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.

Kid Loco

I really love this song. I've been listening to it the whole day.

Paper bags?

Is it paper or is it fabric? These Funagata waxed canvas bags (from here) look so amazingly like paper! 

Found via Design Squish Blog

Ricoh GX200

Camera family is growing again! I bought myself a smaller camera: Ricoh GX200! It's used but in a good condition and ticks all my boxes. I've noticed that I'm just too lazy to carry my big boy Pentax K-5 with me all the time. But I still want to carry a camera in my bag. And I like if it's quiet. And it takes cool, a bit tinted and very high in contrast photos. And look how old-fashioned and nostalgic it looks! Perfect for me!

Nanushka

I just came across this Hungarian designer Nanushka (real name Sandra Sandor). Cool clothes! Especially the denim pieces.

Linen sheets

Lately I've had some strange sleeping problems. Waking up all the time and then I just cannot get to sleep anymore. Z blames the moon, I don't know what to blame. But it's a good time to think about sleeping (which I love) and bed. For a while now I've been dreaming about linen sheets! I've been hunting linen fabric (to make my own sheets) or just the perfect sheets from somewhere. Any recommendations (Mom, who is your linen dealer)? Still hunting.

Jiro dreams of sushi

Last night I watched this documentary of the best sushi chef in the world. It was so elegantly made, touching, beautiful and gave lots to think about. One of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

Don't give up

New Washed Out album! New Washed Out album!!!!

Hypnopompic

These textile designs by Kustaa Saksi are just amazing! His exhibition Hypnopompic is now at Korjaamo and it looks very interesting.

Photos from here and here.

Restaurant day / Flea market

We spotted ourselves on this photo!!! On Sunday it was Restaurant day and there was a little tapas restaurant and flea market on Z's backyard. It was so nice. I made some good founds.

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!!!