Finally!

Long time no hear from me.. I'm a BAD blogger! But I'm trying to shape up..!
Here are some deco-entries I've made recently (read: during past months..)

My entry to a bicycles-themed deco

Entry to a Soviet Union themed deco

Some chilis... Drawn by me.

"Moods"-entry

Entry into vintage-themed deco

Some more vintage-themes...

Entry into "Striped"-deco

Last summer I also started to make jewelry. I have my own Etsy-shop for them now and also Facebook pages. Check them out here:  

https://www.etsy.com/shop/tralaladesignfinland 

www.facebook.com/tralalafinland

Below you can see some of the jewelry I've made. I have plenty of jewelry I should photograph and even more unfinished projects... Lately I've interested also in semiprecious stones and crystals and would like to use them more in my jewelry. As much as I love the beauty of them I am also very interested in their healing qualities.

I have an awesome French dictionary from the early 20th century, which my friend Martta has dumbster dived from somewhere and given to me <3 I should really make a special jewel for her as I have had so many cool crafting materials from her! And to get back to that old book, I have found some really great stuff from it to use in my jewels.

Ring. The picture cut from the dictionary.

Necklace

Some rings

Pendants

A ring with a real flower

Pendant made of shrink plastic. I have drawn that heart by myself.

Shrink plastic earrings. The Bride of Frankenstain! Drawings by me.

Moon-face pendants made of shrink plastic. The picture is a replica (drawn by me) of an old woodcut.

Lego-man-pendant

Skeletons made of shrink plastic, drawn by me.

The "stardust"-glitter glows in the dark!

Made of shrink plastic, drawn by me.

Glows in the dark ^_^

Made to order as a birthday-gift for my friend's mother. There are the photos of her grandchilds. I used jade- and aventurine-beads in this one. 

I also made this little mixed media painting last summer:

"Plants' neuter generation"

And lastly some autumnal feelings ...

Ruu raking in a playpark <3

Gosh, I love trees!

All the world is green*

* it is! And it's also a song by Tom Waits.

Hi there!

I haven't been too hardworking with my blog lately, eh... That's mostly because I've been missing 1.) The Right Mood and also 2.) Time and Energy. But here I am now!

The world has turned to green!! We have had loads of warm, sunny days in Helsinki and we've visited a play park almost every day with Ruu.Today I saw the first house martins (swallows) of this summer! It was awesome, for me they've always meant that the summer has begun. I love their shrieking voices! 

Forests are full of wood anemones

The birch leaves grew fast, as every spring.
Oh, how I've missed the sound of wind and rustling leaves!

A mute swan we saw a week ago.

Some crazy art work in the forests of Kauniainen.

Me posing!

There is a lovely park and a small river near to our home.
There lives some pretty tame mallards and other water birds.
The photo was taken in April, when it wasn't so warm and green yet...

Feeding a mallard.

Mommy's little helper hoovering
and wearing the best accessory ever (my -clean- underpants around his neck...)(-_-)

Aaand some more photos of my lil muffin...

I drew some stickers to Ann-Marie!

Some postcards I sent on the other day.
I've started postcrossing again, which is fun, but probably extremely stupid, since I don't seem to have enough time even for my long-term penpals... But I've never said that I was a very rational person...

One of our local libraries was closed during the renovation and they had plenty of books they sold away for ridiculously low price. I paid 1 euro for these.
For ALL OF THESE.
I found some comics, novels and couple of books to cut up and be used in decos.

And that's all for now. I hope you are having a great weekend! Cheers!


Ps. There is about to start a thunder storm!! There are lightning and rumbling outside, it looks and sounds amazing. I L-O-V-E THUNDER STORMS!! And I love summer.