welcome 2009

Goodbye colorful and happy 2008 and welcome 2009.


There is my whole year in that one collage, would you believe? Strange how the years seem to speed up, i feel like the time is passing way too fast. I'm happy to see my boys grow, it's the best thing too see how they change - but there's something blue in all this as well.

I'm wishing you all a happy new year!

a treasure

Yesterday i was doing a lot of household chores, a lot of rather boring everyday basics (which i some day just don't find so appealing). But then i found a real treasure when i was taking out all the trash. How could anyone have thrown out such a classy metallic airplane?



Knitting? Well, all my projects just refuse to finish. I've been knitting things over and over again, making stupid mistakes and trying to get everything perfect...

cake

We (i) did bake a cake. It was a disaster, even though my husband liked it. That was a good thing.


Otherwise it was too wet, too sweet and absolutely too yellow. I should stick with my needles and hooks. The recipe looks wonderful as well as the pictures, found it from Orangette.

high water

Nice autumn we have here. Quite wet, not too cold (yet) and extremely dark, or so it feels at least.

japanese inspiration

Shoji Ueda: Papa, Mama and Children, 1949.

We visited Ateneum Art Museum. There was - among others - an exhibition of photography from Japan, Black and White, Classics of Japanese Photography. The whole exhibition was touching, but mostly i was drawn to Shoji Uedas pictures. There was magic in them, something between real and surreal, sadness and happiness. Like there only is a thin line inbetween.

into the woods

I have been oddly interested in mushrooms, or actually all kinds of fungus found in our backyard. Maybe it's the autumn-feeling.