Don't walk fly!

It has been an amazing summer. When I think back I haven't really even noticed my living conditions. Sure I've been whining about this horrible Vuosaari flat a lot, but in the end it hasn't bothered me that much. There has been so much things to look forward to, many great thing going on. Even going back to work after my summer holiday was exciting, because of my new position there.

Now it's sad to see that the summer is almost over. I get this nervous autumn feeling again. I'm afraid of the cold winter. I feel like lying in a park on my back all night long, breathing in the last summer breaths. I worry that I'll go into a small coma and not wake up until it's summer again. That's why I try to plan my life ahead a bit. If I have plans and exciting thing coming up, maybe I won't notice the winter that much either!

In October it's LONDON BABY! I get to go to my favourite city with one of my favourite friends...!! The flights were so cheap that I'll have more budget to do all my must do things there, like Urban outfitters. <3


Also I'll be seeing my sister and her family in Maidenhead. We'll get to go for a pub lunch which I always love. I'm hoping we'll find a small pub with a warm fireplace, with cosy sofas and flower printed wall papers. Somewhere on the Thames.

This will be a good trip I'm sure. I've always wanted to travel with L so this should be really good.

The summer isn't completely over though...few parties still coming up. L's birthday with cocktail dress theme(love it) and another party on the same day that I really hope I manage to go to! Then it will be time to move back home <3 <3 <3 The vigorous decorating can start! There are fabrics, pillows, trays, dog bowls and beds going through my head so fast that I can't keep up!

In September it's my birthday. I'll be 24 years old. Don't know what I think about that yet. I'm just happy to have all my friends at my home having fun together.

So here were most of my thoughts and plans for the near future. I felt like posting 'cause when I woke up I felt really nervous happy and excited! Life is what you make of it for sure. And I've made this summer fabulous! The icing on the cake was Lily Allen, last Sunday at the Flow festival. Perfection.

Mad for quotes

I've found myself reading these quotes almost every night for about a week now. In some way I find comfort in them. Like today I've been really annoyed all day for various reasons, but after a good run with Jazz and reading these I feel so much better!

Here's few great ones:

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

And the greatest one of them all:

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
- Michael Jackson

So true....

Good times

Last weekend was really good. The weather was perfect, the company was perfect and I got to do all the things I love. Saturday I went out to party a little with a friend, and on Sunday we went to do some serious shopping with another friend.
I found the perfect Flow-festival dress and the perfect shoes...among other things. Even the fact that I was a bit hangoverish didn't slow me down, I just really enjoyed the day out in the city for a change!

I have lot's of other plans too, good things coming up. I'm really happy that I have things to be excited about!Life has been going really nicely lately.


We went for lunch to the F8 restaurant/coffeehouse. F8 is a brand new floor at Stockman. Sleek and nice, not so cosy but they had lot's of foods to choose from! A bit on the expensive side, like Stockman usually is, but the food was okay.


We shared a chicken-cesar sandwich, and a crab-prawn sandwich. So good...


Today I went to check out my home. Like always I go in to a small schock when I go there. There's dust everywhere, holes in the walls and so on. I don't know why I always expect to see my home as it usually is...I do KNOW that there's a renovation going on. Still every time I feel like crying a bit. Silly!




There was one surprise...they had ripped one wall down to the point that I could see the bricks. That means that I have to paint the hall, which was not in my plans really. Well at least that gives me the opportunity to change the color, so something positive in that too.


And look, I'm getting a heated bathroom floor!! Perfection <3



This is how much dust there is...I really need to hire a cleaning lady to do the cleaning for me. I'll never manage on my own.



Bye home for now! 18 days to go...

Look what I found!

I was taking the garbage out here in Vuosaari, and found this cute lamp!! I thought it was so cute that I had to take it..someone had coldheartedly thrown it away. Poor little lamp!

Today I took a closer look at it to see how I should clean it and saw a little engraving on the back of the lamp...it says IDMAN! This is a design lamp from the 50's I think!I don't really know for sure, but that's what I suspect. If someone knows anything about it please do tell! I'm trying to find something from the internet, but haven't found anything about this particular lamp yet.


It's really dirty, and needs a lot of work, but because the fabric on the shade is some kind of plastic fabric I think I should be able to get it fairly clean. I'm also planning to change the ribbon that goes around the shade. I'm thinking a yellow satin ribbon with a big bow...lovely!




