Minion beanie!

Merry Christmas to everyone! 

I know I'm bit late in my wishes, but it is only because I have been having such merry Christmas myself. Eating, sleeping and reading have been my priorities in past two days. Refreshing change for me. Also it seemed that our modem thought the same and shut down for almost two days. 

Anyways. I was thinking about continuing with the travel posts later on, in the spring, when traveling is more current to many people! So here we go with other topic I love, such as crafts! This year I felt like really putting effort on my Christmas presents, as I haven't had a lot of time to put myself into them during my last three IB years. I wanted to give everyone something that would fit them. Most things I had to make myself to really fit them to the recipient. 

This minion beanie is one example of those gifts. This one I did to my father, who shares my love  and probably is the reason for my love towards animated films. Minion humor is the best. Doing this beanie was so much fun.

Bottom, hihihihi.

Hyvää joulua kaikille!
Tiiän että oon vähä myöhässä toivotuksieni kanssa, mutta oon täällä vietellyt itse niin hyvää joulua etten ole ehtinyt edes koneen ääreen istahtaa. Syöminen, nukkuminen ja lukeminen on nyt mennyt kaiken muun ohi kahden viimeisen päivän aikana. Virkistävää vaihtelua mulle. Myös meidän mokkula oli sitä mieltä että nyt rentoudutaan ilman konetta, se meinaa sammui lähes kahdeksi päiväksi. 

Jokatapauksessa ajattelin jättää matkailupostausten kirjoittelun keväämmäksi, kun matkustaminen (varsikin reilaaminen) on taas vähän ajankohtaisempaa! Joten nyt mennään muilla mulle tärkeillä aiheilla, niinkun esimerkiksi käsitöillä! Tänä vuonna meinaa oli sellainen fiilis että joululahjoihin olisi ihana oikein kunnolla panostaa, niin että kaikki saisivat jotain mieluista. Näin en olekaan tuntenut voivani tehdä viimeisten kolmen IB-vuoteni aikana. Monien lahjojen tekeminen menikin sitten omaksi näpräämiseksi että saatiin varmasti mieluisa.

Tää Minion (kätyri, Itse Ilkimys-elokuvasta) on hyvä esimerkki niistä lahjoista, joita aloin itse väsäämään. Tein sen isälleni, joka jakaa ja on varmaan syykin mun rakkauteen animoituja elokuvia kohtaan. Minion-huumori on vaan parasta. Ja tän pipon tekeminen hauskaa!

2 fears

1. Clowns and Santa Claus

This is fully an accident, that this post as well will have Christmas in it, but here it goes. I don't remember ever finding clowns or Santa anywhere amusing. There are different reasons for it I guess. I'm afraid of Santa because I was a shy child and hated when I had to go to Santa's lap or sing for him. It just made me super uncomfortable. That might be also because I don't remember believing it the Santa deception. I found it just odd and unlikeable and I also knew he was the man from the next door.

With clows, I think it is the same in the sense that I have always hated them. I don't know why, but something about all kinds of masks freak me out. Even if it is just facal paint, it is too much for me. Makes me think of murderers for some reason.

2. Heights

I have long hated heights. I don't exactly know since  when I have been actually afraid of them, but I still am. It has however happened that since I have been traveling by airplane in these past 2 and half years, more than I did before, I have overcome some of the fear for heights. Takeoff used to make me cry, but it doesn't anymore, and I'm happy about it, because I truly looooove traveling! Tall buildings nevertheless still get me my heart on my mouth.

Top of the Rock, NYC

5+1 songs

1. Paramore- The Only Exception

First time I ever heard this song I started to cry. The message and tale behind the lyrics were so similar to my live and experiences and I can never get over the feeling of it.


3. City and Colour- Sleeping Sickness

The first song my boyfriend ever recommended to me. Even though it is not a romantic song at all it reminds me of him everytime. I think he was the one that saved me, because did sometimes feel like I was going to break down because my dreams seemed like nothing they were meant to be.

4. Glee Cast- O Holy Night (and other Glee Christmas songs)

I'm not a kind of person who celebrates Chritmas because of religious reasons, but I looooove the mood of this song. Even more importantly I love to sing along this song.

5. Pariisin Kevät- Pikku Huopalahti

Always reminds me the best summer of my life

5. Sanni- Luodinkestävää

Just like The Only Exception, for some reason the lyrics of this song spoke to me. In addition, as weird it is, I really find myself liking Sanni. (sorry, there wasn't better clip in Youtube)

(+Imagine Dragons-  On Top of The World

I hope this song will later on become very important to me)

7 moments I would love to relive

Sometimes I really hope that I would not be a kind of person who looks back and says "I wish I had..." but unfortunely I am. These moments which I will be listing now, however, are not those things (more than partly) which I would like to change.

1. Trip to London with my class. Especially the moments in the evening when we hanged together and the free time around the city. Anytime.

 I might look horrible in the pictures, but I for sure had the time of my life!

2. A christmas when I was a little girl. I'm not much of a Christmas person, but that might be due to the stress I nowadays have about the holiday. I used to really like Christmases as all children, much because I got a lot of presents. (Btw, this is the first, and maybe the last, post this year really having Christmas stuff in it!)

 That's me and my hair

3. Prometheus-camp nights (and nights after it with the same people). I still think that the best week of my life was my Prometheus camp. I grew in one week so much and had sooooo much silly fun time. But above all those I really enjoyed the bright summer nights and the discussions we had as a group in there. For long time after the camp the people in there were like my second family. I can still picture the first time I saw live bats, how the water felt like in the night and how good it felt to be hugged by all of them.

4. IB Baptism and the afterparty. Simply had the time of my life, in many respects. Although I never would have pictured myself dressing up as turkey and doing all that embrassing stuff on the market square of my town.

(There's no picture in here because the pics from the Baptism are non blog-material)

5. First kiss with anyone I have kissed (of course taken that the situation in other respects would be the same as well). I think it is the most exciting feeling in the whole world to kiss a person for the first time. Especially because I haven't ever kissed, not even a single time, a person I would not have cared/loved, which makes me regret non of them. And the moments worth living again.

6. My time in Ohio. My first experience on Americans was so welcoming and warm that I would give a lot to experience that again. Generosity and kindness of people in Ohio really surprised me in good way! I still miss my American sister from there!

7. Quiet moments with Keikki. Oh how much I would love to relive those times. As silly as it might seem, especially when I'm really angry at the world, sad or just generally pissed, I wish she would be there to let me be in that way, without no questions, without getting angry at me being angry. Just being there so that I could be quiet and not alone at the same time. Because sometimes the harderst thing to do is to keep smiling and talking to people, when you really do not want to.