Pinteresting

Thursday is a pin day! Although I’m still keeping my eyes open for more Marimekko-news, I wanted to share some of my newest pins.

Vivienne Westwood portrait by photographer Platon. From my board “Females Interesting”. Because she is. Side note: I love the Elizabethan jewellery.

From glamour to more rustic. City of Honfleur, Normandy, France. I can practically smell the sea air, taste the mussels and oysters and drink the wine…Can you tell I miss France? (Or the wine. Same difference). Speaking of wine…

Over the years (ahem) I’ve amassed quite a collection of wine corks. I’ve often thought about crafting with them and I think I’ve finally found a winner. I could do miniature portraits of my friends! And they’d become a huge hit and I would have to drink more wine to keep up with the demand!

 During summer (or any season really) Finns get really big on crepes or pancakes or whatever you like to call those thin slices of deliciousness. When I saw this cake, I thought immediately what a nice change this would  be to a typical Finnish summer party offerings. There’s almost always strawberry cake and this is a nice twist to it. Strawberries aren’t in the season yet but I guess I can wait few weeks for this treat. (I’m heavily assuming that I will be able to get someone else to make this. I’m an eater not an egg beater. Get it?) Oh and this is called Mille Crepes. How appropriate!

My favourite section…Patterns! I’m a fan of Orla Kiely and as soon as I saw this one, I swooned. My next apartment will have a separate bedroom and even if it’s going to be rental, I’m going to wallpaper it with this. The pattern is called Giant Rhodedendron. And no, do not try to get me to say that. Especially after few glasses of wine. P.S. The lichen colourway is beautiful too.

Mmmhmm!

Thrifty Finn- Snap, snap, all that.

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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.

 

Pinteresting

Wow. This week I have found tons of new people to follow on Pinterest and subsequently, tons of pretty, inspiring things. Even with all the hullabaloo surrounding Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway, I found some time to pin:

I don’t know what the story is about but she sure as heck does look cute. I need to pinch those  cheeks and ruffle that hair and maybe try on those glasses. I’m pretty sure I’d look equally cute.

Okay. If I can’t rock the cute maybe I could do the classy. I love the autumnal tones of the skirt against the lightweight summer tones in the blouse. I’m half tempted to pull down my curtains to make that skirt.

 I couldn’t find the original source But I love this quote.

Can you ever get enough of vintage florals? This wallpaper is something I’d be happy to have in  fabric as well. I could do an entire room with it, walls, drapes, sofa…You name it. And a dress. It would be like a crazy cat lady camouflage. Maybe I could trademark it or something?

The dog would say no.

And I would have to respectfully disagree.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

This week the theme asks us to change our perspective, to look things from above. At first I was like “Nooo, I have nothing for this challenge in my photo stash!!!” But then I remembered there’s one thing all women look from above and that something is shoes:

Not everything H&M does is bad quality. These zebra ballerinas from Jimmy Choo for H&M-collection had a fantastic lest and were very good to walk in. So good that I actually wore them out when in Paris…A bargain find from a flea market, 4 euros and they were unused!

Ooh, how I loved these high heels. I bought them before my knee got really bad and didn’t have the chance to wear them. I then sold them because I thought I’d never get the operation I needed and subsequently, wouldn’t be able to wear shoes like these ever again. Glad to say I was wrong but I kind of wish I could get these back.

These shoes are odd ones in my closet. Half pvc, half suede with mid-high heel. Needless to say, I haven’t worn these a lot but I like to keep them around because of their happy colour.

If you are interested in other interpretations of this week’s theme, click HERE. If you read this far, maybe I can interest you helping me to get to TOP 10 in a Finnish photo competition where I’d get a chance to win a new camera. Just click the photo below and when you get to the photo competition page click ÄÄNESTÄ TÄTÄ KUVAA-text and your vote will be registered!

 Thrifty Finn saying Thanks a Bunch!

 

 

April Giveaway

This monthly giveaway thing is hard work! I have to keep my eye on so many things, it’s unbelievable. My original plan was to post March and April close together. Since that didn’t happen, I thought April/May-combo is fine too. But then today I remembered I wanted to take part in Sew Mama Sew’s Big Giveaway Day and that’s in May, so the combination can’t happen then because I wanted to do something big for that.

I’m driving myself nuts over here.

So the solution is to do April now. IN APRIL!!!

Who would have thought this kind of craziness could work???

So welcome to Thrifty Finn’s April Thrifty Giveaway…

The Postcrossing Edition. What is postcrossing you may wonder? Well, I’m glad you asked. It’s this fantastic community where people send cards to random strangers and get cards back from other random strangers! It’s like stalking but sweet!!! I personally have received around 200 cards from 45 different countries and right now I have 10 cards waiting to be sent.

What do the greetings cards have to do with postcrossing where you are supposed to send postcards? My answer is that I’m trying to encourage people to send more snail mail to their friends and family. Plus, sometimes it’s okay to send greeting cards in Postcrossing, especially if the cards matches recipient’s wishlist. Also, some postcrossers collect Nouvelles Images cards, just to let you know

What am I giving away? I’m giving a 4 B&W cards by VOGUE and 4 colourful cards by Nouvelles Images:

Nouvelles Images

Vogue

That amounts to 8 happy friends! If you ever get around sending them of course. Now the important part…How to enter:

Leave a comment on this giveaway post AND your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win. The e-mail won’t be visible to anyone else but me, UNLESS you type it in the comment section that is. The giveaway closes on 5th of May at 23.59 Helsinki time and is open globally. I will contact the winner personally and announce it here too. The winner has 7 days to respond to my e-mail before I draw a new name.

Disclaimer: This prize was bought by me, by my own money. The companies mentioned here have no idea who I am. They might come to check out my site when they see in their stats that someone has linked to their sites but that’s about it.

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