I'm moving to New York!

*In English below*

Noniin, näin tärkeä ilmoitusasia on tehtävä myös Suomeksi. Vaikka kyllähän te jo sen siä Suomes tierättä, ku äitee on huurellu kylillä! No sanotaan nyt kuitenkin vielä: Mä muutan syksyllä Nykiin! Kunhan kaikki viisumiasiat sun muut menee putkeen, niin aloitan siellä maisterin opintoni muotimarkkinoinnin linjalla. Se tuntuu tältä: JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Nuan. Ennen Nykiä painun vielä reissaamaan pariksi kuukaudeksi. Ensin Tokioon ja sitten Kaakkois-Aasiaan. Otan mielelläni vastaan kaikkia reissuvinkkejä, jos ootte ollu Tokiossa, Balilla, Malesiassa tai Thaimaassa :).

Tämähän nyt tietysti tarkoittaa myös sitä, että jouduin irtisanoutumaan työpaikastani Zalandolla. Oon todella kiitollinen kaikesta, mitä oon kokenut ja oppinut Zalandolla. On ollut mahtavaa työskennellä niin fiksujen, hauskojen ja lahjakkaiden ihmisten kanssa. Meillä on ollut ihan mieletön tiimi ja vaikka ollaan välillä email markkinoinnin luonteen takia haluttu vain paukuttaa päitämme näppäimistöön, on meillä pankissa rutkasti enemmän hetkiä, jolloin ollaan naurettu naamat vääränä. Voin kertoa, että näin mahtavat tyypit ja työpaikka on vaikea jättää taakseen.

Mutta lätinät sikseen, huomenna suuntaan Suomen Las Vegasiin, eli Teuvalle!

Hi guys!

I have an announcement :D. I'm moving to New York! Assuming everything goes smoothly with my visa application and all, I'll be flying there mid August. I will be doing my masters in Fashion Marketing. I_could_not_be_more_excited (I cannot stress that enough :D)

Another awesome thing is that I'll also go traveling for two months before that. I thought this would be a great chance to go for a lon(g)er trip on my own. On 1.6 I'll grab my backpack and head first to Tokyo and after that to southeast Asia. If you guys have been traveling there please share your tips, especially for Tokyo, Bali, Malesia and Thailand. Again, I_could_not_be_more_excited. Like, aarrefehgnedghae-aishf3r3+r!!

Unfortunately this all also means that I had to quit my job at Zalando. I'm so very grateful of the kick start of my career that I got from Zalando. I learnt so much and was surrounded by such a smart, funny and talented bunch of people that I can only wish that I managed to learn even a little bit of that awesomeness of theirs ;). It's very hard to leave that kind of friends and workplace behind.

But before I really have to think about that, I have still a few Finland trips ahead to transport my beloved clothing there! Tomorrow I'm off to Teuva. Some people call it the Las Vegas of Finland. 

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2013 Review

Hi guys!

Few days left of 2013, what a great year it has been ;).

January

The year started in Austria where I was skiing(=snowboarding). I also celebrated my friend's and my birthday with a bunch of friends. My dear friends Pave, Elina and Anniina threw me a surprise-farewell party because after spending three months in Finland finishing my courses super speed, I was heading back to Berlin. They gave me a beautiful bracelet saying "Penzez de moi" in old french and I have worn it ever since, ohop! That's dedication my friends. I started to write my thesis in January and I was busy organizing my move to Berlin.

 February

I moved back to Berlin! I didn't know this back then, but the same weekend I arrived there I had my first and last party until end of May...the reason was thesis. Me and Ben continued our distance relationship as before. Once a month I took a train to Würzburg and once a month he came to Berlin. 

March

Thesis, thesis...Thesis. I flew to Finland for Easter holidays and to meet my professor. Thesis was proceeding well and I decided to write until I'm 100 % happy with it ;D. I also started to do Yoga in my current place during this time, that kept me sane...

 April

Was there April? With a little Facebook- research I found out that this was when I started to gather respondents for the survey of my thesis. As boring as it is, I think thesis was all I did the whole month, besides work..It seems that I was also sick :D. Not the most exiting month.

May

Ben's and mine attempt to make traditional 1st of may buns, even after we ran out of sugar and had to use powder sugar. I was trying to follow ice hockey world championships, but Finland didn't do that good this year. And the highlight of the month: a one week trip to Barcelona with my best of the bestest friends! 

June

 I consider June was the month that my social life restarted after the thesis :p. 150 pages later I had finally finished it! In the beginning of the month I went to Finland to join Isla-niece's 1 year birthday party and to present my thesis and to do the maturity test. My professor promised the best grade and I headed to buy a bottle of champagne. I met my friends by the see and celebrated! The weather was perfect and  I felt so relieved and happy. Later in the evening I saw a BEAR! I consider this day the best day of the summer ;D. Me and Ben celebrated Ben's birthday and my graduation with a trip to Lybeck and Ostsee and ate in a michelin star restaurant called Restaurant Wullenwever. I was so nervous my hands were sweating there, haha! We also had my sister's bachelor party so I flew to Finland for the second time in one month! Oh, and I almost forgot we also celebrated midsummer in the nordic midsummer party in Berlin :). A busy month it was but a good one!

