Winter Wonderland

Enjoying white landscape with family and friends,

hope you are having Happy Holidays as well!

White Christmas

 

We did get a wonderful, white Christmas: it is so beautiful!
It was nice to have family round the table having dinner and playing games.
Hope you are having a joyful Holiday as well!

Summer Summary

The end of  a summer filled with

Sea, sea, sea... 

organizing WORKSHOPS...

 spending time with little k & family & friends

reading books..

moving young ones

Kesäblues

views @Vakaskari, Rauma

´Summerblues´ acryl on canvas, 46 x 54cm ( detail of an unfinished painting)

Pihlus, Rauma

Raumanmeri 6.-14.7. ( & 15.-22.7.)

Rauma Blues

Pori Jazz

Holiday by the sea & some great music events.

Väri tanssii auringossa

the "painting"

Aurajoki river

Turku, street painting

Sun & melting snow

Sini tanssii sinistä - Sini (=blue) dancing blues

Spring soon!

Street art

Turussa tyttären kanssa tanssin ja maalaamisen ja värien yhdistämistä kokeilemassa. 

Vicky Leandros,  L´amour est bleu

Dancing colors in Turku: a project of the dancing daughter. It is great to be able to work together:)

Eikä mittä tapahtun / Lazy week end

 

Rauma 30.6.-1.7.

ja taas oltti merell. Mittä ei tapahtun ja iha laiskan oltti.
Mää luule et see ol sitä luavaa joutilaisuutt.- Olkko mitä o mut kiva ol kumminki.
Aurink paist ja syätti kesä ( tähä mennes )  parhaitte onnistunut loimuloht  eikä valkkarissaka ollu valittamist. Peippo pit oma ruaktuntti meijä seuran; see söi jotta korentto iha siin viäress. Miäs luk lintukirjast et pajulint ja peippo o Suame yleisimmä pikkulinnu. Viäl takasi tulles ihmeteltti etei joku varpune, kottaraine taik rötö ol tavallisemp.

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Lazy weekend  by the sea watching birds and having a great Sunday lunch.

Länsirannikolla nähtyä

Raumanmeri 16.-17.6.

Meriaiheinen näyttely Santtiolla Pyhärannassa. Esillä on mökkinaapurimme Jorma Viitaniemen upeita puukkoja ja pienoismalleja laivoista sekä
 valokuvaaja Esa Urhosen taidokkaita laiva- ja meriaiheisia valokuvia.
Viimeisesssä kuvassa kynttilälyhtyyn kiinnitettynä pienoismalli saaresta, jossa mökkimme on:)

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Sea and ships exhibit in Santtio, Pyhäranta.

Sisterhood & Letters

Old letters and a postcard with  a picture of Miss Finland 1945

My grand mother ( mother ´s mother ) in the left with her sisters

letters to my grandma from her sisters and a very old picture . I do not know who those children are..

Fluently(?!?) about letters, grandmothers, sisters, traveling, diaries and gardens.
And pictures of clay..

This is how it goes:

I found some old letters  to my grandmother from her sisters.
They tell about some tragedies and joys of life.
Letters are intimate and written with careful handwriting and language.
They are  close pictures from the past and show the love and care taking between the women.
....

I hardly remember any letters written with my poor handwriting.
It is sad, really, only to write short messages via phone, e mail or FB.

I found no letters of mine but I found some old travel diaries from the 80´s (!) instead.
 That was  the only time in my life writing a diary
I was excited traveling across the Europe and seeing many wonderful places
I have loved traveling ever since that trip.

And some of you, my dear blog sisters, live in those countries and  cities we visited.
So I ended up to think and thank YOU, all my blog sisters,
for the the blog connection and friendship!
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ps. The page of the diary in the picture below  is about the gardens in Hamburg.
That  made me put the garden- flower- clay- face picture there, too.

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The theme of this week´s drawing challenge is
LETTERS
see Mano¨s delicate blog for all the other participants
Mano´s welt

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more ( in my previous blog )

..about grandmothers,  see here
..about traveling and memories, see here

A page of my diary, telling about Hamburg/ Planten und Blunmen, with a picture of my recent face of clay



 

Pair

Thinking of a pair, I think of couples of a different kind.

Swans at the Raumanmeri sea a year ago.

The pair, the couple of the summer 2011, the wedding of our son and his fiancee

In my art I often tend to express solitude;
there are only a few pairs to be found 

but here you can see some:

 Nocturne

Meet, Carborundum, 2008

Duck & Dove, acrylic 2010

PAIR is the theme of this week´s drawing challenge hosted by Helen,
see all the participants of the week  in her beautiful blog Objects of Whimsy