Hagia Sophia

Sunglasses - LeSpecs // Sweater - Zara // Skinnies - Seven For All Mankind // Boots - Doc Marten's

Arkadaşlarım merhaba!  

Happy Spring Break everyone! What are you up to this fine week?

I'm vacationing in Turkey.  I've only been here for a day, but I've already seen so much and eaten such great food.  I know I'll gain 10 pounds by the end of my trip.  

We went to the Hagia Sophia, which is just a 5 minute walk away from our hotel. It's in my AP Art History textbook, so I was flipping out.  The Hagia Sophia was much cooler than my textbook made it out to be.  It was like the pages of my textbook were coming alive, the Byzantine mosaics were jumping out and saying hello.

We have yet to visit tons more mosques and other things, as well as eat many, many more pomegranates.

Have a wonderful Sunday :)

Sevmek,

Annika

Creepers

photos by Alistair Chew and Laken Sylvander

Hello sunshine!
I've had the best few weeks.  I spent my Halloween weekend in Indonesia at a place called Telunas where I spent the halcyon days laughing with fellow art geeks, painting, drawing, and swimming to my hearts content.  Bliss.
The last weekend I spent my days with friends shopping and eating and catching up.  At the same time I went to the fabulous Titanic Exhibit at the ArtScience Museum.  It was amazing to say the least.  They had remakes of the first class and third class rooms, the boiler room and so many other iconic spots. It was like you were actually on the Titanic!  It was a great exhibition and if you live in Singapore, please make sure you go.  It's great.
And finally today, I'm just finishing up two history papers and watching Suburgatory.  Have an amazing rest of the week everyone :)

love,
Annika

Jean Jacket - The Attic [vintage]

T-Shirt - H&M

Sequin Skirt - Parker

Bracelet - Hermes

Creepers - Underground

I am...

Oh TeenVogue, you silly olde magazine you.

photos by Ayesha and Alexis

Good evening, sunshines. The Earth says, "Hello!"  I've been totally and completely busy for the first quarter of school and have very much been missing you all and blogging ):
But hey look at that! Outfit post!
I went shopping with my friends today - Ebony, Alexis, and Ayesha - and that was quite the time let me tell you right now.  We stopped by TWG Tea Place in Ion and then went to a bookstore and chilled there for an hour or so and read magazines and children's books.
School has been pretty decent.  I signed up for my interim and  guess who's going to London in February? ME! Annika. That's who. I'm already trying to decide what to wear. Any suggestions my loves? Alexis will be joining me in London and we are going to have a jolly good time old chap. Look out, London. Annika and Alexis are coming your way!

Cheerio,
Annika

Vest - Vintage

Crop Top - Vintage

Leopard Belt - J. Crew

Jeans - Vintage

School

photos by Ebony Harris

Necklace - Topshop

Sweater - Jeanasis

Evelyn Purse - Hermes

Braided Belt - Forever21

Bracelet - Tiffany & Co.

Boyfriend Jeans - Gap

Moccasins - Minnetonka

Aren't their backpacks adorable?

I'm home!  Japan was fantastic. You can expect four more posts just going over my amazing week there, with little outfit posts of what I wore that day.

We went to a school.  It was an all girls school, and, this being a co-ed trip, the boys were all excited. They soon found out all the girls that we met at the school had boyfriends XD  Which wasn't surprising cause they were all gorgeous and nice.  One girl gave me a StickyPic of her and her friend.  I stuck it in my wallet.  The girls were so excited to know that we all had facebooks, so they all whipped out their little booklets and pens in unison and asked us for our names.  But really they were adorable.  This one girl helped me write calligraphy and my name in characters.  I was so scared to do the finals for calligraphy, like on a final sheet of paper, because if you messed up you couldn't go back.  Ohmygosh. Scariest few seconds of my life.

It was the funniest thing though, my teacher was giving the principal and the girls who hung out with us presents as a thank you.  And he takes out this cheesy mug with our little school logo and goes "and we have a cup..." and the girls all go "OOOHHHHHH OOHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" and start clapping.  Now my friend and I do the japanese "ohh" noise and start clapping whenever we like something.  We think we're funny.

Sorry if that sounded boring, it was actually so much fun.  We made so many friends and it was cool to see the differences and similarities between my school and theirs.  Did you know Japanese students actually clean their own school? I'd die.

cannibal,

Annika

An Austrian went yodeling...

photos by my father

Yodel-a-hee-hoo!  I'm in Austria my friends.  With them lil ole Austrians, with them hats.  We drove from Budapest to Austria, and in true Hvide fashion something went wrong.  So, we were driving out of Mcdo, just innocently eating our bucket loads of fries and nuggets, when suddenly we hear a rattling noise coming from the back of the car.  So, we stop at the side of the road and my brother and dad walk out and check it out.  It turns out the cars back tire and hubcap fell off.  Just fix it, easy enough right?  Well, apparently not.  Apparently the rental car place forgot to give us repair tools and an extra tire sooooooo we were stuck sitting on the side of the road.  A sad poor little orphaned family, abandoned on the highway.  When suddenly a tow truck came and rescued us, our knight in shining armor if you will.  He towed us to safety (his garage), we were actually still in the car when he put our car on that little back platform, IT WAS SO COOL, and fixed our tire.  And we were off.  Off to Austria, crisis averted.  We're skiing at the moment, and I could not be having more fun!  I put so many layers on, I was sweating hahhaha. I could barely put my arms down, I felt like that kid in A Christmas Story.  But it was worth it for the snow.  We also visited a children's museum, an egyptian museum, and a castle where they kept Dracula imprisoned.  Quite cool, or shall I say cold? Hur hur hur, my bad jokes could not be any more fantastic XD
doe, a dear,
Annika

Fringe Cape - Zara

Sweater - iimk

Skinny Jeans - Forever 21
Boots - Zara

Studded Cuff - Hermes

Lindy Bag - Hermes

Golf Anyone?

BOOTY POP!

Haha whenever you give my dad and me a camera this is the result. We are a good pair.

 My father and I agreed that we both wanted to know what the insides of our noses looked like. This is how we did it.  Aren't we clever?

Isn't the view fantastic?

 

Oh, looky here. A key. Whatever am I supposed to do with this? 

 

 Well, this was a really fun shoot. It lasted 10 minutes 'cause my dad and I were goofing off and taking pictures of no relevancy.  Then, when we were taking pictures for this, my father would yell "ATTITUDE ANNIKA!".  He kind of reminded me of Tyra Banks, the only thing he forgot to say was "SMIES!!!".  It really was fun and we finally got golden hour!  Gah. I've been trying for the past week to get it, and my persistence paid off. Ohhhh yaaaa.
I'm in New Zealand for another day or two but I'm leaving on the 19th, just in time to get back to my hectic life of English essays, Trig tests, History of Japan pop quizzes, and Chemistry labs.  Goody!  But for now, I'm enjoying my last couple days of cold weather and sheep.  I'm sorry for mentioning those sheep so much, but they are so cute!! I saw some pink ones the other day, it was....weird XD Very strange.
xoxo,
Annika

Chambray Shirt - J. Crew

Beige/White Checkered Shirt - Gap

White Tank - Abercrombie & Fitch

Distressed Brown Belt - J. Crew

Sequin Plaid Skirt - J. Crew

Heels - Zara