Breakfast

Breakfast... coffee and Wollmeise!

September/October Figs

No more dark figs, now it is time for the sweetest, softest ones!
These fill our trees until early November,  if we don´t get a terrible storm before then.

Today is the last day of Minerva´s summer vacation... Matteo started yesterday!

FIGS

                                           A fig that has not been picked in time...

                                                 Figs that are ready to be eaten...

                                      Another kind of fig...called prickly pear in english..

                                                  Prickly pears ready to be eaten!

Summer in Helsinki

My new background on my Macbook! I can smell summer in Helsinki in this photo...

Meat-pie, salad and my eleventh shawl this year!

Excellent meatpie, a beautiful green salad with red onion and ...

A new shawl!!!!! Aurora fell in love with my friend Tuulia´s and I happened to have the right yarn!!!

It´s Revontuli from Ulla, a finnish net magazine!

August 23rd

                           Yesterday was my birthday.... and this was my cake...

                                          And this wonderful letter came in the mail...

A handmade handkerchief, old 20 finnish marks

                                             and a lovely letter written on handmade paper!

                       The money is from 1945 and signed by... my grandfather!

                                                        Turning 27 is not so bad! =)

More shawls...

Shawls... my Daybreak II was started

on the day before leaving Finland...

good travel knitting...and I finished it

four days later!!! Not bad... =)

It is made with lovely thick Abuelita Merino Silk using

size 6 needles.

Then there is a scarf/shawl that I finished before

Finland, Summit from Knitty, using Posh Yarns

wonderful cashmere... my mother took this as soon as

she saw it! =)

       
             Another Summit is on the needles  already (great carry-along knitting)

                             and there has been a lot of spinning...  more on that later...=)

Vacation in Finland is over...

It was fun...

OHOH!

I forgot!!!! This is also a shawl from this year... Citron in Colinette Jitterbug, and ofcourse this is Aurora's shawl! =)

Summer Wedding

On Saturday Princess Victoria of Sweden is getting married... Minerva decided to send a drawing to wish them all the happiness in the world!

So today she drew a cat... and sent it of to Stockholm, with good wishes from Minerva and Oliver!


And I managed to photograph a Opri hat my Mari Muinonen that I made for a friends daughter's 17th birthday present. It is in a fresh bamboo/cotton yarn...

Look at her hair!!! How she can stand it in this heat is absolutely beyond me! =)

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: ;)