15/08/2010

Bröllop

Jag flög till Finland på fredagen efter jobbet för att kunna delta i min kära kusin Idas bröllop. Bröllopet var sött med vigsel i Borgå domkyrka (som är ju så vacker!) och fest efteråt i Vessö. Festen gick i traditionell anda med mat, lekar, vals och bröllopstårta. Det var roligt att se alla släktingar och vädret var på vår sida!
På grund av vädret kunde jag inte klä mig som jag hade tänkt mig och fick skrapa ihop en outfit... det blev skor från en boutique i Milano, H&M's reaklänning och röda söta små smycken. Mamma var riktigt lady med hatt på i kyrkan och en söt spetsklänning.

Här är släktens kvinnor representerade. Idas mamma Stina och Solveig är mina mostrar. Solveig är förrästen underbar (de andra kvinnorna på bilden naturligtvis också) men Solveig får ett speciellt nämnande eftersom hon läser den här bloggen mest av alla :) Solveig är en kvinna som sätter fart på festerna, gör alla tillställningar urkula och är den sötaste och snällaste människan på jorden.

Kram till Solveig!

12/08/2010

About me.

Kristy tagged me to answer some questions…

  1. Name a movie you could have memorized almost line by line.

Actually, I have a bad habit of learning almost any movie line by line and I amuse myself by watching them again and saying out loud the lines before the actors and then I get happy when I get every single word correct. Yes, I sound like a total freak :) (and I guess quite many people have my lovely hobby as a point in the last question…) But I have to also say Jerry Maguire, cause Kristy said it and after that I can hear in my head “You complete me”, “You had me at hello” and… “Show me the money! Show me the money!  Do you love this black man!  I love the black man! Show me the money! I love black people. I love black people! Who's your motherfucker, Jerry? You're my motherfucker! Whatcha gonna do, Jerry? Show me the moneyyyyyyyy!”

Something that I am a real expert in is TV-series. Sex and the City, that one is my speciality :)

  1. Do you believe in love at first sight?

I believe in interest, crush, admiration, fascination at first sight but I feel that love is so much more that you cannot feel it just by looking at someone, it involves so much more than just chemistry.

  1. Name three possessions you couldn't stand to lose if you were robbed.

I can’t think of anything.

  1. If you had to eat only one dish for every meal in a week what would it be?

First I was going to say chocolate cake, then I thought of a special cheese pasta that you can eat in this cute little restaurant in Italy but I thought these two are too heavy, which made me think that I can’t eat so much of them and therefore get tired of them and as they are my favourite meals I don’t want to lose them and I pick something more light :) See, I put a lot of thought in this :) I would eat fresh tuna fillet fried on both sides for 1.5 minutes, with garlic, olive oil and lemon on top, with potatoes that are fried with sesame seeds and a fresh salad with a drop of balsamico and a tasteful white wine.

  1. What was the worst book you couldn't put down?

Men who hates women. It was so good and I so had to read it and I liked it a lot and at the same time I felt that the things that happened in the plot were too disgusting, sick and terrible and they made me angry, scared and noxious. 

  1. Which foreign language (that is not English) do you find the sexiest?

Italian, spoken with a soft, dark, manly voice with hard and well pronounced consonants. Think an Italian man whispering “la passione per l’espresso”, pronouncing every consonant hardly and the vocals smoothly. Uh, my stomach just flipped :)

  1. Who was the last person you wrote a letter to and when?

I wrote a love letter to Fra <3

  1. What is something bad or annoying that you wish people in general would stop doing all together?
  • Using imperative mood while talking. The world would be a much better place if people learned to ask nicely, using please, thank you and the conditional mood.
  • I would love it, if people would wait outside a bus/subway/train door for people to come out before trying to get in.
  • When someone asks a question and doesn’t listen to the answer or have a conversation with someone and notice that the other person is focusing on something else than listening. 
  • Drumming on the table with fingers.
  • Smoking.
  • When bloggers write that they don’t want to continue blogging because sharing with everybody about themselves causes anxiety. Excuse me, what is the purpose of having a blog then? For who does this people blog? Or didn*t they know that the stuff they share is readable? This confuses me a lot.

