faces in the clouds

THANK YOU

2011-08-31T21:39:00.001+03:00

I'm so happy for all your lovely comments, BIG thank you! I'm happy to hear you will follow me to my new space.

Here are some pictures that will be the last ones posted on this blog. They're from a sailor themed summer-end party we had last weekend.

Thank you all, see you later at my new blog. I will come back here soon someday in September with a link.

Much love ♥

Pause

2011-08-18T17:08:00.002+03:00

Now it's about time to do something I thought about for quite some time.
That is to end this blog. Soon in September, I've had it for about four years and I feel it's time to move on.
I'm not going to stop blogging, but to soon start a fresh new. Maybe somewhere else, maybe a little different.
Will you follow me?

Now I would like to know from you what you would like me to continue with or what I could change.

It would also be nice if you who never left a comment before just wanna say hello or something:)

Monday post nr. 2

2011-08-15T20:44:00.000+03:00

A photo from last week,

+ greek salad + hummus, todays dinner.

Flow in Helsinki

2011-08-15T16:37:00.000+03:00

I've been a little bit sick (flu) and also to Helsinki and flow festival this weekend. It was great, no need to say more:)
But I only had a ticket for Friday, unfortunately. And no camera, only my camera phone. So not very good quality. But it's something, just so you get the picture!

I'm so sorry guys, all you lovely people that follows my little blog. I've become such a bad bogger. I will hopefully be better soon and with some changes too..I need it.

I I

2011-08-07T22:34:00.000+03:00

My own carrots.

Lately

2011-08-04T22:39:00.000+03:00

Friends and food. I love summer.

Black & white

2011-08-01T21:46:00.002+03:00

Pictures from my cousins beautiful wedding last saturday.
It was fantastic, a finnish-swedish-iranian culture mix (my cousin is half iranian), the weather was perfect and the party was held in their garden the whole day+night.
Later in the evening the tables were moved away so we got a dancefloor, and people danced like crazy.
I took these pictures with my iphone and the quality is so and so, therefore I made them black and white.

The band played michael jackson and this little boy suddenly started to dance, I filmed a short clip. have a look:)

MJ JUNIOR

Mix

2011-07-31T17:36:00.001+03:00

Last pictures from Gran Canaria. Streets, food, our kitschy hotel..

Time to move on to normal life routines and pictures, because tomorrow I start to work again.
But I wish time would stop, I had such wonderful last weeks of my vacation and I don't want it to stop just yet..

Haven't read any blogs almost during the whole summer. I'm sure I missed a lot and looking forward to catch up soon.

Alternative family

2011-07-28T13:06:00.000+03:00

More canaria stories.
My mom turned 50 and we started to celebrate her with champagne breakfast and engraved jewelry. Later we went to a nice beach and hung there all day. In the evening we went out for dinner, talked and had fun for hours. I think she had a good first day as 50 year old.
Oh how I miss that evening:)

Warm days means I'm updating slowly. And I'm having my last vacation days too. Back to work on Monday!

Bright & hot

2011-07-25T21:24:00.000+03:00

Finally I'm entering blogworld again! How are you?
I start with some pictures from Gran Canaria. We had luck with the weather every day, it was HOT but the atlantic breeze did a good job, so it was bearable.

We had a nice week with my family, lovely to see my mom and 'her' spa.
Relaxing - sun - swim - water - wine - good food..
I also had wide plans on going up to the mountains and to have a picnic in the desert (haha) but time was too short.

// Norway ♥ //

Hello

2011-07-17T20:02:00.000+03:00

I'm back from my southern adventure- but I still need a little extended blog-vacation. But I promise to be back in a few days!

..with lots of photos.

Off we go!

2011-07-04T19:45:00.000+03:00

I'm leaving my sunny town and heading south. Me and my family are going to visit my mom in Gran Canaria (she's a skintherapist and working there in a spa). On Thursday it's her 50th birthday..and it's going to be so great!

Our grandmother is going to take care of Sune. We had to take him to the vet to cut off his thick hair knots..but he's fine with it, he just looks funny right now:)

I don't think I will blog from Gran Canaria, so see you after 1 1/2 weeks:)

Happy summer!

Crashed

2011-07-01T20:49:00.000+03:00

Poor little mouse.

This post is actually not so depressing as it looks;

my vacation has started!

4 weeks.

Nice things

2011-06-29T15:59:00.001+03:00

Pizza with Johanna on a warm day. The weather has been great this week.

Got a lovely gift from Rasmus brother and his wife. Hanna Konola designed kitchen towel, good coffee and a cool dishrag, what more do you need!

I cut bangs again, I know that I'll hate it some days, but mostly I'll think it's nice to have an easy hairstyle.
I usually make up my mind quickly about once a year and then I cut my hair, at home.

+
Whoa, can't believe I only have one more day at work! I don't even remember if I wrote that my vacation was going to start 1st of June, but then I was asked to work one more month- and so I did. Sometimes you just need the money:)

+
I love this bostonterrier!!

