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You know I like it when something is more healthy than it may seem? These pumpkin treats would be something that fits that description. It is also something you can treat your gluten free friends with. Totally cake-y with a yummy frosting, they still are kind of breakfast worthy as well. You know, as the main ingredients are a vegetable (pumpkin) and eggs. The original recipe is from  here , but as usual I always alter things a little bit. I am keen on trying to come up with a vegan version of these. And perhaps to try make a round using sweet potato with / instead of pumpkin. You will need 2,5 dl mashed pumpkin (or 2 dl + half a banana) A handful of almonds 3 tbs peanut butter 1 dl honey or maple syrup 1 teaspoon baking soda cardamom vanilla half a teaspoon of salt 3 eggs Lightly roast the pumpkin in the oven on 175C so it turns soft and then mash it. (As a bonus you can take out and wash and dry the seeds of the pumpkin too, then when dry roast in a pan with a bit of salt. A...

Some casual evening chilling with a book and my hang-around cats. Photos by Asko Rantanen / Asko Jonathan Photography (Actually part of another series, but Lulu was keen on doing some posing as well.)

So far this year I feel I have mainly been living in a turban,  a thin knit and in this forest green knitted skirt with a strechty waist. Easy to pull up over the dance leggings and tops, to add an extra layer underneath to when it got really cold, and good as it is with just tights when it's been closer to zero - winter has been a real yoyo this year. The top is from Lindy Bop and the skirt was a Christmas clearance piece from Lindex. I am often asked about where to get turbans; the black soft ones I have are from Kuokkasen peruukkiliike in Helsinki, but Etsy, for example, has a lot of turbans! Apart from the constant black beret, turbans are a must-have; you simply can not have too many of them. Also this is pretty much the only place in our house where one can take any pictures. Everything else is still full of boxes, in renovation-mode or covered in some fringly sparkly burlesque-project mess. Uh.

It's still Valentine's Day for a while out there somewhere! Here's a small collection of hearts from earlier years. Hope you had a good Valentine's Day and remember that you can actually have one all year round, remembering your friends and loved ones no matter what date. Sometimes just a small message to someone you haven't had the time to meet or chat up with in a long time can be a wonderful thing  ♥

I'm going to end my little blogging hiatus here by telling you that I've been watching the Norwegian teenage drama SKAM a lot lately. It has the unanticipated and dubious effect of me kind of wishing for my late teenage years again, which I guess says quite a lot about the series as I knowingly loathed being a teenager. (But to be fair, the gymnasium years, between age 16 and 18, were rather nice in the end; it was the early teenage years that I nowadays am sure would be one of Dante's levels of hell if one were to actually end up in such.) The series have been super popular among it's main target audience; the young ones (which, let's face it, I am non longer a part of, something which becomes undeniably and painfully clear when you for example hear yourself telling the soon-to-be 16 year old at home you actually are  a pretty cool person, that do know things about life. Oh my.), but on my Facebook feed all my middle aged friends are obsessively bingeing it. It...

Most of my time the past months, or if not most then at least a lot, has been taken up by my participation in UMK; the competition for new music, which in other words is the national selection for the Eurovision. It has been an interesting project in many ways, but we'll get back to all that next week when this is over!   Some time ago we were filming some inserts for the finals.  Chrzu  was directing and gave us lollipops. Everyone loves our glitterboots. But hey who wouldn't.   But even awesome glitter boots need to be taken off every now and then. Btw you did know that Dali designed the logo for Chupa Cups , right? Last weekend it was our turn to do  a Facebook live for UMK . Which we casually shot at Weird Antiques . Love that place.    Tinker Bell and I play miniature bongos. The place has monkeys. And you know who loves monkey? Me! Me! Me! They have this  monkey-o-matic BimboBox  that I one day must own. And today we had the first rehea...

You may recall I have a huge love and fascination for all things miniature. As well as photo stories (my Milk Toof, remember ?). Minitature Wunderland is one of my favourite nerdy places to go when in Hamburg. So when I stumbled across Miniature Calendar and it's small smart dioramas by Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya I was of course blissfully happy! And there are so many of them, as Tatsuya has been creating these for years , one for each day. *late night insomnia browsing topics secured* Ah, so many genius thoughts there! All pictures from Miniature Calendar You can follow the artist on instagram  @tanaka_tatsuya