Shades of White

Happy Midsummer! So wow where have the days gone? Time just speeds on by and I don't even notice. In a way I don't mind but also I just want to enjoy all the little things. In a way I have had plenty of time to read blogs and intake inspiration but have limited time to actually to create. It really makes me sad but I guess it's just about time management. It's the battle between the me I used to be and the me I am today. I'm still learning and hopefully I can keep learning all my life.

This has been an interesting post to write, I have been writing it during three different times so what I want to tell has changed several times. We changed our car and I had my bachelorette party, but now all I can think about is midsummer and sauna.

Anyway we had to change our car to a bigger one. It was much more emotional than I was ready for, even though I have been preparing for this for a year.. I had eight great years with my little car so its no wonder, but I suspect that if I had kept it longer it would have broken down on me. Its not really realistic to fit into a two door car with three people. So now I have a shiny white car in the yard, I hate white in cars but I guess I will just learn to love it. I hadn't even realized how old my car was until I saw all the new cool tech in this newest version. I'm just in aww over it, and I think the color is even growing on me. There are also posts about the wedding coming up, hopefully before the actual wedding day.. Yaay it's so close, finally!

I'm so in love with this lace shirt from Bik Bok but it seems to make me look so big, white has this effect on me. Also notice my absolutely clean hair, haha I wanted to take these pics coz I had my super nice wedding trial makeup on but didn't have time to wash my hair before. I also can't believe how much tiny new hair I have coming out in the front, some people say this is some kind of breastfeeding effect? Dunno but its bothering me, can't wear my hair on the side anymore :D 

The School Bus

It was the 4th of July that we went with some friends to a cool hamburger place here in L-town, which means I'm a super slow poster... Anyways we had some burgers and enjoyed some live entertainment. As it was still early July the jasmine bush in the yard was still blooming and the fragrance was so wonderful. Its just one of those things I will definitely miss during the winter. After having about 30 plus days of staggering heat, I'm pretty much ready for fall and some cooler weather. I have always been more of a winter person anyway. I don't complain about the cold and dark, I just love it. The dark gives me the perfect reason to have tons of candles and twinkle lights all around. Though there are things of summer I will miss; like swimming, strawberries and blueberries, jasmine flowers and all other flowers, the sun and so on... But feeling sweaty I will never miss, haha.

Share a Coke with..... ME!

I cannot believe its already the last day of July! Time flies so fast and I have been such a lazy blogger. To be fair though I have been cleaning up my childhood closet and going through my old clothes, toys and so on. This task has taken me longer than I expected as I thought I would have done it in a week, its taken me months, but then again I'm easily distracted to other more interesting things. For example laying around in the sun, watching horror movies, playing with my iPad and celebrating my birthday. Also I have to say this latest heatwave has totally stripped me of any energy I might have, all I could do was just lay around in my air-conditioned room or in a lake. Oh and yes I was late at the swimming thing as well as I just went swimming last weekend during my birthday celebration. Better late than never, right? Cleaning out a closet sounds easy in theory but then when you start to reminisce on all the things passed and try to decide what memories and things are worth keeping around, well it takes time. I've finally sorted through the majority of clothing and packed them away neatly in size order for future generations to sort through. Now all I need to do is figure out all the other toys, books etc stuff.. I feel tired just writing about it.

So basically the point of this post is to display some nice pictures of my Birthday and promise to post more soon, as for once I have a million pictures ready for posting just all I need is to sit down and edit them and also come up with something clever to say. So I'll try to work on that as well as my closet cleaning project ASAP. In the mean while enjoy the lovely summer cabin pictures, the Coke bottle with my surname(that I cleverly edited out, muhahhaha) and the delicious mud-cake!

