Charleston Party Girl

I try to shake for the camera, but it looks more like I was bunny hopping? Well Easter IS coming up soon. Also I look like really short person, beacause my photographer is so tall.Yesterday I was wearing this amazing top (from H&M) and I got many compliments dancing with it. Also I was really pleased how my hair do succeeded, beacause (I bought my first set of hair rollers and) at first when I took them off, I looked just like Sally Spectra :D And when I was wearing the hair rollers earlier, I also heard muthered words like grandmother...

The hair decoration is H&M from a few years back. The top really is now one of my MOST favourite garments. It's shakiness and colour are both perfect. It is also really comfy and soft material. The only thing that is a bit difficult with this one is that it tends to stuck to other peoples buttons or zippers ;) All and all, I had a really great night with my work mates. Cheers for that, says the terminator-eyed charleston girl.

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!

Earth Hour/ new blanket covers and pillow cases

Yesterday's Earth Hour has been a big thing all over the world. That's so great! Here's picture from our appartment from that hour. Then there's picture from Jaakko jumping to our newly covered blankets and pillows. I love those moomin pillowcases (from Finlayson). Especially the one with old school moomin (that's MINE).

Opening at craft center

Mikkeli's craft center had a great opening from last wednesday to friday after renovations. And we went to wander and wonder with my friend. The place is now light and airy. There were

1.) Really good cake (cream and caramel icing)

2.) Miss Elina Arpiainen was there and we talked about the knit graffiti she's made. Btw here's her blog. She was really warm hearted and sweet!

3.) Beautifull coloured yarns (I got really exited because they have yarns from producers different from my work place. I didn't buy any...YET!)

4.) Interesting ideas: knitting paper yarn to a lamp shade, different kind of pearl works and a japanese way of making kind of cord = kumihimo. The word makes me smile, because in finish it means lust for rubber...(those works look up and below) Have a nice week!

knitting and stuff

I had a day off today and I spent it by studying, knitting and watching my new (new in Finland) favourite TV-series, Pushing Daisies. I just can't help loving it! It's a fairy tale for grown ups. It has a really refreshing aspect of looking life, death and funny dialog and crooked humor. The dresses and settings are made with care, love and imagination. And what's most important. The series is really disconnected from reality. It's relaxing!Yesterday we made fruit salad with Jaakko. My favourites are kiwi and cherries and ofcource the whipped cream ;) I like the plate too (alltough I don't usually like light blue at all - yh!). I found it drifting. Someday I would like to have a big open cabinet for all my different drifted plates and mugs (my precious)!

Then I made this card for my friend, whose birthday is coming. It's a mug...

...or a handbag as my Jaakko so imaginatively pointed out. And on my hand you can see (and admire) a mitten to be.. slightly incomplete. The yarn I'm using is so darn fine I propably never finnish, so better to take picture now :D No, I'm just kidding! The yarn is really nice (Drops Alpaca...so it's 100% alpaca and sooo soft). I bought it last summer while wisiting my card-receiving friend at Helsinki.

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!!

Knit Graffiti

Sometimes I feel like my mind is going to explode, beacause the world I live in is so incredible! This form of street art, for example, is awesome! Some people like us fellow-humans so much they go trough the trouble of making knit graffiti. HIH! At first I felt this must be the work of not-so-well-balanced-persons, BUT then I realized, that this is really beautifull, soft and cosy form of art. And I bet it makes people smile and to feel that the world is not so evil place as it sometimes feels!Have a nice weekend, I'll be at work tonight and all day tomorrow. I'll be dreaming about sun, travelling, summer, swimming in lake and freedom...

BTW: I red the White Theet by Zadie Smith and alltough the plot was really intelligent I didn't end up liking the characters as I liked the ones in On Beauty. But this author really knows what irony is!