Allotment news

2011-06-28T23:01:00.000+03:00

This evening: I harvested some spinach and salad...it's growing fast!
Afterwards, had a nice refreshing gin&tonic in E+T:s garden.

Pictures taken with my (very new!) iphone. I'm quite amazed how good pictures it takes.

Park

2011-06-25T20:37:00.000+03:00

Little birdie wanted our leftovers.

Luckily the weather was on our side yesterday! Even a little sunshine, no rain- but chilly. I'm satisfied with my midsummer in town.
From now on the nights get darker, no more sun during night time this summer.

Those watermelons we had on the balcony today wasn't that good as it looks, it tasted like a dry carrot. Buhu.

Midsummer blues

2011-06-24T13:16:00.000+03:00

I ate sour milk with cinnamon for breakfast + coffee and sandwiches, which I left out of the picture.
Looking out the window, being depressed over the grey and rainy weather.
They say it will be sunny later today, hmm it looks like it's clearing up but I'm not quite sure about sunshine..

This Midsummer will anyway be different from the previous years. Before we always used to go to a friends summerhouse over the weekend but it didn't happen this year. Instead we planned to have a picnic outside somewhere, try to make it cosy. If only the weather is fine.

Happy Midsummer to all of you, if you celebrate or not!

Food, oils and mosquitoes

2011-06-23T19:28:00.003+03:00

Wild roses, cheese pie and salad.

It's a day off tomorrow because of the midsummer weekend!
But the weather is bad, rainy, windy and cold. Not exactly what you want for midsummer:/

+ We have an invasion of mosquitoes again.
EVEN more than last summer, because of the long cold winter with a lot of snow. Therefore, a mosquito spray is a must have if you're going to be outside in the evening.
Today at work I got a recipe for an organic mosquito o i l.
I bought the ingredients and just did my own oil, which consists of:

1 1 / 2 cup olive oil (mine was not organic)
20 drops of lavender oil
20 drops eucalyptus oil
20 drops pine oil
20 drops lemongrass oil
20 drops rosemary oil

It should really work against mosquitoes! I hope so!

Treasure

2011-06-22T14:05:00.000+03:00

I just came home from work (one week + 1 day more work until my REAL summer vacation starts) and I found a little package on the floor in front of my door.
The necklace I ordered from Sunkentreasure has arrived! It's perfect and I love it, thank you so much Sophie:)

I will be wearing it frequently this summer.

Teufelsberg/Berlin

2011-06-21T21:00:00.000+03:00

One grey day Rasmus took the camera and went to Teufelsberg. I had other plans that day, but after looking at his pictures I almost regret that I didn't go. Maybe another time.

Last evening in Berlin

2011-06-21T15:07:00.000+03:00

We ate sushi and took photos.
This was our last evening, but not the last photos though! A little little bit more to post before I go back to regular blogging :)

Sixth day

2011-06-20T22:19:00.001+03:00

On Monday we went to Treptower park for picnic and grilling. After that we decided to take a walk to the abandoned Spreepark. I've heard quite much about it and was curious.
They recently opened a small area for visitors again. The rest, that you actually wanted to see, was closed.
I didn't find it that exciting actually. Better would have been if it still was closed and forbidden:)

Fifth evening

2011-06-19T22:16:00.000+03:00

We wanted to see a little bit of the culture carnival, so we went quickly there but returned just as fast. At that time it was way too crowded, couldn't almost move among all the people..therefore no photos! I only had a moment when I could take out my camera and that's the photo of the carousel. The other three photos are from the way to and from the carnival.
And..my mobile phone got stolen:( I had it in my jacket pocket. That's the only bad thing that happened on the trip.

Fifth day

2011-06-19T21:18:00.001+03:00

A little tired after the long night out we decided to go to Mauerpark fleamarket, where they also had this open air karaoke. Crazy! People got up and sang in front of hundreds of people.
After that we ate a good pasta at a nice place nearby.

Fourth day/night

2011-06-19T20:01:00.000+03:00

Early morning in Berlin.

Third and fourth day

2011-06-19T18:32:00.001+03:00

The third day was a calm day and I didn't take that many photos either. We walked around, visited our friend Ulrika in her studio and ate a pizza in her backyard. Then we didn't do much more and ended the day with an evening snack of cheese and strawberries.

The next day we went to the food market where I bought a lovely, lovely homemade coriander pesto! In the evening we went to a cosy russian bar in Kreuzberg.

To be continued->

Second day

2011-06-19T14:19:00.002+03:00

Party-day in brief.
Coffee in the morning while I wrote a card to a friend. It was Rasmus birthday so we went to drink a glass of exclusive champagne, and it was sooo good. Wish I could have afford a bottle.
Then we met up with friends in a park. We drank wine, ate strawberries and played mini-crockett:) Unfortunately the weather wasn't so warm so we went out to a bar later on.
It was a fun day!

Berlin: the first day

2011-06-18T00:33:00.002+03:00

We arrived early in the morning to Friedrichshain where our friends now live. They have a really nice flat, wish I could move in.
When we visited them last winter they lived in Kreuzberg but had to move away because of a leaking rooftop.. I wrote about that in this post.

