Friday, July 8, 2011
Just here to say hello!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Ai niin...
Vietin tuossa edellisen postauksen kanssa sen verran aikaa bloggerin temppujen korjaamiseen että saa nähdä kuinka innokkaana seuraavan kerran julkaisen kuvia. Jospa koetan keksiä miten html-koodia muokkaamalla saa kaikki temput korjattua, selviäisi siitäkin helpoimmalla...
I had forgotten how much I hate blogger's habit of throwing extra lines into your text when you upload images. Like the more you upload, the more you get to delete those extra lines... And for some reason editing is almost useless? I mean you highlight a word, and try to center align it, but the entire post moves to the center. You try to make your font smaller, but it doesn't work out until you've tried at least three times. And once you finally publish your post, you get even more extra lines that won't go away without a fight.
We'll see how eagerly I'll be posting pictures next time, because now everything seems to work the way it should. If I could just figure out how to edit html and fix all the extra shit directly, I'd save so much more time...
The grand re-opening
I'm not quite sure but I think I only made one card and one birthday gift back in the winter season. Remember the sneak peak I gave you guys back in September? Well sure you do, it's right below this post. Anyhow, I told you my mum "specifically requested that I'd make the stitching for her birthday" - tomorrow's her birthday. I was able to finish the work after I got back home from my travels, but framing was something that I didn't do until today. Well actually, I'm going to let the professionals take care of the framing, I just stretched the fabric over a framework I had at home.
So without further due, here's the pretty little thing!
All the pictures are a wee bit darker than I'd want them to be, I kinda ran out of sunlight (and you know how I feel about yellow light...) but it's alright! IT'S FINISHED. And it took only like what, a year? :D Thank goodness the actual stitching part didn't take that long.
The framework
Grass was designed beautifully in this stitch work. I just really like the subtle way it changes colour!
The white dots and hearts on the flower pots were made out of white satin thread, it looks really nice in reality.
Working with satin threads was fun, and I really like the outcome, they just aren't the easiest threads to use and I'm actually glad there weren't too many areas that needed them. They kind of tend to fall apart, you know?
Well anyhow, hope you enjoyed the pictures! I'll show you one more picture once the professionals have created frames for this.
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Koetan kirjoittaa mahdollisimman paljon myös suomeksi, tällä hetkellä vaan tuntuu jotenkin siltä että tekstiä tulee helpommin englanniksi... Viime aikoina on ollut vähän sellainen fiilis että sitä suomea voisi kirjoitella useamminkin, kun tuntuu että sanat on hukassa vähän väliä. Täällähän sitä saisi kirjoitella vaikka kuinka! Joten yritän pitäytyä lupauksessani pitää tämän blogin kaksikielisenä..
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sneak peek!
It stole my heart when I saw it for the first time. It must be one of the cutest designs I've ever seen! The collection that this design belongs into is my definite favourite. There are maybe three or four collections that make me go nuts, but they're also very popular, so it's a bit expensive to start buying them online... So I usually get my designs from foreign cross stitch magazines. If I get lucky, that is! They don't exactly publish what I want. Anyway, luckily this one made it's way to the magazine, my mum specifically requested that I'd make this for her birthday. But it ain't done yet! I haven't completed backstitching, i.e. some of the outlines are missing. I hope you get to see the whole stitching soon though! I have an amazing journey coming up and I'm leaving next Saturday.. I have a lot to do before I leave, especially because it's a 5-week journey, but I might have enough time to finish the design!
Ps. This is the first design where I get to use satin threads..! Doesn't it look pretty?
