Owl dress, shouldn't have even started...

Sometimes things don't go as we see it in our head. Something that seems like such a great plan, doesn't work when we put it into action. That's what happened with this little owl dress. A very special girl turned one and she had an owl party. I wanted to make her an owl dress and saw this idea on pinterest. Oh the wrinkles, poor owl.

Harvest

Your own vegetables taste the best in the world. 

Grow your own, come on.

February

Hey it is the second month of the year! Here's this months art work from Emma and a thought that somehow fits in me so well. It makes me understand me a bit better. Maybe that's why I feel so different so often, because I'm trying to make a difference. Ha!

There's a thought for you too, do you try to make a difference and in what?

Medical party

My amazingly talented friend found out, while she was here, that she was going to graduate from med school. I wanted to do something special for her, since I can't be in Finland to celebrate with her, so while they went flying around Western Australia I got busy.

I got the medicine syringes and the urine cups from the pharmacy and filled them with jelly, lemonade flavour in the syringes and mango flavor in the urine cups. Then just some marshmellows as cotton balls, mints as aspirin and raspberry cordial as blood. 

Today she has officially graduated.

CONGRATULATIONS SUVI!

You are going to be an amazing doctor.

Dip your feet in the sea

If you ask me about Australia I'd say it's stinkin hot during summer and lovely every other season. It's dry and ugly right now and beautiful green every other season. Yes, if you ask me about Australia, I will tell you that summer is not my favorite season here. 

Then we went on a fishing trip to celebrate my darling husband's birthday and we found this spot:

Needless to say anything. We are obviously living in the wrong spot. 

And on our way there, this is the view we were looking at from our car:

Oh dear how breathtaking! So I will take some of my words back, Australia can be very stunning all year around. So dip your feet in the sea and enjoy the view!

 HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to each and everyone of you.

Best thing is

Friends are an amazing source of strength and happiness. It's like free therapy. So after having my best friend over for 3 weeks I feel very content and happy. Where our lives were once very similar, we are now worlds apart. Literally we live on the opposite sides of the world, I am home with the kids when she has just graduated and become a busy doctor. Still when we get together it's like the time has been still for years. Nothing has changed. She's still her funny self and I'm still the not-so-with-it me. Loved having her and her husband over. Couldn't have had a better start to the year.

Picture is of us in Albany, Western Australia.

Birthday balloons // HOW TO

Here's another step to keep my new years resolution. Nothing says more birthday than balloons, and even more balloons that say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! So instead of cards I'm sending balloons around! Wouldn't it be fun to get a balloon in the mail and then when you blow it up, there is a message on it for you. I also thought of putting some little presents inside some of them. That way the birthday girl/boy has to first blow it up so that they can see the message and then pop it to get the present.

If you want to make them too, here's a quick how to. Just write your messages with permanent pen and go nuts.