Meet and greet.

Hi'ya all! Today I'm participating in a new and cool progressive "meet and greet" party organized by lovely Michelle from Studio Surface. The idea is to meet new people in the blogosphere. The party started from Michelle's "blogosphere home" where she introduces the next blog to visit and in that blog there is a link to the next blog and so on.

The previous stop before my blog is at Bianca's Bink and Boo blog. She has a lovely shop here. If you feel you have a little bit of time, you should definitely check out these blogs and go round the whole progressive blog party blog by blog =) You can start/continue by continuing to Kathes blog The art of Kathe Fraga.

Hope you find new blogs and blogger friends through this blog party =)

If you wish to participate in the next progressive meet and greet please contact Michelle.


(Pictures from Bianca's Bink and Boo blog and Kathes The art of Kathe Fraga blog.)

Inspirational crocheting.

Tänään on ollut hyvä päivä. Joskus nämä hyvät päivät arjessa yllättävät ja piristävät. Tässä päivässä ei ole mitään ihmeellistä, mutta tänään on muistanut nauttia kaikista pienistäkin jutuista. Työpäivä meni mukavan nopeasti, söin hyvin ja hyvää ruokaa (kanawrapin ja maki susheja), kävin mukavalla lenkillä (joka muuten tuntui pitkästä aikaa tosi kevyeltä ja raikkaalta!) ja kotonakin on kerennyt chillailla ja joka välissä on tullut hieman virkkailtua. Työmatkatkin hujahtaa hetkessä bussissa istuessa ja virkkaillessa :) Kova on into oppia lisää. Seuraavaksi listalla on "muistitikunperä" eli avaimenperä tyyppinen ratkaisu muistitikulle. Virkkaaminen on niin inspiroivaa!

I've had a nice day today. Nothing special. Just a nice day. I'm so into crocheting right now. Next I'm gonna make a "key chain" to my memory stick. Crocheting is so inspiring!



(Upper picture by Vamoose)

Today I Want. 25.8.2010.

I've been mega-über-super hardworking today as I run all kinds of errands and cleaned up my clothing closet. Therefore I think I deserve some ice cream. Today I want to be able to cook like Katie Lee and get her wardrobe and her kitchen.


(Picture by Virginia Sin)








(Pictures from Lonny Magazine)

Paperlove.

Paperi on mahtava materiaali. Se on nättiä ja siitä saa tehtyä kaikkea nättiä. Lovely. Nykyään netistä löytyy kaikenmoista pikkunettikauppaa, jotka kauppaavat paperi ja kotitoimistotuotteita. Tässä muutama esimerkki Papermash:lta sekä LetterboxCo:lta.

Paper is an awesome material. It's pretty and you can make pretty things out of it. Lovely. Nowadays there's loads of netstores which sell paper goods and stuff to your home office. Here's a few examples from Papermash and LetterboxCo.

Getting closer to autumn mode.

Me ollaan lähdössä tänään mökille kuten mainitsin edellisessä postauksessani. En malta odottaa, että pääsee pelaamaan pelejä kavereiden kanssa ja rauhoittumaan kaupungin hulinasta ja saunomaan ja kaikkea. Ihanaa. Tosin nyt alkaa olla jo aika vilu olla ulkona. Ajatukset väkisinkin pikkuhiljaa siirtyvät lähenevään syksyyn. Mietin jo kynttilöitä, saappaita, kaulaliinoja ja villasukkia. Smythen takit ovat niin kauniita, että jotain vastaavaa on kehiteltävä itselleenkin.

Kauniiden takkien myötä toivotan kaikille rentouttavaa ja voimia antavaa viikonloppua!

As I mentioned in my earlier post, we're going to our summer cottage for the weekend. I can hardly wait to get there and play boardgames with our friends and relax. It is getting quite chilly now. Thoughts are wondering to autumn mode. I find myself thinking about candles, boots, scarves and woolly socks. These jackets from Smythe are so beautiful that I have to get at least something similar to myself.

With these lovely jackets I wish everyone a relaxing and strenght giving weekend!

Nicer day.

I've had a nice day today and I think I'm gonna have even nicer day tomorrow because we're going to our summerhouse with our friends and play games and relax for the weekend. Lovely!

Here's some pretty inspirational pictures to cheer up everyones day =)

(Both pictures from Love Loans + Linen)


(Picture from Apartment Therapy)


(Both pictures from Biskopsgården)

One day.

One day I want to have wooden rafters in my home. They just make such a nice feeling dont they?

(Picture via My Ideal Home)


(Picture via My Ideal Home)


(Picture by Stellan Herner)


(Picture via My Ideal Home)

Cool web hangouts.

I will introduce you to my fave places in the web. These sites make my days easier and I can't get enough of them.

1. Pinterest



I found Pinterest through lovely Michelle from Studio Surface. Pinterest is a social catalog service. You can "pin" pictures / things you love and follow other peoples pins and boards. So basicly it's a virtual pinboard. You need an invite to join, but you can get it by requesting it on their site.

