How much is enough?

..snow I mean...

The biggest and busiest snow dump sites in town (apart from the places where they dump snow in the sea downtown) is down my street.


The trucks have been steadily rolling int and out since Helsinki declared war at snow in January. That's when this photo was taken. You can see a truck up there unloading on top of the hill of snow.

Compare that to this... a month later in February.

Beside that previous hill (now flattened on the right) a regular mountain has grown!

Fast forward to last weekend.
They've both grown.
The tallest point is now at 30 meters.

I walked round to the back.

There's another digger up there, altogether I saw three working. It's a BIG area.

I'll go and take some more photos come June...

Last year the snow had completely melted in September.

And yes, I'm done with snow.

Dear sun, keep shining.

Huhuu skräppikansa ;)

Huippukivaa oli viimeksi!

Tilaa on ihan reilusti vielä la 26.3.

Lisää infoa täällä.

Eikun paikalle vaan saksien kanssa leikkimään :D

Happy fingers...itching...

It's been a happy bright sunshiny color week!

I got me some goodies in the mail :)

Lovely Japanese washi-tapes from here.


Yummy happy cotton twine from here.

And a box filled with colorful lovelies from AMLT.. sheer goodness!

And in honor of this lovely sunshine that makes it feel like spring.. Amy Butler fabrics that will be turned into a new bag for me.

And maybe a little something else too... ;)
I haven't forgotten my handmade pledge on Facebook...

It was nearly too hard to choose..

There were lovely colorful bolts on three tables.

Like a kid in a candy store.. I wanted it all!

I'm seriously thinking of going back in the near future and get just a little bit of twenty fabrics for a quilt. One like this one.. or like this one :D

I'm off to scrapbook this itch away..

Once more...

..because it's just so pretty in the morning sunlight... not to mention quite magical..

Here's one that popped on the concrete :)

Skräppäillään stadissa osa II

Eli tervetuloa taas paikalle
la 26.3.2011 klo 10.00- 19.00.

Sama paikka, sama meno. (mutta ehkä eri pitsakuski..hih..) :P

Jos olet uusi tulokas, niin käyhän vilkaisemassa yksityiskohtia täältä, ekan kerran tiedoista.

Ja ilmoittautumiset jälleen mulle susanna.tunturi@dlc.fi jotta saan pääluvun.
Kaunis kiitos.

Project Life, weeks six and seven

Week 6:

On top of the photo of Wednesday'a mail is a piece of an envelope I got during the week.

..the date..yes.. that bit was saved as I a couple weeks back I stamped 10 instead of 01.. heh..

Week 7:

In between I added a page protector with that week's Time magazine.. Tunisia, then Egypt and now Libya.. the dominos are falling.

I even put in a Moomin birthday card I got :)

The bowls were a treat for myself, as I discovered a gift card I had forgotten in my wallet!

They come in all sorts of sizes and all sorts of happy colors... I think I'll have to get some more eventually. Love me some colorful baking utensils!

There are new legos in the house :D

So what does happen to a bubble at -20C ?

First you have to carefully catch one... they are really fragile this cold..
Mind you they are really pretty when they burst while you are catching one. They pop into a rain of iridescent shards of ice.

Then you'll notice it forming steam inside and out.


All of a sudden the freezing starts crystallizing it.

Then of course once it's frozen you have to stick it with your finger..

..so it'll "pop" ;)

Cool, isn't it?

(pun intended)

I'm playing some more tomorrow morning!

Mama's got a new toy...

A fish eye adapter...

Neat little gadget.

(photo taken at the school Old's Dance on friday)

More on this later :)

Recent craftiness...

Hearts have been dancing in my window :)

Pages from an old book and some scrapbook paper scraps sewn together, hanging from a curtain rod above the radiator.. dancing in the warm air rising.

Prettiness..

These flowers I made already last year for friends using up Marimekko fabrics.

I used a tutorial I found online by Mollychicken.

This week I treated myself to a new keyring for my work keys.

Two scraps of fabric ,from the textile handwork room ;) and some quick handsewing.

Well, I was at work... LOL...My fingers need something to do even when I'm with the kids in the afternoons..

Love it!

A few weeks back I was asked to make a sample decorations for a hat.

Felt, handstitching, beads and sequins... basically what I had close-by.

It's like a icy sparkly winter tree.

What have you been making?

It's been all about friendship

There's been such a lovely air of friendship at work this week :)


I made this tree to remind us...

What has been great fun was a Valentine's secret friend.
Three days of giving and receiving.
Sneaking surprises...

On Monday I gave my friend a green package..

...filled with chocolate hearts and a hair pin.

The pin I made from fabric scraps and a button.

On Tuesday she got more chocolate and a notepad I printed out.

And on Wednesday it was a sweet little origami box with...

...a bracelet I made from glass beads I had hanging around :)

My secret friend gave me some fab pesents too... I'll show you over the weekend!