LATE EVENING SUNSHINE AND SOME BONUS LEGS

It's nice when it is summer and the nights are pale and light again!Here we are outside at 10pm.It is also nice when it is warm and one can wear light clothing in just one layer.Dresses. No socks, no jacket.And it's even nicer when your dress is not a dress but has legs! ...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW

Or, that were today.Long time no smoothie! I have a bit of chaga at home of so I made an antioxidant-rich smoothie out of chilled chaga-tea, mango, some cherries and physalis.Admiring my super huge (1,81m) Mucha-poster that I ordered from the Mucha museum. I saw the original sized theatre posters there...

BECAUSE LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR PLAIN CLOTHING

a.k.a. it was aliens!Some time ago I made myself a UFO-sweater!Somehow I managed to go almost 38 years without one.I bought an appliqué (via Etsy*)  and sew it onto a sweater.Or, first I carefully ironed it and then as it did not stick everywhere I went with plan B and sew it.*) Always Etsy. Late...

EVERY SEASON IS JUMPSUIT SEASON

I'm continuing my -apparent- theme colours for this fall; here in a jumpsuit I sew myself in a dark, plum-brownish shade.I've noticed that sewing is perhaps the closest to a hobby I have, as I otherwise don't really have time for one (unless buying lipsticks counts as a hobby). While I have to do a...

PLUM, DARK BLUE, AND ALL THE COLOURS OF AUTUMN

You've seen me talk about it trough the years - my love for autumn. I do enjoy all seasons (except perhaps for spring, as spring in Finland often turns out rather not only short but non-existent; two months of disappointment. Sadly), but while I always long for a short (hah!) snowy winter and feel most...

OCHRE AND WINE RED

Last spring before I went to France I quickly made this yellow ochre-coloured A-line skirt (like, the actual night before, because that is what insane people like me do in order to maintain a maximum stress level). I had had the fabric waiting in my to-do pile of fabrics for a few of years already and...

BOW IT!

I took a pair of sleeves and made myself a bow.Here we have a vintage blouse that I adopted when my mother wanted to get rid of it, but that I am - lets face it- most likely never going to wear:Unless we procrastinate a bit on everything else I have on the to-do list and tweak this one a little bit.Snip...

MY TWO-DECADE CARDIGAN

The other day I realised that the oldest piece of clothing in my wardrobe, apart from vintage, is a cardigan I bought in 1997 that I still use.  I was a bit impressed actually, as we seldom tend to think of clothing of today to last for that long. And cardigans tend to get floppy easily; this one...

SUMMER VIBES FROM WHEN IT WAS (ALMOST) WARM

October! The month changes and the sun says 'K bye!' and we get Halloween-ish storms in an instant. Not that I am complaining per se; I have big shawls and red wine and berets and turbans to cover my hair with.But here's a throwback to an planned-but-unposted  (applies to 99%of the photos on my...

SUNSHINE

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...

LOST SPRING

Waiting for spring like -WHERE IS IT!Apparently spring is like a month late here or so by now they say on the news and in the papers.Well yes, thanks, we kind of noticed. The true definition of "april weather". Sun and rain and random snow and temperatuare yo-yoing.But the spring gear has however premiered....

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: 4 x BROWN

Gingerbread brown blouse that I came across for less than 5€ the other day at the Fida thrift shop.Breakfast. Or, part of it.Also: unintentionally inspired by my post a few days back, matching my snacks.1970's vintage cowboy boots that I bought via Etsy some time ago. When you live in the countryside...

THIS WINTER'S SKIRT

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...

WINTERIZING SUMMER STRIPES

Well, it's that time of the year again when you either have packed some of your clothes away (if you are the organised type that actually does that instead of having to lean against your closet door to close it. Not saying I'm either one  though, ehrm), or have started indulging in some hardcore...