Any Galactica fans?

As a child of the 70's and 80's there aren't too many things making a return that I'm thrilled about.

Bay City Rollers?
No more tartan, thankyouverymuch.
Platform shoes?
'nuff said.
Knight Rider?
My eyes...my eyes...
That 80's green that is in vogue this spring?
[shudder]

But there was a tv show that I loooooooved:

Yup, I was a nerdy sci-fi fan even then.
I thought those cylons with the sound effect zzzhhiiii zhhiiiii red light were dead cool.


Not to mention Starbuck and Apollo.
I watched every episode.

So... a year ago they started showing the new Galactica series here.
I was dubious.
I thought it would be lame.
Like coffee rewarmed in the microwave.
I was so wrong.

The cylons looked like people now.
And check out Starbuck and Apollo:

Women are on board this battlestar.

And as an old fan I found this tickling:

Even the old Apollo (Richard Hatch) has a role!

I'm lucky to have a husband into nerdy sci-fi shows too.
Every Friday at 11.30pm (yaaahhh.. they could move that airing time up an hour, please) we are transported light years away.

Now if they'd only start showing Star Trek Voyager here.
Beam me up.

Floral details

Small photos today, click to make them bigger!
On the menu:
Roses and carnations in white tinted with lime and fiery orange.

The maid-of-honor carried a flower ball, dotted with ivy.

Flowergirl bouquets:

I used pretty copper ribbon which I dotted with jeweled pins.

Groom and bestmen:

Janne's had a white rose wired with a bead to match the bride's bouquet.
These also had some copper ribbon around the stems.

Bride's bouquet:

15 BIG roses, each had two glass beads wired to the stems, surrounding them banana leaves folded in half. I gave the bouquet a "tail" of greens and covered the stems with the ribbon and dotted with jewels.

At the reception:


I used all the remaining flowers for these two arrangements.
I loved the colors together.

The last two are still making me smile as I got to bring them home :o)

Photo overload!

Alright.. so yesterday was the EVENT of the year in our family-
my brother's wedding :o)
I'm warning you, this post is LOADED with photos. I took nearly 400.
Yes, really.

Us girls got a nice surprise as this chariot came to pick us up at 8.30am.

One sweet ride!

Can you tell the girls were pretty psyched??!!

Meet the alien photographer...heheheeeee...

The bouquet.
Those are small glass beads wired onto each rose.


He looks pretty cool and collected though.

Love this shot of all the great hairdos!


It was a lovely small church, the 70ish people filled it.



Still a sweet ride.

Miss Tia and our chauffeur Dimitri.

Ready for the guests to walk in.

Watching the video of Janne's bachelor party.

Us two.

The two bestmen and Cuban cigars.

We girls kidnapped Janne.
Eight women and drinks in a limo...
..not a bad life, that.
Petra was in a hurry to think up ten adjectives of the groom to get him back!

The official photographer, taking a break.
Yeah, we had a blast.

Backstage, ready to give him back.


The dancing started with Bruce Springsteen's "I Wanna Marry You".

And the dancing didn't stop anytime soon...


Going for the garter.

Ready, set...

..run and grab!

Lucky Caro!

This one passed out while band was playing LOUD.

Choreography for "Proud Mary".
Rolling...rolling..rolling down the river.

I'm exhausted today.
But so so so happy.

Tomorrow I'll upload more shots of the flowers.

Rose scented foyer

I love bucket of flowers.

Even if I have to keep them in the foyer.

And I can only have them here for two days.

I'll make something beautiful from these tomorrow for the wedding.

Look at that... my lilac is pushing out leaves and buds!

And underneath it this pretty bright blue flower is in full bloom:

And here's Niina being silly at school.

After school though, she has about 25 minutes to do whatever she wants while I finish up.

I'm putting this photo here so Heather can see our pretty inviting new bookshelves!

I want to pull out one of those big pillows and read "Aaaaaaaarrrgghhhh Spider!". It's a pretty cool book by the way ;o)

It is supposed to snow or sleet (yes that is a verb here) tomorrow.

Sigh.

What made me smile today

The crocuses.

My woodland anemones basking in the sunshine.

Skillas. I love this flower. So small and delicate. But such intensive blue color.

This cost too much here...but I had to have it.
I shared with Saara.

And finally my dress.
Now I just need shoes.

What made me frown today?
The news that I'll be hit with about 20 000 euros/$27 000 in inheritance taxes.
Not a happy camper here.