The Easter Mobile

I can't believe it's already Easter! Well, technically not, but when I listen closely, I can already hear the Easter Bunny loading chocolate eggs into her basket (there is a distinct sound to that! Just imagine.) We are totally ready for her to hop along and bring the joy to us all (or wait, was that Santa? anyway...). All the deco is now done, all we need to do is finalize the menu, go grocery shopping (already bought the lamb today!), wait for the guests and then cook and enjoy :)

Pinterest: familyfun.go.com

But the apartment looks lovely already. The final touch was the Easter mobile that I got done yesterday. Long in the planning, I am so happy that it turned out exactly like I had envisioned. I saw an image more like the one I made in a blog somewhere, but didn't bookmark it (silly me), so now it's lost. Here are a couple of pics from Pinterest though, that have inspired me. This is actually my first Pinterest-inspired post: we talked about it with fellow blogger Julie from Julie's schöne welt and decided we'd do something Pinterestey together. So here is the first post from me for that theme :)

                 

Pinterest: whatsupcharlie.over-blog.com

Pinterest: digischool.nl

So what I did was buy some felt and wooden pearls and grab a branch from the forest while visiting the horsey and paint it white. And this is what happened after:

 My very first and own Easter mobile! And super easy and fast to make. The little colourful felt dots in the collage lower left corner were my solution to keeping the beads in place: just twist the thread and make a knot, stab one of the dots with the needle and pull it onto the knot. Voilá: pearl stopper! Plus they look cute.

So, with this post I wish you all Happy Easter! May the days be merry and bright, and may all your Easter-ses be non-white (or white, if you're into skiing). I'll post of our food extravaganza later on (after we've digested it all). Bye until then :) //

Tässä ihkaensimmäinen pääsiäismobile! Tuli just sellanen kun olin suunnitellut, jee! Näillä kuvilla toivottelen kaikille iloista ja munaisaa pääsiäistä :)

Love, Lilje

The Calendar

Still snow! The winter really isn't going anywhere this year. The past few days have been brilliantly sunny but freezing cold. So, there is a real need for something colourful to bring the spring that much closer. Which brings me to the previous post!

Tan-tan-taaaaa.... here it is, the answer to the picture puzzle. Let me introduce you to my happy thought/event calendar! It took time to cut the cards and write the dates but now it is done. And I love it! The idea of keeping the calendar with you for many years and reading what you've done on the same days in previous years just seems very cool. I saw a calendar like this in a blog somewhere, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it anymore :(. But thank you still, blog owner with no name, for the brilliant idea. //

Talvitalvikylmääbrrrrr. Mikä kevät? Onpahan sentään aurinkoista ja kaunista. Värejä kuitenkin tarvitaan, tässä niitä kokonaiset 365. Joka päivälle omansa, mukavien ajatuksien ja tapahtumien kirjaamista varten. Oli muuten hommaa leikata noita lappuja! :D


With love, Lilje

The Puzzle

Winter is really relentless this year: we just keep getting more and more snow! So, the only solution is to make spring indoors. Flowers and bright colours keep me from going crazy with all the bleakness and the cold. But it will be spring soon, I can sense it! Until then, a picture puzzle for you:

What will this colourful bunch of cards basking in the spring sun (from last week, now it's gone again) be? Any guesses? Stay tuned to find out! //

Talvi pitää edelleen otteessaan, joten kevättunnelmaa on luotava sisätiloissa. Kuva-arvoitus: mikä mahtaa tulla tästä läjästä paperia? 

With love, Lilje

The Almost Matching Socks

These socks were a work in progress before we left for our trip, and I finished them off when we returned. In these (unlike these), the Drops yarn's colour pattern surprisignly decided to actually almost match in both socks. Shock horror!

I originally knit these for myself, but as I already got the wonky ones, I decided to brighten my boyfriend's day with them.