I had slept very poorly the night before on hard benches at Helsinki airport (!)
So I took a two hour nap and then we went out walking around their hoods.
It rained, we bought "some" wine and I met a sweet dog named Don:)

And it was only the beginning.

Back!

2011-06-16T22:26:00.000+03:00

I'm back! Berlin was OH so great. I already miss the city, the people and the liveliness.
I took a lot of pictures. Think I'm gonna post many of them here, but for now only this picture.

I also met Sandra! It was so nice to see her after following her blog many years. She was just as nice in real life too:)

More Berlin pictures will be up here tomorrow.

Hope you are all fine:)

Blossoms

2011-06-07T20:05:00.000+03:00

BAH I must bore you with all these nature pictures. I just think it's so fascinating to see how it's summer again (after again a looong winter) And I do think it's beautiful.

But be ready for some concrete soon, Berlin calling! :)

Tearing down the house

2011-06-06T21:00:00.000+03:00

Suddenly they started to tear down a old abandoned house next to where I live. While I was eating icecream and taking pictures, of course.

Celebration

2011-06-05T20:30:00.003+03:00

Two of my cousins got their matriculation exam yesterday!
It was party day and night with family and friends, fun fun!

* champagne & strawberries * roses * my cousin & malou the puppy * malou was crazy and cute * my sister & axel * dinner * party & drinks * back to the 90's friends * me *

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

A day off

2011-06-02T19:49:00.000+03:00

Figs, yum. Breakfast today was turkish yoghurt with figs, chia and sunflower seeds + agave syrup.
I went to our allotment to sow some coriander and more salad. Friend E had been there almost the whole day, and it looks so nice there. Everything has almost been planted.
Now it's waiting, watering and keeping the weeds away that counts!
Luckily we got some huge redcurrant bushes on the lot, looks like we'll be getting a lot of berries! There are also blackcurrant and raspberries, yay:)
A new green smoothie: Coconut water, spinach and mango (I used frozen mango cubes) + a little agave syrup for sweetness.

Nice to have a day off like this. One day work tomorrow and then it's w e e k e n d.

7 days

2011-06-02T00:13:00.001+03:00

- it's getting greener and greener!
- time for summer food!
- tomatoes + tomato mozzarella salad
- a new/old jumper for late summernights, just in case it gets chilly..
- I made a little cheramic "thing" for a necklace
- Rasmus bought a paper strip music box with many empty strips to make your own "songs" on. Fun! It could be good for picnics:)
- zzzzz...

One week more and then I'm off to Berlin!

Weekend things done - and to do

2011-05-28T17:02:00.000+03:00

Me and my sister did some fleemarket shopping today, I found these two nice baskets! I also bought a lot of wooden beads.
Suddenly I'm collecting wooden beads. Planning to do something with them, I just don't know what yet!
I came home, ate, talked..now I need a coffee.

Oh and I also bought addictive vegetable chips...

Soon it's time for Saturday home cleaning, think I need some new good music to listen to while cleaning. Any good music tips? :)

+++ Look at Francis new music video that my friend Johan made! He recently graduated from film class and this music video was his examination work. I like like like!!

Playful space

2011-05-26T22:59:00.001+03:00

I made it so far!! No stomach flu. Seems like I got away with only a stomach ache. Thank you for your comments anyway:)

I want to show these pictures from a space-project I held at work.
The kids have made spaceships and small planets! I finished the hanging today..
I think it looks cute with all their personal little planets:)

Rain +

2011-05-24T18:12:00.000+03:00

Sickness in the house!! Rasmus has the stomach flu, really bad..And I started to feel bad today at work. Still ok, but feels like I'm going to lie on the bathroom floor sooner or later tonight. Hope not:/

These pictures are from other days lately, weekend.

I bought a cute swimsuit! Getting ready for summer...I normally wear bikini but I fell deeply in love with this one:)

Yummy thai salad..I can still look at it and remember how good it was but I wonder for how many hours more...

I'll be back hopefully soon!

Our allotment!

2011-05-21T17:22:00.000+03:00

I don't know if I ever mentioned that we recently got an allotment? We're sharing it with two friends, E+T. I love it!! So great to be able to grow own vegetables.
We've been there almost the whole day today, digging and planting. Beans, squash, herbs and some lovely tomato plants. Hopefully tomorrow I'll plant some more (salad, carrots, potatoes, onions etc.)

E had lots of good tricks on how to plant everything the best way. Now I'm super excited to see how it will grow!
I guess I'll be posting more pictures of it throughout the summer:)

It's time again

2011-05-17T22:22:00.000+03:00

I just made this smoothie. So simple, sooo good. A big handful of spinach, half of a honey melon and little bit of goji-passion fruit juice. Mix it!

A messy mix of photos from the past few days

2011-05-15T14:59:00.000+03:00

Hello there! Again I've had too little time for blogging:(
And I don't think it's interesting for you (or me to look back at) to read about my breakfast or lunch every day.
That's something I could post all the time, but I have to control myself..hehe.

