Hoje

Second package of Villavyyhti's club was a lovely skein of Hopeasäie yarn in a greeny torquise.

The pattern is by Mari Muinonen and it is a beautiful airy scarf that can be worn in many ways.

I knit most of it while sitting in hospital by my mother's bed, it helped keep me in one piece...

A 'normal' walk

For months I have stayed at home , if not in Finland, to be by the phone, to be 'close' to my mother even when I've been here in Italy, far away.

It is now time to get used to going out again and living normally.

                            piazza Aldo Moro, Maglie 05.06.2013

Jacques Prévert

Je suis comme je suis

Je suis comme je suis
Je suis faite comme ça
Quand j'ai envie de rire
Oui je ris aux éclats
J'aime celui qui m'aime
Est-ce ma faute à moi
Si ce n'est pas le même
Que j'aime à chaque fois
Je suis comme je suis
Je suis faite comme ça
Que voulez-vous de plus
Que voulez-vous de moi

Je suis faite pour plaire
Et n'y puis rien changer
Mes talons sont trop hauts
Ma taille trop cambrée
Mes seins beaucoup trop durs
Et mes yeux trop cernés
Et puis après
Qu'est-ce que ça peut vous faire
Je suis comme je suis
Je plais à qui je plais
Qu'est-ce que ça peut vous faire
Ce qui m'est arrivé
Oui j'ai aimé quelqu'un
Oui quelqu'un m'a aimée
Comme les enfants qui s'aiment
Simplement savent aimer
Aimer aimer...
Pourquoi me questionner
Je suis là pour vous plaire
Et n'y puis rien changer.

Jacques Prévert

The longest May

Friends

 These two long weeks have been, well, long... My family was in Italy and my brother is as heartbroken as am I so what kept me in one piece were friends. Friends who laughed and cried with me and let me talk and let me not talk... A very therapeutic red sofa in the yarn store...

                       two skeins of lovely glittery yarn sent by mail..

        an amazing pair of socks with a hand-made project bag...

    help in getting started with my new Ipad, from a friend who drove almost 500km in 24 hours, just to BE there...

 and others... who came to spend the evening, or night, or let me talk and let me cry and made me laugh ... you are the best, my friends. I will survive, after all I am my amazing mother's daughter!

My mother

My mother, my friend, my love.

30.7.1927-10.5.2013

My mother's ring

My mother has always had a ring on her finger, her grandmother's confirmation ring... now she has lost so much weight that she was afraid of losing it, so she gave it to me. I now wear it together with my own ring.

Viajante, the traveller

I started knitting this because I needed something totally mindless to knit, lots of knit stitches, on and on. 

I must admit I was a bit skeptical as I knit, since it seemed very narrow in the narrow end but I knit on, looking at other people's projects on Ravelry.

As soon as I finished it I had to try it on... and IT WORKS!!!

It can be worn as a hoodie-poncho, as a shawl, and as anything in between! Very very pleased!

                                
                                Viajante by Martina Behm

Another accident... or two

Sunday... one should not use sharp knives while thinking about things that make one angry.

I cut mine preparing lunch and hubby cut his cutting an apple after lunch.

Not the most brilliant thing I've ever done ...

Accident

In March the snow is hard as ice and falling on it face first can be BAD

 My worry was that it would leave a sign where the skin had been scratched away, so we took great care to not have a crust form and kept it covered and clean.

Her eye was swollen for a few days, which bothered her more than the skinless part, but it got better every day.

In a week the skin has formed and today she went to school without the band-aid, only protective cream.  

And I got some more grey hairs. =) All's well that ends well though.

Mine

  Three of the loves of my life ... the other three were not with me     this Easter...

I'm leaving on a jet plane

One of the hardest partings ever, I'll be back very soon, I promise

Easter Sunday around Helsinki

30.03.2013

    A very very quick visit to the best yarn shop in Helsinki

           A very quick go at the Pioneer, the Ladybug and the Sidekick

                                                     My son tried weaving... 

And then off to lunch!

                                      (Mari, Mini, Me, Sanna)

Morning by the sea