The foot of the lamp is the dirtiest part. I haven't tried to clean it up yet, if anyone has some ideas what products to use I would love to hear some tips! I'm worried that if I use too harsh chemicals I'm going to ruin it. Maybe I'll just try plain water first..



Then another thing I'm really excited about! A new chocolate I found from the store!! I'm badly addicted to Suffeli Puffi chocolate sweets, but here's a new competitor...The package is so CUTE! Wit all the different coloured sweets flying around! And what a concept...chocolate inside of chocolate...you cant' go wrong with that recipe ;)
Actually the candy isn't that mindblowingly good but, the fact that it's so cute looking makes it worth buying and eating!It's called Marabou Non Stop...so sweet and cute!

Are you a good friend?

I've been watching The Hills way too much in the past few days...I've seen all the episodes for like at least 3 times(and there's 5 seasons with at least 20 episodes in them all), so this would be my fourth time. Ridicilous....maybe...addicting...yes.

So The Hills is all about friendships and how they start and come to their ends. That made me think of my own history of friends. The friendships that have just kinda dried out or ended at a bad note, the ones that have been going strong for decades, and the ones that I have now.
What is a good friend like? What qualities makes someone a good friend, and am I one?

I've been horrible in the past and still am sometimes, but mainly I try to keep my friends happy, 'cause then I'm happy. I hate to see someone important to me feel like rubbish, 'cause no one should. I have friends that I am in contact with pretty much everyday, but I also have ones that never return my calls 'cause they're so busy but that I have loads of fun with when we meet, and the ones I can count on no matter what, even if we hadn't met in a year. Then there are the ones that I have cut off for some reason, and the ones that have been there my whole life. Everyone is different from each other which baffles me...there must be some quality that makes them all my friends, even if they don't know each other.
I'd like to think that I figured it out...they are all good people. All the people that I have in my life are good people...personalities are really different...vibe is the same.

There has been lot's of new people coming and going in the past few years with bit of drama involved. Some of them just stayed for a while but there are ones that I hope are to stay. You can never have enough friends, but the best ones are the ones that make life easier, and put up with all my not-so-briliant ideas and all my weird rules for life . Thank you for that :D

The answer to the question, am I a good friend; answer is that I do my absolute best in that. I'll end this with a brilliant quote I found from the Internet...(I've been reading way too much of those too lately. )

"A friend is the one who sits next to you and lets you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one is left." -Author unknown

The apples of my eye

The main accessories in my house. The ones that can't be ignored when stepping into my place. The ones that greet every incomer, like it or not. Tails won't stop wagging, not even when you hope they already would!


They drive me crazy regularly with all their stunts and stupid ideas, but what they give in return is something I'm incapable to put in to words. I laugh and cry so much that my stomach hurts...that's what it's all about.

Sometimes it feels that I must be crazy having these two creatures in my house, making a mess, voluntarily. But hey just look at those faces and try to say no. This post is a "tribute" to the ones that make my life so much more interesting!

Rinja and Jazz, the best pains in the ass ever.

H&M Home edition

I've felt really homesick today. It has been raining the whole evening, and that made me think about home. I love to sit on my sofa in the summer with the window open, listen to the rain drops falling and looking at the sky...I love to live on the top floor with nothing blocking the view to the sky. Storm watching is really cool there.

So, we've staid in Vuosaari for few weeks, I think, and there's really nothing to tell about it. It has been just as depressing as I thought. And I know that it's all about the attitude, and this really isn't a long time that we need to live here...but you know, a girl loves to whine a bit.

Anyway, I went to my friends place today and she had this H&M Autumn 2009 Home catalogue! Oh my...I need so much stuff from there...and what a great thing it is that I actually need all the things I want!!Usually I feel guilty even looking at new pillows, or carpets because I never really need new ones, just want them. BUT now it's different!!Yey!!

My plan is to buy a really basic sofa with sleek lines, nothing fancy, so I can fill it up with pillows. Lot's and lot's of pillows. I find myself going towards greys, silver, white and black. At least for now...we'll see what I come up with eventually. I feel that there's a lot of plans developing in my head, waiting to get out.

But underneath you can find some of the items that I NEED.