Just here to say hello!

There's this cute little gift I have made for someone very special, but I can't post any pictures of it. Not before this person gets it. So, just to avoid huge gaps between these posts, here's a picture of a teddy called Sulo - I was bored at work, so I started sketching this teddy on a post-it note. His head is too small, but shhh, nobody has to know! ;)

Ai niin...

Olin jo ihan unohtanut miten ärsyttävä tapa bloggerilla on lisäillä omia rivejä kun lataa muutamia kuvia. Niitä saa olla poistamassa oikein urakalla, ja sitten kun tuntuu että rivit on kaikki kohdallaan, blogger heittää pari haamuriviä julkaistuun versioon eikä niitä saa pois ilman pientä tappelua. Jostain syystä blogger ei osaa enää muokata tekstiäkään? Fontti ei pienene ennen kuin muutaman epäonnistuneen yrityksen jälkeen, ja jos korostaa jonkun yhden sanan ja haluaa sen laittaa vasemman reunan sijaan keskelle, koko teksti tekee saman perässä. Mainitsinko jo miten kuvatkaan eivät siirry kunnolla kun niitä yrittää tekstin sekaan sijoitella?

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...

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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...

got some good news!

i finally got my hands on my official grad pictures, so that means i get to start making thank you cards!!

eeny, meeny, miny, moe...

For some strange reason I find it easier to write in English. I might be able to describe things more accurately in Finnish, and my English isn't absolutely perfect, but I can't change the fact that Finnish feels .. awkward. (Surprise surprise.) It may not stay that way, but I'm still thinking about having a blog in English only.. So, just to see how it feels like, I'm going to show you one of my quickmakes without using Finnish. Sorry guys. :)

Quickmakes are sometimes my favourites. They're very handy when you have to make a card in a hurry, and if you come up with (or find) a pretty design, it won't even look like a quickmake. Here's one of my favourite quickmakes that just arrived to its new owner:

I stamped and coloured the image of three little mice enjoying a birthday cupcake. Margaret Sherry is one of my favourite designers, her Penny Black stamp collections are the sweetest ever!

The tag has been attached with foam pads, to create a 3D effect. You can't really see it from here, but the card is quite small; less than 10cm x 10cm. Definitely a quickmake, you can't spend too much time on decorating the card if you have a limited space!

The card I've been working on with these last few days is a pink ballerina card, a birthday card to a little German girl :) I should be able to post some pictures of it soon!