food ingredients

When living in another country, the questions about what kinda food or stuff from the store is often raised. Since Finland is not that far away from Norway, culturally,the huge Oops'es has been quite avoidable in daily grocery shopping. But when it comes to names of fish, parts of meat, berries, mushrooms and to simply ask from a customer service counter(those that serve you the x amount of that particular fish or breadtopping you want), has made difficulties.

Most people here know what salmon is in three languages, and so do I. But when it comes to all the other fish-speices we norwegians have on our plate, I have come short with both my english skills, and the clerks.

Many other funny mishaps have happened when talking about and describing berries(simply because in this home we have no clue what the berries are called in English...well, most normal ones we know okay), like "you know that purple eyeball berry" (turns out they are gooseberries in english.)
Or when describing fish speices, like "um, you know that silvery one that can get really big, not shark, but the other one?" or "the one that looks like the one that killed Steve Irvin, but only much smaller and not really like that anyway but its flat atleast."
Or when describing what part of the animal you want, in a butchershop(like this last christmas, when I made traditional lambs-roll thingy from Norway), constantly pointing to ones limbs, telling and almost bringing along a chart to point at.

My help has sometimes been to check this marvelous list of anglo-finno-russo-scandinavian list. But most often I have been in the store, staring at the fish filléts on the ice, wondering and damning myself for not having a copy of most used glossary in my wallet.

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Da aftenposten før helgen hadde en artikkel som diskuterte litt fram og tilbake om hva kommer til å skje med bibliotekene, var det en flinking som hadde lagt inn link til denne siden, altså bokhylla.no. Så langt ser det lovende ut, jeg har ikke rukket greve i "hyllene" dems enda, men jeg gleder meg til å finne spennende bøker som jeg ikke kan få så lett tak i her i Finland.
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Poninäyttely in Espoo

I went with Tuuli this previous sunday to look at horses. It was superb weather, and a very chilled out feeling in the whole area it was held. Nobody had any stress anywhere, and it was a very good last day of vacation before work starts again.

Pony-exhibit(or whats its name) makes me wonder what all of these little animals are used for. They are (some) soooo tiny, I'm tempted to keep one in the apartment! Are they just for cutting your yards grass, attract flies and look cute? Maybe let your toddles "ride" on them?





Many of the ponys had ofspring with them, following the mommy in the tail, and crying when mommy had to show off to the judge, and not pay their attention towards little baby dearest. It was tempting to go next to one and cuddle my face in their fluffy baby fur....and take one home....

 

The judges had this very old-fashioned look, with straw hats and dark double-buttoned blazers, if I had looked closely, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a embroidered crest on the jackets chest. Upon seeing these outfits my thoughts wantered to Agatha Christies books and the TVseries of Poirot and miss Marple.

I found myself a weird water-growing "flower" looks like its from another world, or atleast not in these northenly hemispheres.

...and for some reason, the horses were on sale, only 5€ !!

Revamping apartment, stage 2

Its really stage one, but I was so excited about my tiger wall, that I ranted it off before what I really started out with. but anyway. SOFA!


Our apartment have been sortof looking like a office for a while, since the main furniture has been concentrated about computers and such. We have been longing for a sofa to cuddle up and watch movies in, but havent really seen where the hell it should ba placed. And besides, our livingroom has a stoopid layout when it comes to doors and windows placement. Also, new sofas costs quite some €€.
Answer was to play some tetris with the furniture we have, and consider about changing some things. And going to the local kierrätyskeskus - second hand place à la salvation army. There we scored a beige "beauty" two seater that is quite spacious -32€.


Those who know me I believe can agree with the statement that I don't r eally like beige. Neither does my boyfriend. But Hey! we have IKEA and their reasonably priced fabrics around the corner. And I'm pretty pro on the sewingmachine.

Result:

Even Kosmo has approved...
Thoughts about this:
IKEAs "minna" fabric is very durable and takes 60C washes in the machinge. However, it wrinkles quite easily, so it's very annoying to keep tidy-looking. And a gray cat with gray fabric couch is not as camouflaging as one might think. The sheaded fur shows just as easy as on a black fabric.

...a little closer

...to be finishing up the bedroom upgrading. Found some lamps in a box under the bed, that needed some pimping before they got stuck to the wall. Nice shape, but scuffed off frosted looking "silver" didnt really match the exquisite wall painting(if I may be so bold...)

add some squishy dabs of tigerpaint and fiddle with some newspaper pages = get something matching to the style :D
Thay have white frosted glass upwards pointed shades. It would be just best if the electrical cords would be black... to sort of hide or bled in better, but I currently don't have such just lying about(in boxes under the bed)

Renovating, part one

So here I have had this idea on my mind for a very long time; paint a dragon or something on our bedroom wall(the one which is pure red).

This is your standardised before picture.

Finally I have gotten around to get it all organised, gotten hold of the equipment needed and so on.
When it was left to choose which motive we wanted, we flipped through alot of scandinavian tatoo and tribal magazines, always looking for a dragon. We found one that could fit and looked good. Not completely convinced that we had seen all the options, I googled tribal dragon, and found plenty.
This one picture had something very catchy about it, tho it was not a dragon. It was a tiger.
It ended with flipping a coin to be able to choose between a dragon and a tiger, we got the latter.

is it the chessire cat??

Starting to take its shape...

....Almost there...

When it comes to the design of this tiger, I vould like to give the artist credit, but since it popped up in a google picture search, I have no clue. It was mounted together with a very cool looking fenris wolf and a black bird, but the file info gives nothing more than a random line of numbers. So, hats off to the designer, whoever you are, I figured it would be okay to use your design in my personal home, since I didn't go and earn money off you. :)

And Voila! I have made myself a tiger. *proud*

Bedroom now smells like oil paint, and the bed is still pushed aside. When the room is 100% finished, I'll honour it with a picture and a posting =)