Something new:

Rasmus has bought a new lens (sigma 10-20mm). It's very wide-angle and so different from the 50mm 1.8 that I'm now mostly used to. It's fun to play with!

I finally bought two lovely vintage chairs that I've had my eyes on for a while. The big question is: should I paint them black or not?

I also got myself a bamboo "plant". It looks more like tall thick grass with leaves. Will place it in a big pot on the balcony. I like the raw look of it.

And something I like:
These rings from Nga Waiata, I want all of them.

Greens

2011-05-10T19:09:00.003+03:00

The beans and squash etc. are growing fast! I have to plant them outdoors soon.

I've caught a little cold. Sore throat yesterday and running nose today. But it's not so bad. Yet.

Well, now over to something more interesting!

Last Friday was my friend Carlas 30th b-day party with 30's theme, which I sadly couldn't go to.
But Linnea made a great video from the evening, I think you all should have a look:)

puttin' on the ritz

Good times

2011-05-09T22:22:00.000+03:00

Helsinki-weekend in brief:

- Warm sunny weather
- Johannas cozy place + her roof terrace + vegetarian buffet take away
- Plans for a possible future exhibition (remember that one we had last October?)
- Off to other friends huge luxury apartment. Jan lives there. Johan, who also lives there, had ran a good marathon:)
- Bubbles + party
- On Sunday I also Met Ida-Lina. We went to the roof again for the rest of the day until it was time for me to take the train back home.

I could've written much more but it was easier to make it short like this!

O

2011-05-07T10:40:00.001+03:00

Suddenly I'm in Helsinki again! Going to see some friends.
I took the early morning train..was supposed to go yesterday evening but didn't. Now I'm tired, but I think I'll survive.

Have a nice weekend!

Waiting

2011-05-05T21:50:00.000+03:00

I can hardly wait for summer...and going through old pictures from last one does not make it easier!
This summer is going to be special..I can feel it.
I'm not going to work (hopefully), can't believe it. That means free time to do whatever I want, no stress + I can focus on my own art, finally after this long break.
I have at least two trips to look forward to. One to Berlin (that's in one month already!) and the other to the Canary Islands to visit my Mom who is there working at a spa for 6 months:)

Do you have any exciting plans for this summer?

Thank you so much for your comments on my owl costume;)

A costume

2011-05-02T20:20:00.000+03:00

We had a masquerade last Friday at work (note: kindergarten;)
I dressed up as an owl and made this costume the evening before. It was really easy to make!
I only could've done it a little more carefully.

I got the idea here.

Lately

2011-05-01T12:47:00.001+03:00

-Pictures from a fondue dinner at dad's place, and Sune who loves to sit outside on the porch.
-Finally I've sown some carrots, beans, herbs etc. (also trying the seeds I got in a swap from Hearblack:)
-Two pairs of new socks.

Happy 1st of May!

Strawberries

2011-04-27T23:19:00.000+03:00

I'm waiting for strawberry season! But until then, imported ones are good enough.

For breakfast: Porridge with strawberries and organic vanilla. So good that I'm going to eat it tomorrow morning again:)

Poor Mr. Beethoven.. I just had to make this abrupt contrast, haha.

Day off

2011-04-25T23:34:00.000+03:00

Today was my Grandmother's birthday, hooray for her! She had received flowers from a "secret" admirer..;)
Her tired cat Millan had some red paint on her paws. That's because she earlier had crawled into a hole that squirrels have done under the roof of our sumercottage. Sneaky. But luckily no squirrels live there anymore.

It's been a really great day actually. I even managed to clean up the apartment a little bit AND been to a fleamarket. Found, among other things, more candle holders for my little collection.

Rasmus went to Umeå for a week, he's participating (again) in another art project. He took the "better" camera with him, so I have to get used to the old one again..what a difference!

Trench

2011-04-24T20:52:00.000+03:00

I'm so in love with my trenchcoat I bought at Weekday! It looks much better in person..
Time to throw out the easter willows..but at least they give a little colour to this post;)

One more day off tomorrow, lovely. They promise nice weather so I'm hoping for a picnic in the park..

How was your weekend?

24h in Helsinki

2011-04-23T20:05:00.000+03:00

Yesterday evening in Helsinki was all good. When we arrived we went to Gallery Sinnes new location. It's HUGE and it's going to be the BEST gallery in Helsinki! It actually used to be an old sexshop there before.
Rasmus is participating in a groupshow there, opening on Wednesday next week. It's also the opening of the new gallery space. Ooooh I really wish I could be there..

Anyway, after I had seen the gallery I left Rasmus and the others there and went to see my friend Tuuli and her dog Taika* the cute half Indian straydog.
We walked the streets in her neighbourhoods and went to her home for some food and sparkling wine.

*We also found out yesterday that Taika loves to "sing" along when somebody plays the harmonica. So funny.

Goodnight

2011-04-21T22:53:00.000+03:00

Easter holidays. That means Friday - Monday are free days! At least for me it is.
Tomorrow I'm off to Helsinki, back already on Saturday. Then I'm going to see a lot of friends, hopefully.

