Acid jeans

I'm going to Helsinki this weekend and I cannot wait! We're (me and Bambi) going to have some fun with my hair. Something inspired by bubblegum situations. And of course the new hair needs new style things. And weird jeans have been on my shopping list for a while now. I have browsed through so many shops and now I have collected a group of good options. Here's my investigation results (and I really like the Weekday yellow ones):

New sofa!

Did I tell you that we've ordered a sofa! Finally! It's from Danish Karup and it's a futon sofa bed, linen coloured. It's perfect and hopefully coming soon.

Himalayan

Winter. Silent blog and just being inside, reading books, sauna, dreaming and sleeping. And just now I bumped into these weird shoes from Camper that somehow are quite interesting. I don't know if I really want these or if I really hate these...

Sweden / Sverige

Our neighbor is just better, bolder and more creative. It's a fact. I know it. Every time. Now this: a logo for their country, their own typeface, a cool webpage, everything! I love it! A note to Finland: We are boring!

sweden.se

Visual guidelines

I'm up all night to get lucky

I'm working in a night shift, I'm waiting the work to begin and I know that I will sleep only few hours this night. Somehow this made me laugh.

Found via Taika Mannila (my new favorite blog)

Flora & Laura

I just surfed into the coolest flower shop ever: Flora & Laura! A flower shop that doesn't really exist but that makes beautiful flowers stylings. This ticks all the boxes in my florist-graphic designer-gardener heart.

Stones + Glass

Ramon Todo combines glass with stones and makes art pieces that are just amazing! Loving the simplicity and contrast of transparent glass and rough stone.

Found via Colossal

Weekend song

Perfect things for home

After moving into a new apartment we've noticed that we need a kitchen table and benches and a couch. A hunt for the perfect ones has begun and we have had few candidates. But today I bumped into these in Japanese Hiromatsu online shop: Cielo couch and Gala table! P-E-R-F-E-C-T! Too bad that I think these are custom-made and delivered only in Japan...

Made from Cool

I love these Jack & Jones' advertisement videos. Christopher Walken is so cool and great and these videos are just AWESOME! These also remind me of my grandma who was a dressmaker and she had all the same sewing things that you can see on these clips.

Autumn review

It's been a few weeks since these photos happened, but so much has been going on (like that we've moved but that's a whole different blog post). But before that we went to check the autumn in Huruksela, my home village. And it was great again! Dad had cut the old independence spruce from the backyard, and then the small forest in front of Koivurinne had disappeared. We found two old stools and we took the paint off from them. And we picked so much mushrooms! I quite like the fall this way.

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Part 2: The Trailer

The Grand Budapest Hotel, part 1: The Poster

Landet Järna

I just found the most perfect flower shop I've ever seen! Landet Järna in Sweden is specialized in wild flowers and it follows the seasons with their collection of flowers. It also uses the locally grown flowers. I've been wanting something like this in Finland too. Maybe someday. Or maybe I should move to Sweden...

Found via Emmas designblogg

Corkigami chair

I really like this idea of a chair by Carlos Ortega Design: making 3D things of 2D materials. Makes me want to fold papers into things the whole day!

Found via Cool Hunting

Learn diy cut-out animation with Terry Gilliam

Pi

I love mathematics! Especially when it's visualized. Because it's actually visualized everywhere you look. Omg, I could talk about the beauty of mathematics for so long...

So I love these data visualizations by Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski. These are Pi and other mathematical numbers. Gorgeous!

Ukki

Ukki means grandfather in Finnish. And today I got something from my Ukki. He died a long time ago so this gift has kind of been waiting for me. When I was born, he opened a bank account with 1000 Finnish marks. And that was 28 years ago! The deal was this: when I turn 18 years old, I would have to buy jewel for myself so that I could remember my grandfather forever.

I turned 18 and then a bit more but I just couldn't buy just any jewel. I wanted it to be special and I wanted to figure out what's my style. So that I could wear the jewel every day. Then I had to get the money out of the account and luckily my dad found the original bank receipt and a note from my Ukki (a note that I haven't ever seen before).

And today is the day! About a month ago I went to a local jewelry designer, korus DESIGN, and he made me the most beautiful pendant that reminds me of my Ukki. The bigger stone is obsidian, which is basically naturally occurring volcanic glass, and the smaller is tourmaline. Now I have my Ukki with me all the time.

Colouring

Lately I've been doing things with different colours. First I made the most delicious ginger-apple jam and let my inner kitchen goddess out. Then I received the much-needed package of hair colours from B. And then we went to a natural dyes workshop with Z. That was so much fun and so inspirational and relaxing! So much joy from the avocado shells, the creeping woodsorrels and anything else from the nature (and garbage).

Kind of Trip hopping

My favorite music.

Ceramics workspace

I love different workspaces and I dream of my own space where I could do... well.. anything and everything. So this workspace interior by IKEA is just wonderful! Basic wood shelves, tables and everything. I want it all!

And ceramics, I'm really getting into ceramics again after starting the course few weeks ago.

Found via Riazzoli

Autumn hair

I've had a hair crisis for a while now. After playing with blue on my hair for the whole summer, I'm now getting a bit bored. And my own hair colour is starting to grow again and I remembered that I'm a redhead. A blonde redhead. So going back to the redness is quite natural actually.

I had an emergency call to my dearest hair stylist and friend Bambi from Osos Polares and he kindly sent me the emergency kit with pink and copper haircolours to mix with hair lotion. And tonight my hair crisis (hopefully) will be over. For now. Thank you B for being so darling!

Big Black Delta

New hipster music!!! Love!

Tampere Jazz Happening 2013

It's been released! The artists on this years Tampere Jazz Happening. We've been waiting this moment so long after last years Ebo Taylor gig that was definitely the best gig I've ever been. And now there are some good musicians also. Cannot decide what I want to see...

Flea-ing

I've made great flea market founds recently. Especially the moccasins (Vagabond!).

Autumn dreaming

So much have been happening! So much that I haven't even been able to blog so much about life lately. But life is good. Actually very good. Z got to school and it will be a dream come true to him. He's going to be a chef! And then I started to go to a ceramics glass and put my hands in clay again. After five years of graduating to ceramics and glass designer. We've been adventuring: epic bike trips, nights in the strange bars, geocaching, lots of things... And then we decided to move in together! I think I'm the happiest girl alive.