thing I feel super passionate about, but the things I want to say about them would be too long to post on instagram) and I have a whole series about my Japan trip planned (so you will still get to know what I did during my trip yay!), even if they're mostly pics I took with my phone. I won't force myself to take outfit pics if I don't feel like taking any, but if I do feel like it, I'll keep those posts coming as well.

The blog also has a new layout! The new start after hiatus wouldn't feel as fresh without one, haha. There's no dramatic changes to it, because why change something that works fine and is what I like, hmm. The pics are once again taken by my super talented friend, Heikki! Please go give him a follow if you like the photos.

You probably noticed, but the header is a bit different than usually. How do you like the slideshow? Which one of the headers is your favourite? I've tried to have the header as a slideshow before too, but even when I got it to work on my computer, it didn't work on tablet. Now it should, but please let me know if you have any problems viewing it!

But now, I'm excited about getting back to blogging! I feel a bit rusty, but I'm sure it will get better soon. I haven't really read any blogs for a while, so I have a lot of catching up to do with the blog world.

Has anyone missed me during my break? ;)

My bb Alex flew back to Finland a week ago to spend some quality time with us during the week. Last saturday, I attended to Indiedays' Inspiration day & blog awards gala with him and Sini. We also met up with Sari and her friend Saga and spent the day together.

The day part consisted of meeting other bloggers, making contacts for possible future collaborations, attending to different blog related lessons (we didn't attend to any of them tho, heh) and enjoying food & drinks. They also had different contests you could take part in and everybody got a goodiebag when they left.

I don't have any pics from the evening or my look for the evening gala except for the one I posted on Twitter, but there wasn't as many activities there as there was at the day event. They basically just handed out the awards (congrats to those who won something!!) and when that was done, everybody started drinking lol.

I personally enjoyed the day event more, because I was feeling a bit nauseous at the evening gala due to drinking too much of Fresita, ugh. After the gala, we continued the party at my place before heading to a club for the rest of the evening. Overally it was a fun night and it was so nice to meet people - old and new - again!

I guess you might have noticed it as well, but I get A LOT of questions about my nails, such as "how can you live with those", "how do you use a smart phone", "how do you wipe your butt" and then list goes on.

I got tired of answering all those questions like "ahh, you get used to everything", "it's not hard at all", SO! I decided I will make a little video where I will show you guys how I do daily things with them since you obviously don't seem to believe me hahaha.

Here's a few fun facts: my nails are 5,0-5,5cm long, they are gel nails made with forms and I wear one set of nails for approximately 4-5 weeks before I make new ones.

So drop your questions in the comment box below and I'll include them in my video.
I think this will be a lot of fun to make and I hope the video will finally make you all realize that I can manage perfectly fine lol!



Other thing I wanted to mention was that I had some problems with my blog feed ever since I changed the blog's name and address and it got all confused or something.

Anyway, I think I finally got it working, so if you have previously linked my blog in your blog's sidebar: please update the link to http://www.blacksaliva.org!
(if it still says they can't find the feed, link http://www.blacksaliva.org/feeds/posts/default instead) It looks a bit lame when it still says Cupcake Couture in your sidebars... :F I'd really appreciate it, thanks! ♥

Also here's my blog's new Bloglovin', Blogilista and Facebook accounts! Don't forget to like&follow! x

Hi! Honestly, I don't really know how I should start writing this entry after such a long break from blogging. Well, as you can see, I've made some changes to my blog. Some of them are bigger, some of them are a bit smaller.

THE NAME
The first thing you probably noticed, is the new name. That is actually the main reason why I decided to have the break from blogging in the first place. I had been thinking about changing the name for about a year, before I finally decided to do it. Why? Because the name, Cupcake Couture, which most of you know me by, had started to feel like it didn't really reflect who I am. I've had this blog for a bit over 5 years now and Cupcake Couture was the name of it for most of the time (in case somebody didn't know, this blog was called 'Repeated Countless Error' when I first started it, but that's not important now). It didn't feel motivating anymore to blog under a name, that was so different from what I felt. I don't really like cupcakes, nothing about me says couture and it was too sweet and sugary name in general.

