December 3rd + some jewelry + a surprise for all the crazy cat-ladies in the end!

Teemu's parents babysitted Ruu for the whole day, I had a doctor appointment and spend the rest of the day at home. Didn't get much done. Though I added some of my jewelry for sale to Facebook and Etsy. That is always the most boring thing to do. I have loads of jewelry waiting for photographing and adding for sale.. Recently I have made some "lovers" earrings and more skeletons and other stuff of shrink plastic. 

Custom-made piece of jewelry for a new-born baby-girl. I drew the fox by myself.

Custom-made jewel for a Sister-fan-girl. This is the logo of the band.

The Frankenstein's monster and his lovely bride. Drew the original pictures by myself.

Scarlett and Rhett.
Once again; originals drawn by me.

Ken and Barbie.
Drawn by me.

Skeleton pendant, drawn by me.

 

December 3rd

 

"Ring the bell"

I got a hilarious Christmas card, with colorful confetti from Emma!

There was a rabbit-badge too!

 

Bath-time!

And lastly a cat-bonus for all the cat-lovers. Featuring Twiggy and the Actionman! Meow! =^..^=

The Week of Life - project

I red about an interesting project from a camera-magazine. It is an old one, but I heard from it for the very first time. It is called Week of Life. The idea is taking 9 photos every day for a week (or longer time). The photos should show bits from one's everyday life and they should be horizontal. 

The whole project was founded by Czech photographer Adolf Zika, who got Leica D-Lux 3 compact camera in 2006 and decided to start taking documentary photos from his own life every day for an year. The compact camera followed him 24 hours a day, into all of his daily activities. The founding idea behind Week of Life is to contribute to a “world photo archive of humanity”. 

There is a website, where anyone can post their own weeks of life. Check it out here: http://weekoflife.com And to read more about the project, see the following link: http://weekoflife.com/en/aboutproject.aspx 

So, I got very excited about this, and am joining the project. I will be posting some photos here too!

December 2nd

 

We saw Teemu at work; he came to sand the playpark with the yellow tractor. It was icy there. Ruu probably wants to be a tractor-driver when he grows up...

Piece of Mulled wine-ginger bread-cheesecake I baked, with mulled wine syrup.

Lately I've been baking way too much. I should really control myself or soon my clothes won't fit me anymore. :F It is this dark and cold, depressing season which forces me to bake cakes and eat sugar more than necessary!! It is 3 p.m. and it's already getting dark! UGH!

Late Halloween / Kekri post

I should really had posted these photos like over a month ago, when they still were current.. Haha. 

Oh well, here they are anyway. Halloween is quite a new thing in Finland and isn't such a big holiday like in the U.K. or United States. But I think it is nice to have some decorations and stuff. I carved a pumpkin and baked a pumpkin pie. Mmmmmm, that was yummy!!

However Halloween contains many elements in common with traditional Finnish late autumn festival called Kekri. It is the ancient, almost forgotten Finnish celebration of the end of the harvest season, and was still commonly celebrated in rural Finland 100 years ago. In Finland the turn of the year occurred at around Kekri time, and at about the same time, Finns observed an interim period of about two weeks, when the months, calculated according to the phases of the moon, were adjusted to the solar year.

People looked for omens in the weather for the next harvest season, and guidance was also sought on matters of love. The spirits of the dead were said to wander in this world especially during the Kekri period.

At harvest time, stores of food were bulging, and there was no stinginess when celebrating the autumn feast. Once the work of the year was done, it was time to eat, drink, and dance.

The "Köyri goats", dressed in a mask and fur (precursors of the present Finnish Father Christmas) went from house to house begging for drinks of the fermented drink sahti, and amusing the people in the house.

To read more about Kekri see the link below:
http://www.hs.fi/english/print/1135222832346

Piece of the pumpkin pie I baked.

We also visited two Kekri-parties. The other one was at Children's museum and the other was organized by some local residents' associations and the association of the useful plants. It's wonderful that some of the old traditions are revived.

Serious thinking and random photos

Shalom!
 
So, it's Thuesday evening already. As a result of last Friday's party I've been exhausted for FOUR DAYS. We had great time, but maybe I should have drink less beer and apple cider :P Bleh. I've been considering becoming an absolutist, for serious!
 
As a birthday present I gave to my friend an etching print I had made at school 3 years ago.

For those who aren't familiar with that technique, here's how it is done: 

1. First a copper plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. 
2. Then artist scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where she/he wants a line to appear in the finished piece. 
3. The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid. The acid bites into the metal, leaving behind lines sunk into the plate. The remaining ground is then cleaned off the plate. 
4. The plate is inked all over, and then the ink wiped off the surface, leaving only the ink in the etched lines. 
5. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper. The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print. The process can be repeated many times; several hundred copies could be printed. 

The print I've made

wrapped the present in paper with some other stuff

Lately I've been reading a book about ayurveda for women. I find it very interesting. There are lots of  commonalities between ayurveda and my other beliefs. I'll might even try an ayurvedic diet to see will I feel better afterwards! It's not anything freaky, there are just different foodstuff one's body type sould avoid or prefer. Like I shouldn't eat raisins or broccoli or mushrooms or chocolate :( but for example all the nuts, avocados and spices are good for me!

I don't have much to say today, so I'll share some photos with you. Here are some of my latest purchases and other stuff! :)

Some stuff I found from the book- and paper store sales!!

button tape! And a postcard with removable skull-stickers!!

Mariposa scrapbooking pad!! plus some beautiful postcards!
And brads with 70% discount!!

Cupcakes!

A bath towel I had ordered from an online store for Ruu arrived!
I don't know which one loves it more; me or Ruu..!

Great design on these energy drink cans!!

Ann-Marie sent me mail from her trip to Edinburgh!
Such an awesome card and a £20 tissue!!

Turbo the cat posing. Isn't that just a perfect pose or what?

Shadows on our kitchen wall

Some snow came down once again on the other day

A sticker sticked onto a switchboard locker near to us

Another sticker I pass quite often

That's all for now, thank you for your attention. Have a nice week folks!