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Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

Last Minute Christmas Gift DIY

Hi guys!

So here's a last minute christmas gift DIY idea for your panicking souls. I did these origami "diamond" ornaments for my grandparents. You can find the instructions here.


I've packed my suitcase and I'm ready to head to Spain with my family tomorrow to (un)celebrate Christmas :). Have a lovely Christmas guys!




Christmas crafting: Advent calendar & straw diamonds

Hi guys!

Lately I've been busy with mainly three things: Christmas parties, crafting and being sick. We also celebrated Finland's Independence day with a couple of friends by watching President's party while sipping some sparkling wine and stuffing ourselves with sweets.

Last year I made a "christmas town" advent calendar for my niece with Ben. This year we did something different. Every day Isla will get a card with a picture I d
rew and the name in Finnish and in German ;).

Last year's advent calendar

This years' advent calendar
I've also done some other crafting.. like these diamond ornaments made out of straws. The instruction for the first one is here and for the second one here (unfortunately only in Finnish but the pics explain it pretty well!).




Finally a little sneak peek into our christmas party ;)




Somebody's been crafty again...

Hi guys!

Hope you had a great weekend! Mine was really good, it's been so sunny and warm (c'mon + 10 degrees is just 5 degrees away from (Finnish) summer) lately in Berlin that I've got this energy boost to do stuff! Also "abs2014" -project (with my Finnish friends) and "bitches for fitness" -project (with Siri) have kept me busy and turned me into a regular at my gym, haha. I hope that this motivation sticks. Possibly forever. Oh please do so. If anyone has healthy vegetarian recipes, please share! I'm starting to run out of ideas.

I finally finished my little project that I've been doing for a while...that involves me ripping pictures out of magazines whenever I stumble upon a nice looking one. I wanted to put together a "dream map". It sounds very lame and childish and it kind of is but it's so fun to make and it keeps me focused on whatever I want to achieve. This time my map included healthy lifestyle, getting fit, getting pro at yoga, planning a longer backpacking trip and doing my masters in fashion marketing or similar. Doing my master's will come at some point but for now I'm a bit too comfortable here in Berlin and in my current job to go anywhere ;).

By the way...is there any stationery lovers out there or am I alone with my obsession? I have successfully led "no-spending-on-things-you-don't-need" life since new years UNTIL...until I was casually walking home with Ben from Kochhaus* when I saw something irresistible, an Asian stationery shop! Has it always been there? Was it even real life? Asian stationery shop, Santokki, in the middle of Pappellallee and you know what that means! So cute things you wanna rip them apart!!

*Kochhaus guys, if you live in Germany and have occasional Martha Stewart moments in the kitchen but mostly you're just lazy like me, this is made for you. They have tables around with the recipe and the exact amounts of ingredients you'll need. You pick the dish that looks the most delicious, pick up the ingredients and go home to cook. Great way to impress your friends.



























Advent calendar: Christmas town

Hi guys!

Sorry for not posting for a looong time! Long story short: Ben messed up with our WiFi and it took ages to get it back! So I've been living offline life for almost too weeks now. It's been pretty refreshing! The only downside was that I couldn't blog, but I did lot's of other stuff like crafting, writing (other than blog), reading, cleaning, cooking, doing sports, and best of all; I went to bed super early every evening!

Here's a little sneak peek of what I mean with crafting... It has become more like a tradition that every year I make someone an advent calendar for Christmas. This year I made it of course for my lovely niece, Isla! She's only 1,5 years old so I made this little town and I put little toys, notes, stickers and chocolate inside the houses. There is also a story included. It's about little Isla-sticker who has lost some of her stuff, her pets and her good friend Marjaana-sticker, hahah...So she needs to find them before Christmas... ;)

I got the idea for the calendar from Paperikaupan tyttö. The templates for the houses I printed from Mr Printables.






 
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