The more I look for wedding dresses and bridal gowns that would be in my alley of things, the more I realise what a huge gap there is in the wedding dress industry. For such a loved item, a dress that most girls dream about most of their young life, a piece of clothing that can be such a source of inspirational for a designer, it is unbelievably hard to find a dress that would absolutely blow your mind. I don’t want to sound like I was just one more arrogant newcomer in the area trying to bash every other designer out there, but I can’t help but be a little disappointed with a lot of the big designers out there. Even Vera Wang doesn’t cook my crumpet. I have been thinking about starting a blog just about wedding gowns, but I can’t find much to be inspired to write about - or to post a photo and say “look at this”. BUT I have found something. Let me share them with you. 
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I am surprised every time I get a forwarded email that is so clearly a hoax that it could have been written on it: “This is a hoax, but read the story, it’s so heart wrenching that you just HAVE TO forward.” Do you remember Bonzai-kittens? Did you know they were a hoax played by a bunch of students? Did you forward it? Did you get outraged? Chances are you did. Oh boy you are not alone. The amount of children waiting to die of cancer in your email is staggering. African presidents transferring their money out of the country and somehow they trust you to help, a random email reader. Of course, you wouldn’t want to turn your back on anyone in need, whether they walk on 4 feet or two. So how do you know it is a hoax? (more…)
Some people get attention. Some people don’t. It is the truth both online and offline. The difference between the ways we get attention online and offline is very different though. Theresa of Bumpy Path put anonymity in a whole new perspective for me, and I need to try to shed some light into what it made me think about.
Online you are fighting for links, page ranks, stumbles and what not, to get ahead, to get attention, to be seen. You need to become somebody to be noticed, to make a splash or to make some money. You are competing with everyone writing the same language as you do. It would be fairly easy to become the most successful blogger (more…)
I have made a rather late discovery in the modern Internet world. RSS feeds. I have been using them for quite a while in feeding my own content back to my site from several sources, but I haven’t really subscribed to other people’s feeds. Nowadays more or less all blogs have them though, and I finally realised and it is pretty easy way to keep track of blogs! (It shouldn’t come as a surprise really.) Nowadays I subscribe easily if I’m for example surfing through EntreCard blogs and see something I like but am not exactly up to getting deeply into it, I simply subscribe and rest assured that I won’t forget to check back later on.
In some browsers you don’t even have to look for the subscription icon from obscure places on the blog website. If you are using Firefox, you can see the subscription icon (more…)
When I was around 16 and 17, I had my first boyfriends. I know I was a bit late to the game, but I was simply too shy to attract anyone before that. I had my odd admirer, but it was never mutual, or by the time it became mutual, the other party had moved on. :p Anyway, after the two first gos, I had every right to believe that all men are pigs, but a good sport as I am, I only thought these two were pigs.
The first one was an odd looking fellow called Mika. I can share his name, because about 2 out of 10 men of his age in Finland are called Mika. Like Mika Häkkinen for example. To the life of me I could not tell you his last name, either I have forgot it or I was never told what it was. Anyway, he was an odd looking fellow. (more…)
