//  4.5.2013




   I picked a tiny spring bouquet from the forest, this year's first one. I also made a little holder or so for it from birch branches. It's so lovely to see how          everything's bursting with life again after the snowy times.

   //  4.5.2013










   Here are the last of my Italy pictures. So many good memories and places in them. Getting lost in sunny Venice, spooky church full of skulls and bones,        streets of Milan, art happenings, rooftop of Duomo and the last view of the Alps from the plane on the way back to Finland.

   //  27.4.2013





   Between all the Italy pictures I want to show you what I've been doing today...

   In the beginning of this year I had a great chance to take part on a ceramics course. It's finished now and here are the results. A set of six bowls in two        different colours. I'm pretty happy with them since I was a first timer with the casting technique. Today I had a little photo shoot and tested them out.        What a great feeling to use something you've made yourself!

   //  25.4.2013





   What's typically Italian? With that thought I headed to the local shop and wandered between the shelves for quite a while. It's one of my favorite things        abroad to visit the food stores. If I could I would have brought the whole vegetable section with me. Fresh and so inspiring! But 'cause I couldn't, I chose      olive oil, pecorino cheese, coffee, pink newspaper and (of course) chocolate in my basket. I especially love the colour of the newspaper, I could almost          frame it.

   //  23.4.2013







   Venice pt3.

   //  23.4.2013







   Venice pt2. I let the pictures do the talking.

   //  20.4.2013








   Everybody should get there once, to the magic city of Venice. Colours, time and sounds seemed different there. History was all around. It left me feeling      curious. A few hours weren't enough there. I'd like to sense Venice late at night and first thing in the morning.

   //  15.04.2013









   Ciao from Italy! It was my first time there and I think I will return one day. We stayed in busy Milan and got a full effect of the design week events. There    was so much to see and experience that it left me feeling a bit buzzy. Although churches, which seemed to be around every corner, offered a needed            chance for a break between walking, walking and walking. Have you ever been in Milan?

   //  26.3.2013


   Sun has been out a lot lately and I love it! I was born in April, so spring is definitely my season. One early morning I came by a group of birds chirping          away at the top of a tree. You should have seen the smile on my face! I only wish I could have stayed there for a while longer...

   //  16.3.2013




   I found echoes from last summer, a bunch of dried beauties. I remember picking them one bright morning and setting the table for a summer brunch.          Here they are now waiting for the warmth again.