The night when the sun shines

Can't believe its already Juhannus, time keeps flying by.. It really seems that the older one gets the quicker time seems to move.. While as a child the school year always seemed so long and summer short. I'm so excited to see Panda after such a long time, two more nights to sleep alone and he will be back. Yaay. Dunno if I can sleep at all, I'm too excited. I'm posting random shots from May when the cherry and apple tree's were blooming and we had some heat waves in Finland. I got this really nice long striped dress from Taiwan but for some reason in every pic it makes me look huge.. haha I'm not photogenic anyway but this dress doesn't help.. But its super comfortable to wear during hot hot days. I'm also a tad lazy so I added another outfit pic so you get two for the price of one :)

Its also a very important holiday here, Juhannus.. Lots of people vacate to summer cabins to enjoy food, sauna and drinking.. For my family it really never was that big of a deal, not like Christmas. Usually we just go to our summer cabin, warm up the sauna and swim, read books and fill up crossword puzzles, eat a lot especially grilled food. Most times we do the huge bonfire thing, but this year we skipped it as it was a bit rainy.. I can't explain how much this year I enjoyed being near the lake and the process of warming up the sauna. The smell of the birch wood burning, the fresh smell after a little rain, neighbor children playing in the lake and me enjoying a long awaited book. It was just such an idyllic moment, I felt so relaxed and happy. Even the mosquitoes didn't bother me.

Now I'm enjoying the quite calm of the bright night. My mother is listening to some folkish Finnish music that makes me feel nostalgic of past Juhannus nights. Though it hasn't been a super special day, its been very enjoyable and relaxing. I hope there will be more days like this once Panda is back from Taiwan. So I leave you guys with some shoes and more pictures of blossoms. Enjoy your midsummers endless night! :)

August, where did you go?

Wooahh, its already the end of August. Where did the time fly? Well sure a lot has happened, like I'm back at work, Panda can drive and dancing began again.. I just looked at all the pictures I have to post and I feel sad, I had such big plans to post all the outfits during summer. Well its still summer in my mind and its been nice warm these past few days.

 Ooh how I really miss all the pretty flowers, though there are still a lot of them outside. I just happened to kill all of my balcony flowers, though it might be that they lived for their time that they should have. Oh well I don't make sense anymore, gonna go to sleep :)

Pink Hydrangeas

The days of summer: filled with flowers and bees, soap bubbles and yard games... all fun activities we wish could last forever. Cakes of strawberry and vegetables from your own garden, please say it won't end?? Too bad its already the end of July and most of August I'll be spending in an office. Oh the torment. Well at least there are still some days of summer left and my birthday to look forward to..

All things green...

Just a little quick post of pictures that I wanted to share. Actually I wanted to share the lace dress with the mint shirt picture but my face was a disaster so you will have to enjoy this mini collage of pictures with flowers relating to the wonderful outfit of mine. Have a great minty green day!

White Day

White white white, the things that are white. Like these lovely Paeonia flowers and my t-shirt. Paeonia flowers are somehow really romantic on their own, I guess thats why they are a favorite for wedding flowers. That is how it would seem if you take a look at wedding pins on Pinterest. It would seem that things I would like to say and things I start writing are completely different. Like all good ideas of things to type or at least things with content and meaning are quite lacking once I'm facing my computer and about to post. Perhaps its the time that I post, often just before going to bed or eating. I should indeed try to post at different times, I wonder what I might write if I were to post first thing in the morning? Or say after a good meal... I should try, someday. To this point I must say I adore this shirt, its so comfy and soft, though because of its color I tend to save it so that I won't get it dirty, which just means I rarely wear it. Such a shame.

Whats up with me, when I'm put in front of the camera? It really seems an impossible task to conjure up a good pose. Panda stated that you are the one reading all those blogs, think of what they do. Thinking and acting are two different things. I also feel that maybe those poses just don't work out for me necessarily. I would rather post pictures that were taken without thought, purely good pictures taken at the right moment. Those pictures have a sort of soul to them. Its like taking a basic tourist picture and accidentally capturing a great picture of someone that stumbled into your frame. Its natural.

Strawberries

Strawberry cake and Anemone nemorosa for mom, even if mothers day was a long time ago :)

Summer is here

I just love summer and flowers, they just make everything seem so much more hopeful. Though right now our apartment seems like a sauna and its really hard to sleep. I guess we should get a fan of some kind to cool down the nights. Apparently the only time I find to post is when I'm sick since I've been sleeping the whole day and now when I should go to sleep I'm too awake. Anyway time to go try to sleep a bit before tomorrow.