11/08/2010

Mielikuvituksella Shabby Chiciä


Uudella asuinseudullani on yksi ominaisuus, josta pidän kovasti: Huonekalukirppikset. Antiikkihallit. Vanhan puutavaran myyntikeskukset. Ainoa huono puoli niissä on se, että ne ovat auki viikolla työaikaan ja lauantaisin vain aamuisin. Viime lauantaina oli kuitenkin aikaa käydä kiertelemässä ja pidin näkemästäni :) Monet keskuskset ostavat halvalla käytettyjä huonekaluja, kuolinpesiä ja vastaanottavat lahjoitettuja tavaroitaja myyvät niitä pois, tosin ei aina kalliilla hinnalla. Hinnat ovat aina keskusteltavissa. Kaikissa paikoissa, joissa itse kävin huonekaluja myös muokataan, sahataan, ruuvaillaan, timpuroidaan mielen mukaisiksi. Täällä vuoristoseudulla kun asuukin monta timpuria ovat vanhat puuhuonekalut yleensä aika kivoja, uniikkeja ja kauniita yksilöitä. Kaikkea muutakin löytyy! Sisustuksessa vain siis mielikuvitus on rajana! Itse ajattelin ostaa ruokapöytääni vanhoja puutuoleja, jotta kaikki tuolit olisivat hieman erilaisia ja maalata kaikki valkoisiksi. Viime lauantaina yksi tuoli pääsi matkaan mukaan, se tosin oli jo valkoinen. Nyt täytyy siis odottaa seuraavaa palkkapäivää ja lähteä taas rojuostoksille :)

Hihi, tänään kun palasin töistä minua odotti tällainen lattialla:
Fra on ihana :) Sanoin hänelle, että haluaisin puuta, että voisin rakentaa pöydän ja maalata sen valkoiseksi ja kappas, Fra oli hankkinut tavarat ja lajitellut ne lattialle odottamaan mun hyväksyntää :)


10/08/2010

Thoughts about interior





May I present my apartment.
This is my “wintergarten”. A small room with a good view. I am planning to have there a nice sofa, which can be made to a bed, whenever I have guests. When I don’t have visitors I can sit and read on the sofa enjoy. So I also want some big lanterns on the floor and the whole mood to be very relaxed. I guess the colours will be very warm and soft. Something in this style:
My bedroom looks like the wintergarten, it has the same tiles and white walls. The style of the bedroom will be a bit shabby chic and the colours very fresh. I have noticed that I sleep best in an environment with light blues, white and beige colours. This room will have a bed, wardrobes where I can hang (I really want to hang as much as possible) the clothes and a big mirror. I want it to consist of only a few things, so that it always looks tidy and that it feels fresh and comfortable. Something like this maybe:
This is my living room/ dining room and kitchen area:
I want to separate by mood and colour the living room area from the food area. The kitchen, the dining table and the chairs will be wooden and white. I want them to be re-paintable, in case I will get tired of white. Otherwise I want to mix the white wood with colorful textiles in red and turquoise. The living room will not have sofas, but divans. The colours in beige and brown. I will also have a book shell in this area:
I want to built something like this to have in the middle of the kitchen, as a separate table

In the kitchen I want to have a dining table that I want to build by myself (maybe with some manly help..) and I want to buy a bunch of old wooden chairs and paint them white. I want to sew some colorful pillows to sit on and I want to make the table with colorful china.


My bathroom looks like this:
and it will be very golden in a Greek goddess, Versace kind of way...

And the toilet. No idea. It’ so small. It will be as empty as possible:

Then there is still the garden...
My garden will get some trees, bushes and flowers, a table, chairs and a barbecue, the whole show, but I think that will be a project after the winter, as I guess I need to put my money first on the most relevant things. 

