fashion blog

Heya internet! Long time no see.  Yesterday both dag & dad went to the barber shop to get their hairs cut for vacation mode.  This little fella is turning five in four days and he's wearing a lion shirt that I sew him the other day. Afterwards we went out in the sunhine to zip milkshakes from  Kitty's Milkshake Bar  (the best). And hanged out by the orbs in Hietalahti. And now it's off to Spain with the whole family, boys and girlfriends and bags and what not. Sangria and sunshine here I come!

Some things that never get old - That first warm summer evening when you can have dinner in the green and the wind is warm and soft. Sudden snuggle-ups and love declarations from your child. Twin Peaks. Anything with chocolate. Well, almost anything. (and then I wonder why some of my clothes won't fit me in the waist anymore. If they don't fit my behind it's of course just because of my squatting and heavy weight leg pressing at them gym, obviously.) ps. Pictured are the almost healthy chocolate raw food muffins . Gardening. You know all those things they say about gardening and life and so on. All true. And then of course  This One .

I have noticed that keeping a jug of water on the table with stuff in helps me get closer to the goal of drinking enough water during the day (as in opposite of having a jug with just plain water, or no jug at all). And even better, it also helps the kids and man in the house to drink more too, which is a big bonus. The water we get is good and tasteless, but a hint of berry or herb in it makes it more appealing none the less, and is also pretty to look at. Here are three ideas on how to spice up your water - Strawberries, cinnamon-basil and a dash of apple cider vinegar. I came across cinnamon-basil in the store the other day but any kind  of basil will of course do. Orange and rosemary. My colleague Tink came up with this one: Pineapple chunks and fresh mint. Try it by putting the pineapple bits in the freezer for a while before dropping them in the water. Enjoy!

It's finally warm and sunny! Yesterday was the first day without socks outside! There is hope after all! Here I tried to swing like a happy monkey in a tree, to illustrate the fact that it's warm and and one can now go bazonkas and so on, but turns out it was harder than I thought. Plus I kind of got a little worried the branch would crack and hit me in the head and I'd basically die blogging.  But as you can't be totally fabulous or witty all the time you get my attempt here anyway. This was also a sneaky outfit post. The top is from Freddies of Pinewood and the lurex thingies are h&m.

Last Sunday we turned our studio into interstellar space -or intergalactic if you so like- they way it would look if an, umm, elementary school or some kind of vaudevillian basement theatre put up a play about space. We really wanted it to look adorably crappy on one hand with our small self made planets and things hanging by the help of string and clothes pins but on the other hand still keep it on the right side of being deliberately camp (the way we like it) as well as to function as the optional drawing detail or background inspiration. The navigators of the ship with the brave cosmonaut. (Our space aesthethics always tend to be rather b-movie retrotastic.) So as you know from what I've written before, Dr.Sketchy's is a worldwide concept of  "alternative" live model drawing. There have been  Dr.Sketchy events in Finland for a decade now , and last autumn Tinker Bell and I revived the Helsinki branch. We make sure our Sketchy-playlists suit the themes as well and ...

Iiro Nurminen 1960, Helsingin Kaupunginmuseo Vappu.   Valborg . Vappen. The most likely biggest of the Finnish festivities!  Party-wise, I guess. If the city empties at Midsummer Vappu is the opposite - the city is full of thousands and thousands of celebrating people. We've had mead and funnel cakes and donuts for a the past days and I'm getting rather stuffed by now. Vappen is a festivity for quirky hats and faux noses and costumes and serpentines and confetti (and just making a mess our of everything in general). Kindergartens and schools most often have a masquerade they day before Vappu. Last year Dag was a ninja , this year he went as his latest obsession: a knight! Costumes that I wore when I was little included princess (quelle surprise), medieval lady and cowgirl. I've spent most of my Vappu-day, as in the day after; 1st of May, out on town celebrating since early morning, and even those years I was on shift in the harbour I tried to sneak in a visit to to the park...

Four nice things right now. Small kumquats on a branch. Who wouldn't get happy over cute small orange thingies like these? Green branches and leaves in a vase; a mini jungle,  left over from when I had  a mini-spa for my plants at home some time ago.   (I wonder if these are of the kind that they'll grow a root of their own and I can plant them? Hmmm...) Green grapes in a pretty bowl. And green grapes in their most superior form, helping me tidy up the kitchen.