Evening at sofa

I was so tired today! After I got home from work and had something to eat, I completely fell asleep on the living room sofa! I don't know how good that was, I guess a good old nap is always good! We are having yet another heavy week at work and I can see it's taking its' toll already. To cheer things up a bit I took a few photos of the curtains I changed in the dining room during the weekend! Clearly Christmas is on my mind, don't you think? After I changed the table cloth too, I realized how red everything actually came! I had to ask my husband was it too much but he liked it! He is so sweet! Always let's me explore myself and I must say that truly he's man enough to handle this red season!
Have a warm and good evening, on the sofa and elsewhere!

Christmas Dinner

Oh man my stomach is full! I don't know how to describe it! First of all the company was great! We almost filled the whole restaurant, and we were one merry bunch of people! I had a long and such a wonderful chat with a really nice colleague of mine, thank you Kristiina! And the men in our table were just true gentlemen, we had a blast! Food was exellent, which was to be expected, the startes were in a buffet table, so many choices of fish and different salads! I don't eat meat so I really appreciated the overwhelming amount of fish there was! The main dish and the desserts took the toung away, wines and prosecco were exellent. I'm really glad we have this tradition, it brings people together also outside work, it's important. Later on we took the train home with my sweet friend, and we were remembering the same event two years ago when the evening got really loooong and so much fun! Oh dear! Have had such fun times with these dear sweethearts, and I know there's so much more to come!! Now it's time to turn in, maybe a cup of nice herbal tea to ease the poor stomach, hugs and kisses to you all!

Monday Morning!

Good morning!
It's a new day, a start of yet another week! I'm on my way to work and got inspired by all these really cool black things presented below: Le Noir. It is officially the time for the many pre-Christmas parties we Finns tend to have, and this Alexander McQueen clutch would just crown any outfit, right?! Sweet!
At work we are having our pre-Christmas dinner tonight in the best restaurant of the town! This must be already the third time we go there, and the food is just amazing! Am looking forward to this a lot and packed only a salad for lunch! Have a good day dear ones!

Le Noir

Le Noir by aveceva featuring black leather gloves

A Sunday Stroll

It's a day of sunshine and crispy minus degrees over here! Morning was calm and nice: at least three mugs of tea, breakfast, newspaper and candles. After that I started on my latest project of which I'm dying to tell you about, but since I'm collaborating with Mr. Santa Claus, I can't! But I did take photos of every stage, so I'll get back to the subject after Christmas, promise!

We went for a nice walk to the beach again. Sea is still open, it's not that cold yet, but some parts were frozen already over at the pier. It was very windy though, we took some pics with the consequences of frozen fingers, but I can tell you, when you hold hands it gets warmer twice as fast!
Enjoy Sunday, see you!

Good Evening!

Ah, a nice Saturday evening at home! Call me boring but I couldn't think of a better way or place to be right now! Just unwinding, relaxing and enjoying the warmth of home! The weather also somehow justifies being under a blanket in woolly socks, maybe a little piece of chocolate too! It's the perfect chance to calm down and take it easy. The seasons are so different. During summer I can't stay put, all the time thinking have to do this, have to do that, go to places, be outside as much as possible because the sun is shining all day, and almost all of the night too! But now with the darkness it's all about home, candles, warm drinks, soups etc. We should live like bears do, sleep the whole winter and when the amount of light increases and spring starts we'd wake up well rested! I second that!

This evening was especially nice also because my Mother came over! I baked some more joulutorttu, we had glögi and a sweet chat about a lot of things! She is my darling Mom, there aren't words to describe my feelings really, she means the world to me and that's that. I'd missed her since we hadn't met for a while because of all the hurries. She lives close by, luckily, and now was the perfect moment for us to sit down and be together! She brought me something really wonderful: do you remember how I told you about my passion towards old Arabia dishwear? Well, there is this old series of coffee/tea set called Emilia by Raija Uosikkinen. It's been out of production for decades, every piece you find is a collector's item, and she brought me a plate! It's so beautiful! There's this lady with a hat and quite often a cup of tea, sometimes even a pot, which makes me even more infatuated! I have a few pieces now altogether, you can see them underneath. And a funny thing is that she also brought me tea! And not just any tea, real Japanese green tea in a beautiful box! More reasons to stay in! I'm happy and satisfied! Have a beautiful evening, where ever you are!

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December 1st

It's the first day of December! And it's completely white over here! Hopefully it will last until Christmas!
First thing I did this morning was the Christmas calender! My mother always gets me one and it's so pretty!
Second thing was to get outside and dig the car from all that snow. It was a lot, I must say! All snow ploughs are taking care of the main roads now so there's no idea when could they ever reach our small street! But it's ok, a good exercise really!
I came to the center to run some errands and had a hot chocolate at Strindberg which was so good and warm, perfect for this cold weather! See you later!