08/08/2010

What Austria has to offer


Nu när jag fått min bostad och arbetet har börjat rulla på och alla stora grejer- som man måste ta till beaktan när man flyttar till ett nytt land- är avklarade har jag bestämt mig för att jag vill börja med nya hobbyn. Pröva lite på vad Österrike har att bjuda på. Jag googlade och läste och kom fram till att då jag inte är ett dugg musikalisk skall jag pröva på mera sportiga intressen. Jag blev här i veckan medlem på ett gym och gjorde upp ett träningsprogram med en personal trainer och idag har jag klättrat för första gången! Alla i Österrike bergsklättrar. Alla, känns det som. Idag var Fra och jag då i klättringshallen på första kursen. Vi lärde oss hurdana skor vi skall ha, hurdana rep och hurdana knutar vi skall göra. Vi lärde oss olika tekniker på att hålla i oss i väggen och resten av tiden klättrade vi upp för olika svåra väggar i 3-mans grupper. Jag blev alldeles förtjust och hoppas att detta skall bli en trevlig hobby! Däremot anser jag att klättring är definitivt ett par-hobby, inte något man gör bara med vem som helst. Man måste kunna lita på den som står nere och håller i repen. Men roligt var det och nästa kurs är snart bokad! efter att vi gjort certifikatet, kan vi sedan klättra utan en övervakare.

I have started to get my life on track here, pretty much at least. All the basic things have been taken care of and now it's time to start to have fun and enjoy what this country has to offer! I googled a bit and searched for different activities. So... today Fra and I attended a climbing course! We went to the beginner's day at the climbing hall and learned how to make all the knots, what kinds of ropes and shoes and other equipment to use, good climbing techniques, how to rest in the air etc... It was a lot of fun and I was quite proud of myself :) I also noticed that climbing is definitely a sport to do with a partner you trust and not just with a random guy. Fra and I are already looking after the next course to attend! We want to get a certificate to be able to train by ourselves. It was so much fun!   

04/08/2010

The weekend part 3/3

When I moved to Austria, the company that I work for promised to provide accommodation for a month in a hotel. During that month I went to check out apartments daily. When I found the right one, I rented it immediately. I was the first one to see it and I didn't give a change to anyone else to visit it, so fast was I :) So, last weekend I moved all my stuff to the big and empty place.

I noticed after I had unpacked everything that I didn't have any glasses nor plates. So the trip to IKEA begun and home I came, with white and turquoise glasses to drink from and 6 big vine glasses. I only bought 2 black plates cause the rest I want in colour from Zara Home :)
White glasses from IKEA.

Dagens Outfit

Hej och hoj! Nu skall jag iväg till jobbet och vara riktigt duktig och efter arbetsdagen skall jag besöka gymet för att träffa en personal trainer och göra upp ett träningsprogram. Ha en bra dag allihopa!
Ballerinor: Lolita, Milano
Jeans: Vero Moda
Tunika: H&M
Tröja: Mango
Scarf: Stockmann
Vit träningskass: Easpack

03/08/2010

Dagens Outfit

Skor: Från en skobutik på Via Rembrant i Milano
Jeans: Vero Moda
Topp: Indiska
Tröja: Zara
Scarf: från en marknad

The weekend part 2/3

It is always possible to find some nice program in this area. There is every weekend some kind of concert or festival in one of the small cities nearby. Last weekend there was a “Street Artist Festival” in Feldkirch. We drove there to have a walk around the festival area, to have a drink and later to eat dinner. It was fun :)

The weekend part 1/3

Fra and I had a great time in the mountains yesterday! We decided to take with us the walking map, walk to our first destinations and decide then where to go from there. We decided on many destinations and all-in-all spent 3 hours hiking. It was a perfect weather and we felt really happy out in the nature. The hiking trip started by the waterfalls, continuing through se dark tunnels inside the mountains to the forest. In the forest we had at some point to really climb, to get up and on the top we found a perfect place where to eat our packed lunch. From that place you could see to Germany! On the walk down we saw a bunch of lambs :) It was great!