Tassel earrings

* Some tassely tassel earrings I made a while back... *

Curtains and skipping ropes

I visited the UFF on Freda (street in Helsinki) a few weeks back, they had a everything-5-euros day and I found this retro pink and orange curtain that I just couldn't leave behind... 

and I'm not quite sure what I plan to do with.. 

It's serving as a table cloth for my coffee table for now. 

Maybe I'll line it with some waterproof fabric and use it as a picnic blanket in the summer, who knows..

The colours are a lot more vibrant in real life! 

More vibrant colours: 

I found this neon kids skipping rope in the free section at Kierrätyskeskus 

and I plan on making a necklace out of it. 

Just need to buy some good colour string to sew/tie it up with!

Here's some squiggles depicting my plans for making the necklace!

 Not gonna plan it out though,
just twist and secure with thread/string/rope, or maybe even wire, as I go..!

Spring!

Pretty flowers make everything better! 

Even this almost-spring-but-not-quite-hahaa-suckers message the  weather is sending us.

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

I caved..

I promised some friends that I wouldn't go to kierrätyskeskus for at least a month, 

since I have enough stuff lying around, waiting for me to do something to them. 

But... as I went for a long walk on the sea ice last week, my way home took me past the forbidden land. And needless to say, I entered...

A quick visit to the free shit section and I left with a few treasures: a school book on flowers and an atlas, both from the 50's. Check these babies out!

Here's the book on plants:

 This one goes out to my sister: PO-TA-TOES (taters)

This caption made me lol: komea mänty = handsome pine

It is indeed very handsome.

There was a piece of paper tucked in at the back... oooh, what can it be...

 A super awesome, mint-condition poster on edible and poisonous mushrooms!! 

Can't wait to frame this. Maybe I'll give it to my mummy, she likes mushrooms. That sounded weird.

A couple of pages were in colour! 

I imagine well-behaved children looking at these photos and imagining all the wonderful 

things that live in our oceans and wanting to become a zoologist or something ocean-related.

An interesting diagram about American corn...

I do love diagrams.

And here's some photos of my lovely 'new' atlas:

 They really liked putting all the place names on these maps... my goodness.

Fancy pancy font.

Kuhmo!

Mmm, old books...

Meet a designer and an engineer - S. Serpola & W. Raduma @ Weegee

 Salmiak by Simo

 Attempts at taking photos of a machine that magnetically projects your heartbeat in this liquidy stuff. And failing at taking said photos. But this was cool. 

Chevron necklace inspiration

I must must MUST make myself some version of this craft by Evie S. I found from design*sponge:

A necklace full of chevrony goodness made with PASTA. Ah-mah-zing. 

I am having trouble stopping myself from staying home to do this right now (instead of getting ready to go to uni to do some work on my thesis...)

(http://www.designsponge.com/2012/01/diy-project-graphic-chevron-accessories.html)

or

(http://evie-s.com/news/2012/01/03/wearable-art-from-pasta/)