Strikening!

Interested in participating??? ;)

sorry, only in finnish.

De Guadalajara!

(embedding disabled by request - damn!)

mana - labios compartidos

got tired of keeping the tab always open...
decided it's more convenient to open my blog when i need to hear it. :)



äitisuomennos: ah ja voih, meksikolaista tuskaa...

El dia de la conferencia sobre México!

este recibí de mi amiga. ella ha visto el cantante y le me recomendió.
es de chile. quizas voy a viajar a chile un dia...
ojalá!!! 

my friend has seen the singer live - she recommended me this.
from chile... maybe i get there one day...
hopefully!!!



äitisuomennos: chile-unelmia...

My little winter carden

http://www.postcarden.com/shop/



äitisuomennos: postikorttipuutarha

Candle season has been opened

i found this candle when i was tossing away some old packages...
i made it in a juice container last year but run out of stearine before it was ready.

as i have noticed that big home made candles burn awfully bad, i decided to start using said candle instead of waiting for the accumulation of used candle material which is needed for the finishing touch. (i'm recycling the left overs - see my friends blog for her candle making post)

this candle is actually burning surprisingly well.


äitisuomennos: kynttiläkauden avajaiset...

Bloodlust, anyone?

zürich airport

äitisuomennos: oikeaa karkkiverta - onko hullumpaa nähty?

I'm a barbie girl in my barbie world - I am plastic, its fantastic!

swarowski window in zürich september

äitisuomennos: swarowskin barbie zürichin näyteikkunassa

WARNING! strictly forbitten

describing pics on public transport in zürich...


äitisuomennos: elä hyvä mies mee penkkejä sahaamaan zürichin julkisissa!

Helsinkiklub und Baby Halbstark

zürich 24th sept.

60's rock show by baby halbstark
no chance of ordering lapin kulta in finnish
though i learned  that africola was an east german cola brand
(and that red rock ginger ale is just pure acid burning a hole through your stomach :/)

here's the original version:




äitisuomennos: helsinkiklubilla ei voinut tilata lapin kultaa suomeksi - kokeiltu on.

Kivakurkku??? :D

aka kiwano

tastes like a banana and a lime said the depiction in the supermarket -
tastes like raw banana and overripe cucumber in my opinion.
took some seeds to see what kind of plant might grow out of them...

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivakurkku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_melon

Crying plant

 

in the morning before opening the curtains

my plants are crying

the watering of the previous evening?

äitisuomennos: vissiinki kultaköynnös tuo kasvi...

Only in Finland?

 picture courtesy of milka: kuopio city centre, this summer.

äitisuomennos: ihan kaupungilta löydettiin...

Parasite

 

and its cousin...

Reflections

just the other day i realized that i've been living quite many years without a big mirror... (and without a tv but that's another story.)

it is inconvenient i know but what does it matter if i'm not able to check my outfit daily? does it make my life any different? (yes, sometimes i do care, sometimes i'm just too plain lazy to give a damn.)

then i realised, i certainly do check out myself more often from the elevator mirror (once i was desperate and called the lift just to do that ;), from windows, glass doors and from other reflective surfaces. (warning! don't try to use side mirrors of the cars - they are too, well you'll see...)

i truly am missing a mirror but so far - people have survived from more difficult situations than this.


äitisuomennos: ken on heistä kaikkein kaunein...

Kirotusvire?

could it be wrong? i don't think such an expression exists in the formal language.

Last day of odp

i feel a bit better that for the last week i wore my dress for 6 days. otherwise i wore it maybe 30 % of my time (mostly out of the house though - it doesn't mean that i was inside all the time however;).

it's been nice to have kind of a uniform. no clothing worries in the morning. :) i also think my dress has been very neutral - no one has commented anything on it. i think they have noticed it though - people always do. here it's just difficult to get an open reaction. people fear they are impolite or say something wrong. - i remember when i cut my hair very short, it was real weird of not getting any feed back about my radical hairless look.

but back to the dress... i hoped that this experiment would help me wear it more often. i succeeded in that. i also feel more comfortable wearing it which is a bonus. :) maybe later i should have a skirt&dress challenge for a summer...

happy dress day!