Happy Easter!

Hi again

2011-04-20T22:31:00.001+03:00

I just came home from the opening of my school time friends exhibition at Osthrobothnian Museum. Good atmosphere and great works. If you're in town you should go see it!
I only took a few pictures and most of them got blurry. My photos often tend to get blurry when I take pictures at openings or other events. There's many other things to put attention to then than taking good pictures:)

Walking and exploring

2011-04-17T20:48:00.003+03:00

It was a sunny morning and I decided to go for a walk. Then of course the sun disappeared when I went out. But exploring the nature and surroundings nearby town can be interesting anyway.
I also met my sister who's in town for a few weeks:)
Later I got Dumpling cravings and made some. Feels like a good end of the week.

But sometimes a good day can't be perfect,
and it's very sad and scary that a extreme right xenophobic party got many votes so far in the elections going on right now here in Finland. Makes me so upset..

New

2011-04-16T17:28:00.000+03:00

My new shoes I had ordered finally arrived, and I'm very happy with my purchase. Think I'm going to try the boots today, the clogs can wait for a couple of weeks more!

+ Somebody who woke up from his nap while I was photographing the shoes..

Today was the last day of my pedagogy course..Soon it's time for dinner and think I deserve a glass of wine:)

Toothpicks

2011-04-15T08:25:00.001+03:00

We've been building sculptures out of toothpicks and peas at the kindergarten, think I liked it more than the kids:) Now I have big plans on making something BIG.
The snow is melting quickly, and now you see bare ground again, and everything that's been hiding under the snow begins to show.

Happy Friday!

Stressful days

2011-04-13T20:39:00.001+03:00

Mixed pictures from the past week. I haven't had time for blogging again..been extremely busy and tired when I come home after work.
Tomorrow I'm going to take a new bloodtest concerning my thyroid. I hope I can start taking medicine again! So that I finally can feel better.
My level is not much under the normal reference range-even I have quite strong symptoms that gets worse when I'm stressed. I wrote something about my thyroid problems last summer. I'm a little discreet with this kind of stuff:)

Well, otherwise everything's fine and it's definitely SPRING!

Right now

2011-04-08T21:27:00.000+03:00

Weekend is here.
And I just came home from a new pedagogy course. I must say it's hard to study Friday evening after a work week, and up again early Saturday morning to do the same. High self discipline required!
Gruyére, fig marmalade and wine is also required right now:)

Wet & grey

2011-04-07T21:46:00.001+03:00

I've been wearing my rubber boots every day this week. It's grey, everything looks wet and shabby. The snow piles are dirty..and melting away! But will cause some flooding around here I've heard.

Think I'm going to get myself a Flow ticket this year again! Are there any finnish readers here who will go? :)

Can't wait for Summer to come

2011-04-05T21:34:00.000+03:00

Got this icecream drawing from a kid at the kindergarten, I think it's cute and would look good as a poster:)

Today I'm so tired to write or think of anything else more than: Summer.

I have some really nice things to look forward to.
One of the things is a flight to Berlin in June that got booked today!

Soon I'll have time again to look through all the blogs that I usually read every day/week + new ones.
Hope you're all fine!

Rain

2011-04-03T22:03:00.000+03:00

Very rare that I'm posting twice a day, but here it goes!
It's been a rainy Sunday...YES it's raining and it's very grey but that doesn't matter. The important thing is that the snow is melting and it's getting warmer.

I was a while at my dads place, ate mozzarella salad and said hello to lazy Sune.
He's missing old Salami. The first days without her he walked around the house and meowed. Like he was looking for her:(

Bowling

2011-04-03T16:56:00.001+03:00

Yesterday we went bowling. I had almost forgotten how fun it is, but my god I was bad haha..It showed I really had had a long break.
Afterwards we went to my place to eat and more friends joined. A really good evening!

The same

2011-03-30T21:05:00.000+03:00

Already Wednesday!
Everythig goes on routine here. It feels good but I feel it's soon time for a little variation. Or maybe I'm just bored by the long long winter, today it was -15 again. Spring, come out!

MUJI, so many things I want...

Night at the soapfactory

2011-03-27T13:26:00.000+03:00

Dinner, wine, laughter, earth hour..

And changing the clocks to summertime. The days are getting longer and brighter, finally.

Playing around with red makeup

2011-03-26T17:54:00.000+02:00

And other shots from today.
It's been a good day so far. Now I'm even off to a nice dinner.
I wish all days were easy like this!

My day

2011-03-26T00:16:00.002+02:00

Lucky day: I came home from work and was welcomed by a package of Sandras wrist worms!
I had to get the new stripey ones. They're perfect. There was also a little pocket calendar, yay!
I ate a pizza (ok, not tomato soup, this one was from earlier this week. But I had no photo of the pizza..)
Then I put on my wrist worms and went to school and listened to philosophical pedagogy.
A few hours later I went home and took some evening sky pictures. The towers and sky in the last photo didn't look like that in real life, wrong settings!

Have a good weekend.

Update! I wrote this late Friday night, so apparently it was posted after midnight.

