Smile :)

I'm really busy all the time... I try not to get stressed out..  smile and someone will smile back to you!!

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Someone said that. It's the same with painting or singing whatever form of expressing yourself.
For me writing this blog at the moment feels like being naked in public even though I don't know if anyone's looking... I'm also a graphic designer with a one HUGE problem, I feel like being naked when I show my portfolio... why is that? Is there anyone who ever felt the same? I'm good what I do and I know that, but showing my own personal work is always been a problem to me.. I don't mind showing professional stuff, that's not my "own" work. Please I need help :)

Tallinn, Estonia

Last weekend I spent in Tallinn, Estonia. It was a really postive surprise for me. It included eating, shopping and relaxing with the women from my family. It was great!! Old town is so nice, it has really nice cafes, shops and restaurants.

Photo:  Tallinn24.info

Weather was beautiful, food was absolutely fabulous and we got actually real mozzarella, I've never had that back in home from those restaurants I usually eat in. And it's so easy it takes 2 hours by ferry to get there. Definitely should go more often than every 6 years or so... Ah and the best part it's cheaper than Helsinki!!

No more need to go to Italy - go Tallinn!

Old City in Tallinn is kinda nice

Live with no regrets and love with no excuses

I think Paulo Coelho is one of the most inspirational and influential person in the world!!
Check this out

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/

Ayo - I'm Gonna Dance!

Oh I fell in love with this song. I used to listen Ayo a lot, kind of lost her from my mind. A good friend posted this and it's been playing on my laptop since.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Rx97iHXgVXk#at=19

Even though this song isn't the most meaningful, but still the lyrics hit me:

I am tired of holding my breath
I wanna live, I wanna give,
I wanna have sex, I wanna feel good.
I am alive, don't wanna be dead.
I wanna feel, I wanna smile,
I wanna love, I wanna cry,
I wanna be as happy as I should.

Life is really beautiful and eating good food will make it better ♥

I love bread, spread a little bit of goat cheese, rucola, tomatoes and pinch of black pepper.. ahh.. heaven

but thing is I’m the worst baker in the world, I used to bake stonehard bread, yummy!!

Now I’ve determined to learn how to bake, I start with this Jamie Oliver’s recipe, everyone says it’s easy.

In the end it was really good, honey-banana breads. Actually my dad asked me to bake some more for him too.. just add a little bit of real butter when taking out from oven.. mm. good!!

You can do whatever u want to apparently, just think that u can, then it’ll happen!!

I always have been interested about food and about the things you put in your mouth. When I was eleven (mid 90’s) I started to be a vegetarian, my mom, my teachers at school tried to changed my mind, couldn’t happen.

I was a vegetarian until around my twenties, that was when I went to Australia and fell in love with BBQ foods haha, but now I’ve started it again and it feels good, really good and I’m not gonna change anymore

I still eat meat, but not in my everyday life and I usually try to get meats like reindeer or moose, it tastes better and definitely is better for you than produced meat.
Chicken meat is best when it’s grilled, good sauce and with the skin yam!
But I don’t want to eat produced, filled with antibiotics chicken so I stopped eating it. But when you’ll try a real Chicken from a farm, freshly killed and it has lived a long and happy life, that’s good. Actually after that you can’t eat chicken from the supermarket…

I love fish, especially raw fish. Everything goes: sushi, coldsmoked, salted, seviche. I’m going to post here THE Best Seviche recipe, you’ll going to love it, it’s a mix of Peruvian and Philipino dish, yam!! Thing is I’m in Finland so the right fish is hard to get and I need to find good chillies too, and that is harder to find than you’d think.

Good things are sometimes hard to find! and I’m trying to be good girl and buy only eco-friendly fish, no more overfishing!!

I know.... Yellowfin from the market....

Fishes that are ok to buy:

In Finnish
http://wwf.fi/mediabank/945.pdf

In English
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/conservation/marine/sustainable_fishing/sustainable_seafood/seafood_guides/

A spark about writing this blog came to me, when I was eating lunch in a Finnish chain café. I saw a cake catalogue and it had listed all the indegriedents, and the amount of E:s of those cakes and breads.

I reckon people don’t really know what they eat and I’m not certain if many of them care.

In Finland they started an advertising campaign for pig meat that is better for your heart. The thing is how can pig meat be better for your heart? no matter what that pig eats…
But they can’t advertise that this pig meat is good for your heart or heart-friendly. They have to use similar words which really don’t mean a thing. It’s same with politics, beauty, foods whatever they’ll make up words that will make you want to buy their products, without you even noticing it.

How can people be more interested what they are feeding to their pets or what kind of petrol are they using in their cars, instead of what are themselves putting in their mouth??

Morning glory ♥

Pfhiuf now I've got the courage to start this blog. Hope you'll enjoy it whatever it will might contain in the future.
Couple of facts about me:

I love to travel I've been travelling around the globe for the past three years and it has been really enlightening.

I do live in Finland and love my family and friends, but I'm afraid my busy feet will take me somewhere again away from these beautiful people. Sorry can't help my feet!!

Mm.. I love to surf, yoga (and I am really addicted to these two "sports"), good food, making it and eating... and ice-cream mmm..

Check out some photos from the past beautiful years that I was blessed to have ♥