Day of sunshine

Hello! ^.^ I've started to think that weddings are actually really expensive. And this whole idea came to my mind some time ago when I started to help my sister with her upcoming wedding. I've always (or when I've even thought about weddings or stuff like that anyway) just thought that wedding day is a very beautiful and important day that is a start of a new life for two people. But now there's a whole new side to it! It's also a day that really eats your money if you actually want something special to it. There are million little and bigger things you have to think about, all the planning and making reservations to places and everything. It's really crazy and needs a lot of work. I kind of like it though... I love planning and organizing things. -(ü.ü)/ But think about it. You have to find a church (if you want to have a church wedding), a place to hold the party and it needs to be big enough for all your guests, order a catering and everything related to it, getting decorations, buying or making wedding invitations, finding a perfect dress/suit and rings of course too and after all these you still need to take care of so many other things. And how much will all this cost? Well it of course depends on many things like how many guests you're gonna have, are you gonna buy a new or used dress, what material your rings will be and so on, but it's really hard to get your budget to stay under 5000 euros... And that's a huge sum of money. I don't really know how anyone will ever have so much money to spend for just one day.

If I had my own wedding (and it's a huge if -(T.T)/ lol), anyway if I some day had one I would try to make myself most of the things like decorations, invitations, a dress if I couldn't find a "cheap" one and some foods. And I would make my guest list stay as small as possible but still so that I get there everyone I want to, luckily my family is quite small and I don't have many relatives... Maybe twenty or so. Haha -(^_^)- There are after all some good things about having just a few relatives.

So now if someone didn't yet know that weddings are way too expensive and require a lot of hard work now I've made that clear enough. But still it should be the best or one of the best days in your life so it should be nice. And weddings are always nice, was it your own or not. ^.^

(google) A page from Hirunaka no ryuusei (Daytime shooting star), Nekota Yuyuka and Togyuu Minagawa. These two are one of my favourite characters from this manga, also Mamura Daiki and Yosano Suzume are really wonderful characters. Those have great personas and it's always fun looking how they react to different situations. I feel a bit nerdy again.. oops. \(ÿ.ÿ)/

 

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And for the last a new song and a new band!! I just found this and thought this band plays somehow very fun music. So let me introduce you:

 

Bump Of Chicken (what name is that???? the best ever!) - Ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BLiOP1aaY

Winter wonderland

Hi everyone! The cold air has lasted here for several weeks already, today we had about -28 degrees... That's actually really cold, -20 is nothing compared to it. This time you are gonna get a lot of pictures (again) because I've been photographing a lot lately.

 

Yesterday I went to a job interview, hopefully I could get a job for the spring and summer. I really need one, I'm running out of money and things to do. I have way too much free time now and I'm doing my best to occupy myself. I've even made a list of things I can do... And that list is long, luckily.

 

 

I tried to draw something with a bit different style than I normally use. These first ones turned out quite ok.

 

 

Taken from a car so it can be a bit blurry.

 

 

 

 

There was beautiful mist on the ground.



 

I went to my grandparents' place about a week ago. They didn't have as much snow as we have but quite enough to get nice photos (all above).



 

That was a really gorgeous sunset about 3.30pm... We were in a place were my sister rides, not a horse but a pony because she is so short and small in every way that she can still ride a pony. And I can tell you that it's quite difficult to take pictures with two pairs of mittens in hand so my fingers were completely frozen. So were my toes and legs... But otherwise I just loved being outside!

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I went out with our dog and found these beautiful plants covered with snow and I had to go back there with my camera. Our dog can't stay outside for a long time because her paws will freeze so I couldn't take her out with me for a second time. Poor thing.

 

This time I'm gonna introduce you to a bit different kind of music. I love to listen these kind of songs too, especially when I'm drawing. They are just so inspiring. Maybe there's some truth in that study (or something like that) that when you are listening to classic music you learn better... Maybe. But these are not classic, I don't really know what genre these songs could belong to. Could be some kind of pop. ^^'

 

Kokia - Into the light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPf56De38Qc

 

Kokia -  Road to Glory〜 for Dragon Nest White Version〜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKXLf6UMR8

 

Have a great day!



New year, same me

Heey! It's been almost a month since I last wrote here! o.o'' sorry... I've been on the go almost all the time or then just busy with doing chores or spending time with friends. Now I'm gonna tell you only bits and pieces of the last month because if I told everything... Well that would become a way too long post.

 

At the beginning of December I still had to write a few long things to school and well actually I made this one ten-page-essay in two days... I was kind of in a hurry. Then I used quite a bit of time (and money) to go meet my friends. It's always expensive for me to see my friends 'cause none of them lives in the same city as I. But what wouldn't one do for her dear friends. -(^.^)- I would go to the other side of the world to meet them and of course because that would just be so much fun.

 

Also before Christmas I made a gingerbread Donald Duck -family with my sisters. We were going to make only Grandma Duck's car but then we decided to do a bit more.

 

 

Just some snacks I made. There are rye chips with tomatoes on the left, Anzac-cookies and Poor knights (a Finnish dessert).

On Christmas we ate a lot of food! Haha \(ë.ë)/ There's a big rye bread, carrot casserole, rutabaga casserole, liver casserole, vegetable salad, ham, whipped cream, prunes and something more. In the mid picture there's our little dog. :)

 

 

During Christmas-time I made two dresses and crocheted one rug. I still have at least one skirt to make... Argh.. I'm so not photogenic. I don't know how to be normally in a picture and if I do the picture's not gonna turn out to be good. Would be nice to look like a human once in while in photos. -(T.T)-

 

 

Around New Year one of my friends was here for a few days. We really had a great time! -(ü.ü)/ We watched movies, played many games, watched fireworks and of course warmed (mini)marshmallows on a candle. We also had some company of my little sister and her friend who came back home after New Year's Eve. I also started to read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in English. I haven't read that book yet and now after reading it a while I've noticed how some words are really oldish and more difficult to understand. I need my dictionary while reading it. -(o.o')-

 



 

Now we've finally got some snow on the ground and for the past week it's been über cold here. It's always been more than -20 degrees and once it was over -30 degrees. That was cold. I went to see my friend a few days ago to Espoo and I new it was gonna be cold so I wore thick tights with my skirt. Still, after walking a bit over a kilometre I could hardly feel my legs and my face was frozen. ^^' Welcome to the freezer. Well now it's not so cold anymore, maybe only -13 degrees. That's almost warm! In the lower pic there's the sun on the right and a bit weird-kind-of rainbow, 'cause it was snowing from a clear sky. Also worth mentioning, Finland won gold in the young's ice hockey world cup! Wohoo!!!

 

Now I still have to decided what I should do with my spring. Should I go to Tasmania to do some volunteer work or should I try to get a job from here. Also I have to apply to several schools and finish one pre task, it has to be sent before 27th January. I'm not in a hurry yet but soon I'll be. No time to slack off.

 

One Ok Rock - Nobody's home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vSTZJTbkig