Go to: St. Petersburg and Tallinn

The second trip on my summer holiday is here: a cruise to St. Petersburg and Tallinn with Kristina Katarina. It was actually a quite special trip as all my siblings were there and my mom, her man and most importantly Z, too. It's so rare to even have my sister and brothers in the same room nowadays so the 4 days on a same boat was just luxury! And the food on the boat was absolutely amazing, as always.

We spent two days in St. Petersburg which was very dreamy but strange city. I've always been interested in Russian tsars and the whole city just pulsates history and stories. Lately the old parts of St. Petersburg have been renovated and you can just imagine horse carriages going around the canals. We visited glamorous palaces covered with gold, garden bigger than you can imagine but still, everything seemed a bit sad. An old era that will never come back.

Well, enough of historical stories and nostalgia. We also visited some turist attraction places and one day we shopped in Tallinn. It was just a perfect ending to my holiday.

And!!!! When we were leaving the port of Helsinki I saw the King of Norway coming to his boat!!! The King!!!! WOWOOWOWWWW!!!

Pacific Light

Loving this video by Ruslan Khasanov! Colours to the people!

 

Stormtrooper

Look what I got from my little brother! A wooden stormtrooper! I love it! And it was our good luck charm while roadtripping.

PRISM

I love this table by Fredrik Paulsen. Especially the way he has dyed the wood surface! This makes me want to test wood dyeing, now please.

Go to: Roadtrip in Finland & Norway & Sweden

I'm back! At Tampere, at work, at blog. My summer holiday felt so much more longer than a month, we got the time to go so many places. So there will be epic posts about all my trips!

But let's start with our amazing roadtrip to the Arctic Sea. It was so amazing, especially Norway (we both fell in love with that country). I've never been to Finnish Lapland so that was an experience too: seeing reindeer and new plants. And miles and miles of road. But the most Northern sea was something to be seen. It was so magical with the mountains and clear waters. There are no words.
 

 

The Arctic Ocean

Guess what! It's a time for break, my summer holiday, and we're going to a road trip. So the next few weeks we will be driving to the Arctic Ocean, to the ultimate North. And getting to know Finland better because I've never been to Lapland either. Now it's just crazy packing, thinking about how many cameras to take with us, what to wear, where to drive and what to see. And tomorrow we leave.

After that road trip we're going to spend some time in Jyväskylä and Kotka and then a cruise to St. Petersburg and Tallinn. So I think after one month I will return blogging with breathtaking images. Have a nice summer until then!

Bring the Noize

It's holiday time!!! Celebrating it with new M.I.A.

Sale founds and others

I've treated myself another gift because I found a cute little dress from the Marimekko's summer sale: Laiturilla dress. It arrived yesterday and I feel like Little My (from the Moomins) in the summertime when I'm wearing it. 

Another treat is inspired by my kitchen fanatic boyfriend who insisted that I have to stop poisoning myself with my teflon frypan. So he suggested that I should buy this traditional La Lyonnaise steel frypan which is a bit of a professional stuff. But after it arrived yesterday and of course Z wanted to test drive it (my job was to get rid of the old teflon frypan), I'm convinced that is the best frypan I've ever had! 

So quality at first is my new motto!

Taped

These porcelain cups by Studio PS are so great! And the colours so fruity and dreamy!

Found via this is paper magazine

I FEEL HOME

Lately I've noticed (and maybe you too) that this blog has been a bit more quiet. I think one of the reasons is that I've developed an addiction to Tumblr. If you still haven't visited my blog there, then check out  I FEEL HOME. It's a blog about my future dream home, a place where I gather everything beautiful and important and inspirational to me.