Apples came all down

Finally a non rainy day. We picked all the apples from the trees. We have two. The other one makes hardly any apples and they are usually very small, the other one makes big sour apples. We have excellent plans for the apples, one batch will become apple cider and other apple wine. Those are what we did a few years back when there also was a very good apple year. I will post more about cider and wine making when we have started the fermenting process.

Enthusiasm bites me back

Being enthusiastic is normally a good thing but being enthusiastic and way too optimistic about the time it takes to hack two IKEA bed side tables can lead to having no bed side tables at all. 

I placed an add for our old bed side tables in the net and one person was interested in them so I lifted them to the entry. But she didn't come to get them, so technically we still have bed side tables, I just wont bother lifting them back. The new ones are like almost done... almost.

Shanghai souvenir

A returned from Shanghai again and what had he got me as a souvenir. Bags? Shoes? Clothes? Electronics? No! He brought me rice paper. Yippee!

It's also known as Xuan paper, it can be used in painting with water colours and crafting and maybe even making a lantern. Or even a shoji screen, although it's not probably sturdy enough for that.

And OK he did also bring electronics, one small mp3 player for me. My old one had broke.

New schedule

I'm not sure you've noticed but for more than a year I have been publishing blog posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I liked that schedule. I feel it gives structure and I also like having the need to publish something, I feel like that keeps the standards a bit lower. Sounds weird but when I must write that often I will need to post all sorts of things, even things I don't have the time or energy to polish till perfect. Not that I'm a perfectionist anyway. Some of those posts are of course not that popular and some... well... some surprise me.

But I'm afraid that is not working anymore. Recently there has been many posts that I have not been inspired to write. Mainly it's because I just don't have as much free time as I had before. I spend way more time commuting to work than I did before and I also have worked later since summer. I like what I do so that is okey, but it means that I do not have as much time to spend in home. So I'm giving myself some slack. I will continue to write on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, BUT I might skip a day once in a while. Not that I really needed to write you this, I know you get it. But I had made myself a promise of some sort and now I'm adjusting that promise.

Just so you know.

Flea market finds

Flea markets are fun places but I go way too rarely to those. Last week I did go and found some cookie cutters. I especially like the bird and the mushroom cutter. The others are a bit more standard. Also the cutters came with a cool ring. I added all my cookie cutters on the ring, it was such a handy way to store the cutters.

Also I bought some baking forms, similar what I used when redoing the soap. But these are a bit bigger and more traditional in form. 

Rain and cold

Rain in a way is nice, it's calming some how. We've had some pretty heavy rain showers but the temperature outside has been surprisingly warm. I am just the one feeling cold. I have a flu. I've spent most of my time drinking tea, knitting and watching junk from tv.

Sun flower self picking

You saw a glimpse from the sun flowers on Monday's post. I picked the sun flowers from a field not far away. On Tuesday I went to get more and I also bought my camera with me.

The field is provided by the city and I know a few areas in Helsinki where self picking of flowers is free, but this particular one in my home city does cost. You are supposed to pay 1 euro per four flowers to one bank account. I doubt many pay, but I did. I love to support this kind of activity.