Saturday grey

The weather has been so grey today, but the mood is on top! I've been making mini cupcakes for a masquerade party tonight. Haven't made cupcakes in a long time and they don't look very good but the taste is ok. I might put up some pictures tomorrow.

Now I'm going to drink a glass of white wine and dress up.

Have a good evening!

Risotto time!

Food is fun.
I made risotto today, haven't done it in a long while..YUM! It's always so good. And the handmade risotto "spoon" from Sicily (a gift from R:s parents) makes the stirring better;)

Good things to do

On a Monday..when there's enough energy for motivation.
I've been making A LOT of carrot bread and red curry-bean beefs! Good things to fill up the freezer with. Had to use up some ingredients that soon expire.

Have a good start of the week!

Cathouse, bathouse

Woke up early today. We went out "sightseeing" with Rasmus parents who were here on a visit. We saw the cathouse and even a bathouse, among other things;)

And today was the last day of my exhibition!

In the kitchen

Bu..my little sufi dancer fell from his place and lost his head. Looks like I can fix it with glue though. Good.

What? Is it already Friday tomorrow? What is it with time, I think it goes faster than ever now.
My week has been a normal and calm one. I'm doing a wallpainting at work again, at the section for the younger kids(where I'm not normally working). Something with squirrels this time:) well, their place is called "ekorrarna" meaning the squirrels.

I've started to take my medicine, so now I'm slightly excited..if I will notice any difference at all in how I feel.
..And I started baking my own bread again!

Love, love, love these photos by Amira Fritz, found via Boooooom.

Pair 8

Pair 7

Pair 6

Pair 5

Pair 4

Pair 3

Pair 2

Pair 1

Photos from the walk today. The sun disappeared as soon as we got out. But the weather was wonderfully fresh.

I will post the photos in pairs that fit each other, instead of posting them all together!

Sunday

It's a beautiful day today. Time for a walk in the park! What a good feeling to not have anything important to do, I can just relax and take care of myself.
What are you doing today?

Today

Friday's here already! My day started with some expensive bloodtests at a private hospital..I told you about my Thyroid-problems a few months ago. Well now I'm finally going to try a 6 months long thyroid medication and see if it stabilizes. I hope I soon will feel like myself again! Is there somebody else here with thyroid problems? Feel free to comment!

After work I made a spicy carrot/coconut soup, so good on a cold autumn day like today.
+ I bought this long "knitted" dress from H&M for 10euros..I'm thinking of Pippi Longstocking when I look at it:)

I found a new good foodblog, in swedish this time.

Happy weekend!

Let me introduce..

A suitable name?

A funny thing about working with children are all the drawings you get! My locker at work is now full of drawings, but I had to take this funny little "catfish" home! It hangs on the fridge and cheers me up -I love it's facial expression:)

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Pictures from the past few days. Fall days are perfect for cosy and long dinners. Especially something with roasted root vegetables.

They were right, the first snow/hail came today. It was only a short time, but the kids at the preschool immideately started to collect the snow in buckets:) They were more keen on it than me..

Something good: I also might get to teach art to the 4th, 5th and 6th graders in primary school. Only once a week but that's anyway something! I will know more about it soon, but it would start in a few weeks.

Spying

Two pics from the weekend.
Hmm, it feels weird to not work on the exhibition anymore. But I think the intense work woke up my inspiration much more! So after I've cleaned up the studio + filled up with more oil paint it's time for a new project.

I will try to slowly get back to blogging again, been away too long except for some quick "hellos"! Don't want it to be like that:) But thank you so much for the comments lately! Now I will finally check your blogs, wonderful!

Brr, it's getting colder here, they even promised snow this week..already!?

BIG PS. It was my little sister Sophia's 21th birthday yesterday (10.10.-10)! Grattis igen min söta.

Pictures

I'm back! I forgot to take my camera with me on our vernissage on Friday, but I will hopefully get some pictures that Johanna took. Anyway, here are some pictures of some of my paintings/drawings and Johannas photographs that are now hanging on the gallery walls, sorry for the bad pictures they're too dark and blurry.

"Alster- a piece of us" is an exhibition all about fear and identity through photography and paintings. Johanna's photographs reflects fear of losing control while Maria's paintings depict a form of escapism."








and then some of Johanna's beautiful photographs (wish I had a better picture):



This last one is my favourite. A portait of our friend Sawandi together with his grandfather. It belongs to the series about somehow "different" finnish-swedish Ostrobothnian men with a strong identity. It doesn't belong to the same theme as the rest of the exhibition.
I wish Johanna had a homepage so you all could have a better look and see more of her works.

Hello!

Finally I've got some energy and TIME to say write a post here! I've been so incredibly busy. The exhibition is on Friday and I'm almost ready with everything..almost. I hope you can wait a few days more to see pictures of my work:) The invitation cards came today, very late.

The reason why I started to work on the exhibition so late was all the bad things going on, me not feeling so well, stress, exhaustion etc. + daytime work. (more about that later).
ALL is better now and I'm super excited about the exhibition!! Don't know if I even mentioned that I'm sharing the gallery space with my friend Johanna, who is a photographer, she's great and I'm happy to have her by my side:)


Phew.

Update!
I saw I wrote about sharing the space before and that the opening was going to take place 25th of October! Well as you now know, it's on this Friday the 8th.