03/04/2012

Construction Site Pizza

Giulia, Luca and Margherita hadn't still seen Fra's apartment so they, Fabio and Marco came over for a Sunday lunch.


I made the table colorful with contrasts to make the half painted- cardboard boxed house look more cute :)


Empty seat is mine, my pizza: Gorgonzola, Tonno, Capperi
Margherita: Tonno, Cipolla
Luca: Parmiggiano, Pomodori freschi
Giulia: Mozzarella di Bufala
Marco, Fra: Salsiccia
Fabio: Prosciutto, Funghi

Milo


Between all the shopping and motorbike driving we spent the whole day with Milo. There is nothing cuter than a 2 year old running towards you with his hands open, ready for a hug and yelling "saaaadddraaaa!" :)


...we went to greet all the neighbor's dogs, Milo explained in detail to Fra how a motorbike works...


... and just had a great time :)


..and before we knew it,  it was evening and time to pack us into a car and go to have some dinner with Army, Nadra, Noemi and Davide.






02/04/2012

1/2 day of shopping, 1/2 day motorbike trip, that was the deal.


I got a ride from my colleague Marco to Milan on Friday. On Saturday morning I went to mercato, the morning market. There was a lot of nice things for spring + summer but I just bought a colorful scarf.

 

I had Fra as my company and we walked along my favorite streets. It was so hot! Like 30 degrees celsius! 


 


As we had a deal of half a day of shopping and half a day of motorbike trip we went back home to get our Bandit and made a nice trip between Como, Lecco and Bellagio.



The night was then spent with Ila, Giacomo, Ilaria, Roberta, Alessandro, Marta and Michele...

Hello again,

I have been a bit busy. Last week I flew to Austria on Wednesday. We had a work related meeting there for two days. I like those meetings because there is the possibility to meet all the other guys who work for the same company, with the same tasks but in different countries.

Those 2 days were hectic, but not so hectic that I wouldn't have had time to wear some clothes and stand in front of a mirror in those clothes and photograph them :)
boots: clark's
jeans: h&m
tights: åhlens
dress: gwyneth paltrow for lindex
tunic: asos
jacket: gwyneth paltrow for lindex
jewellery: gifts from fra
scarf1: 2nd hand
scarf2: gina tricot

26/03/2012

Färggrannt mellanmål

Igår körde jag till Falun på kvällen eftersom idag på förmiddagen höll jag där ett föredrag. Föredraget var på ett Scandic hotells konferensrum och i rummen fanns det en massa Jamie Oliver grejer, som till exempel dessa energistängerna med roliga paket :)

24/03/2012

10 things that makes me happy

this is a story about the 10 things that first comes into my mind besides the obvious like love, family and friends.



to find old furniture on flea markets
i love old furniture and even more when i find a piece that looks abandoned, lonely and dirty but i know that i can save it and make it look really good.

that table is an excellent example.i luuuuuuv it. i wonder for how long time my mum will keep it before i can inherit it...



when a photograph turns out to be great
i have many visions on how i want some certain pictures to turn out but i am still not good enough to adjust the exposure and the lens aperture to easily get what i want... however, even if it is after many tries, i get really happy when a picture turns out to be what i saw in my head :)


a soap bubble in barcelona- a picture where i wanted to get the transparency and the form of the soap bubble caught on film and i feel i got it to look like it looked in my head :)




nature
i know i sound a bit hippyish now, but i am truly happy when i feel the nature surrounding me, like listening to a calm sea, walking in the forest while picking mushrooms or experiencing some natural phenomena.


pouring out dried lava from my shoe on Etna, not many months before she erupted again.




museum shops

i know this is very much becky brandon nee bloomwood but i really love all museum shops. the best one so far has been the bauhaus museum in berlin. but i have to say that Kkasma in helsinki isn't bad either.


outside the bauhaus museum shop in berlin



to be spontaneous

we just talked about this with jenni in dornbirn. how much we love the south european style, where you can just pick up your phone, call someone and do something spontaneously. in finland we were both too used to plan weeks and weeks in advance with our calenders on when and where and for how long time we can meet our friends.


one evening i said to fra "can we go to monaco? i have never been there and i wanna see if it is as posh as they say" and the next morning we drove there. here we eat lunch in the car :) but that was a great trip that continued for a few more days in nice and the best thing was that it was so spontaneously done.



good movie kisses
i could watch them over and over and over again.