Why it took such a long time for me to change name, was that I was afraid if I'd change the name, nobody would recognize me by the new name anymore. And ofcourse at first I didn't even know what the new name would even be. You might wonder why this name then, why Black Saliva? Well, my main goal was to come up with a name that wouldn't get associated with anything else. If you googled Cupcake Couture, you would get tons of different bakeries with the same name as my blog. I've actually gotten an email from somebody who wanted to order cupcakes from me! And one of the bakeries even wanted to cooperate with me because we shared the same name, which I thought was weird because it wasn't even a Finnish one, haha, how would've that even worked out!

Anyway, I started thinking about different words that sounded nice to me, and then I would combine some of them and come up with the new blog name. I liked words like noir, iridescent, saliva, fluorescent etc. But as I had experienced before, the name had to be something simple, so it would be easy to remember and write. Blogger allows me to see the keywords that people use when googling my blog, and surprisingly many had problems writing even the word 'couture', so I knew atleast iridescent and fluorescent would be out of question. As I'm not a big fan of french language (noir is pretty much the only word I like), I decided to use the word  'black' instead. I started to think that Black Saliva would be a good name. You can't really find anything else with the same name and I like the sound of it. It's a bit grotesque, like me, haha.


THE CONTENT
Previously I've considered my blog as a lifestyle blog, but the kind of blogs I enjoy reading the most, are style blogs, meaning the bloggers mostly post about their outfits and new gets etc. They're great for inspiration. It's nice to read a little about people's lifes too, but I often find myself skipping those parts when I'm reading blogs.

I also like to keep private things private and not blog about my relationship or friendships with people, so I decided it's better if I leave that stuff out of my blog. Too many times I've read people writing very mean stuff about me and my friends on the internet that is not even true at all, and it's annoying because those people are writing certain things about us as facts, when in fact they have no clue about what happens in my circle of friends, yet they're acting like they know us personally.

Another thing I decided to change, is the language. I've been writing all my posts in two languages, finnish and english, for the past couple years, and you might not understand it if you're not blogging the same way yourself, it's really time consuming and most of the time, the jokes don't translate and work in only one of the languages, which I find lame. I decided to write my blog in english only from now on, because I have lots of foreign followers so everybody would be able to read my posts.

I know some of you finnish followers are gonna be disappointed at my decision, but I hope you'll be able to understand the reason why I'm doing this :) Many times I've taken photos for my blog, edited them and felt like I want to blog, but I've postponed the actual blogging, because I felt like everybody expected me to make these long-ass entries in two languages and it made me feel like I don't wanna do it at all.

I think if you're gonna blog, you should always feel passionate about blogging and motivated to do it, so I really hope this change will help me to blog the way I want to! So in the future, you can expect more pictures and less text from my blog :)

What most people seem to do when they start a new blog, they delete all the old entries to have a so called 'clean slate'. I personally don't understand why somebody would do that, especially when you've been blogging for years and put all the hard work to it! If I would delete all my old posts now, it would be like throwing the work of five years into trash! Most of my older entries are embarrassing as hell, but hey, that was me back then! I think everybody has something in their past they're ashamed of, but it's not like deleting the posts would make it like it never happened. And I think it's fun to see how fellow bloggers have grown during the years by reading their old posts. That's the reason why I decided to save them for you guys!



THE LOOK
I wanted the new layout to be much more simplier than what I've had before and this is what I came up with! There's 3 different banners as the header that change when you refresh the page, but other than that, the new look of my blog is pretty simplistic. The pictures will be 640px wide instead of the previous 580px which I think is great.

The layout photos are taken by my talented friend Heikki (go follow him on Twitter, he's awesome) and I'm really happy with how they came out! Thank you so much again, Heikki.


Sooooo, that was probably all I had to say about the changes in the blog! I must say I've really missed blogging this summer and part of me feels like I wasted the summer because I didn't blog about anything, but on the other hand, having the break has felt really good and given me the time to think what I want from my blog in the future.

I've been working the whole summer except for my tiny 2-day holiday in the beginning of August because we had a little meetup thing with foreign friends. I also got a gym membership and have started working out, yay! But I'm not gonna be blogging about gym stuff because I just don't think that's an interesting subject to blog about. So yeah, that's pretty much all I've done this summer and I'm so excited to get back to blogging now and I have so many ideas for the upcoming entries!

