Newfound beauties...

Monday, December 28, 2009

Newfound beauties...

Today I found this amazing internet site with headbands! Check it out! They're gorgeous!
Here are some of my favorites, which is yours?
Enjoy! Pamper yourself! http://www.etsy.com/category/accessories/hair/headband
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Christmas list

Christmas list

This year my wish list for Christmas was quite modest. I don't feel I really need anything. And besides that, I'm really critical to all presents I receive. Not that I wouldn't be thankful but the more the g…
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Christmas markets..

Christmas markets..

Better late than never...

Christmas time in Helsinki stands for Christmas markets. Just before Christmas I attended two of them; the St. Thomas market at the Esplanade park and Wanha's traditional Christmas market…
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How it feels to fly

How it feels to fly

Have u ever felt so strong,
That it made u feel weak?
Long days, long nights, and u just cant sleep
Have u ever been so sure,
That it gave u cold feet?
Gotcha floatin on air, u can feel ur heart beat
Well I never knew this fe…
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Never a failure, always a lesson

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Never a failure, always a lesson

I've been thinking about taking a new tattoo now for some time, therefore I'm super attentive to all tattoo-related-news that I hear. Today I heard about Rihanna's newest tattoo, a mirrowed text that says &q…
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The Ofelia market's treats

The Ofelia market's treats

The evenings might have become darker, and the summer colors turned into shades of grey but fortunately the darkening hours bring interesting events to Helsinki! Last weekend I went to the Ofelia market, a market put to…
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New tourism related TV show on Finnish TV, finally!

Friday, December 4, 2009

New tourism related TV show on Finnish TV, finally!

Lately Finland has been crazed about reality TV shows about real people at their work place. We have TV shows about police men, nurses, doctors and so on. Today I heard about something refreshing and of course interesti…
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Getting your nails done: thoughts about loyalty and price

Getting your nails done: thoughts about loyalty and price

For some time now, beginning I believe in September-October I have tried gel nails in Helsinki. Already from the start, I decided not to take long, fake looking ones but try to keep them short and natural looking. I mus…
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Shake it - Pre-Christmas party

Shake it - Pre-Christmas party

Yesterday, I celebrated the ending of the year, a kind of "small Christmas" with my dearest six class mates. Over the three and half years of studies, we have become a tight group sharing not only school stuff…
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Backstreet Boys in Helsinki 10 years after their first concert

Backstreet Boys in Helsinki 10 years after their first concert

How time flies. Last Wednesday, I experienced a ten-year-old deja vu when I went to the Backstreet Boys concert held at Hartwall Areena, here in Helsinki. The first appearance in Helsinki happened in 1999! I was only 1…
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ÄOM-päivä / Say no to buying day

Friday, November 27, 2009

ÄOM-päivä / Say no to buying day

"I bought it so that I would have something as nice as my friends' have"

"I bought it so I could relax"

"I bought it because I had a bad day"

"I bought it because it was on sale&q…
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A green step for Helsinki: Solaris Urbino

A green step for Helsinki: Solaris Urbino

Today I got to try a new treat - the hybrid bus called Solaris Urbino. Helsinki has engaged a new try by borrowing hybrid buses from Poland. The reasoning behind this trial is the metropolitan area's need for low-em…
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A turning point

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A turning point

Yeah! Helsinki has been elected the world's design capital in 2012! Finally our beautiful city will be acknowledged for its sense of design!

The design capitals have been chosen every second year by the Internation…
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Finding my sense of taste: Chocolate festival & Ladies' dinner

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Finding my sense of taste: Chocolate festival & Ladies' dinner

Ladies' dinner 

Last Friday, I and three of my classmates were in for a treat - we went to an annual ladies' dinner which offered both good fun and entertainment. It was held within the legendary walls of Nyland…
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The emotional language

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The emotional language

Not so long ago, I posted an insert on my blog talking about the problems we Swedish speaking Finns are incountering in today's Finland. Funnily enough, today again this topic has come up. It's amazing how langu…
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Trash treasures

Friday, November 13, 2009

Trash treasures

Someone's trash is somebody's treasure.
Yesterday I saw that one of my acquaintances had made an interesting documentary film. She introduced it to me on Facebook. It seems she has done a documentary film about …
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Fighting for an identity

Fighting for an identity

Yesterday, the topic of the day among all Swedish speaking Finns, to which I happily belong, was the news about one of our major TV channel announcing that they might close down the only channel in Swedish if cuts are n…
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Choo heaven!

Choo heaven!