Friday, August 20, 2010
Pimp my sofa
Today I got a little sofa in my room. It's been in another room for as long as I can remember, but we did a little bit of rearranging, so it doesn't fit there anymore. And because I've always wanted a sofa, my parents decided to put it in my room, instead of throwing it away. I don't really mind! I hope next year around this time I've already moved out. But I have to live with the sofa for about a year, so ... why not altering it a little bit! It's super ugly, super old, not exactly the most comfortable sofas to have, and it's even a little bit dirty... I think it really needs a new look. And I'm actually pretty excited! Nobody wants it anyway. I have no idea how to make new covers to the cushions (or whatever you wanna call them), but that's what makes this even more interesting! :)
Now I'm not sure when I'll be able to do all this, since I've got all kinds of things to do before my month-long trip to Central Europe, but hopefully I'll come up with something nice and manage to put it into practise! It always makes me happy to know that I've got something where I get to be a little creative :)
Thursday, August 19, 2010
got some good news!
Craft lover meets American craft stores
Vielä viimeisenä, eikä suinkaan vähäisempänä, on yksi mun suosikeista: glue dots. Näitäkään en ole Suomesta löytänyt. Näillä saan kiinnitettyä kaikki pienimmätkin yksityiskohdat, strasseista puhumattakaan! Spesiaalin tekee tästä löydöstä myös se, että nämä löytyi pienestä aivan hurmaavasta askarteluputiikista, joka taas löytyy eräästä Poulsbo-nimisestä skandinaavisesta kylästä. Ei tosiaankaan mistään niistä suurista askartelumarketeista.
ps. Kertokaa, jos teillä on ongelmia sivuston lataamisessa! Nämä kuvat on aika älyttömän suuria, lähentelee seitsemää megatavua. En jaksanut nyt niitä ruveta pienentelemään, mutta jos ongelmia tulee, niin hoidan sen sitten!
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Americans are the pioneers of scrapbooking. Americans make the best materials, and they come up with the best ideas for using them. (The sad thing is that Americans seem to have more versatile selection of different crafting tools by Fiskars, even though Fiskars is a Finnish company!) So when a craft lover like me spends a month in America, there's no way I could come back home without having my bag full of scrapbook material! So today I'm showing you pictures of the selected few items that I find somehow precious :) and they're all 100% American.
The first picture shows two thirds of all the materials I bought while I was in the Seattle area. They're all from Michaels; at that point I hadn't seen JoAnn yet. (JoAnn ended up being almost better than Michaels, but for some reason I managed to spend just a fair amount of money!)
In the second picture I have my one-dollar stamps, which is a rare thing to see in Finland. Cute stamps like those will never be just one dollar in Finland! The Sachel Paige stamp and the little "handmade from the heart" stamp were not on sale though, those were a bit more expensive. (But then again, all wooden stamps are.)
Clear stamps are my favourites! And those kid quotes are the cutest things ever. Two of those quotes are also some of the best quotes I've ever heard!
Rub-ons are a bit rare in Finland. I've seen some, but I've never bought any, because so far they haven't been very interesting. These, on the other hand, were something that I just had to get! I love good quotes, and those friendship quotes were so darn pretty too... and the ones that talk about traveling are perfect for my travel journal.
Seattle chipboard stickers were a must! :)
The 6th picture is yet another good example of my passion for quotes; English speakers just have better quotes, and they make them look good too. I don't think they are as fascinating in Finnish as they are in English.
I'm really excited about the items in the seventh picture, because I've been searching for clear stamps like those for a long time.. and those rhinestone versions are super rare in Finland. (I have no idea what to call those decorations! I guess they're ...wreaths, of some sort?)
K&Company's tag pads are expensive in Finland. And the brown ones are a bit rare too. They're not the most exciting things I bought, but they were worth it anyway! K&Company's tag pads are super cute.
And last, but not least, glue dots! They might be something that you'd consider to be completely normal, but again those are rare in Finland. I remember the frustrated feeling of not having glue dots (it's quite tricky to attach rhinestones that aren't self-adhesive..), and I didn't even know they exist! So to me it felt like a miracle to find glue dots.
ps. Let me know if you're having troubles with reading my blog! My pictures are huge, like 7 Megabytes, so loading might take a while. I'm not sure, so let me know if something like this happens, and I'll resize the pictures. :)