Sunny sewing day

Today I was a busy bee. I have changed three pieces from my wardrobe to better fit for my body. I have a habit of buying clothes that have "potential". Potential clothes mean that before I can actually wear those I have to sew couple of hours (after planning and making patterns) ;) This is of course fun for me, but I tend to pile up a really long queue towards my sewing machine. (Don't worry, I still have arms attached to me. I only wanted to show how insanely wide the sleeves were by holding them up!)This indian cotton dress was a good color, obviously vintage and mmm, soft, I had no choise but to buy it for 2 euros at flea market. It didn't fit at all as you can see for yourself, but after altering it (below) it's quite nice if I say so myself.

I attached a piece of lace from the dress to the neck of the tunic. I think it's pretty too.

Then there are these linen (unironed) shorts that look like jeans if you look closer. I bought them to be my lazy shorts from Lindex from the last summer sale. They were too long and didn't flatter me at all! But today this changed in form of cutting the leg off about 25 cm. (As you all can see from my pose, I'm pretty sure I will be the next top model)

Then for last this vintage dress I love and never wear. I've bouht this from flea market at least 6 years ago. Every time I clean my wardrobe I look it like "you should go because I never wear you". That's why I'm especially ecxited about this one. I finally had the guts to shorten it. Now I can use it with jeans. I also made a little bag from the hem.

Here is the close up from the fabric. Isn't it awesome? Commas!

Now I'm going to let the appartment look like hurricane Clothes and Fabrics has hit it and go to livingroom sofa and enjoy candies (liquorice) and digest the tuna pizza I just ate. My favourite TV program "Monk" starts after some nature programmes that I like too.

Bad dog

I was popping out to buy food for weekend... When I came back our kitchen was ALTERED. When Tahvo is behaving badly we tell him to go to bathroom for a while "to think what he has done wrong". Tahvo knows very well that the garbage are not for him. I had a bit of trouble to keep my face serious when I noticed that when he hadn't found anything interesting enough from the garbage bin he had punished himself by going in the bathroom to be ashamed...

A very bad dog!

It's a good thing we recycle (otherwise too ofcourse), because the only bucket that Tahvo has access is plastics (and other things that can be burned for energy).

I have soooo many plans for the weekend! Jaakko is going away to visit his friend and that means I can mess up this little, little appartment. (For some reason Jaakko gets really difiicult, when my clothes fill the bed/bedroom floor, my sewing hobby inhabits the kithen table and stools and then his last resort; the livingroom sofa is "infested" with my other crafts!?)

Jei!

Oh I almost forgot

When I was "teaching" the Jaakko's class cartoon-making, I promised to show you their work. Well here it is: Da LINK ;) I think theyre really, really fine works of art! My favourite is the spider-cartoon (third from the bottom).

I've been doodeling myself, but I'm so lazy lass to scan. My scanner is otherwise working fine, but it tends to make a cruel sound a few minutes before it agrees to actually scan. The sound reminds me of machine gun fire...Poor me, snif...

Waiting for Valentine's day

I made this card tonight and I also wrote to my teenage cousin an old fashioned letter for the Valentine's day! I'll be stuck at work the whole day so I plan to bake something good for my work buddies. The fabric behind the card is flannel for my spring pyjamas :D My friend found it for me at the second hand store and I like love it. I also love the fact that the days are getting lighter. I don't hate the dark winter, but the light certainly makes me more energetic at spring and summer. I would not be able to keep that up the whole year, so it suits me well that the winter is slow.

Doing, being...

I've found a highly addictive hobby: Shrinking plastic! I've only just tried it, but I'm already planning to buy tons of it ;)Otherwise I've been:

- Reading a lot of books by young finnish writers
- Dancing for ecxercise and fun at Dance Fever-classes every monday
- Getting back to track with my hobby: Educational Sciences at Open University
- Dreaming about summer holiday and possible trip to far, far away
- Dreaming about less possible new appartment. (We went to see this beautifull three room (+ huge walk in closet) appartement with wooden floors and too big price tag on it :()
And I've got new hair :D I like the color! (at the back is my new kitchen curtain I found at flea market) Yesterday I walked to work and the day was so beautifull I took some pictures. This one makes me smile, because the boats are REALLY not going anywhere ;) The snow, ice and sun are energizing combo.