I hope you had the time to read this post, I hope you like the renewed blog and will be following me from now on as well! Please share any thoughts you have! I would really appreciate it ♥

Haha, ei mennytkään niin kauaa tän layoutin viimeistelyyn mitä olin arvioinut. Hirveellä draivilla puskin valmiiks viime yönä, koska loppu häämötti jo niin lähellä etten malttanut mennä nukkumaan ennenkuin olin saanut tän valmiiks.

ELI, mitä uutta ja vähän siitä, että miksi tämmönen?
Vanha layout kerkeskin olla jo vaatimattomasti vähän reilu vuoden, ja mielessä oli ollut uus layout jo kesästä lähtien. Alunperin sketchasin tällasen nopeen sutun ollessani töissä yks päivä mutta ei kyllä taas menny ihan niinku suunnittelin.

Haha, didn't take as long as I thought it would to finish the layout. I was sooo close getting it done and I didn't wanna go to sleep before I got it finished yesterday night.

SO, what's new and why it turned out like it did?
I had the previous layout for a bit longer than a year and I actually started planning a new one on summer. This was my original sketch for the layout which I drew quickly one day at work , buuuut as always, didn't really go as I had planned.

Does anybody else like to draw their plans on paper before starting to work on them?

Ensinnäkin halusin oottaa et värjään tukan harmaaks ennenku otan mitään kuvia layouttia varten, koska mitä järkee ottaa kuvia jos tukanväri vaihtuu pian kuitenkin? Niinpä.
Noh, sain tukan värjättyy ja sit tuli taas kaikkee muuta eikä ollu aikaa saatika inpiraatiota alkaa vääntään mitään ja kunnollisten kuvien ottaminenkin jäi.

Meni kauan ennenkuin sain inspiksen takaisin, ja viime kuussa käytiinkin Davyn kanssa Heikin (kiitos Heikki !!) luona ottamassa muutamat kuvat yks ilta, joita tulisin sit käyttämään tässä uudessa layoutissa. Kuvat ei kuitenkaan ihan ollu sellasia mitä olin tohon mun alkuperäiseen visioon suunnitellu, mut ehkä ihan hyvä niin koska tästä tuli oikeestaan parempi näin XD

En tiedä mistä idea tähän alunperin edes tuli, mutta yks main point tässä oli nyt se että layoutissa olis 2 taustakuvaa. Toinen monistuva, fixed ja koko taustalla (tekstiprintti) ja toinen vaan vaakasuoraan monistuva (eli tässä tapauksessa toi musta valuva asia, josta oon niin ylpee koska oon maailman surkein piirtään koneella MITÄÄN, mut ton osasin, jeejee !).

Oisin oikeestaan halunnut leveemmän tästä postauspalkista että ois mahtunu 640px levyset kuvat mut en saanu millään tota mun lärviä sit aseteltua kivasti tohon sidebarin päälle jos se olis ollu yhtään kapeempi, joten piti leventää sitäkin. Jos olisin leventäny molempia, ois tullu ihan ylilevee hirvee pökäle eikä tausta ois näkyny läppärillä selatessa ollenkaan, joten samapa tuo sitten. Eipähän tarttenu rupee muokkaamaan vanhojen postausten kuvia leveeseen palkkiin sopivaksi (tein näin viimeks ku vaihdoin layoutin, mikä pilkunviilaaja?)

Nojuu, tällanen tuli ! Vanhassakin layoutissa nähty, hyväksi todettu vaihtuva banneri ja sivupalkista poistin tavaraa, siirsin FAQ'n uudelle sivulle samoin kuin SPONSOR?'n. Erillisen LINKS -sivun poistin ja siirsin ne kaikki tohon sivupalkkiin, koska en ikinä jaksanu itekään käydä sieltä toiselta sivulta klikkaileen itteeni niihin blogeihin mitä tykkään lukee.

Tässäpä tää, kommenttia, risuja ja ruusuja otetaan vastaan :)

First of all, I wanted to wait till I get my hair dyed grey before taking any photos for the layout, because what's the point if you're gonna change your haircolor soon anyway? Ikr.
Well, got my hair dyed pretty soon, but I was so busy with other stuff and lost my inspiration for a while so it took me a long time before I actually got this started.

Last month me and Davy went to Heikki's (thank you Heikki !!) to take so photos which I was supposed to use for the layout. The pics turned out great, but not really how I had thought so they didn't fit in my plan. But maybe that was a good thing? Now looking at this, I think it looks better than my sketch XD

Dunno where the original idea came from, but the main point was to have multiple backgrounds. One covering the whole background (the text print) and another one would be a horizontal one, like a background for the banner (the dripping droopy black whatever thing, which I'm really proud of ! Made it myself tho I suck at drawing with computer so bad !).

