The Carneval of Lights

Hello dears,

Yesterday I went to the carneval of lights in Linnanmäki with a friend. Linnanmäki is amusement park in Helsinki. Linnanmäki was full of lights and it looked magical in the dark. I really liked the exhibition at the old water reservoir, Alppilan vesitorni. Here's a few photos from the carneval.
 

Welcome to the carneval of lights

Hattivatteja! Hattifattener!

This was one of the works at the exhibition at the old water reservoir.

And here is another one. It's my personal favorite.

Don't worry, BE happy!

It was a chilly evening, so we had chili hot chocolate to drink while we walked around the carneval area. It was really good, the chili helped to stay warm.
 Around 8 o'clock Linnanmäki was full of people, then we decided to left. Either of us didn't enjoyed the idea of walking in crowed amusement park. Not much fun. So we left + plus I started to be quite tired after working 8 hours at work.

Till next time! Ciao! 

I'm a bronde

Hello dears,

I have wanted to do something to my hair quite a while. I ended up with bronde color. Bronde is something between brown and blonde.  My natural hair color is dark brown and it makes me look like a zombie. I often hear comments like "Oh" Your skin is very pale." That's why I like to have lighter color on my hair, so I was excited when I saw L'Oreals Glam Lights color at the market. I had to buy a box of it and try it.

Here's before and after photo:

Yup. Bronde looks much better than brown hair.

I didn't wanted the color to be too light. The magic of bronde color is that you can't be sure what color my hair really is, if the lighting is right the hair looks lighter, almost blonde.

I would recommend bronde color to anyone who wants to have lighter hair color but doesn't want to dye blonde hair.

Till next time!

Fall greetings!

Hello dears,

Since it is officially fall now. I thought why not to cheer up some of my friends and send them fall greetings postcards. Coz' I had some time to do crafts on weekend I made fall greeting cards. In the end I decided to write the cards in Finnish, English and German.
What do you think? I wanted to make something simple and plain.

Fall greetings! Syysterveiset! Herbst Grüße!

Have a good fall everybody!

Till next time!

Cauliflower pizza crust

Hello dears,

Last week I made cauliflower pizza crust, and damn it was really good. I think now on I will always make pizza crust of cauliflower. It's easy to make and tastes really good. Plus personally I like it coz there's no flours.
 So here it is: cauliflower pizza crust.

Ingredients

1 big cauliflower
1 egg
A bag of emmentaler cheese ( or any cheese that you like to use)

1. Preheat the oven to 200C
2. Grate the cauliflower using a box grater, saute the cauliflowers until golden.
3. Mix the egg, fried cauliflowers and the bag of cheese. Once combined, pat into the baking tray. Bake for 10 or 15 minutes, or until golden.
4. Add the toppings and bake another 10 minutes.

As I said it's easy to make. I made mozzarella and tomato pizza. Next time I gonna use other toppings. Maybe ham or tuna. There's so many options...

Eichhornia crassipes

Hello dears,

I bought something pretty to my living room this week; Eichhornia crassipes, also known as water hyacinth. I think it looks nice on my living room. It's just I don't know how to take care of it. So if any of you has any tips how to take the plant alive I would be more than happy to know them :) I don't know much about the plant. I know it's considered as invasive species. The plant free-floating perennial aquati plant native to tropical and sub-tropical South America.
I keep my fingers crossed that the plant won't die soon. That's why it would like to know tips how to take care of the plant. Like how often I should change the water?  Meanwhile I gonna enjoy the beauty of my new flower :)

The water hyacinth from above

A corner of my living room.

Till next time! Ciao! :)

A week in Crete

Hello dears,

I got back home from Crete today. I had absolutely fantastic week in there with my friend. We arrived in Chania on 20th August, after we had booked on our hotel we went straight to the pool area to enjoy of the sunny day. On the evening we had a dinner in the seaside. It was nice to watch the sunset while enjoying of yummy food. I absolutely love Greek food. I even bought some local spices at home so I can cook Greek food at home too. Greek meatballs are heavenly good! Anyhow, after our dinner we went to Bamboo bar to have drinks and then we went to back to the hotel.
 On Sunday we spend almost whole day at the beach. My back really didn't liked it. Even I always use sun protection factor 50 I got sunburn. My back looked really bad on Sunday evening. Good thing was that we went to Chania on evening to have a dinner so I bought aloe vera olive gel for sunburns. Thanks to it my back isn't red anymore, and I can actually sleep on my back again. Hurrey!
So on Sunday evening we had dinner in Chania. We ate in a restaurant called as Tamam. On the restaurant was a cat sleeping on the chair and it was really cute.

The cat of Tamam restaurant

After our dinner we walked around the Venetian harbour and we saw another beautiful sunset.

