Jewellery trees

Went mushrooming last weekend and found some cool branches.

1. Collected pretty branches and took them home

2. Cleaned them and snapped off any brittle bits

3. Drilled and glued a few together

4. Slapped on a few golden paint highlights

5. Popped some wooden beads on the ends of a few branches

6. Hammered to a painting easel 

(long story involving some very slow drying clay and a failed attempt at making a clay stand) 

7. Hung some bracelets and necklaces from it

It would look really cool on a wall as well, 

but I have no available wall space on walls that aren't rock hard cement..

Here's a ring holder I made a few years back, also added some beads to it yesterday:

And of course this would look really cool au naturel, sans paint and beads!

Bits and pieces from the past week or so

Went to Seurasaari with my mum, sister and her boyfriend. The weather was lovely! 

We strolled around the island and fed the squirrels and birds (ducks, ravens, geese..) as we enjoyed the sunshine.

On Thursday the 23rd Helsinki celebrated the Night of the Arts. I walked around town with a few friends for 6 hours or so, checking out all the cool things going on. Here's a few pics:

The end of the giant 3 km long dominos at Senaatintori (I took home a tiny piece of one..!)

A hot air balloon that people made out of plastic bags (you could even go inside it!) next to Lasipalatsi:

Minna Parikka meets Jani Leinonen (part of an exhibition at the Amos Anderson art museum)

 Look! There are little baby tomatoes on my tomato plant!! So cute!

I crocheted a little bowl thing:

Went fleamarketing with my mum today and while I only found one thing, 

it was this AMAZING PINK HORSE!!!!11

I'm so in love with this little guy. He is amazing. Look at his mane!

Walkie walkie walkies

A sunny walk from Hanasaari to Matinkylä.

Posing, posing with the tree. Terkkuja Suskalle, this goes out to you!

 There it is, waiting for us to visit it again...!

 Gaaaaahhhh!!!1