BLACK CATS AND OLD EASTER DETAILS

Happy Easter!Here is my little black cat on this year's Easter-ing tour (or whatever we shall decide to call it in English).As our house still looks like shit I'll post some old pictures of how it looked this time of year back when it was stil nice.Enjoy your chocola...

MÄMMI TIME!

Altough being stacked up in every store for the moment, it still seems I am in the minority of Finns actually rejoicing that mämmi season is here! Well at least if you ask my Facebook feed, that is. It is a short and sweet (and a bitter one, if we are being literal and going after that taste here) season,...

EASTER BRANCHES - VAIHTOEHTO VITSALLE

(Half of the headline is indeed in Finnish in case you had to look twice. It gives the content of this post away.)Easter is just around the corner and over here, if you have kids, it's time to decorate some branches!(If you can find some, that is, as winter has lingered around longer than usual this...

LAST OF APRIL, FIRST OF MAY

Iiro Nurminen 1960, Helsingin KaupunginmuseoVappu.  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...

THAT ONE ABOUT EASTER

Easter. This year I managed to plan a little in advance (as in I beat my side note challenge from last year, did them the night before; tada!) and did not have to rely on what randomness I could find in the drawers. We went feather-free and decorated the willow branches with small pom poms. The kids...