Dear John has a great kissing scene.


stars in corsica
this is one of the greatest experiences of my life. giovanni, sonia, fra and i were on a very low-budjet trip last summer. we packed tents and swimming suits on our motorbikes and drove around corsica. one afternoon one of the guys remembered that it was the evening of the falling stars. so we bought good wine, bread, tons of goat cheese and fig marmalade and went to an abandoned castle, ate, lied down next to each other on our backs and saw several falling stars :)


can you see those shadows of people in the right corner? anyway, that's were we were.




rockstar diaries
my all time favorite blog. it just makes me every day so happy.

i know it is a bit creepy- that people who blog "know each other" through internet, but this is 2012 and i get really happy reading about this supercute family, especially the stories about their dog :)




feeling inspired
my job is really technical and i very often miss the more creative part. i used to write novels and letters and stories every day. i used to knit and sew. i painted the walls in my childhood room like all the time. now i have these cravings for that feeling to be inspired and just make things! haha, time to get a hobby? :)


I made this top years ago just because I felt really inspired of the sentence "money can't buy happiness but it can buy marshmallows" :)



morning coffee in bed.
it simply just makes me very very very happy.  


half a cup of espresso, half a cup of steamy milk and a tea spoon of honey, that's my morning coffee like :)

22/03/2012

Moi Jenni. Täällä Saara.


Jenni kyseli miksi en bloggaa niin kerron nyt sitten Jennille kuulumisia :) Olin muutaman päivän poissa, kun käväsin Dornbirnissa työmatkalla. Töissä on muutaman viikon ajan superhektinen kausi. Kävin tänään töiden jälkeen kolmatta kertaa naprapaatilla ja selkä on kuin mustelmilla. Toivon selkä- ja niskavammojen nyt vähentyvän kun juuri tänään sain uuden sängyn. Kokosin sen juuri ja tänä yönä nukun siinä ensimmäistä kertaa. Oikein arjen luksusta- uusi sänky ja puhtaat ja tuoksuvat  lakanat.

Kuulin myös äidiltäni Lindexin mallistosta ja käväsin kotimatkalla sovittamassa Gwynethin suunnittelemia vaatteita. Olisin voinut ostaa lähes kaikki, tosin ostin vain keskimmäisen jakun ja raidallisen mekon. Tarvitsen tulevia Frankfurtin isoja messuja varten paljon mekkoja ja jakkuja joten tulivat tarpeeseen :)

Niin Jenni, tällaista täälläpäin.

17/03/2012

Lördagsmorgon


När jag vaknade denna lugna och mulna lördagsmorgon var mina första tankar "vad är det för dag? vad är klockan? var skall jag vara och när?" som nästan varje morgon. Jag har en tendens av att sätta hjärnan och spinna för fullt vid samma stund som jag öppnar ögonen. Men när jag fick för mig att det är lördag och jag har ingenting planerat blev jag väldigt road.

Man brukar ju tycka att mulet väder är tråkigt men det passade också perfekt för mig idag. Eftersom om solen skulle ha lyst skulle jag definitivt ha gått på en lång power walk och njutit av att vara ute.

Istället har jag tagit det lugnt :)

Jag har nämligen gjort sådant som jag annars inte hittar tid för. Som att kräma in kroppen med body lotion. Det tar ju alltid evigheter att sugas in i huden ! Jag har tittat på Americas Next Top Model Season 18 (Jättebra season! Hälften är amerikanare, hälften britter! De har bland annat gjort sina egna photoshoots från början till slut!), storstädat och haft en kaffestund.

Ja, jag har kokat kaffe och njutit av mitt kaffe med två chokladkex (ja kära Sverige, kex inte kakor) och bara mysat i min städade, fräsha bostad.

Men nog med det. Eftersom jag är en människa som inte har tid att vänta på att en kräm skall torka utan vill ha liv & lust skall jag nu ut på stan, till frissan och så måste jag köpa ett nyt minneskort till min Nikon så att jag äntligen kan börja fotografera!

Underbart veckoslut!

16/03/2012

Easy-A

Easy A

Easy A is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. I have actually seen it twice this week, because I thought it was so hilarious. I have no idea if that is related to the fact that I have been a patient or is it really that funny :) but I love it. Other good chick flicks I have seen lately:
  • From Prada to Nada
  • What's Your Number?
  • Friends with Benefits
Okay, say no more. I can see a pattern here.

 What's Your Number?

From Prada to Nada

Friends with Benefits


12/03/2012

Mjuk soppa


Soppa på purjolök, potatis och jordärtskocka.
Kokat och bamixat, tillsatt lite mjölk och salt.
Serverat med creme fraiche och basilika.

Som ni ser så fösöker jag mitt bästa med att inte bli deppig på grund av mina styngd i munnen :)