My a new tattoo

Hello dears,

Yesterday I spend about 3 hours at the tattoo studio. I got a new tattoo on my right arm. I looooove it! I have always liked the old school tattoos. Especially old school swallow tattoos. Most of my tattoos are related to Japan somehow. So is my new tattoo.

Pretty, isn't?

Now I love to take a new tattoo. I have a couple ideas. I like to have old school swallow tattoo on my left arm too but with the text, envelope or pentals of cherry blossoms. If I decide to take it with the text I want the text to be "mia san mia" coz I'm fan of FC Bayern München. If I decide not to take it with the text I like to take the text anyway. I have so many ideas and so little money :S

Till next time! Ciao!

Good music makes you happier

Hello dears,

Yesterday I went to Tavastia club with my friend to see a concert a Finnish metal band called as Stam1na. Stam1na is one of my favorite bands so it was pleasure to see them on stage again.

Our evening started in a pub called as Rotterdam. We had drinks there and then we headed to the Tavastia. Tavastia was sold out so it was full of people. One a huge minus of these club gigs  is the fact there's always someone taller standing front of you so you aren't able to see much. Anyhow, I did enjoyed a lot the gig. It was suprising to see that people sang a lot and some even danced. Dancing on a metal gig? Well, I suppose all you need is to catch the rhythm. 

Stam1na

Stam1na

Antti "Hyrde" Hyyrynen

I had lots of fun. I sang, danced, jumped and simple were happy to be there listening some absolutely fabulous metal music. I don't go much gigs anymore but when I do, I go to see the bands which I really like. Speaking of it, Stam1na will have gig in Helsinki next year. They'll play with another Finnish band, Eläkeläiset. Since I like both bands I love to go that concert too. So I have to buy a tickets to that gig soonish.

Till next time! :)

Happy Independence Day Finland

Hello dears,

Today Finland is celebrating 99th Independence Day. To celebrate it I got two candles, blue and white ( the colors of Finnish flag) and also bunch of flowers, also colors of Finnish flag.
As food I made sauteed reindeer, in Finnish "poronkäristys". It's traditional Finnish food from Lapland. I have never made it at home and I was suprised to notice that it's actually quite easy to make :) I definitely gonna make it again.

Sauteed reindeer.

There's couple things that Finns are obsessed to do on Independence Day.

• to watch Tuntematon sotilas, "The Unknown Soldier", a movie based on a novel By Väinö Linna.  The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers. Here's a clip of it, in Finnish: 

 
 

• and watch Linnan juhlat on the evening, also known as Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto. In English, Presidential Independence Day reception. It's held in Presidential Palace and it is broadcast on national television and has been a perennial favourite of the viewing public.

Personally I have never watched "The Unknown Soldier", not a fan of war movies. But this year, I gonna watch it. Since every year I hear comments like "you aren't a true Finn if you haven't seen the movie." A newsflash, I haven't read the book either.
 What comes to the Presidential Independence Day reception, never understood what is so great about watching people getting a good meal while you're eating potato chips front of your TV. But I guess I might watch the reception this year, so I know what people are talking about at work tomorrow.

Happy Independence Day Finland!

Till next time!

Ugly Christmas sweater party

Hello dears,

Yesterday I hosted Ugly Christmas sweater party. I like the idea of Ugly Christmas sweater party. It's about being silly and having fun. We had lots of fun and it was great that my friends had saw a little trouble with their sweaters. <3

Merry people wearing ugly xmas sweaters.

As you can see the idea was to make really tacky Christmas sweaters. My personal favorite was the white sweater. I was speechless when I saw her sweater. Simply brilliant! It's great that somebody else has understood the idea of ugly Christmas sweater as I have; more is more.

My ugly Christmas sweater; have a holly jolly xmas!



What do you think about my sweater? Ugly, isn't?

 

Till next time!

 



Melted snowman gingerbreads

Hello dears,

Today I felt like baking something so I wanted to try to make something new and since the Christmas is coming I made melted snowman gingerbreads. I thought it's gonna be really messy and lot of work but it actually was quite easy and fast to make. The best part was that I didn't had much cleaning to afterwards.

So, first I made the gingerbreads. When gingerbreads were cooled I decorated them with using Dr. Oetker's Choco Cover White Chocolate Taste( there's a really handy product, easy to use. I recommed it to everybody who likes to bake a lot :) ), marshmallows and sprinkles.
It took about 30 mins to decorate the gingerbreads. And here's the result:

Tomorrow I gonna bake a Kinder cake. More about it on my next blog.
Till next time! Ciao! :)

An easy diy birthday card idea

Hello dears,

Wow! It's already November. Time really flies fast. I'm into crafts again. Good friend of mine will have a birthday next week so I made a birthday card for her.
While I wrapped Christmas presents yesterday I got an idea what kind of birthday card I will do for her. Now I gonna share with you how to make fast a birthday card. It's very easy, all you need is a blank card, any color will do, it's up to you. Wrapping paper, gift bow and glue. So let's start it; First you need to cut a piece of wrapping paper the shape of the card. Then you glue the wrapping paper on the card. I decided to cut rounded corners, but it's optional.  Then just glue the gift bow and voilà you're ready.

Voilà, the card is ready!

As you can see making selfmade birthday card can very easy and fast. Now all I need to do is to send the card.

Till next time! Ciao!

A day at the fairs

Hello dears,

The plan was to go book fair, liquorice and salmiakki festival and Japan day. First was the book fair. Simply because it's my every year tradition to go book fair. There was lots of interesting interviews today so I spend my midday listening lost of interesting interviews. One of them was the interview of makers of Finnish TV programme Madventures. They spoke about their a new book "Mad music", which by the way is on my birthday/Christmas present list now. Wink wink ;) Anyhow, the book is about the music around the world. And it doesn't mean world music or etno music. It's about the music what people listen, well for example in Korea. How many of you has ever heard of K-pop? Personally I think from South Korea comes some of the greatest pop bands. The reason why I am interested to have the book is coz I do like to listen different types of music. Those who knows me well, knows that I am a huge fan Japanese pop/rock music. Lately I have listened a lot German pop/rock music too. It would be great to listen for example African pop. Or even better African metal music. I wonder do they have metal bands in Africa...

Tunna and Riku, makers of Madventures
 

And speaking of K-pop. Here's a song by one of my favorite K-pop bands: TVXQ. You're welcome :)

Next interview that I went to listen was about Shakespeare. In Kansallisteatteri is coming not one but two playes of Shakespeare soon. Macbeth and Richard III. Guess how excited I am at the moment? Very, very...VERYYYY excited. I do love playes of Shakespeare. Richard III is one of my favorite playes. I also love Halmet. So I definitely will go to see both playes. I hope they will bring Hamlet also on the stage.

Then was time to go to next event. And it was Japan day. It wasn't anything special. Same old stuffs as usually, meaning 3 years ago. But what I really liked it was the ikebana workshop.

My first ikebana arrangement.

It was absolutely fantastic finally to do ikebana arrangement. I got so excited that I have to buy all the stuffs for it so I can start to make ikebana arrangements at home too. It's form of art. Unfortenally it doesn't last long but some of the most beautiful things doesn't last long.

I didn't felt like going to the liquorice and salmiakki festival, so after my visit to Japan day I took bus back home. Now I just wanna relax. Read a book that I bought from book fair and drink Glühwein.

Till next time! Ciao!