Sunset in Chania

On Monday we made a day trip to Elafonisi beach. Which is awesome place and also very very beautiful. I love it. The clear water and white sand. If you ever go in Crete you should visit in Elafonisi, you will love it!  I had chance to go snorkeling in Elafonisi. It's good place to go snorkeling. I saw lots of different kind of fishes.

Enjoying the day in Elafonisi

Elafonisi beach

Another photo of Elafonisi beach

On Tuesday we spend the day in Chania. We did some shopping, walked around the city and enjoyed the sunny day. One thing what I really like about Chania are the narrow streets. Venetian harbor looks very romantic.

A details of Chania

In Chania

On Wednesday we had another beach day. We went another beach coz we wanted to go snorkeling again. Again we saw lots of fishes. I even saw big fish hunting the little fishes. 

Can you see group of a little fishes?

On Wednesday evening we went to train trip to the mountains. We visited in winery. We had a chance to do wine tasting in there. Which was a lot of fun. We also visited in monastery. From the monastery was really nice views, and I saw another great sunset.

Wine tasting. Personally I'm not a fan of rose wines.

A view from monastery

Another view from monastery

The sunset

On Thursday we spend half of the day at the pool. I read a book and enjoyed a good weather. Only negative thing about the day at the pool was a Swedish couple who had lots of fun doing some body shaming. They seemed to have fun to make fun of the way I looked on bikinis. I really wanted to say something to them about their behavior. But I didn't, mostly coz I was really annoyed. When I am annoyed I might say nasty things so I thought it's better not to do anything.

On Friday we visited in archaeological museum of Chania. I liked that museum a lot. But again, I'm interested of archaeology so it was prefect way to start to day. I also learnt something new. I didn't knew much about Minoans before visiting the museum.  After visiting the museum we did some more shopping. I'm glad that I bought some really nice leather products from Crete. Like a new bag and sandals. We had lunch in a nice restaurant in Chania. It was the first restaurant where they had Finnish menu. Which was kinda suprising.

A lunch in Chania

 

 

Friday evening we went to a huge market to buy some souvenirs. I also found a birthday present to my stepsister. Woohoo! When we got back to the hotel we drank a bottle of sangria and sat on the terrance. After bottle of sangria we had dinner at the hotel. When we got back in our room we packed and drank white wine. We finished packing around 1am.  I was so tired so I went to bed. Unfortenally I wasn't able to sleep well coz I kept waking up, just to check how much time is it.

 

When I got back home I put all my stuffs on hot sauna. Just to make sure that if there was any bugs on my suitcase that them are dead before I unpack. I should take the suitcase off the sauna soon. Then  I will go to in sauna to relax. My plan for the evening is to make pizza and watch tv. I just wanna stay at home and relax now.

 

Till next time! 

Let's humppa!

Hello dears,

Yesterday I had a pleasure to spend an evening in Somero, a dance hall called as Esakallio. There performed Underground Rock Orchestra and Eläkeläiset

Since the concert was in Somero, my friend bought us combined ticket with the bus and the actual ticket to the concert. So our journey to Somero started from Helsinki around 7pm and we were in Somero about 30 mins before concert of Underground Rock Orchestra. We had enough time to go to the toilet and have a drinks. O boy, and we were lucky with our drinks. I must say that I am quite picky what comes to drinks, especially beers. I pretty much drink only Weißbier so luckily they had 2 bottles Weißbier left in the bar. Woohoo! After the drinks we went to see the concert a bit closer. I really liked the concert of Underground Rock Orchestra. A big plus was that I finally saw M.A Numminen on stage.

Underground Rock Orchestra

After the concert we had a little time before the concert of Eläkeläiset so we went to back to the bar coz my friend wanted to have another drink. I just wanted to sit coz my legs were aching. Here comes a free tip for everyone- highheels aren't the best shoes to wear in a concert.

We saw something really scary in Esakallio, wax dolls. Creepy wax dolls. Or what do you think?

What did I said?

 Eläkeläiset was AWESOME! People went scary during the concert. I saw people dancing "letkajenkka" around the dance hall. Somebody even picked me on the jenkka line. So I found myself dancing letkajenkka in Somero. It was quite fun! I haven't danced letkajenkka for a long time. Probably last time when I was on 7th grade. My friend just laughed when she saw me and others dancing letkajenkka. I was glad that I wore my vintage dress. After all when you go in a dance hall you should wear a dress.

What do you think about my dress?

Anyhow, the concert of Eläkeläiset was very energic and lots of fun to watch.

Eläkeläiset

As a live band they are just great. If I have a chance I'll go to see them again. A good music, a better mood. :)

After the concert the bus was waiting us. I was quite tired but yet still I couldn't sleep in a bus. I was at home around 4:15am and went to bed around 4:55am. It sucks that I couldn't sleep any longer coz we had thunderstorm here this morning. So now I am quite tired, I gonna try to have some sleep when I have finised writing this blog update. It's not normal to me stay up so late. Good thing is that I am on vacation so I don't have to wake up early on Monday morning.

Till next time!