What a Nice Day!

My morning started with a nice walk in nearly 20 celsius cold sunny winter weather. Riemu wasn't too happy with his brand new out-door-socks but I enjoyed looking at him and breething the fresh air. It really woke me up. After that I checked out my exam results and noticed that I had done really well. It feels good to start Christmas holiday now. Eventhough I have to keep reading on it too.

Then I went off to see my ex-roommate to Hämeenlinna. We checked out Hämeenlinna's flea markets and here are the results.

The 50's curtain was way too expensive for my budget but I bought it still... At home I realised that we don't have any good room for it. Hopefully some day soon... That polka dot thing is a dress that some company in USA has made from vintage fabrics. I had to buy it because of the brown polka dot part. I will make a skirt of it because I don't like the upper part. Then I bought one lovely book of the first real celebrity of Finland; Armi Kuusela. It has some beautiful photos in it. The cute cowgirl book is a souvenir from my dear ex-roommate. Thanks once more! You are really sweet! Then there is one old magazine and adorable children's vintage pattern.

The last piece is a vintage French fries maker. It was so funny that I had to buy it for my bloke. What I got today from an advent calendar he has made for me must have been a bit more expensive:

It is our 5th anniversary today and how lovely is that! I am speachless. Nothing more to say today but I am happy.

Still Alive #2

Gosh. Somehow I have had way too much to do this autumn. School, work, dogs and some stuff with myself. We have been buzzing around every weekend but now. I don't complain. The autumn has been nice and I/we have made better finds than ever. Perhaps I start from the oldest picture.

We found that lovely bookshelf a while ago. We decided to buy it the minute we saw it. It made us do some re-arrangements in our home but I was all the way worth it! I have been muttering about that we had our computers on our sleeping room but not anymore. I am pleased. And the shelf is beautiful. I found that 60's jacketsuit the same time and from the same fleamarket. I had to do some revamping for the jacket because it was too big for me. I also shortened the sleeves.

Then I made the trip to north. I visited my grandma and met my other relatives. One new and really small one too. He was lovely. :) The brown purse above is from that trip and it is my new favourite!

I cleaned my Granny's wardrobe because she wanted to get more space to it. I took some old clothes of hers to a charity shop. They were not old enough for me. :) But this one I was not able to throw away. I browsed some old photos of my Granny and she has worn that dress at least when my big sister got her name. The shoes that aren't in view that well are also from her as are the ones I wear with the jacketsuit in the other photo. That purse is one I found from the fleamarket tour in Oulu.

Here is one other photo of my founds from there and some other stuff. That bandbox was a must buy as were the gloves. The Coca-Cola case and that 70's coat are some of the things we have got from different people at different times. So here is a piece of our lobby.

Last weekend was the long waited one. I met my dear friends in "Thanks-for-the-wedding-party". We haven't seen each other after the summer (or at least all of us haven't). It was fun and I enjoyed it a lot! I took some photos of the Wedding Anniversary Book I made for the couple but will be posting about it some time later. We are going to have a girls cruise later with the ex-bride and my ex-co-bridesmaid. Cannot wait!

Last week the post brought me something nice. I had ordered some vintage patterns from Seija. The only problem with them is that I would love to create all of them but I don't have time! Maybe next spring...

I have been collecting vintage patterns for a while. Most of them are from the 60's. Here is my saldo at the moment:

Now it is time to get something to eat. Here is still one picture of my little Christmas three. It is so cute! I have been crafting a bit between all the other things but cannot show them here yet. :)

I wish you all have a nice weekend!

Busy

I have had major problems finding time to write posts nowadays. Eventhough I really would like to. The fact is just that I should be studying 24/7 if I wanted to get any results... Here is how I have been looking while studying this week.

I spent last Friday night crafting instead of studying because I was quite tired and depressed. I made that headband and that pencil case and I must say that those made me feel better. More of everything sometime later. :)

Nothing Special vol. 2

I have been back from my trip to the Granny's for a while. Ever since I have only been studying for the exams I am having tomorrow and next Monday. There are 3 of them and I am not sure if I manage to pass them all with this little time... So why am I writing this instead of reading? Hmm...

