Pretty thing of the week #2

I love coffee, I drink at least 3 cups a day. Milk, no sugar. I also drink cappuccino when its available and good. Therefore I have many coffee cups, and since coffee is important, so are the tools for drinking it.

So I present you, another pretty thing of the week!

Kutojapuput by Heljä Liukko-Sundström

Sunny Day

Today was a great and sunny day, I put on my skirt and went for a walk (aka shopping) with my boyfriend. I bought a few books - Heräämisopas, comic album by Arktinen Banaani and Retkidikter. Heräämisopas and Arktinen Banaani were both comics, first one made fully by my favourite Finnish bad humour artist, Pertti Jarla. And I also like to support some of the Finnish comic artists, though really rare of them actually are good (sorry - but the fake-artist-emo-s**t isn't really for me). Retkidikter was a great palindrome poem book made by Simo Frangén and Pasi Heikura. I will post one of their poems here as a teaser, unfortunately its not in English and probably wouldn't make any sense even if I tried to translate it:

Gin Tonic (by Simo Frangén and Pasi Heikura)

Aa.
Viinaa sitruksilla.

Kallis kurtisaani ivaa.

After our walk we went to Oluthuone Kaisla, one of the best "beer houses" in Finland. It serves my absolute favourite beer at the moment, Ola Dubh. Its damn expensive but you can enjoy a bottle every once in a while. On this weekend is also the Helsinki Beer Festival 2010. Unfortunately I won't be there, have to sort things out before leaving to Mallorca on next Friday. Bye-bye whiskey clinic, maybe I will see you next year!

Tetris

Today I saw some foamy material and had all sorts of ideas what to do with it. First I imagined it would be perfect for blocks which made me think of Tetris and that my boyfriend is a big fan of that game. I made some blocks, attached them on the wall next to his workspace. And since he approved it and didn't tear it down, I guess I can post a picture of the result in here as well!

Mini vacation

Easter really felt like mini vacation. And since it wasn't really sunny either, we just sat at home, watching movies and gaming. Time well spent! But after long time, I finally felt well rested. Usually weekends just fly by so you don't even notice them but this time it really felt like weekend. Though I got really confused about the days, it felt like it was Sunday everyday.

But! I actually did something else than watched TV all the time. I found that my sketchbook cover was a bit too dull so I cut and glued some dull single coloured origami paper on it. The result:



Basically what I did was just cut paper without really thinking what I was doing.

I've also been trying to hunt down a blender, haven't yet found one that's just for me. Oh yeah, and almost finished a pair of wool socks. Spring is coming but there's never too many wool socks.

Pretty thing of the week #1

I have seen this idea in many other blogs too and I just thought its so great I wanted to steal it for myself too (since I cannot come up with anything as unique and cool).


So in this picture is a mouse pad I got as christmas present from my boyfriend. I am a big fan of Disney and I spend most of day at computer so this is probably one of the greatest things I have.

Happy Easter!

Picture is related.

Finished!

Yesterday I got some lovely presents from "mother-in-law"! A nice origami set with new book and equipment (yes I love origami but my boyfriend really doesn't like it when I flood his table with little boxes and cranes). Also a really cute Harley-Davidson purse, can't wait for a reason to use it (should we go to bar later?)! And.. YARNS! Pretty colored yarns! Theres never too many yarns. I especially like the lime colored, it makes great brainslugs.






I also finished something nice, pair of crocheted gloves. I found a pattern for them in a finnish craft magazine - Suuri Käsityö. I used DMC 8 pearl cotton for it. I just bought 40 grams of it, just like the guideline said but apparently I only needed about 25 grams. Well, 15 grams of that yarn to spend on something else. Maybe some small doilys?