Things

2011-03-24T20:25:00.000+02:00

Collecting and gathering.

Now is the time to read on a school assignment! I'm taking some evening courses in pedagogy this spring. Next year I might attend a 1 year intensive pedagogical education, so that I become a qualified(certified?) art teacher. That's the plan.

Hope you're having a good week.

2011-03-22T23:02:00.001+02:00

Thank you all for your comments. It's always hard to lose a pet:( But they stay in our hearts forever.

Here are some pictures of the hallway to my studio (not inside my studio), taken last weekend.. Just as then I also passed by there today to pick up something. It's such a mess there, I need to organize and clean up before starting new projects..did I say this before?? I think I did:) I write this as a little reminder for myself..

A sad day

2011-03-21T23:16:00.000+02:00

Our family cat Salami was put to sleep today. She was sick and everything was getting worse:(
Her free cat life was not the same anymore and it was so sad to see her suffering like that. So this was the best for her.
It's so hard to go through old pictures of her:( But I have many good memories.

She got 15 wonderful years with lots of love ♥

Red, yellow, green

2011-03-20T21:18:00.000+02:00

So I'm back:)

Tomorrow it's time for a new week again. This one will be a little calmer, I think. Last week was hectic with a lot of work. I also did a wallpainting in a kidsroom every evening after my regular work. It was fun of course:)
Feels great that I get the opportunity to do things like this now and then.

Quick hello

2011-03-16T08:29:00.001+02:00

Haha this picture makes me laugh. Rasmus took a sneaky photo of me when I filled up the car, in December. I look so grumpy, while looking at the meter.

I don't have time to blog this week either. I'm working until late evening for the rest of this week..So see you on the weekend!

Now -> work.

The usual

2011-03-13T13:30:00.002+02:00

Food and weekend pictures from sunny, but different days. Haven't taken any new pictures..but it's the same bright sunshine outside my window right now. Spring is on it's way.

I like this kind of creativity, all over the place, Christine Young. (found at all the mountains)

I feel soo lazy but have some things to do, clean up the apartment for example - it looks terrible. If I just walk away from the computer, I might get something done. What are you going to do today?

°°°

2011-03-12T17:49:00.001+02:00

It's been a while!! I've been busy and I've had nothing new to blog about during the week. Hope you are all ok!

It's so sad what has happened in Japan, what is still happening. Scary and worrying.

Right now I'm sitting here, in a much more quiet part of the world, eating a snack and drinking coffee out of my childhood mug (maybe the mug makes me in a better mood, I don't know..)
I'm a person that worry about the power of nature when I start thinking about it, it's consequences and the future, there's nothing we can do about it.

From my blogosphere I'm glad to hear that,
Hello Sandwich is safe..
Maru is safe..

Stay safe, Japan:/

On the ice

2011-03-05T23:46:00.000+02:00

Earlier today.

An evening & food

2011-03-05T13:41:00.000+02:00

Seems like I'm only updating on the weekends nowadays.
I'm going to take a walk in the bright sun and feel the spring air, +1°!

Have a happy weekend:)

3 things

2011-03-01T21:19:00.001+02:00

A little oak tree that my dad planted.
A nice shirt I "took" from my sister.
Lemons, which I should eat lots of. Seems like sickness arrived at the house. Not me, yet! (hmm, can you even say like that: arrive at or to?)

Last day of February

2011-02-28T18:29:00.013+02:00

Very pale series of pictures this time..
Pictures from a walk yesterday, today's afternoon and my mom's fried springrolls, they're soooo good, much better than they look:)

It's been a good Monday so far. Almost everybody at work are on sports vacation this week. And my only job is to do a wallpainting in one room at the kindergarten. Fun!
I will take Friday off and spend the day with my mom before she goes back to Stockholm.

My dad "forced" me to try a honey product he had bought, called propolis. A half teaspoon in the tea is enough. It's supposed to be very healthy, but I think the jar looks like it contains poison.. It tastes weird, a bit bitter.

W

2011-02-26T22:10:00.003+02:00

W E E K E N D
My Mom is visiting for a week! My sisters too. That means long dinners with a lot of talking, nice;)

We had lunch at my dads place today and our furry friend slept behind my computer. She's getting old...

And to be a bit more artistically active I went to the Artist Talk evening yesterday with Platform. Two very interesting artists are here in Vasa on a recidency now. Swedish artist Helga Steppan and Florian Tuercke from Germany. Both very inspiring, especially Helga Steppan. She's working with photography and installation...and collecting things, hmm lovely.

:)

Weekday

2011-02-22T16:48:00.010+02:00

Breakfasts, a salad, and other things. Blah, I can't stop taking pictures of the food I'm eating..

Hope you're having a good week, and thank you so much for your comments, ALWAYS!
I'm so bad at responding to them. But they make me so happy every single day and it's always nice to hear from new readers.

I'm thinking about doing some changes on my blog soon..plans going on:)

Treasure hunting

2011-02-19T16:24:00.005+02:00

Me and Linnea went to a fleamarket and I found some nice things. (Of course hey!)
A wall ship, a little bowl, an old book about Sami people with a nice cover.