I wanted to get a wider mainbar for the posts so I could fit 640px wide pics in it, but I had to make the sidebar wider too to be able to fit my face on top of it. So, if I've made both of them wider, it would've been way too wide and possibly messy too. And I'm actually happy that now I don't need to resize the pics in my previous posts to fit in a wider mainbar (I did this last time when I changed my layout, perfectionist much?)

Anyway, this is how it turned out ! Like the previous layout, this one also has a changing banner. I also removed some stuff from th sidebar, for example FAQ now has it's on page and so does SPONSOR?. I deleted the LINKS -page and now all the blog's I read can be found on the sidebar, because I hated to go on the separate page to check out people's blogs hehe.

Hope you like it, please leave a comment and tell me what you think :)

EDIT:
Tältä kuuluisi näyttää, jos näyttää eriltä koneellasi/selaimellasi niin kerro !

This is how it should look like, if it looks different on your computer/browser, let me know !

Heippa ja anteeksi taas vähäinen päivittely, mutta tällä kertaa mulla on oikeesti hyvä syy siihen !
Oon nimittäin työstänyt tässä viimepäivinä uutta layouttia, ja tällä hetkellä näyttäis siltä että noi "about me" jne sivut pitää vielä kirjoittaa uusiks, mutta muuten alkais olla pikkuhiljaa redi.

Ei vitsi en malttais olla julkasematta sitä, mut toisaalta haluun et kaikki on just eikä melkeen valmista ennenku näätte sen. Blogin Facebook sivuilta löytyy jo pienen pieni sneakpeek ;-)

Noh, tällä viikolla vaihtuu jokatapauksessa :D

Hi and sorry again for the lack of updates, but this time I actually have a good reason for it !
I've been working on a new layout for my blog, and at this moment it looks like it's slowly starting to come together. I still have to re-write "about me" etc pages but other than that, it's kinda ready.

I soooo want to show it to you already, but on the other hand, I want everything to be 100% ready before I do. But there's a teeny tiny sneak peek on my blog's Facebook page if you wanna check it out ;-)

Anyway, gonna publish the new layout during this week :D


Mä jatkan nyt koodailuja, mutta tässä muutamat postaamatta jääneet kuvat meidän TOISISTA, Halloween pirskeistä jotka järkättiin siis 31.10. jälkeisenä viikonloppuna. Sain puvun lainaan töistä Satulta ja kengät Siniltä joten niistäpä irtoskin sitten oiva asu illaksi !

I'm gonna continue the coding now, but here's few unposted pics from our SECOND Halloween party which was held on the weekend after the 31th of October. I borrowed the pirate outfit from Satu from work and the shoes from Sini and they made a great party outfit for the night !

Aye aye I'm the most feared pirate of the Seven Seas.

Sini being dead-something and me.

Us girls !

The whole party group ! Had a fun night~

Kuten toissapäivänä pikaisesti postasinkin, oltiin siis Alexin kanssa TradeTrackerin järkkäämässä bloggaritapahtumassa. Lupasin kuitenkin kirjoitella lisää (okei, lähinnä postata kuvia koska kamera kävi räps räps) joten tässäpä ois nyt sit !

Like I told you couple days ago, me and Alex were at this blogger event arranged by TradeTracker. I promised to write more about it (or mostly just post pictures) so here we go !

Tilaisuus järkättiin käsittääkseni jonkun opiston tiloissa. Suunnistettiin paikanpäälle iPhonen kartan avulla ja katottiin vaan et "joo tässä menee tää Hietaniemenkatu, käännytään tonne hietsuun päin ni siel se varmaan on". Oikeesti mitä oikeen ajateltiin?? Hetken päästä alettiin hahmottaa tilannetta kun tajuttiin että ainoo edessäpäin häämöttävä rakennus sillä kadulla oli krematorio :---D Ehkä ne ei kuitenkaan siellä olis, joten käännyttiin takaisin päin ja löydettiin perille ajoissa, hahah.

