Winter in Töölönlahti

Another familiar route of about 5-6km brought us to favourite Töölö bay. The winter has established itself there to full extent. I liked the figures of melting ice on the bay.

The route brought us to Stockmann to meet Natasha & Lukas. We spotted a new D&G bag with lovely neon accents. Looks like neon is big for spring, especially Neon & Nude together. Need to think of how to incorporate it into my style.

Lukas was very excited about the sales but quickly lost his patience though.

"Cream - sh-boogie bop"

My sales adventures continue...Recently I got a Topshop package arriving at my door with gorgeous snakeskin (faux) shoes (see below). Also, based on multiple requests to shoot my faux fur coat I was finally obliged to do that. Here is a perfect outfit in cream shades. I prefer earthy tones recently, maybe because it is so cold outside...brown, beige, cream and white...

I am wearing:

Faux fur coat - Asos.com

Leather faux snake brogues - Topshop

Black skinny jeans - Esprit

Bag - Lancel Flirt

White ceramic Watch -  Swatch
Charm bracelet - Thomas Sabo

Another creamy sales bargain is a cashmere blend sweater by Sisley, with a chiffon detail. I love the quality of the knit and the feminine detail.

I also got some daily cosmetics at discounted prices: newest Chanel elongating mascara, Dior creams, Dior eye pencil and Isa Dora bronze powder (never tried before, so its a test, and I do need it as I sleep max 5h per day). This is how my daily toolbox looks like now.

P.S. Yey! My weight does not start with a "6" anymore. Is that thanks to that big Clarins box in the picture above or to something else - no idea. At least it is not due to any diet or sports, as I do neither of the two and I should, definately. But anyway, nice, I am not in 60+ club anymore.


P.P.S. Petal on the metal is on its way to me ;)

Organic Cafe & Tropical Gardens

Already for some time (few weeks that it has been open) I have been checking a next door Cafe Gottland. I have always dreamt to live in city, where there is a cafe downstairs with a pleasant owner family. A place where they have those home-baked buns, teas and informal conversations. And this turned out to be just that sort of place. It sells organic foods: beans, rice, pasta, sauces, teas, coffees and fresh baked rolls and bread.

We loved the organic spirit of the place. Blackboard menu with owners' kids drawings and tableclothes made of sacs.

The owner, Teija, is also very friendly. Leo felt perfectly happy on her lap.

Laura was very satisfied with the taste of the cinammon roll and posed in her new Zara jacket outdoors.

And then we all took off for a Gardenia, it is a University tropical botanical garden. I loved the orchids.

And here I am with the little ones, not too glamorous looking but...:)

It's snowing out there...

Today, on Orthodox Christmas Day, it finally became white everywhere. It was almost fairytalish to watch snow from the window in the morning.

This day has been spent at terrarium, where we have watched all kinds of snakes with Laura. Isn't this one quite an impressive one? When I think all those snakeskin accessories I own...Luckily they are faux snakeskin...

We ended our trip in Stockmann for lunch where I found this cute snowing cloud charm by Thomas Sabo.

 

Do you like it? the snow flakes are dynamic. ;)

Epiphany / Orthodox Xmas

Today is Epiphany and in Orthodox world - Christmas. Merry Holidays! Wishing all of us wisdom and beauty from besind my piano.

 

And my outfit (from now on I will follow the rules of the fashion blogs): 

Jeans- Esprit, Tunic - Zara.

Lux Helsinki @ Töölölahti and Sales Bargains

Helsinki has become the World Design Capital in 2012, which adds more fun to maternity leave walks for all the lucky mums with babies born recently. One of the initiatives of the Design Capital is Lux Helsinki program which is all about interesting light installations around the city.

Today (totally by chance, I admit) we went to check the Lantern Street in Töölö Bay of Helsinki. All differently shaped individual lanterns are hung on the trees. Our absolute favourites were:

The Medusas

and The Heart, the real one, with arteries and blood inside :)

and this is how the Park looks like

And now the most interesting, i finally got a better camera, it is not pro camera, but almost like that. 

Olympus SZ-10, it was a bargain from sales, naturally. Can not wait to see what sort of pictures I can take with it.

"It packs an impressive 18x wide optical zoom lens (28-504mm*), 14 Megapixels and a raft of innovations that deliver superb image quality for HD movies and stills." - says a review on Amazon. Let's see...it is being charged now. 

Here comes the photo taken with my new camera with one of the Magic modes available in it - Sparkle. These cute muffin pots are great for small things storage.

Xmas Dreams...

Did you know that Orthodox Xmas is Epiphany day for the rest of Christian world? at least most of the years. Now, 3 days till Xmas I am dreaming of a miracle to happen.

Long I have been dreaming of a Marc Jacobs "Petal to the Metal Pouchette", in black. It also comes in hot pink, but I love the contrast of that golden bird on the black leather. Do you?