And some childrens books. The three ones in the middle makes me so nostalgic, I just love all books from Inger and Lasse Sandberg.
Then an english book about a pigeon and a hotdog..hmm. It seemed so stupid and funny.

Things I actually didn't need. But it's ok with fleamarket books, or?!

Three different photos

2011-02-16T19:55:00.007+02:00

I bought summer sandals..! Longing for warmer weather.
But the summer is very far away now. This week it's coldrecord here and up to -30 at night and -26 during the day..more or less.
Most of all I would like to sit by the fire with the book I am currently reading, "Out" by Natsuo Kirino.

I found the last picture on my desktop..and I might have posted it here before. Taken from the carwindow on a cold afternoon in December. Cold cold cold!

I'm curious to know what kind of weather you have right now where you live? :)

Art on the weekend

2011-02-15T20:03:00.012+02:00

Pictures from my friends Tuuli Toivola & Ninni Wager exhibition opening "cross pissing - point missing" last Saturday. They're both very creative, and I like their playful work very much.
The four last pictures are from Ritz, where the exhibition takes place.

It was a fun evening spent together with good friends!

Sunny weekend

2011-02-12T18:30:00.011+02:00

It has been some silent days here at my blog, but now I'm back!
The weekend has been really nice, and sunny;) Yesterday was the opening of two of my friends exhibition, it was just wonderful. I'll show some pictures soon.

These are so cute, vintage family playthings by Caterina Gabelli.

Hope you had a good weekend!

A day in February

2011-02-09T18:22:00.004+02:00

Blue sky and a treat..

Saw this recently, cool!

Random pics, pinterest, calendar..

2011-02-05T19:13:00.014+02:00

Random pictures from today and last weekend.
It has been a very gray day, I've been to some fleamarkets but didn't find much, or I wasn't really in the mood. But I did find an ugly necklace and bought it because it had some nice details, a chestnut(?) and two treecones.
Think I'll make my own version of a necklace..

Another good thing today: I finally joined Pinterest! So far I started to make some boards..still learning about how the whole thing works, but it's really fun!

+ It's already February and I still haven't got myself a calendar...can't find the right one. Maybe I just go and buy a simple one from the bookstore or make my own, I always used to do that a few years ago.
Last year I had one from Julie Joliat and was very pleased with it. This year it's already sold out!
Do you have one that you can recommend?

Wednesday evening

2011-02-02T22:13:00.006+02:00

Knitting + hot chocolate.

This is so great. If I had a cat at home, then I would also buy a cat teepee from Loyalluxe

The End

2011-02-01T20:40:00.020+02:00

Tonight I was on the opening of my little sisters photoexhibition, "The end" which she has together with Mike Von Tappokone. It was naked and cold, in a good way. They're both very talented. Here are some quick shots from it.
Snyggt jobbat syster yster och Mike!

Mike tk

Rosanna

Mike tk

Glitter on our way home.

Saturday night

2011-01-30T17:28:00.014+02:00

Our friends cooked some really really good food for us yesterday.
After we walked home through some empty, slippery streets. The snow has already started to melt away.

Thank you so much for the comments in the previous post! Now I have something to think about and also check out some new brands.

Hope you have had a good weekend!

About..

2011-01-27T18:44:00.004+02:00

I'm really into natural cosmetics! A "trend" that for once isn't unnecessary..and which is here to stay. Good that people get more and more aware of what they eat and put on their skin. We get too much bad stuff in our bodies anyway.

Here are some of my favourites: I love the primavera rose water and weledas almond facial oil!
Also my favourite solid perfumes from lush, karma and breath of god (a scent for guys I think, but I like it too:) But I'm not so sure Lush is really that good, because they sometimes use some very bad ingredients:/ Do you know?

Yesterday I got a new foundation from swedish Smashit which I had ordered, 100% natural & organic. I tried it today and so far it's really good!

Do you have a favourite product that you can recommend?

Into the woods

2011-01-26T20:12:00.003+02:00

I love to walk in the woods. It's so quiet and beautiful, especially now during wintertime. It's also nice to lie down in the snow and look up at the snow-covered treetops!

These pictures are a few days old, taken "in front" of the woods near my job.

Sleepyheads :)

Sun-day

2011-01-23T14:50:00.007+02:00

I'm happy-woke up to sunshine today! This winter has otherwise been very dark with almost no sunshine.
Our neighbours downstairs invited us for wine yesterday, nice. We're lucky to have really nice neighbours in the building, almost like a little big family (only 6 apartments in the whole house).

Today I'm eating hot lentilsoup leftovers and cleaning, washing -organizing. Searching for new kitchen lamps on the net..etc.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Time for a home makeover

2011-01-22T18:33:00.015+02:00

Small details and our kitchen window viewed from the outside.

I'm very inspired to refurnish my home. Haven't had time, + lately I have been focused on other things, but now feels like the right time for it.

