Music Monday #3

Weeks go by so quickly and I was not that organised as I promised. That's bad.
But hopefully, you can forgive me if I dedicate you this monday song:

Music Mondays #2

Let's all have a soft Monday with fluffy clouds and beautiful memories.

Bat for Lashes - Laura 

Instagram #9

Have any of you missed these Instagram posts? I think it's been almost a year since my last one, so I guess I have a lot of pics to share with you. However today I will share my favourite ones and if you want to see more follow me on Instagram @focusoniana. If you, yourself have an instagram profile do not hesitate to leave me your names in the comments below, I would be thrilled to see who reads my blog.

Had a fun time with these girlies back in December.Miss you xx | Was invited by my beautiful Coco to take photographs at the Brass Factor | One of the best memories this year was finally seeing live one of my favourite bands called Why? | Back in November dyed my hair Ombre and was quite pleased with the result

This year we had an awesome apartment with an awesome view | In June we made a trip to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine | Last July we went to Spain and had the best time with the best people | Finally, this year we've also been to York and enjoyed it a lot.

31 days reading challenge + Goodreads

This is a post for all my bookworm friends out there. Whether you are in Norway, United Kingdom or Republic of Moldova, this is dedicated to you.

For the year of 2013, I set myself a book challenge on my Goodreads account. I settled on the number 35, which is doable with all the university work and all the summer activities I am to do outside of reading. As I was on a reading roll from about September to March I somehow managed to get to 24 books and I am proud to say that I am still 7 books ahead. The numbers do not matter as much, what matters most is to get rid of my 'to read' pile and buy more new ones. I am a book buying addict, more precisely awesome books but bought for a bargain. I was quite good at doing that in the past year. I managed to get a lot of books from the BBC Top 100 Book List for a pound or so. I would like to think I have a good eye for bargains, not only for books, but in general.

I am rambling now. OK, so lately, to be more exact for the month of June, I have been quite behind with my reading. It was all due to my internship in June, but now that it is over I thought I need to get cracking.

I will be doing the 31 days reading challenge inspired by the YouTube Book Community. Most of the guys out there did it in June, and as I was quite busy I will be doing it in July and have another day as a bonus.The amount of pages that you presumably have to read throughout this month is 6000 pages. That seems impossible to me, that is why I will be changing the rules and just set myself a number of books for the month that I need to get through. I have selected 6, some of them which I started earlier but never got to finishing them, and so all of the pages summed up together result in 1,072 pages which divided by 31 makes 34,5 so basically 35 pages per day. That sounds very promising and with all the going out possible to accomplish. I will do an update at the beginning of August :)
Wish me luck and feel free to join the challenge with me!


These are the books I want to read throughout the month of July, 6 in total:
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl 31% left to read
Tom Butler Bowdon - 50 Psychology Classics 48% left
Mark Forsyth - The Ethymologicon 90% left
Chris Frost - Reporting for Journalists 
Paul Donnelley - Assassins and Assassinations
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

My Goodreads account:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7892031-iana

Music Monday #1

I want to become a more organized blogger, so I bought myself a notebook, sat down and started writing  blog post ideas inspired by others or that I came up with myself. These particular series called Music Mondays were inspired by a fashion blogger who goes by the name of That's Chic. http://www.thatschic.net/ 

Not sure if she does that every Monday or not,  I just saw the title of the blog post last Monday and thought that it is so me that I definitely have to start doing that.
So, basically, the idea behind this is that I will be posting a song every Monday, it might be because the lyrics are beautiful or the clip is awesomely filmed or whatever, but if it is here that means I feel it.


I fell in love with this song the moment I heard it and even though it has been a year since then I still cannot get enough of it. It is magnificent in every way to me.
The XX - Fiction



P.S. NOTE:
As you have probably noticed I do not only write about beauty anymore. I want this to blog to be much more than that. I have lots of ideas that I want to try and get done and I really hope that this sounds exciting to you, as well. Also, by writing more often I hope to get better at it, because to be honest I do suck at it sometimes. Peace.

Three gentlemen (a different kind of post)

There is this myth about the modern men, those-digitized-and-hands-in-pockets-men, that they are not gentlemen. They only care about themselves and are violent and abusive.

It is not in any way my personal belief, but nonetheless a very popular one within my generation.
They might be a rare breed, but they do exist. I met three yesterday.

The first one offered me his hand when I was getting off the bus.
The second gentleman politely offered me a ride to the nearest station, while it was raining cats and dogs outside.
The third, offered me half of his umbrella on my way home from the station.

Gentlemen, please do this more often. I promise to write more posts about you.

Style Crush #4 Abbey Lee Kershaw

This Australian beauty has always been a model that stood out to me because of her extravagant, non-ordinary style. The embroderies, gipsy skirts, furs and hats that she wears all the time, somehow create a mysterious aura of a 'hippie witch'( weird non-existent term, I know) around her.
It is not necessarily that I would wear these outfits, but I do appreciate when people look confident while wearing quite strange outfits.