There is something about flowers

Kaija's flower of Juhannus is
The Rose of Midsummer Night's Dream

This is the magical point of the finnish summer that I love the best. After this, day by day night gets a bit longer and it means that some day summer is over. But now! Let's celibrate!

  This year the blossoms were early and now there are only some last bushes blooming. Vili and we all wish You a very lovely Midsummer! Enjou the light...

There is something about flowers

Kaija's Flower of the week is
Pink Peony


When I went into the garden this morning I saw that the peones were finally opened. It is one of my favorite flowers, it's so pink so big and so decorative in vase also. Now I have pink and red peones, but next year I  plan to have also white ones.
I should be working in my study to get all the little figures ready for the opening day, but I can't resist all the lovelines all around me...

How I love to arrange the flowers! Red roses are wildly blossoming in the big bushes and they are nice with peones. The acvarel is my sister Eila's work...

Very stimulating; beautiful shades of different reds.

Peones would be a great flower for the opening decoratings. I hope the "season"is going on next week!

Kaija's Fashion show, summer 2011

Half done - feeling great

It's good feeling when your work start to flow. I've done 3/4 and the rest is easy. Many perfect days have passed by... the weather is just right, not hot not cold, rain anough to keep garden beatiful.
12 days to go and I'm happy.

The fist one is ready! My inspiration was those little decorative objects of china or ceramics which you can find mostly at old peoples homes. 

I love the oriental feeling

At the right side.

At the back side

Golden details makes this blakc figure alive. 

Lightnings and Summer smilings

Kira Gluschkoff's
wonderful photographs

The show time is coming closer also to Kira. We have worked together for many years making fashion editorials for Gloria magazine, so it's great to have a show together. Kira has the walls to hung up her gorgious pictures, I take care of the floor with my statues.
The big day is 2.7.2011, at 17.00; You are invited to our exhibition"Lightnins", wellcome to Perniö! Let's party!

Kira is one of best finnish fashion photographers. She 's also a friend of all kind of animals and has a dog, a cat and many islandighorses... 

I love Kira's way to point the important elements of the outfit but never being boring

White on white, a riding cat.

Ice cold, elegant landscape pic

 

Great light- stripe going in the trees

Vuokko Nurmesniemi, our legandary Lady behind modern finnish desing clothing

Kisti Paakkanen, yhe other legendary Lady

Dress to kill

  

Kaija's Fashion show, summer 2011

Show time,
coming closer and closer

Last 10 years I've put up a fashion show once a year with my miniatures. The material, ideas and themas are variating but the show is always the same: these little figures are standing on the cat walk one after an other like in the real fashion events.
 I did the shows as a fashion editor more than 20 years in Paris, Milan, sometimes also London and New York, so now it's time to have a little fun.

This year I came up to make coloful, happy look. Lots of prints and lots of hemline and flouting "fabrics".

None of my miniatures are ready yet, but I'm sure all will be tip top until 2.7, when we have the vernissage.
It's happening here, in my country house in the old corn barn. We have this year the 100 years anniversary!

So, look what I have done so far.

First I made a figure from clay, then I cast it in cips. Next step is the most important, to make an outfit of  linen or cotton. After it I handle it with glue and cips. 

It takesa while to let the dress to dry and then I can start to color it. Last year I had all white.

I use watercolors because I love the lightnes and a certain transparency of them.

I found my father's old cavalet and find it very well working still. It's fasinating to use the same tools as he did.

My messy desk; there is no time to keep things in order, cips is drying so fast that you need to hurry before it's stucks.

 After coloring I need to finish the miniatures with verniss and cold, 

Little Vili always want to keep me company, Jeppe prefers to play outside.

There is something about flowers

Kaija's Flower of the week- end is
Blossom and Forget-Me-Not


Time, stop now! This is the most divine moment of the finnish summer. The blossoms opened the flowers last night in full blooming. Sun is shining and it's hot. The air is full of soft and sweet scent. I could go on and on with these phrases... Life is good and living is easy.

My favorite flowers in my favorite jug. It's an old glass jug also decorated with light blue flowers

Heavenly scent

Country life is so gorgeous. I try to live in this moment, here and now.

There is something about flowers

My flower of Tuestay is
The Flower of Cives


The Kichen herbs has also a good decorative funtion to me.
In my childhood we spend all the summers by the easten coast of Finland in Virolahti . There were these strong smelling chives growing vildy all over the clifs by the see. The cent brings me the the freedom of chilhood summers...

Chives gives the cent of summer to me

I'm a lousy cook, but I love my kitchen and I love herbs just to enjou the feeling

There are no cookbooks in my kitchen, but there are artbooks instead...

My flower of the monday is
 White Lilac


There is so much happening in the garden just now that I decide to pick up every day  different flowers to enjoy the best time of the year in Finland.

The monday flower is a sweet smelling white lilac. I spread them in every room to  full the house with this heady scent.