Yesterdays "bookfest"

I made my first book ;) It's soft because its fabric and it's full of weird (but not frightening) poems. It's been manifactured by (my very own) Weird Rhymes Ltd. HIH!

I'm not quite sure what that little book critic thinks about this one. Maybe she'll tell me when she learns to talk?

I made the outlines and texts by textile marker and then painted the colourfull parts by brush and textile colours (that I mix myself from pigment and emulsion)

The "poems" go something like this:

1) Cat the Longtail dresses up with bows

2) This bird with yellow beak, flies trough the air and says kwaak, kwaak, kwaak.

3) The piglets have a funny beauty contest and the most crooked pigtail is making the judge happy. Bravo!

4) Matti the inchworm stopped in Mikkeli while going aroud the worl and waved. (to the little girl "reading" the book)

5) In the karaoke between the bulrushes the fish friends sing wildly

6) The lizard sisters giggle in the running contest and say wrooom

Tonight we are going to go out with my work mates to celebrate the succes of last year. We are going to eat and drink well and I have new top! It's the most shakeable top EVER! I'm so looking forward to dansing with it!

sewing, baking...

Today I made bread first thing at the morning and I haven't eaten anything but that. Freshly baked bread is just so good and I'm one really lazy baker. I also went for a long walk with Jaakko, beacause the weather was really fine. Birds were singing and the best part is that there is light! And it smells like spring, when the snow starts to melt.

Then I was really efficient making back straps for my work shoes and NOW they sit perfectly on my feet. Jei! I broke 2 needles when working on them. Then I started sewing a funny little dress, that will be my summer dress this year.
(here's the fabric I'm using for the dress)
I also "accidentally" napped for a few hours during the day, and that is not good...I'm not sleepy at all :( I should've gone to bed an hour ago (the time here is 23.23)! At least...

So good night for all the others!!

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.

17.12.

This card is by Beatrix Potter and very sweet. White ice coating is all over the trees and, well, everything outside. So it's beginning to look like christmas ;) HAPPY! I also made a doll for the little girl that got name last sunday. I'm going to visit her (and her mother) tomorrow and we are going to make candy for little presents..."The unicorn went that way!"

(The doll is a very fine lady having her hair made out of scrap of upholstery fabric from a sample book, has her socks patchworked from numerous fabrics. Vintage lace from an old pillowcase as her petticoat and the collar I've knitted from some mohair blend I happened to have just a suitable, little clew.)

PS: the doll had a lot of misfortune while I was making it. This for example is her third head :D! The first one had woollen hair and it was ok, but then I accidentally painted the face to look like the Joker in the newest Batman movie and of course I was not aiming that. So desperate times were suffered. The next head wasn't much better. I also took away a pocket I had attached to the dress. It was too much and not so pretty. But conquered all this I'm stronger and more together person than before ;)

Really nice weekend and now waiting for snow

I had a lovely time this weekend! Thanks to my guest of honor: Raisa. In that picture she's (proudly) presenting the lap top bag we designed and made today and yesterday for her new lap top... Oh and Tahvo is there too wondering if he could lick that wonderfull human being just once more. We also started to sew tunics for ourselves, but they are not yet finished.

We also talked a lot, among other thing movies, and now I'm waiting to see "War inc." as well as "August Rush" and "The Son of Rambow". We also ate well and drank some vine and watched the movie about the talented artist Beatrix Potter and it was okay, but the drawings she made were and are magnificent. I had one of her books when I was little, but I didn't realize how inventive and subtle the pictures are. Also the artist was a freak in her times, because she denied marriage, earned her living and was the ruler of her own life. That makes her even more admirable for me.