Nekobasu cake and other things

My wery talented friend Henriika made this incredibly fine nekobasu look alike for our friends baby shower. The future mother loves the movie Totoro and this was the source of inspiration.

Last couple of months I've renovated and painted like a maniac with J. We bought a three room appartment from an old building. It was built 1949 and has the biggest repairs done, but still it needed a lot of work done. Now we're living and renovating here at the same time, but it's almost ready and I love, love, love it!! I will post some pictures.

Aaaand my favourite season is goming up: Yule-tide :) JEI!

All work, no play, makes Jack a dull boy

Something about that statement makes me smile?

It also remains me that alltough work has started...Must remember to play too!

I've knitted these little black socks for my friend's little boy (he is 4 weeks "old"). I made the lightnings (they are felted wool) because they look cool and the socks will be a great pair with his Kiss-body :)

The end of holiday season is the beginning of s-g else

@ The Tower

@ The Madame Tussaud's

I'm so exited about my summer activities. I went to Madeira and London. Many, many happy memories and new ideas in my head! I'm ready to look forward to the autumn - my favourite season of all! (the wonderfull picture is Yoshimoto Nara's "Do not disturb")
I have plans to read many books and make some miniature thigs, both inspired by my travels. You'll see ;)

colourfull day

A funny tablecloth with sheeps on it (flea market find for 1 euro!)

Today is the sixth and last day of my Easter holiday. I really needed it! Today I went to flea market and I found really nice pair of linen high water pants (that I dyed red)
striped and NEW Marimekko-tunic (picture above . I'm wearing it under my favourite long sleeved, black shirt), red colour for dying clothes and a really pretty bracelet ("silver" and turquoise glass pearls for 1 euro!) see below. Dying beforeAfter after dying - a happy cat!

I dyed the linen pants (that cost only 0,5 euros!) and some of my old white clothes like socks and T-shirt. I believe I have inherited my fathers unability to abandon clothes that I like and feel myself comfortable in... So dying is a good option!

At home, home.

I say my parents home "the home, home", so I'm here relaxing and seeing friends and eating well. Just a minute ago I lost painfully to my little brother at the noble game of Scrabble(my favourite-so cruel!). I'm regretting a bit not taking my new best friend PS3 and Singstar with us here, but I'm reading and it's really nice too. (I'm singing Yellow by Coldplay and I read the book The restaurant of yellow citrons by Kajsa Ingemarsson. I like both very much)! Happy Easter everyone!

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!