This year's shawls so far...

The first shawl of this year was started in Finland from Noro yarn... always beautiful colours.. And Oliver likes it too!

The second shawl is gorgeous 100% cashmere, Filatura di Crosa yarn... absolute luxury, and Stephen Wests lovely pattern Daybreak... love it!

Then there is a ractangular shawl for my mother... the yarn is Impulse of Delight's and the pattern is Spring Leaves.

With some great ladies on Ravelry we did a KAL with yarn dyed especially for us by Tuulia, and we did Stephen West's Akimbo....

And last but not least, I just finished my first project with Wollmeise yarn; the pattern is Haruni and the yarn colour is Pinie... the second photograph shows the true colour.

Slow start to summer, but it's coming!

Some plants from the terrace:Bougainville, where you can see that the actual flower is the small pale yellow inside, and the brightly coloured part is actually leaves...

Basil

Mint

Chive flower

Sage flower

A little girl with fever

A little girl with a three day fever last week... she's all better now so I can publish these! =)

Oliver, when he likes to be lazy...

There is someone on my covers that are in theory drying outside...

Such a comfortable place... under the canopy, in view of the street (controllong the premises), the wind creates a nice little swinging movement...

A silly little cat can lay here all day...

merely changing sides once in a while...

Le Cesine - Rare family outing!

Since the cave-man has worked in his hotel every weekend since forever, we rarely have had the pleasure of Sunday outings... now we can!!! =)

With Minerva feverish, and two cars (we don't fit in one anymore) we took off to the Cesine national park where the local WWF had organized some gathering...

We had five Nikons and one video camera with us... these are my photos! :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19715614@N05/sets/72157624124831054/show/

This is what the kids were photograghing: ;)

The party afterwards!

We had invited some very dear friends for a lovely buffet after the church function and loads of good food and wine!
Salmon: Heaps and heaps of gravad lax which we had prepared two days before, everyone LOVED it!

The salads: lentil and goat's cheese, pasta with pesto and oven-rosted tomatoes, bulghur and feta and saffron-scented chicken pilaf... there was also a wonderful coleslaw but no photo!

And flourless choclatecake, strawberries, whipped cream

and a fruitcake!

La Prima Communione

Sunday May 16th Minerva had her first communion...

Getting prepared with the help of Aurora,

and in church

Hair done by Aurora as well!

Springtime!

Spring has arrived... our terrace is clean and the flowers are blooming!

The perfect Mail Day!!

The first package was from my ♥ friend... alpaca in a practically PERFECT grey, a gorgeous Handu yarn, salty locorice and a lovely wooden spoon ...
W O N D E R F U L !!!


and the second package was from Tuulia, custom dyed for a Kal to make the Akimbo shawl... what lovely colours here too...



Perfect mail day, definitely! And both packages had been sent on Monday, so it only took them four days! =)

The painting started

   All the plants have been moved from the front of the house and from the terrace, and the painting           started on the 4th... let's see when they finish...

  And the plants invade half the street...

 

and the passage down to the garden..

KAHELIVAIHTO PAKETTI... ♥

This colourful box was waiting for me when I came home today! The mailman had left it on the porch because he knows that I'd hate to wait until tomorrow!

I opened the box immediatly (no patience whatsoever!) and pulled out this lovely postcard... Helsinki in the summer♥♥♥

Look at all the stuff that was inside!!!!! The theme of the exchange was even numbers and 27 euros (yeah, right) and the sender was not to reveal her identity in the package...

First I pulled out a beautiful skein of Finnish eco wool, a skein of lace weight ...

And look at all the goodies!!! All finnish and all YUMMY!!!! I'll never be able to hide these from the kids! And all were in pairs!

Then two little envelopes from Succaplokki... four stitchmarkers and a WIP, which I didn't have!

Then I pulled out two tin boxes... one is a hand-cream and the other a candybox cover... both will end up in my bag... ♥ and a lemon-oat soap as well that smells SO good! (I love lemons)

And last, but not least, under all these incredible things, there lay ten (yes, TEN) little skeins of Finnish fibre to spin in a wonderful natural colour. I think I'll sleep with these... =)

So... guess who's really really happy today???

I immediatly went to the computer on Ravelry and to the Kahelit group and tiik a little look around... and guessed right on the first go! Thank you to Hanna for THE PERFECT PACKAGE!!!

I don't really know how I guessed, more intuition than braincells...=)

Spring ♥

The best part of Spring!

April 7th...Damage done...

     This was the damage done yesterday by my daughter... nobody got hurt so I guess it's okay...