äitisuomennos: nyt ei tartte ennää jännittää, että mitenkä se selviää.

:D)

i have to advertise this because i almost know the boy... ;)


ps. i started a new blog because i felt this wasn't a suitable channel for my statistical ventilation. enjoy! (on the sidebar)

äitisuomennos: ollihan se siinä... ja tilastotiedettä pursuava blogi - vasemmalla, linkkinä sivun reunassa.

???

what have i been doing this afternoon?



- soap of course! :) i made some fine laundry soap from a recipe taken from the finnish soap making bible "käsin tehtyä saippuaa" by saara kuha. excellent manual by the way...

i'm completely into this (again) even though i have a box full of old ones waiting to be used... i can send you some if you're in need of any! (all of them are obviously only vegetable fat based so they are suitable for vegans too.)

äitisuomennos: saippuaa!

Ailey II

photo borrowed from http://www.kuopiodancefestival.fi/fin/artistit.html


ECHOES - no words can describe...

THE CORNER - yo, this is our corner, yo.

REVELATIONS - hallelujah, yeah!

AMAZING! MESMERISING! DEDICATED!

(worth of all my thousand claps)

soul gripping...

The Byuk-Pah Dance Research Society

photo borrowed from http://www.kuopiodancefestival.fi/fin/artistit.html 



four seasons of korea - blooming, passion of the heat, harvest of the autumn moon, silence of the winter - waiting


little movement says it all...


fans, lift of the foot, change of the hand position, sight of the red underskirt, drums


what more can we ask for?


___

ps. how stupid can a girl be? - a click away from bliss = i finally manage my posting!!! hurraa! :D

Mimulus Cia de Dança

photo borrowed from http://www.kuopiodancefestival.fi/fin/artistit.html

dolores - passionate, rough, jealous, brainless, joy of dance (inspiration from pedro almodóvar)

lot of machista grips, sensual tango, amazing lifts and colourful relationships

made me wan't to be on the stage as well

...

they sure know how to make use of accessories (of clothes too!)

energizing and atmospheric music - fine way of guiding the mood

certainly not without humour

me encanta!

Serene

Cheating

waiting for a better dress day... :P - not going out though.



(washed my dress yesterday and will put it back on monday.)


äitisuomennos: onko se huijaamista, jos ei tee asioita salaa?

Enneagrammi

löysin hauskan enneagrammitestin. sen mukaan (ja mitä itse ajattelen) minua kuvaavat sekä luova individualisti että uskollinen kyseenalaistaja. noh, toisinaan kuvaavat ja toisinaan eivät. :P -halpaa hupia silti. ;)

"Luova Individualisti on sisäänpäin kääntynyt ja romanttinen persoonallisuustyyppi. Neloset ovat itsensä tiedostavia, sensitiivisiä ja varautuneita. He ovat emotionaalisesti rehellisiä, luovia ja henkilökohtaisia, mutta saattavat myös olla ailahtelevaisia ja itsetietoisia. He saattavat olla pidättyväisiä muita kohtaan tuntiessaan itsensä haavoittuvaisiksi ja puutteellisiksi. Neloset saattavat kokea tavallisen arkisen elämän itselleen vieraaksi ja jopa halveksia sitä. Heillä on tyypillisesti ongelmia surumielisyyden, itsekeskeisyyden ja itsesäälin tunteiden kanssa. Parhaimmillaan Nelonen on inspiroitunut, erittäin luova ja itseään sekä kokemuksiaan uudistava ihminen."

