Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Upeaa Uutta Vuotta 2013 Sinulle !

My Top 7 popular posts in the year 2012 - Luetuimmat vuonna 2012

Yes, it's almost the end of the year 2012!? I decided to make a list of my most popular post this year. It has also been my very first year as a blogger. My first post that I wrote was about beautiful winter day on 29th of Jan. I was so nervous when I was writing my first posts. I still am excited but in a good way. After one month I will be celebrating my first blog anniversary! But before that let's get to my list of Top 7 posts in the year 2012. Hope you find great readings out of them.

Vuosi on kiiruhtanut melkeinpä nopeammin kuin kukaan meistä. Melkein vuosi takana bloggailua, hurraa! Sen kunniaksi keräilin tähän sinulle blogini Top 7 luetuimmat vuonna 2012.


1. Mosaiikkia ja kevään värejä - Life of Mosaic and spring colours

Photos: Anthropologie   Elephant Ceramics   Katiedesigns4u's   Marrakechdesign

2. Mood board

I made a mood board about my blog when I was planning and designing one. In this post you can also find a timelapse video of a new mood board that I made after I had started to blog.

 
3. James Farkut - Finnish Vintage James Jeans

These ones I gave as a present to my adorable godchild.

4. Pääsiäiskoriste - Easter decoration

In this post there's also a link to very funny video I made and now when I watched it , well could not watch it without laughing.

5. Tallinn Tallinn - photo story

beautiful day in beautiful city of Tallinn

6. Kevään ekat villiyrtit - The first wild edibles

goutweed

 7. Suunnittelija ja kuvittaja - Lovisa Burfitt - fashion illustrator and designer

admiring talented people

The year is almost full and people are writing eagerly their new year promises. I don't usually make them (or I might have forgot one or two promises on the way) but this time I have only one promise and that is to live and enjoy as much as possible of ordinary day as such.

En ole koskaan ollut kovin kätevä uuden vuoden lupausten tekijä enkä pitäjä mutta nyt taidan ylittää itseni ja laittaa mustaa valkoiselle ja kertoa koko maailmalle, että vuonna  2013 toivon,  että osaan nauttia jokaisesta päivästä - oli se sitten kuinka tavallinen tahansa. Nyt jo tuntuu, että taisin luvata aika paljon...

Handmade presents - one coming up - Käsintehdyt lahjat valmistuvat

You might have the same phase at the moment as I. You might feel happy that you've made present for your beloved one that you also really like! You can't wait to hear does she/he like it! I guess giving presents is more exciting than getting one. I'm already counting the days.

Omat lahjat eivät jännitä ollenkaan niin paljon kuin ne lahjat, jotka olet itse tehnyt ja odotat innolla tai kauhulla mitä saaja niistä tykkää! Hitaasti mutta varmasti ovat lahjat melkein kaikki jo paketissa...ja siitähän sitten se varsinainen jännitys alkaakin.

I got inspiration of course from Pinterest. Ideas comes and goes and we are recycling the most of them again and again. But everytime the idea gets something new with different maker.

Ideat kiertävät ja polkupyörää ei keksitä uudelleen mutta toteutetaan kyllä monella eri tapaa. Inspiraation tähän kangaskassiin löysin Pinterestistä. 

So this is X-mas and what have you done?

I have done these

I love the song Happy X-mas written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It's one of those songs that you can't survive without singing too high. And we all know it doesn't sound very good...competing with children's choir isn't the greatest idea. And I have to admit it has a quite powerful video in YouTube. If you survive with no tears at all - that is almost impossible...I think. But there you can also find this longer video which is about John Lennon and Yoko Ono speaking about the way of the world, people and violence. You can find it here. In the end of this video there's also the music video of the song Happy X-mas. Why I'm writing about Lennon's song, I'm not quite sure but when I began writing my post I was going to write about what I have done and that sentence reminded me about this great X-mas song and what it represents...without going too deep and hopefully without sounding too shallow let me tell you now about what I have done - my handmade presents.

I made a wrapping paper out of an old writing paper and decorated it with polka dots made by woodblock printing. And I used also sewing machine to make a one single line going through the paper. And also if you remember I had a x-mas gift card project in process few weeks ago and now as you can see - cards have come from printing house.  Yey!

This is hard to write about these two so different matters in same post. But that is reality.  Even though you can spend your time with doing nice things like presents to your beloved ones it doesn't mean that everybody can. So let's keep that in mind when we are making our perfect X-mas.

New magazines makes me wowww - uudet lehdet ihastuttavat

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt is written on the cover of the new Flow magazine.

I was so happy and surprised when I went to book store and found these two new interesting magazines. Flow magazine is kind of familiar but now we have English edition available. So I CAN read it...it's a Dutch magazine originally.

If you like paper, design, creativity, illustration, making things by your hands, slowing down and enjoying your life the answer in Flow. It gets very close to what I'm interested at the moment. I'm still in the middle of reading it but I can already tell you that it's lovely! You can go and visit their website.

The other one is totally different or is it...Popshot Magazine. It's an illustrated literary magazine.

 
Yes, I bought a literary magazine that is so not me. But when I saw it I had to open it and when I opened it I had to read it. But I haven't read it through yet. Have to admit that I have felt uncomfortable with poems because I feel I don't understand or they just leave me with too many questions and bothered. But now that problem has solved. In Popshot Magazine they tell also what about the poem, short story, flash fiction is. Great. And I think it's perfect to connect two art forms: literary and illustration. They can reach even people like me. Haha. I noticed Popshot Magazine because of the great cover and smaller size. They have also website. Go and have a look!


Well, now I take a cup of coffee and open my flow. Hope you can do the same.

Have a lovely week!

 Ja kerran vielä suomeksi...
Lehtiä tulee ja menee mutta onneksi tulee välillä hyviäkin. Löysin Akateemisesta kaksi loistavan mielenkiintoista minulle uutta lehteä. Flow on hollantilainen lifestyle-lehti ihmisille, jotka tykkäävät paperista, luovuudesta, kuvituksista, luovista ihmisistä ja kenties hieman hitaammasta elämästä. Flow on aikaisemmin julkaistu hollanniksi mutta nyt on kauppoihin saapunut myös englanninkielinen versio. Jee, sitähän mekin jo ymmärretään. Popshot Magazine on sitten taas kirjallisuuslehti. Runot ovat olleet minulle hankalasti lähestyttäviä että ymmärrettäviä mutta kun ne ja muut tarinat yhdistetään hienoon kuvitukseen - jo minäkin tartun syöttiin. Varsinkin kun lopussa kerrotaan vielä mistä runo tai tarina oikeasti kertoi. Käy vilkaisemassa lehtien nettisivuilla: Flow magazine ja Popshot Magazine. Innostu ja ihastu. Loistavaa viikkoa!