Window #6

Hello mates!!:)

And happy independence day Finland, it's your 98th so far.

Today I could give you my tips for shopping presents with a student budget. :)

- look for discounts (for example 3 for 2, sale days)

- DIY if you can or want to

- try to buy present all around the year if you find something

- save money every month 

- you can find unused item from secondhand store even though it can be difficult

After all many people say that presents are not important, just if you spend time with them and have fun that's the best gift. So don't worry and don't lose your hopes! :)

You can give your best tips in the comments below. :)

Window #5

Hi mates!

In today's window I'm going to talk about Christmas foods, because I'm going out to eat today.

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Every year on Christmas we have tons of food, there is no exception. We have the Christmas ham, salmon, different types of casseroles like a carrot one and a swede one. Then we have two types of potatoes. We always have so many different type of dishes so I don't remember everything that we have..:D

Roasting the ham is like a tradition and when we put it into the oven it's like wow Christmas is so soon.

For dessert we have some different types of sweets. Every year we have gingerbread and these things called joulutortut, I couldn't find an English word for it. With those we usually have a dry cake and chocolate. :)

My favourites out of these are Christmas ham, salmon, mashed potato and chocolate...:)

What's your favourite?

Window #4

Hello mates!:)

In this part I'll will show you some of my favourite Christmas songs.

First the English ones.

I love Michael Bublé's voice so the most these are sang by him.

And here is some Finnish ones. :)

This one has a great music video, because it's from an animated movie.

Window #3

Hi mates! Now it's December 3rd.

This year I've thought a lot of buying a very tacky Christmas jumper. Unfortunately it's been a hard challenge with a budget under 25 euros, because I've learnt that I shouldn't buy a jumper made out of acrylic. My mom said that if they are 100% acrylic they won't last very long. But I think that they might last longer if I washed them by hand. Please leave a comment that do they last, if you have or had a 100% acrylic jumper. :)

There are some very nice ones at next.co.uk but they are, I think, between 25 and 40 GBP. I've also looked up some jumpers on amazon, but I haven't found any good yet that isn't acrylic. There is some Frozen ones that would be quite cool but I'm not sure yet. ':D

Window #2

Hi mates!

In this second window of this advent calendar we could do some Christmas cards.

Here is a few ideas for them! :)

For this red one I put stickers that says Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Then I cut like little boxes out of baize to make presents. I clued them onto the card carton and I drew the ribbon with a marker.

And here is a few other cards that I've made. Most of the time I just like to stick a bunch of stickers onto the cards..:D

Window #1

Hi mates!
Here is the first window for this advent calendar..:D

Christmas has been my favourite holiday for a very long time if not always.
When it's the end of November I usually get very excited for Christmas and start like mentally preparing for it.

This year I bought most of the presents quite early, I think it was October and early November. We celebrate the Christmas Eve with some of my relatives so there is always around 16 to 18 people and I buy presents for most of them.

I can't wait to put Christmas lights in my room even though I rarely have them on. :D
Now it's also a perfect time to light up candles. Only 23 nights till Christmas Eve, time will go fast.


I was wondering, would you like if I played or sang a Christmas song for some of this advent calendar's window?

When others inspire you

Hi mates! How's going?

I just came home about two and a half hours ago after I went to see a concert. There was this artist called Pave Maijanen and a string quartet playing. Apart from singing Pave also played guitar and the piano. I could call the versions perfection, they were amazing.

Probably non of you knows but I used to play cello for four years. The same amount of time I have rarely touch and played it. While I was in the concert I got a spark to play cello again but I still have mixed feelings about it.

It amazes me how some people can inspire us so much even knowing it. I used to be so into music but I lost it some years ago. I really want to change that now...

A dress out of Stockmann's catalog

Hi mates!:)

I gripped the Stockmann's Hullut Päivät (Crazy Days) -catalog a day before it started, so that I could see what they were having on sale each day. Since I've done clothes out of paper before, I decided to use the catalog before recycling it. 

Usually I don't think what I'm going to do when I start making a piece of clothing, I just start doing it which of course happened this time too.  It turned out to become a peplum dress and I actually kinda like it. :D

It's so weird that I hardly use dresses myself but I love making them.

Oh yeah, because it's already the middle of November I was thinking that should I make like a advent calendar posts from 1st of the December until December 24th. Please leave a comment below! :)

It's already November

Hi mates!

Long time no see and I can't believe how fast the weeks have went.
 I've tried to focus on school more than I did before but still it feels that I don't do enough (probably because I so lazy doing so of my homework). Although I feel that I enjoy school more than last year.

So far I have become more and more aware that I really need to work on time management. There is so many things I would like to do but I just never plan time to do it.

Tomorrow I'm going to ask my Finnish teacher about this little project that could I do it and if she says yes then I probably will show some pictures of it here. :)

The Irish festival of Oulu 2015

A chairde!

(it means friends/dear all)

That was Irish Gaelic if you didn't know...':D

Last week we had our annual Irish festival here in Oulu. It was a big celebration because it was the 10th Irish festival of Oulu, so far. The last two years I went to see Gaelic football matches but this year instead of watching the Gaelic football tournament, I learnt some Irish Gaelic.

(I'm not sure with word to use so I mostly use both of them)

The language course was during Friday, Saturday and Sunday overall 8 hours. Our teacher came all the way from Ireland and she was awesome. She taught us the basics to have a conversation in Gaelic and a couple of songs.

On Sunday I went to The Chieftains' concert. It was the ending/closing concert of the festival so the place, where the concert was held, was very crowded. I enjoyed the gig a lot and I would be very happy if I could listen to them live again.

I'm really looking forward to next year because then I'll be 18, so there will be more events that I can participate. :) 

Easy smoothie recipe

Hello mates! :)

This time I'm going to tell you a very simple smoothie, which I've tried now a couple times.
Okay, let's begin...

The ingredients you'll need:
- a banana
- an apple (I prefer the green one)
- a pear
- about 1 to 2 dl of vanilla yoghurt

After you've gathered the ingredients, peel the fruits, chop them into the blender and add the yoghurt.

Then just turn the blender on and blend the ingredients well together. And now you have a delicious smoothie. :)

One picture, different versions

Hi mates!! :)

I am here again with another photograph focused blog post...':D

So I took a photo of this place and I edited it with Photoshop to get all these different versions of it.

 I think that this is the original picture.

It is my blog's 1st birthday! / I went fishing

Hi mates!

I just thought about checking the day when I made the first blog post on to this blog.

IT'S EXACTLY A YEAR AGO yikes!

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But now on today's topic...

On the September 13th I went fishing with my dad to a river called Nuorittajoki which is located in Pudasjärvi.

Sorry about the showing insides of the fish but we didn't have a choice. The fish had eaten the hook so well that my dad wasn't able to take it off when the fish was still alive.

If you would like to see something special because I have had this blog now for a year, please leave a comment down below! :)

SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL

Hi mates!:)
I've been in school for almost a month now. I have really tried to focus on it, so it's been difficult for me to even post anything here.
In this post I will show you some pictures that I took and edited during the last couple weeks on visual art class.
(As you might tell this blog is slowly turning to photography blog...)

The day I went to see rapids at Koitelinkoski

We went to see these rapids at Koitelinkoski on one Sunday afternoon and here are some pictures that I took there. :)