When the cat's away...

 When the cat's away the mice

 play? Over here it is more like


when one kid's away the cat takes

 advantage... Luca's office chair is

 usually either in use by Luca or

full of his stuff, but now that he is

in Finland It has been covered

 with softness so that Oliver has

 his own chair! Guess who loves

 it?

Sunday lunch and ...pomegranates!

 Sunday lunch was very autumny today... polenta with sausages in tomato sauce

 missing just the sprinkling of parmesan on top...

and gorgeous pomegranate for dessert!! Look like little rubies...

Pink Day?

Today is Pink ribbon day , October is Pink Ribbon month, and so on...

does this count?

Bought this in Helsinki this summer, and LOVE it!!! I do not go unnoticed with this on! =)

Crafty and Creative Kid

My children have always collected sticks and stones and bones and things; it has been their passion always and these things find their way into glass jars and plates and baskets allover the house.

Some time ago Matteo gathered some bones and seashells and came up with this!

I still need to find a good place to hang it!

Having a Cat

This unfortunately happens once in a while when you live with a cat... it's his nature and he so proudly donates them to me... Lizards and geckos and snakes do not get killed, but the little birds die most of the time, though not always

Official cinnamon roll day!

Today is the official cinnamon roll day (Korvapuustipäivä) so ofcourse I had to bake... =) It also happened to be the day that Minerva started her swimming lessons again, and Matteo has to be taken to driving school and Aurora and Matteo had to go get something written in their scuba diving books... so, between one drive and the other we baked these and had them for dinner, either with a glass of milk or with tea....Yummy!

October

This is my screensaver for October!

A slight obsession with glassjars!

I have a slight obsession with BIG glass jars! I absolutely love them, and bottles and ...

These three are usually by my bed... they are full of things that the children have found such as sea shells, sea urchin skeletons, stones and... a cat's skull...

Then there are these two bottles of wine that one finds among the rubbish after bottling season... I have given some of these away and the smaller one still needs to be properly washed, while the bigger one keeps our collection of gass marbles.

 Then there are these two... ugly picture but anyway... these are being filled with leftover yarn, until I                  decide how to use the yarn...

The first of a series

 My son asked for a super slouchy hat, and since I wasn't sure what he wanted I made one for myself first... My son likes it and my daughter wants it!!! And it's Wollmeise yarn, so I'd love to keep it myself!!! I guess not, huh?   Well, it means this is the first of a series...

The pattern is Sockhead, and the yarn is Wollmeise Twin in the colourway Sabrina...

Shawl number ? I´ve lost count!

This is the latest shawl... the pattern is Semele by the awesome Åsa...

the yarn is Posh yarns Helena, gorgeous cashmere

and the model is my little one Minerva, who is growing SO fast!

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! =)