July

Jenni's and Mika's wedding meant it was time to fly to Finland again! Right after their wedding they visited me in Berlin and at the end of the month Heini visited me. I went to lakes and outdoor swimming pools, visited a barbie house with Adela and ate brunch out every weekend.

 August

The highlight of the month; Ben moved in with me in Berlin! The disappointment of the month; I couldn't go to sauna festival in Finland because a holiday block at work :(. At the same time we were understaffed in our team and this kept me busy. In August I went to Holi festival in Berlin. While I was sick at the end of the month I started my blog :D. This time I had neither a phone or a camera so I only found this one pic from Holi festival. 

September

In September Ben and me went to Dresden and hiking in Saxon Switzerland. I went to see David Guetta for free and we also saw Finnish band Apulanta. Both of the gigs were great! I was cooking a lot and started to lid candles every chance I got.

October

October was completely meatless. We had Finnish team event in Berlin's little "Octoberfest". After over two months of working understuffed the situation finally relieved and I got Taija back to our 2-girls-team. At the same time I headed with my family to Los Alcazares, in shouth of Spain. The holiday couldn't have been better positioned, I couldn't have handled a day more ;P. I also went to Copenhagen with Ben for the weekend.

November

In November the party season started! There was a house warming party, Danish pre-christmas-glög-shots-party, no reason parties and finally Zalando's Cristmas party. We also started to go to Christmas markets and saw a basket ball game.

December

Christmas market, shopping for christmas presents, fairy lights, carols...more parties! There was finnish independence day party, nordic party, birthday party before I headed for my holidays on 19th. My liver had its rest until 25th when I met with my high school friends. Tomorrow there's a NYE party. Ben and me are heading to Vaasa to spend it with my friends there. Great month!

That's it. My 2013.I hope your was good as well and you'll have even better 2014!

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It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye

Hi guys!

The title of this post is a bit more dramatic translation to the Finnish expression "Itku pitkästä ilosta". I'm of course referring to my nice weekend after which I got sick :P.

On Friday we had Zalando's Christmas party. Me and couple of colleagues went to my place beforehand to take a powernap, eat a quick snack and to change and prepare for the night. The theme of the party was Noël en blanc and therefore the dress code was to wear something white. The party was great :)!

"Found from the phone"

On Saturday I woke up with barely no voice and a headache (I blame the hairband I was wearing :p). Anyways me and Ben had a nice brunch and in the evening we went to Lucia Christmas market at Kulturbrauerei. I was especially enthusiastic about this one because I knew they had some Finnish mulled wine and poronkäristys (which is kind of a reindeer stew with mashed potatoes and lingonberries). I filmed a short video (well of course I did). Excuse my voice there...

Sunday was very relaxed. We ate a nice breakfast at home, watched movies and read. Btw, I recommend Monster university as a Sunday movie, very entertaining :). I was feeling a bit under the weather and my throat was still sore but in order to feel productive I went to gym. Ssooo today I woke up with even worse throat ache and I had to stay home. But I feel better now.

Anyways it was a very nice weekend and I'm starting to feel quite Christmassy ;).

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Shoe issues

Hi guys!

So if anyone has followed me in Fashiolista lately, they'd know that I've been "loving" many of those black chunky heel ankle boots...At my work at Zalando I need to check our website and the products there couple of times a day and therefore I've found a bunch of those ankle boots also from our selection ;). Oh, and then I ordered them. Yup. So now I have three pairs of them here and I cannot decide which ones to keep. You'll see them in a sec, but just so you know, I don't get any commission or anything from linking to our site. I just buy most of my clothes from there so yeah, there you go ;).

Please help me to pick a pair :)

Pair No. 1

Shellys London - Zalando FI, Zalando UK, Zalando DE 

Pair No. 2

Duffy - Zalando FI, Zalando UK, Zalando DE

Pair No. 3

Vagabond - Zalando FI, Zalando UK, Zalando DE

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What do I do at Zalando?

Hi guys!

I've been working at Zalando for over a year now. First in the UK team and now in the Finnish team. All the time in the same department though. Even my mum still asks me frequently to explain what was it again that I do. For those who don't know what Zalando is, it is that huge Berlin based online fashion store with striking TV commercials.

I first started as an intern for the UK team. It was absolutely a dream come true for me to work in a fashion company and in an exciting city like Berlin! After I finished my three months internship, I decided I wasn't ready to go home back to my studies yet so I was lucky enough to be able to continue as an assistant for three more months. After that I had to return to Finland to finish my courses and exams in my uni. I stayed in Finland for three months finishing everything with über super speed (I'm still running with that speed, ooops!). In February this year I then made my famous come-back, but this time to the Finnish team and as a junior manager. Yay!

I work at CRM (Customer Relationship Management)/ email marketing department. Basically my daily work involves sending out email newsletters to our Finnish subscribers communicating the latest trends, campaigns, new items and offers. If you're a subscriber you might have seen my name or, scarily enough, even my face there every now and then, hehe.

Here's my  "15 mins of fame" (more like 15 sec...):

I'd like to know how many try to use that voucher code :DD

Here's some "Working at Zalando" video:

Finally.....you can subscribe to our newsletter here ;)

Adios.

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