This post is mostly to say that here I am still. I did some excellent finds from the fleamarkets of Oulu. I will be posting about them and some older finds when I find time and get a photographer. Here is just a little collage of my dear memories from my childhood home county. My primary school, the old mill near it and the alley near my home-home. And yes, it was like winter there!

No Matter...

... how unlucky I have been in my other life but I truely have had some awesom luck on the second hand field. During a couple of weeks I have been finding such wonderful thing I am very joyful of. Here are some of the things that have made me happy.

Last Sunday I was just supposed to go buy some chicken to cook for my little one. To my surprise the flea market next to the shop was open and of course I had to stop by. First thing that caught my eye was the vintage purse. It is quite messy from the inside but it costed only 50 cent. I have been looking for a brown purse and this is just it. Believe it or not it is my first brown purse!

Today I returned to the same flea market(s) because there were some things that left me uneasy. And there were some new things aside. I could call this the Bag Day. The big vintage purse was today's first find. But absolutely my favourite find of the day is that Karhu bag. I have been craving for the way too expensive repro ones but this is more! The color is perfect!

So tomorrow I will head to North and meet my relatives including the new one that was born less than a week ago. See you next week! (Hopefully my Bloke makes my laptop alive during my trip...) :)

Irritated

The whole world is against me... Hmph... Or more technically there are some minor irritating things in my life at the moment but too many of them at the same time.

1. My laptop is probably coming to its End. It is working VEEERY slowly. It is already/only 4 years and I would like to have a new one but I really couldn't afford buying one at the moment. So now me and my Man just do the tricks we can and hope for the best.

2. There have been 2 post deliveries in the past couple of weeks that haven't reached me. Meaning Finnish Post has something against me. I bought one wonderful vintage sewing book from Huuto.net and paid well for it. Now maybe somebody else is enjoying it. Then also one Pinscher buddy sent me some stuff that I haven't got either. I am very very mad about these things. I don't know if the reason is the Post or is someone stealing post from our mail box. And what else is missing that I don't even know about? Once before one neighbour brought a letter assigned to me to our door. She had found it from their yard opened and thrown in to a pond. It was my payslip. But it happened a couple of years ago.

3. Riemu's stomach isn't getting any better. After a few "harder" days there always comes a "solute(?)" one. Yesterday I bought quite expensive food for him from a vet. Hopefully that will solve the problem. I truely madly deeply hope so.

Well those are the top three things. Referring to the first issue I'm not posting the photo of my weekend finds. I just don't have the patience to wait a minute or two after every click right now. Hopefully I get that done before I head to my Granny near Oulu on Saturday! Hope you all are more cheerful than me!

Cyan Saturday

Eventhough my little love has problems with his stomach again we decided to stick to our plan and go for a little trip to the city. It was the every autumn's habit of visiting the October Swap & Meet in Tampere. There wasn't too much to see for me again but I did get the Burlesque Poster Design -book wich is nice!

We also visited one flea market where I bought a pouch of jewelry. Most of them from the 70's or 80's I guess. I had to buy the whole pouch because there were some nice earclips in it. I will be selling the reasonable other ones as I get the table at a flea market near us. I have been queuing for a couple of months now because I want to get the same table I had last spring. I'm too lazy to price all the stuff again...

But here is the outfit I was wearing today and Riemu with his Can-I-Come-To-Bed -look. Click it bigger for more details!

I got back sewing yesterday and got a whole deal fixing of the old clothes done. I am pleased. I also made a rain coat for Riemu. I must add some minor things to it before use and publishing. Eventhough it is probably the ugliest dog cloth I have seen and I am not very pleased with my accomplishment. I kind of did it quickly just to get something done and get back to work again... Right now I should be deducting one vintage jacket I found a couple of weeks ago or some old jeans of mine that are going to be capris quite soon. What am I yattering, back to work asap!