Pinteresting

I’m upset! Since my mac did the dance of death, I couldn’t re-colour my Pinteresting-banner! WAAAAH! I have to use an old one! WAAAAAAH! Not to mention, I haven’t been pinning that much since my last post…But there are some goodies there. Let’s start with…

This is the best I can say about the day when my computer went down.

But that’s only because I’ve been taking etiquette lessons. (Saw a cover of one that I liked).

 A good print can save anyone’s day. This cherry pattern is a fantastic new take on a classic. Designer: Georgiana Paraschiv. From black cherries to black dots:

I can’t decide if this is a summer or an autumn look but I love it anyway. It’s fun and young but not so young that I couldn’t wear it. Another matter is could I pull it off with the amount of junk that I have in my trunk. And thighs. Let’s not forget the thighs.

Of course I can always cheer myself up with champagne lollies! Who am I kidding. If I had champagne, I’d drink it. Alone and not sharing.

He would share. He would share anything you have. And the neighbours have. And the neighbours kids have. He’d share anything he sees and thinks is delicious.

I like him already.

Thrifty Finn- Pinning in the library till she gets to do it at home again.

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Good Citizen

Little bit over a month ago I got a fantastic idea to do some volunteering. When Maailma Kylässä /World Village Festival started looking for people, I signed up almost immediately.

Naturally I thought I’d be doing something important and exciting which in my case turned out to be laminating signs. Hundreds of them.

It didn’t look like it would be that much work in the beginning but as they day progressed, I swear I thought I’d never get out of there.

I also thought owning a laminator would be all kinds of fun, you know for crafting, but not so much anymore.

But in the end we were rewarded by sight of a row after a row of new, shiny, signs. That WE MADE! I count this as a craft project. Next step in my volunteer progress is helping to hang up those same signs. Yippee.

Thrifty Finn- Trying to do year’s worth of good deeds in one week.

P.S. Anders is now at the MAC-store getting a replacement hard drive. Only (?) costs 189 euros. Still. Hating Anders for doing that to me.

 

For Crying Out Loud

One of the few remaining pictures that I have left.

Last Friday, the worst thing imaginable happened to me. I knew my luck was running out, that I had to go to someone else for my needs but I kind of had hoped that I’d still have few months of time to get things fixed. But no. Last Friday, I was in the middle of chatting, uploading new selling pictures, listening to music and browsing Netflix when I got it.

Some sparks and then…

The blue screen of death.

My Anders is dead.

Gone.

Goner.

For good.

I still had hope, you know. For two days I managed to tell myself that this is something that I can fix. Or at least I could get someone else to fix. But this morning I received the dreaded message over the phone: “Your hard drive is fried”.

First there was desperation and disbelief which was quickly replaced by hollow feeling in one’s stomach before moving on to accepting that this, in fact, has happened. TO ME!!!

How can I ever get past this? We were together for so long! Since 2006! True, I had to buy more RAM and upgrade the operating system but I could get past all that! I still liked you! You were there when times got tough and you were there when I wanted to blast “Born This Way” as loud as possible and make the neighbours crazy! You are the one who knows all my secrets and internet things!

YOU HAVE MY PHOTOGRAPHS!

How could you do this to me, Anders? How could you? I thought we had a good thing going on! You betrayed me like no one has ever betrayed me before. You knew it and you still went ahead with this! You disgust me.

I’m now going to take your empty hull and replace you with someone else and no, I’m not going to ask them to recover your data. You brought this upon yourself.

Best,

Thrifty Finn or as you know, the Saddo Internet Single.

 

 

 

 

Fabric Friday

This used to be a regular feature here and now I’m bringing it back. Beginning with a peek to my stash of pillowcases:

From 1960′s to 2010.

Pinteresting

 

Have I been pinning or have I been pinning? Seems that every moment for the last week that hasn’t been spent on doing my re-selling thing, has been about Pinterest. I really do have some excellent pins there, even if I say so myself. You really should follow me. Anyhoo, some of my favourites this week were…

Girl, you know it’s true. By Nordic Design Collective.

 Summer is almost here and I’m craving for floral prints. Granted, I’d look like a sofa if I wore this but I like to think that I’d be a pretty sofa. And what you feel inside is what really counts.

 Maybe I’d look less like a cushioned seating and more like a hot single girl about town if I ate  like this. I have pinned lots of interesting foods, cakes and snacks but I’ve never made anything. But honestly, who has? Have you? You’re lying.

Speaking of making…I pinned this on my Sewing-board. It’s a quilted, reversible jacket by french label Isabel Marant Étoile. The price tag of €290 gives a hefty saving if you make one yourself. Technically, this jacket doesn’t seem too tricky plus you can leave the pockets out. Only difficult thing I can see happening is that if you use too much batting, the armhole might get too tight and/or bulky. And last but not least…

 Now that’s the man I want and need.

Thrifty Finn- born to pin.