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autumn red by BLOGitse

it’s autumn…

  Hi everyone! We can see it, we can feel it, autumn.   Soon nights will be below zero…   I walk and shoot photos at the same time…       The picture above inspired me to paint with watercolors…   hahah, not very good but it was meditative to play with colors…  

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my first ikebana by BLOGitse

my first Ikebana

Hi everyone! What a busy week I’ve had. Mon-Tue in Stockholm, Sweden, Wed met a friend here in Helsinki, Thu hair cut, today we’re having dinner guests…so my post is very short today.   Last Saturday I participated in ikebana for beginners course. It was very interesting but to really know how to make beautiful

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name:URL option commenting by BLOGitse

about: commenting, abstract, painting

  Hi everyone!   About leaving a comment. If you’re a Blogspot blogger you see this kind of list of options for others to leave comments:     Here I click name/URL option and after that it looks (sorry in Finnish!) like this     So here – as a human being – I need

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Ruins of the Viljandi Order Castle_1 by BLOGitse

it’s September!

    Hi everyone! How are you? Did you have a good summer? My summer was great even if the weather wasn’t perfect…hubby had six weeks vacation so we had time to do things at home and a couple of short trips etc. And tomorrow we’ll escape for two weeks. First one week in Greece

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unset Fri 5.8.2016 by BLOGitse

windy August…

Hey everyone! It’s been really windy, temperature dropped, rain every now and then…feels like autumn already! Autch.   Many evenings the sky has been like a flaming ocean… Like this on Friday 5.8.2016       This was an inspiration for my   Paint Party Friday   entry this week         After

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peony watercolor by BLOGitse

Mukavaa juhannusta! Happy midsummer!

  Finnish midsummer ‘juhannus’ is like a mega sauna party!   People escape to summer houses, cottages, tents… People enjoy sauna, swimming in cold waters, barbecue, drinks, get drunk…   We are boring. We stay at home.   We have everything here, enough good food and drinks – sauna is not ready but we enjoy

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ready sanded and painted old stool by BLOGitse

fountain pen sketches

Oooh what a week!   Men come and go, we move things from here to there and back… Sauna building is now…half done, but still lot to do. I sanded and painted two old stools – now they are ready.           check here how this looked last week   I had

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sanded old stool by BLOGitse

sanded and painted

  Hi everyone!   I gave up sanding the sauna window frames. We’ll do it later or not… But I sanded one of four old stools. Icky brown is almost gone, it gives  interesting surface with transparent pearl white paint.     Here it’s only partly painted. I’ll show it next weekend when two coats

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sewing summer tops by BLOGitse

sewing break

  This week has been mainly sewing –   sauna window frames are still waiting for sanding because I need special liquid to get rid off old varnish…   and I don’t like that kind of work… it can wait…xxx more days… 🙂   I’ve made kind of tank tops or sleeveless t-shirts…four pieces so

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window frames by BLOGitse

just flowers

  Our sauna building renovation is still going on. Now my duty is to sand window frames and paint them. I’ll show you when these are totally different color!       I haven’t had time or energy to paint, draw much but all Theme art flowers are done.   Loput teemakuun kukat kollaasin kera

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