I want something new. If I only had the money...good that I like second hand stuff. Also self-made of course:)
Sometimes I get crazy ideas which seems so good in my mind but when it comes to do it it doesn't look good or work out the way I like it to. Now I wanna build my own kitchen table..hmm.
Anyway, I think it's good to refurnish your home now and then. Get inspired too:)

A find and food, one more time

2011-01-19T22:47:00.003+02:00

I don't have much to blog about because right now my days are pretty much the same.
So, here is another find from last weekend. A bunch of old hangers. I really like those metal ones.
And a dinner, tried to make a beetroot risotto. It tasted good but could have been more creamy. Cooked it over too high heat I guess.

It's flu times at work but so far I've done just fine. Maybe it's because I spice up my coffee with cardamom every morning:)

Weekend happiness

2011-01-16T22:55:00.006+02:00

Found a treasure yesterday. A big old schoolmap of migratory birds! I'm going to show a better picture of it later.
Breakfast is always happiness..

:)

Friday

2011-01-14T21:42:00.008+02:00

Weekend, how nice!
Now I'll relax and just enjoy the peace and quiet. A glass of moscato and half dead flowers was my photo objects at home tonight.
I have a few new books I want to start reading, maybe this weekend. Haven't read in a long time!
Also another thing to do; plan new art projects. I haven't done much since my exhibition in October. It makes me a little worried..

Have a good weekend!

Little charmer

2011-01-11T20:22:00.011+02:00

My good friend Emma who now lives in Zürich with her husband Mario and their daughter Emilia visited us a few weeks ago. It was the first time I met little Emilia, she was born in May last year. Finally I got to see her! Oh how exciting it was and what a sweetheart she was! Always when I grabbed the camera she began to smile:) Emma gave me some really cute cards made by her sister Kajsa.

Back to work

2011-01-10T21:26:00.008+02:00

/ A cold day in dec 2010 / Avocado snack / An embroidered bag I bought today/

Slowly getting back to everyday routine again. Today was my first day at work, it felt good (but I'm going to miss sleeping long in the mornings!).
Everything seemed as normal at pre school, I had almost forgotten how fast the day goes. Was fun to see all the kids again, they were so eager to tell about their x-mas gifts.

I can't believe that this is going to be my 5th blog-year! In September to be exact. Thank you so much for reading and commenting, that means A LOT ♥

8 pictures

2011-01-07T11:19:00.007+02:00

These are the last shots from Berlin. I wish I had taken more pictures, but the camera is heavy and I didn't want to carry it with me everywhere. I did have my pocket camera with me but totally forgot about it..hm.

Our friends apartment that we stayed in was really great, big and old. Maybe too old because the roof top started to leak when the snow on the roof melted. They live on the highest floor.
Poor them, I hope somebody will fix it soon, otherwise they might have to move away. I reckon that many have or had the same kind of problem there right now.

Hope you have enjoyed my Berlin pictures!

5 pictures

2011-01-06T23:15:00.002+02:00

The old, huge buildings on Karl-Marx-Allé were quite impressive, though some of them looked like they were in a pretty bad shape. I kept on wondering how they look on the inside. I found it all very interesting.

We also met a white berlin-dog that walked confidently down his street:)

11 pictures

2011-01-06T21:56:00.030+02:00

More pictures I took while walking the streets of Berlin. Details everywhere..texts, graffiti..
My friend wanted to take me to a little cupcake café in Friedrichshain, and when we went inside my camera lens got foggy. But the cupcakes were really good so we bought a box of cupcakes to take with us when we left. I wish I had them in front of me now!

10 pictures

2011-01-05T19:58:00.018+02:00

So again, Berlin was great! Dirty, lively, fun bars, and friendly people.etc, etc.
The weather not so great, foggy and grey every single day. I didn't even take that many pictures as I thought I would.
But I've been eating so much and so good food, had no idea that food+drinks were that cheap in Germany. Compared to Finlands high prizes it was truly h e a v e n ! I could move there for the food..

faces in the clouds

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Monday post nr. 2

Flow in Helsinki

I I

Lately

Black & white

Mix

Alternative family

Bright & hot

Hello

Off we go!

Crashed

Nice things

Allotment news

Park

Midsummer blues

Food, oils and mosquitoes

Treasure

Teufelsberg/Berlin

Last evening in Berlin

Sixth day

Fifth evening

Fifth day

Fourth day/night

Third and fourth day

Second day

Berlin: the first day

Back!

Blossoms

Tearing down the house

Celebration

A day off

7 days

Weekend things done - and to do

Playful space

Rain +

Our allotment!

It's time again

A messy mix of photos from the past few days

Greens

Good times

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Waiting

A costume

Lately

Strawberries

Day off

Trench

24h in Helsinki

Goodnight

Hi again

Walking and exploring

New

Toothpicks

Stressful days

Right now

Wet & grey

Can't wait for Summer to come

Rain

Bowling

The same

Night at the soapfactory

Playing around with red makeup

My day

Things

A sad day

Red, yellow, green

Quick hello

The usual

°°°

On the ice

An evening & food

3 things

Last day of February

W

Weekday

Treasure hunting

Three different photos

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