My holy house of fashion, H&M that is, has done it again. Contradicting our traditional way of looking at fashion, they continue to smur the line between reasonable priced clothing and high fashion. Their newest att…
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Slow relationship

Slow relationship

In a world of slow movement, slow travel, slow food etc. it's about time somebody combatted against fast relationships as well. I've been going through a very rough period in my life, almost losing my faith in w…
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Painting my windows

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Painting my windows

It's funny how spontaneous actions surprise you sometimes. Late Tuesday evening I was up writing on msn with one of my friends and he invited me to a musical evening on Wednesday. One of his friends plays acoustic m…
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Remember to breath

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Remember to breath

Coming back from school on Thursday, I passed by a home for elderly where somebody had made some urban art: somebody had attached a piece of a plastic strap on a fence creating the text in Finnish "muista hengittää…
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A new experience - cinema goes concert hall

Sunday, October 25, 2009

A new experience - cinema goes concert hall

While I gazed through my inserts in my blog, I noticed I had forgotten to write about last Tuesday. Last Tuesday I met my friend S and we went to the cinema- to see Robbie Williams' concert live through satellite! T…
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Preparations..

Preparations..

Today we switched to winter time. If nothing else, this is a clear sign of the seasons changing. We still have quite warm days due to the fact that it has been raining a lot here. We've had some 5-7 degrees, far mor…
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Pride in the way of more important things

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Pride in the way of more important things

"A book is like a good friend, but nicer to open."

One part of getting older is to get disappointed. One can not always have what one wants. When we are in our teen years, we fantasize about a life where every…
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Yesterday, while cleaning, I stumbled upon some of my favorite sayings and citations written down on a piece of paper..I thought I would write down some of them. Maybe they brighten up someone's day :) I have also b…
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A goodbye and thank you

A goodbye and thank you

Why is it so difficult for some people to say goodbye? Don't they understand that nothing good comes from just disappearing from somebody's life. Today I realized that a good, old friend has left Finland, probab…
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Make a statement with your head!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Make a statement with your head!

Headbands are here to stay. The trend that started last spring shows no signs of fading away, but even more of evolving and staying around at least this autumn. This autumn, you can make a statement with your head!



Wh…
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An international Finnish leaf

An international Finnish leaf

Today I fell in love with a designer's work. Not that this name is something new in design but browsing through the Design Forum Finland's pages, I found this treasure. I thought since it's the time of ruska…
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The silver lining

Friday, October 16, 2009

The silver lining

I want to use a little bit space from my blog to write about the teacher of our last course at my school. She's been nothing but trouble during our whole course, which also happens to be the last for many of us. It&…
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Unpacked issues

Unpacked issues

There is one easy way to figure out if you liked the place that you visited the last, outside your city I mean. At least when it comes to me. I find myself not wanting to unpack all of my belongings that I took with me …
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Autumn breeze from London- shoppingwise

Monday, October 12, 2009

Autumn breeze from London- shoppingwise

Some of the things I bought in London, and LOVED!

A pair of violet gloves. Violet has been one of my favorite colors even since I lived in Italy, and finally there are a lot of accessories in that color! These go well w…
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

When everything else seems to be going wrong, life has a funny way of bringing wonderful news to your knowledge. Sweet pea.
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London, UK

Friday, October 9, 2009

London, UK

I'm a Irish woman in London
London, London, London..what a city! I loved it! I must belong to the few people who haven't been to London. That's one of the reasons I decided to go there on "an autumn get…
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A happy woman

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A happy woman

Uh, I just made a call to our hotel in London, and everything's fine with our booking! This means we are actually going there, I'm so thrilled! Never been there before and I always wanted to go! Therefore I'…
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Under the falling chestnuts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Under the falling chestnuts

Last weekend when I was walking to the closest tram stop and crossing the park outside my home, I noticed that chestnuts were falling down on the cars. It got me thinking about autumn. I took this as a sign that the au…
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The secrets of the city = Shoe tossing

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The secrets of the city = Shoe tossing

Incredible! For once I must say that I am surprised about how dishonest Finns are! In this case our biggest newspaper actually! I'm sure all the Finns know which newspaper I'm talking about if I name it the bigg…
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Preplanning events

Preplanning events

My last course in school is in event planning. The last assignment we had was quite nice; we were supposed to plan a marketing/promotional event for Aquafina, one of Pepsico's products, basically bottled tap water,…
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Cincin!

Cincin!

Sometimes it feels like I've forgot to tell about all the great customers we've had at the Helsinki City Tourist Office. One example of this was a lady that passed by the office on Sunday last weekend. Lately I…
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Interior changes

Friday, September 18, 2009

Interior changes

Autumn is a time for changes as I've been mentioning in my earlier posts. For me and my boyfriend this means making some adjustments to our apartment which has served before only as my home. We have bought some new …
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