The Horrors of the Past

Yep here's just some pictures from Halloweens from the past, brings back great memories. Great decorations, good food and awesome friends. Thats all you need for a good Halloween party. Oh yeah maybe a good horror movie as well or maybe a bad one that you can laugh to.

Made the tablecloth myself and also the tombstones. Doing it yourself is always more fun than just buying stuff. I made my friend a tombstone birthday card, too bad her dad didn't really like it.

The Things That Can Fly

My sister living in Helsinki found this one party store, from where you can easily get helium balloons. Actually the store is in Espoo and they have all kinds of things to decorate your party of choice. For me it's Halloween things that pull me to this store. If you are interested in the store in questions then visit their website. So this one year I got myself a few balloons for Halloween and here they are:

 Quite a traditional balloon style, not too scary with spiders in the colors of Halloween.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

So this one year while getting ready for Halloween I had all my decorations spread out in my room and suddenly I threw the spider web me and my friend made on top of this lap and also added a spider and the cauldron  I have to say it's quite a good look and another idea for what to do for Halloween. Though I don't suggest to leave this scene with the light on, it is a fire danger.

In the picture you can also see the light that I won when I was a child. Then a fan and a mask I bought from Venice a past summer. They create quite a dramatic scene.

Terrific Nails

Yep, so today was my first attempt to do some proper Halloween inspired nails. I finally busted out my new set of OPI nail polishes and tadaa see what I can do. Well yeah its a bit lame but it's a first try and hey it's personal. Not everyone can have these nails. OOOH how I miss my long long nails, now only one remains of all of them being that long. I did have long was for quite a long time at one point, dunno how I did it but I miss them so.

Jack-O-Lantern

The most effective part of Halloween decoration is using the effect of light and dark. So not using any normal lights but just candles already give you a eerie feel without the need for decorations. Though for Halloween a Jack-o-lantern styled candle holder is quite effective as seen in the picture. Also more about the white fabric seen in the picture, it's a easy thing to make and also quite effective. Hope everyone is getting in the Halloween feeling.

Halloween is a Coming

So from today until the actual Halloween day I'm gonna post everyday something related to Halloween. Mostly just show some old decorations I have done in the past and then some new ideas I have come up with. So at the moment my Halloween stock here in Canada is a bit small, but that's the life of a exchange student. Though I got myself a spider web to put up, let's see how it looks once I get it done.

Yep, so this was the short intro. More Halloween to come, with lots of cool pictures etc etc.

Montreal Crew

So just adding some pictures of the girls I was with in Montreal they really are what keeps me going here in Guelph. The nicest group of girls I have ever know.

Montreal the Rainy Part

So here we go with the second part of the Montreal trip. We went to walk around in a cute little park on a rainy day. So we were cold but hey at least we saw something new. 

Montreal

So this one weekend I went on a trip to Montreal with Commerce group of people, which was a bad idea but at least I went there with friends so it wasn't that bad. It just rained all the time and was cold. Oh and it was somewhat strange to be in Canada but in a part that mainly just speaks French. So surreal to me, but cool felt like I was in Europe at times. So here are some pictures of it:

Worst Day Ever Feeling

You know those days that just won't go your way? or maybe it can stretch out the be as long as a week of just plain old sucky stuff. Well that was my today. Well it was my last week as well. I bet if the weather was more sunny, I'd be feeling a little better though..

the phone that caused me so much trouble, big bill and small message memory

Social Responsibility

I'm not sure what to write lately, seems it's the writers block still keeping my creative flow at a minimum. If I ever had such a thing. Lately I've been thinking of things that are related to my course of Corporate Social Responsibility. The course is quite a eye opener though the questions covered in it are the ones we all have been asking: how to get rid of poverty, human rights and environmental issues to name a few. It makes you wonder, there issues have been around for a long time yet no answer has been found. Maybe the answer is already there, there is just no one to take action.

Universal Fall

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, and as we can see Fall has universally the same features. Warm colors combined with cold weather.

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." - Aristotle

Leaves Growing Old

The fall colors just keep my speechless, but that I will say fall in Canada is much more sunnier than I ever expected. Much better than a dark Finnish fall.

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." - John Burroughs

Something in Nothing

It's always interesting to take pictures, sometimes a random picture turns out to be very interesting. Like the picture above, wonder what was happening in the picture?

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

Movie Like Fog

There is this eerie feel of the fog that you can see during the night and morning times. It reminds me of those old Hollywood movies. Perfectly horrible.

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." - Henri Matisse

The End of an Era

So yeah should be reading for my mid-term tomorrow but have a huge headache and also found the shocking news that Steve Jobs has passed away. It's still quite unbelievable to me, he is one of my idols as I love all products that he has brought with his visionary ways of doing business. The world and Apple will not be the same without him.

Lingering Fall

Sometimes fall comes and goes before you even notice and sometimes it lingers on for you to enjoy.

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn." - Elizabeth Lawrence

Blank Mind, No Clouds in Sight

Third post and still a blank mind. I started to ponder why could that be. Would it be that well-know writers block? Well I'm not a writer not in any sense. Could it be that I'm just out of ideas? No, there are quite a few boiling up in my head. After this pondering I came to the conclusion that I'm just too stressed about being behind readings so I can't concentrate on anything else. So time to hit the books.

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books." - Albert Camus

Toronto - Chinatown

So one Saturday day I spent in Toronto. Actually in Chinatown and the area around it, but also in Eaton center. Really wanna visit Eaton center again, need to do some more shopping. VS was neglected on this particular day. Oops, not the best in time management. I should really learn to organize my time better.

I kept waiting for this kind of welcome the whole time, and found it before I left :)

Losing Faith

My minds drawing a blank yet again, but hey I got stuck on this good song.

"So I stood by the road, waiting for you to come and take me home." - Dave Gibson

Soundtrack of My Life Lately

So just thought to post some songs that I've been listening to lately, just to air out my soundtrack of late. Some of them are oldies and some are new arrivals to me.

This song has been playing everywhere and it always makes me feel good. Makes me wanna dance, sadly I won't get the chance here in Canada.

White and Red

Sometimes a picture says more than words can explain or I'm just too blank to come up with anything for this post.

Downtown Guelph

So living in Guelph, it would have been a shame to have never visited the downtown area. It wasn't quite what I expected, but still nice in its own way.

I Miss Summer

Though I'm not one of the people that actually misses summer or the heat of summer, but I miss how nature is during summer and the combination of the sun and the blue sky. All the vivid colors of summer. Also I miss the Finnish fall, somehow the colors are much more vivid there than here in Canada. Maybe the true fall hasn't yet started here, but I'm still waiting to see the famous Maples in red and yellow colors. Now all I see is something like brown and dead.

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven." - Tryon Edwards