The event was hosted at some kind of academy. We were trying to find our way there by using the map on iPhone and were like "oh yeah this is the right street, let's just turn left from here and we'll get there" buuut we should've turned right because we were heading to the wrong direction and realized the situation after noticing that the only building on the left side would be a crematorium :---D Maybe the event wouldn't be hosted there after all. So we turned back and found the right location in time, hahah.

Vihdoin perillä ! Tässä päivän look. Kiharsin mun tukkaa edellisenä iltana melkein tunnin ja sit seuraavana aamuna satoi kaatamalla vettä. Miks aina käy näin? Ei oo todellista oikeesti. Onneks sade oli kuitenkin loppunut silloin kun pääsin töistä, joten ei tarvinut sateessa suunnistaa paikalle.

hat spirit store shirt ghost of harlem jeans gina tricot shoes jeffrey campbell

Näytän kuvissa jotenkin tosi oudolta, koska en jaksanut laittaa piilareita...

pic from here

Cityshopparin ständillä :)


Ständien kiertämisen jälkeen saatiin ruokaa ! Tarjolla oli vaikka mitä hyvää, mulle ainakin maistu :D

pic from here

Löysin salakuvan musta ja Alexista ahmimassa ruokia parempiin suihin...

Natalie, Oona, minä, Anna ja Anniina. Annan olin tavannut jo kerran aikaisemminkin samantapaisessa eventissä, mutta oli kiva tutustua myös uusiin bloggaritytsyihin !

Here's Natalie, Oona, me, Anna and Anniina. I had met Anna once before in a similar event, but it was nice to get to meet other fellow blogger girls as well !

pic from here

Saatiin myös osallistua Vallila -tuotteiden arvontaan ja aattelin et no mikä ettei. Palkintoja oli aika paljon joten oli hyvät tsäänssit voittaakin jotain. Palkintoina oli erilaisia koristetyynyjä joita moni bloggari kävi vuorollaan hakemassa. Mun nimeä ei mainittu, mutta no big deal koska harvoin voitan mistään mitään :D Mut sit vikana yhtäkkiä ilmottettiin et vielä on joku superpalkinto jäljellä ja kuinkas ollakaan, sit sanottiinkin mun nimi ! Ihan älytöntä !

There was a chance to win some Vallila products at the event and I thought why not and put my name in the bowl. There was quite many prizes so the chances were good. As the present, they had different kinds of decoration pillows and many bloggers got their own. Then they run out of them and I didn't win anything, which was okay because I usually don't :D But then they announced there was still a super prize left, and surprisingly, they said my name ! So crazy !

Tällaista löytyi mun palkintokassista :) Verhot x2, tyynynpäällinen x2, suihkuverho ja pikkupussukka x2 !

Anna & Alexandra !

Loppuillasta ohjelmana oli rentoa oleskelua ja ihmisiin tutustumista, kunnes....

Rest of the evening went peacefully, just chilling and getting to know people better, until....

....tää kannettiin pöytään. Istuskeltiin tilan perällä, ja nähtiin kun tätä kannettiin pöytään ihmisten päiden yläpuolella ja se oli valehtelematta melkein mun kokoinen, no kidding. Eeppisintä mitä oon vähään aikaan nähnyt, pakko myöntää !

Harmitti vähän ettei tästä ollut kerrottu etukäteen ja olin kerennyt ahmia liikaa sitä aikaisempaa ruokaa niin ei ollut enää tilaa tälle. Tyydyin vain maistelemaan vähän, mut oli kyllä superhyvää !

Aika harvoin saa tällasta ruokaa, joten oli pakko hyödyntää tilaisuus ja ottaa kuva possun kanssa. Sillä oli päheet aurinkolasitkin !


Ilmaista ruokaa ja juomaa riitti ja musiikkikin alkoi koventua iltaa kohden.. :D


Joten Davy liittyi meidän joukkoon vielä vähän ennekuin jatkettiin matkaa bussilla Namuun. Jatkoista ei sitten sen enempää ;)

So Davy joined us a bit before we took a bus to the after party place, Namu. And the rest is history ;)

Saatiin lähtiessä mukaan vielä goodiebagit, mm. tällaisia juttuja löytyi sieltä :) Pitääkin alkaa testailemaan kaikkea uutta kivaa mitä saatiin !

Oli ihana ilta, kiitos kaikille x

And when we left the place, we got goodiebags ! This is what was inside them :) Now I have to try all the cool new products we got !
I had a wonderful night, thank you all x