"Uskollinen Kyseenalaistaja on sitoutunut ja turvallisuushakuinen persoonallisuustyyppi. Kuutoset ovat luotettavia, ahkeria ja vastuuntuntoisia. He ovat hyviä ongelmien kartoittajia ja osaavat luoda aitoa yhdessä tekemisen henkeä, mutta saattavat olla myös puolustelevia, vältteleviä ja hermostuneita. Kuutoset saattavat haalia itselleen liikaa töitä ja stressiä ja valittaa siitä samanaikaisesti. He saattavat olla varovaisia ja päättämättömiä, mutta myös reaktiivisia, kapinoivia ja uhmakkaita. Kuutosilla on tyypillisesti ongelmia epävarmuuden ja epäluuloisuuden kanssa. Parhaimmillaan Kuutonen on sisäisesti vakaa ja itsevarma ihminen, joka rohkeasti kannustaa itseään ja muita onnistumaan."

http://www.namaste.fi/enneagrammi/testaa+mika+tyyppi+olet/

in english: i found a wonderful site - http://www.pipstudio.com/en/floral-porcelain/other always wanted to have such a colorful set of porcelain. i wonder if they can be machine washed...

Little blue dress

ODP

i'm still young and restless, so it's time for some radical minimalism. good logic, eh? ;) i'm joining a challenge of a blog called 'one dress protest' written by kristy powell. http://onedressprotest.com/2011/05/join-me-and-odp/

well, she has all these high ideals that she wants to achieve, but don't you think i have some sort of virtues in my mind when i'm starting. oh, no! i just want to test my limits (=do something radical but fairly unnoticeable), i happen to have a dress i rarely use, (which probably fits fine in most of the occasions in my future month) and i'm curious. i'm curious of what this experiment will bring into my life.

the only problem will be next week: i'm going out of town to a 5 days long "camp", where a group of people will spend time together very closely and where my washing opportunities might be scarce... since i'm not so serious about this i'll just have to take some spare clothes to replace the dress in case i can't wear it all of the days. anyways - exciting future lies ahead of me (despite maybe the "boring" clothing choices).

äitisuomennos: no, ei sitä kaikkea äitinkään tartte tietää, että mitä hullutuksia se taas...

Kuopio Dance Festival - here i come!

i was a bit sour that i couldn't participate in a kdf vip viewer competion... the local newspaper was searching for different people to write about the dance shows and no previous experience was required. - the idea is of course to make the town citizens involved and get commoners interested in the art of dance (and also to sell the newspaper). - anyway i suppose the competition was only for the subscribers because i couldn't see any hint of it on the newspaper website. :(

well, since i've been eyeing on the dance festival for years i finally bought tickets to three different shows. (some of the happenings are for free but i don't have time to hang out in the centre for all day. besides i'm doubting it would only lead to getting fed up with dance quite soon.) i think you already guess where i'm heading to... i'll be writing for what i see - here. i don't have vip seats, not even tickets to all of the shows but i have an urge to write about the ones i chose. - and i'd like to see somebody to try to prevent me! :P (ah, how i love to be melodramatic - it shows that i'm already in my artistic mood. :)

so beware kuopio dance festival - there's a pair of alert ears and eyes among the audience and they do not keep silent afterwards! :PPP

äitisuomennos: kuopio tanssii ja soi - vihdoinkin.

Dröm beach

Storsand i Fäboda (nära Jakobstad). :)

REALLY???

"More fiber in your diet may help reduce risk of dying"

-please, where can i get this life saving fiber?!!

äitisuomennos: :D

Damsel in distress?

äitisuomennos: neito pulassa?

Girl in green

currently camera-less. :)
otherwise you'd have seen my plantings!

i got excited about new growth (thought i felt a breeze of spring in the air?) but so far i just have some black soil on plates and green bed linen.

currently i have some two-year-old seeds and some exotic fruit stuff growing: jalapeño, paprika, grape fruit, grapevines, plum, pomegranate and cypress. i'll be trying out some hemp seeds (read: fiber hemp not the medical one :P) if these won't work out.

looking forward to have a lush balcony for the summer!!!

Empty

i think last month was the first one when i didn't blog anything. quite interesting: january, the silent month. well, of course i'm too lazy to check it out. :D maybe some stray reader will point out my error (after all that's what stray readers tend to do. ;) to be honest, some months i do not actually blog - i've been just timing my posts earlier or maybe i sometimes cheat a little and publish something after "the due date"...

i used to love all the modifications i could do for my posts but it seems that only writing html would give me the same freedom anymore. sad - blogger be more user friendly with simple girls! :P

off centre:

“the first follower turns a crazy guy into a movement.” http://sivers.org/ff