Here's a few of my pinboards:
Life in Pastel
Beautiful Outdoors
It's Pink

2. Artessen


Artessen is my latest find. It is a rich source of creative visual content, curated daily from its network of design and visual blogs. If you sign up, you can save your favorites. I haven't joined yet as I'm enjoying just browsing through different posts.


3. Bloglovin



I use Bloglovin daily. With Bloglovin you can follow your fave blogs easily. You get notified every time your favorite blogs have written something new. Very handy! Currently I follow about 45 blogs there. For those blogs which are not listed in Bloglovin I've added them to my iGoogle so I get their feed daily as well =)

The cutest thing.

I was browsing the net one day last week and bumped into My Rocking Wardrobe. They have the cutest little girls clothes. Sooooooo cute!

Love the Combo 17.8.2010

Gift tags unknown. Pink camera Urban Outfitters.

Today I Want. 15.8.2010.

Today I want to eat breakfast like this instead of feeling tired from yesterdays partying:



(Picture from House of Philia)

Gray.

Mun visio tästä päivästä oli että pidetään kivaa kavereiden kanssa aurinkoisella kelillä värikkäissä kesäisissä vaatteissa värikkäillä Flow festareilla, mutta ulkona sataa kaatamalla ja on harmaata. Toivottavasti iltapäivä toisi tullessaan edes vilauksen sinisestä taivaasta...

Tosin en pistäisi pahitteeksi jos näitä harmaita juttuja löytyisi mun kotoa:

We're going to the Flow Festival today in Helsinki. It's raining and it's gray. Hopefully we'll have at least a bit of sun today... I wouldn't mind having these gray things in my home:

Big iron basket from Stilero. Heart from Stilero. Small iron basket from Korbo. Gray paper box from Rie Elise Larsen.

Today I Want. 12.8.2010.

I'm into strings and threads and yarn at the moment so I want more of them.


(Picture from Onnipuoti)

I want shoes with ribbons.


(Picture Style me Pretty)

Cottage potholders.

Kuten mainitsin viime postauksessani, mä aloin kesällä virkata. Laiturilla valmistui patalappuja.

As I mentioned in my earlier post I started to crochet during the summer. I've been making potholders to our summer cottage.

Knit.

Mä aloin kesällä virkkaamaan. Se on hirmu leppoisaa puuhaa - varsinkin mökin laiturilla. Viime talvena kudoinkin hieman, mutta se taito on hieman hakusessa. Into on kuitenkin kova ja tänään törmäsin The Goodie Life blogin kautta tällaiseen mahtavuuteen: Wool and the Gang! Got to love it. Olen etsinyt juuri tuollaisia lankoja koko kesän enkä löytänyt mistään. Kalliitahan ne ovat, mutta ihania!

I started to crochet during the summer - it's a nice hobby. I also did some knitting last winter. I'm not so good at that but I'm trying! Today I found a cool thing called Wool and the Gang through The Goodie Life blog. I've been looking for yarn like that for the whole summer and haven't found it anywhere - and now I have! They are expensive, but lovely!

Cute giveaway.

One of my fave blogs Fabulous K has a lovely give away!

Wind of change.

Heippahei pitkästä aikaa oikeen kunnolla! Lomalla kerkesi lataamaan akkuja ihan hyvin. Kiireisen kevään jälkeen tuntuu, että löysi taas hieman itsensä. En halua hukkua enää siihen kiireeseen ja paikasta toiseen juoksemiseen. Haluan nauttia elämästä - etenkin niistä pienistä jutuista. Musta tuntuu myöskin että alan tietää mitä haluan. Se tunne tulee aina välillä ja välillä se taas karkaa, mutta näin loman jälkeen se tunne on taas vahvasti läsnä.

Tuntuu että on muutosten aika.

Olen myös löytänyt unelmakotini jostain ruotsalaisesta ihme kesälehtisestä. Tuohon suuntaan nyt alkaa tavoittelu. Tosin tuollaisia koteja ei oikein Suomesta löydy, mutta aina sitä saa yrittää ja rakentaa ajan kanssa omanlaisensa. Tämäkin ajatus rauhoittaa.

I've had time to recharge my batteries during the summer and my aim now is not to go back to the hassle which I lived in during the spring. I want to enjoy life - especially the little things. I feel like I know what I want. It can feel a wind of change.

I've also found my dream home from a swedish magazine. Something to work for.

Good times.

Good times at our summer cottage.

Wire baskets.

We went to a local hardware store near our summer cottage while we were there and they sold these cute baskets made of wire. I absolutely fell in love with them! Had to have them! Now they sit in my kitchen.

Collages.

It's nice to be back home after spending almost 3 weeks at our summer cottage. Yesterday I bumped into these lovely collages at Deviantart. They make me want to start doing collages. I used to make them but haven't done one in a long time.