Read any blogs lately where you sit back with envy and astonishment at their cleverness, creativity, imaginative creations and a whole lot of "aaargh if only I had the time to do all this!! Do they even do a honest days work, that takes up most of their days!??" ??
This is to show how I believe "normal" people do all of their fancy design work. Or, it's to tell about what took place before the showing off the supreme results that makes everyone want to envy those before mentioned bloggers.
September 2009; there is a sale in Bauhaus, I get a clever idea about a very pretty wall-sticker I found.
October 2009; the idea takes form, and has most of what is needed to create it. The search for a frame-less, large-enough wall clock starts.
End of October 2009: the perfect clockwork was found and bought.
Suddenly, Christmas gifts has to be shopped and shipped. New year come and go, and the clock has been put to a cabinet, we study and life goes on.
July 2010: I start renovating and painting another room, and gain interest for a whole lot of other projects (result 1, result 2)
August 2010: "Why don't we also put that clock on the wall, now when we have so much action on the interior front" my boyfriend asks. "good idea" is my answer.
...
About a year later, the clock is finally on the wall.
And let me just teach you something from this experience: Don't let wall-stickers with this amount of detail sit in a closet too long. The HÄSSÄKKÄ to put it up is enormous. The glue is old, sticky and leaves chunks of paper where it shouldn't be. And all this time the whole project has been consisting of TWO parts: sticker+clock (*embarrassment*)
Result is pretty, and without this whole story, most people would have the reaction that I get sometimes when I read about other peoples nice looking creations on their blog.
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Monday, 5 December 2011
Saturday, 19 November 2011
New trends in the gym and the holy Finnish Friday
...not when it comes to fashion or something, but a behavioral pattern that I have discovered lately on my gym. The classes given on friday evenings have become more and more popular! Here in Finland generally the friday evenings are holy and people rarely do anything outside of their home or cottage. People tend to leave work at the earliest point possible to get the weekend started, and get to their destination of weekend-celebration asap.
But in my gym (for women only) the customers have gradually increased in numbers. Especially for happenings after 1630. Yesterday I looked at the almost full Zumba-lesson that I was attending (at 1800) with a bit of disbelief.... Normally we have been 20 people, tops. Now it was over double.
And afterwards, there is quite the gossip-gathering in the sauna, which means, there is not any hurry to get anywhere for many people. And this was not the first week that it has happened.
This is very un-Finnish behavior! Positive, Hell Yes! But quite suspicious. What has happened? Nothing starts from nothing....
But in my gym (for women only) the customers have gradually increased in numbers. Especially for happenings after 1630. Yesterday I looked at the almost full Zumba-lesson that I was attending (at 1800) with a bit of disbelief.... Normally we have been 20 people, tops. Now it was over double.
And afterwards, there is quite the gossip-gathering in the sauna, which means, there is not any hurry to get anywhere for many people. And this was not the first week that it has happened.
This is very un-Finnish behavior! Positive, Hell Yes! But quite suspicious. What has happened? Nothing starts from nothing....
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