Nice and colourful they are, maybe not the springiest of colours but hey, there's still snow here... Anyway, I wish you all a happy and warm start to the week. Hope you don't need woolly socks, wherever you are :) //

Värikkäiden sukkien langan väri mätsäsi (melkein). Aika yllättävä veto. Iloista viikonalkua ja vähempilumisia toivotuksia...

With love, Lilje

The Cotton Cowl

Due to all the icky illness-related things, this post is way overdue. The cowl of doom, as I fondly call it, was finished already in Thailand. It turned out... well, what should I say. It is a cowl, yes. It can be worn around one's neck. It even magically stretches enough so that you can wrap it awound your neck twice (as it is knit so loosely). It doesn't really look anything like it was supposed to. Do I like it? Weeeeelll... Maybe as a festival cowl.

But hey people, seriously, cowls? I don't really see their point. They're just a woolly/cottony thing you wrap around your neck, that hangs there loosely like an oversized necklace. The only ones that are really useful are the really long ones, that wrap around many times and keep you warm. But the normal ones? They either leave the neck or the throat bare. And what's the use in that? Maybe you can enlighten me? :) (Or maybe, just maybe, if this one had turned out like it should with the other end way tighter and smaller, there would be no reason for this rant.) //

Noniin, valmis on. Ei siitä kovin kaunis tullut, mutta kyllähän tuota nyt kaulassaan roikuttaa. En vaan ehkä tajua tällasten tuubihuivien pointtia: ne vaan roikkuu siinä ja jättää joko kaulan tai kurkun paljaaksi. Mikä järki? Paitsi tietty jos ne on semmoisia pitkiä joita voi kieputtaa useammin kaulan ympärille. Ne tajuan. Muita en. Valaiskaa fiksummat jos olen väärässä. Tietty jos tästä olisi tullut mallinsa kaltainen eli toinen pää paljon pienempi ja tiukempi, ehkä ei olis syytä tuubienvastaisrintamalle...

Pattern: State street cowl

Yarn: Novita Hanko

Needles: 9 and 10, circular

Mood: Well, it's done...

With love, Lilje

The Easter Countdown

We're home! Oooh it's so good to be back. After the nastiness of dengue fever the last weeks in Thailand were less than optimal, and I was completely ready when the plane took off and we left the land of smiles and sun behind. Yes, we will be back, but for now I'm enthusiastically planning DIY projects and waiting for Easter in Berlin, where there are no nasty dengue mozzies.

Which brings us to this post. Easter! What better reason to dig out the deco and go shopping for a bit more. As I missed Christmas, the decoration freak in me is rubbing its furry paws together with glee. I think I might get a bit carried away this year... *smirk*

So, what have we done here? The bowl with the bunnies is filled with some very German Easter grass (it's HARD trying to find the actual living grass you grow yourself from seeds. The Germans looove their paper grass...), small decorative egg shells and felt balls. And ribbons! I am totally in love with them: it makes the whole world of difference when you just add a little bit of ribbon here and there. Or what do you think?

Tweet says the bird

Then there are the two candle holders, one with egg shells again and the other with small glass eggs from a lovely Finnish home decoration store Pentik. Both eggs are lying on a comfy bed of dried moss. I also wrapped two ex-dessert glasses with ribbon to make them more Eastery. Easy peasy.

Eggsies and ribbonsies, my precioussss...

Now I'll withdraw into my lair filled with all things flully and bunny-shaped. Stay tuned for more Easter related madness! //

Kotona! Ehkä mahtavinta ikinä. Denguekuumeen kourissa ja siitä toipuessa ei viimeiset viikot Thaikkulassa kovin hauskoja olleet. Nyt onkin sitten sitäkin ihanampaa puuhailla kotohommia, laitella pääsiäistä ja näperrellä projekteja. Eikös ole söpöjä nämä pääsiäisjutskat? Nauhoilla saa niin paljon kevätfiilistä aikaan :)

With love, Lilje