from the beautiful book bend-the-rules sewing by Amy Carol (angry chicken).


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"mikä tämä on?"
"mitä tällä tehdään?"
"mistä tämä toimii?"
"mitä tuolla on?"
"mitä äiti kertoi?"
"mitä isi koulussa tehee?"
"mitä nyt tehdään?"
"mikä tämä laulu oli?"
"miten tämä laulu menee?"


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and a few pretty things at home that make me happy right now.


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its a funny feeling to find out that there are people out there reading your blog. not just friends and family, but other people as well! i think i had the best possible way to find that out though, Mona from aurikko.blogspot.com gave me the make my day award. JEEI :). despite my sometimes awful english and my long silent times with the blog it ( Read more... )

i cant wait for next week, a few colder and maybe sunnier days wouldnt hurt at all. today it didnt start raining before late in the evening (but it was as wet as possible without real rain, really weird weather), but otherwise this constant bad weather has been keeping us a lot at home. usually i dont mind a little rain, we go out anyway. but now ( Read more... )

 i have been a very lucky thrifter for the past few months. i have found many wonderful little things and also a few bigger ones, like a new kitchen table and 4 chairs (the old table became tildas drawing table, only with shorter legs) and a beautiful closet for our hall. also my lovely collection of old bags has grown nicely :). here a few of my ( Read more... )

how windy can it really get here? when ever there comes a sunny moment between rain, rain and more rain the wind is so hard that being outside feels senseless. yesterday we had a lovely family here to spend the morning with us so luckily only today turned out to be the longest and greyest day we could have imagined. we made a little walk but tilda ( Read more... )

~ tilda laughing in her new sledge. we made a nice before bedtime -walk, checked how the snowmen were doing, made a snowangel and got all snowy and wet from the huge snowflakes.
~ tilda thinking: "oltiin mummilassa-ukkilassa, vaailassa-pike-mummilassa, fammulassa-pekka-pakkalassa. nyt ollaan isilässä-äitilässä-tildalassa." heh!

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being home is good. i even enjoy cleaning and nothing feels better than cooking in my own kitchen. funny how i start missing all that. most of these i dont find such fun things to do in every day life. but that is after all the best of life i think. just normal and easy, as usual.

tildas sleeping pattern is all lost and gone now though. after three ( Read more... )