Hungry?

How about some sausage?

Or cucumbers?

There's also lettuce and cauliflower.

Not to mention some veggie soup.

Or are you more of a breakfast person?
How about a dutch baby pancake?
With some maple syrup and powdered sugar?

Onion braid.

Onion details.


I also have some pork pies.

All very good, if you a 1:12 scale doll person living in a dollhouse.
Heh.

I have plans to make some more next week and add some healthy foods into my Etsy store.

Happy fluffday

Yes.
I did say fluffday.
Not sunday.
Fluffday.

The day when you look outside in the morning and do a double take.
Dude.
Snow?!?

Oooohhh... it's fluff!
The one day that the willows release their fluffy seeds in the air.


Can you see it in the air in the background?

So, it fluffed all day today.
It's everywhere.

What I want to know though is how do all the willows agree on the day?

What I love in my garden right now.

The apple tree in bloom.

My favorite parrot tulips.
The ones straight out of a Rembrant painting.

Clean laundry.
It is my favorite thing about summer. Laundry on the line.
I know I have some soulmates out there (waving madly to Sharyn!!!).
It calms me. The task of hanging it up in the fresh air.
Then folding it directly off the line a couple hours later.
A peaceful chore I leave just for me.

These pics were taken at 10pm last night.
I'm loving the light summer nights.

You can see I baked some "pulla" yesterday.
And my lilacs are almost open.

No photoshopping done on these last two photos.
It really is that light outside.
I wonder what made my tulips turn like that?
It's like they are bowing to the setting sun.

Get out of there already!

So...
what does one do when one comes across 37 Donald Duck comic books?
In a household that loves comics?

You display them, naturally.
They do look nice don't they?

The shelf is in the bathroom...
So if you are in for a longer time...

You have some good reading at hand.

Oh.my.

Look what has landed in Finland.

My summer has been saved.

In the corner

Way back in the corner of our yard is a wannabe veggie garden.
Some years it is, some not.
This year Saara really wanted to grow veggies and flowers.
Saturday was planting time.
I had to cut our hedge bushes way down, as the snow had bent them right over where we needed to plant.

We have basil, marjoram, sage, peas, beans, salad and flowers.
And the two cherry tomatos we bought.
As the seedlings will take about 2 weeks to emerge, I thought a little instant gratification was called for.

The empty pots wait for our sweet pea and geranium seedlings. Still climatizing those.

And no, I didn't plant those two tulips here.
In fact I have no idea of how they ended up growing here.
However, they are delightful.

Here it is, finally.

The dollhouse with the greenhouse addition I made.

I decided on a tarp roof on it, it's made from a fruit baggie.
The front yard still needs work, but that goes on the back burner as I want to start building our shopping center! That is my summer project.

And here's Mary, she's come to water the seedlings.


I made the seedling trays and potting table as well.
What do you think she planted?

Poppies, pansies and marigolds!

Thursday color therapy

Don't you just love the intensity?
My votive candle holders up close and personal.
The blue one was my Mother's Day present (along with some Jamiroquai).
(notice my fun new link gadget? I love new blog gadgets!)


Marimekko scraps.
Whenever I'm downtown, I like to go dig in their scrap bin. Those bits are marked 50% off.
Not sure what I'll be making with most of them... I'm toying around with the idea of getting a bunch more and making a picnic quilt.

Except with this one.

This will be a bag for me.
Love love love it.

It's a church holiday here.
A day off.
I really needed it. I've been sick all week.
Let's put it this way... it would be nice to be able to use my nose for breathing...ugh.

PS. Kaisuliina, laita mulle meilia osoitteeseen susanna.tunturi @ dlc.fi , poista valit o)

Yeah, I think this might be it...

..you know the point when you realize your fingers are just too big...

Just what am I holding?
That is a real tiny pompom turned into a dollhouse pincushion.
It was a pain to make.
But I was determined...

You know what a pain as well?
This windchime.

But...
I found a tutorial online and just had to try it.
My point in making one was trying to figure out if I should join another miniature swap.
I'd have to make at least 10.
I might just bow out of that one.... LOL!

The hoopla has left town

Eurovision hoopla that is.
Wow.
There was a lot of folk in town last week. I think they estimated 10 000 tourists?
Here are a few more photos from Friday:

Detail of a wall I found fascinating.

The cool statues. The smallest was just the size of Niina!
Do google 'Las Meninas'.
You'll see what painting inspired these.



These balloons were pretty fun!


I even put them on my banner.
What you don't see in the photos is the huge stage and screens set up across the square. The ones who couldn't afford the ridiculously expensive tickets to the event and didn't want to watch it at home, could join the 25 000 or so people who crowded this square on saturday...

Now.. what had this poor coffee cup done to deserve being impaled like this?
That is just plain wrong.

As for the song contest?
I have to hand it to the technical crew. I have never seen a stage so cool and those lights were amazing.
And I'm happy to say that a beautiful song won.
Marija Serifovic from Serbia sang Molitva (Prayer).
Close your eyes and listen, ok?

I'm home sick today.
Blech.
And aaattccchhooooooooooooooo!

My Friday, by the hour

07.02

A little morning reading while eating my breakfast.

08.01

At the school, checking out my to-do list.

09.05

Even I got some goodies at our Mother's Day open house.

10.03

Friday is library day, the kids get to take three new books home.

11.02

Taking a breather in the kitchen/office.

12.03

Recess duty. The beasts are let loose ;o)

13.06

Walking through the Eurovision Village in Kamppi.

14.02

Esplanade Park.
Admiring Manolo Valdes's Las Meninas statues.

15.05

A cup of tea and the newspaper...aaahhh...

16.01

Thinking about the bag I'll sew out of the Marimekko fabric I bought downtown.

17.00

Pizza dough is rising, time to vacuum.

18.00

Dinner time.

19.02

Emptying the dishwasher.

20.06

Surfing on Flickr.

21.00

Glass of chianti and Without a Trace.

22.00

Checking out the sunset

23.19

One minute before Battlestar Galactica starts.