Brighter colours for grey winter days

The days are shorter and shorter even here in Ireland and the world outside of the house is grey. It's raining often or the sky is just full of dark clouds. It is so nice just to make a lovely fire and stay at home maybe watching your favourite TV show and of course eating lovely foods and drinking many litres of tea.

You could also spend your time knitting something bright to warm up your frozen feet. What would be nicer than a pair of socks or leg warmers? They would make a perfect Christmas present as well. These two projects are very very easy, but I think this kind of multi colours look the best with a simple pattern.

Red Winter Socks


Pattern: my own.
Yarn: Araucania Ranco Solid. 75 % wool, 25 % polyamide.


Noro Legwarmers


Pattern: my own, at least doesn't remember seen something similar.
Yarn: Noro Kureyon, 100 % wool, colour 220.

Valokuvatorstai 110.

Valokuvatorstai challenge Glass.

World

My cousin is stuck in Bangkok and his sister is in Mumbai, if I remember right. Maybe I am from a family of trouble makers...

Where to start?

I have so many projects going on at the moment (house, studying, knitting etc.), but just don't know where to start. Then I just get angry at myself because of being lazy. I actually tried to paint some room in this house the other day. We have so much to paint here. I opened the windows and that room was very well ventilated, but the smell of paint felt me feel so sick in my stomach (not pregnant as I know!) and I had to stop doing that. This house will look very nice, when everything is done!

I have read some old posts of mine and can't believe how many mistakes I am making. One reason to that is laziness. I just write and post without reading it properly through. I mean, I mostly can write the words how they should be, but the grammar; articles and prepositions being my weakest part. I also would like to have a bigger active vocabulary in English. I have a huge passive vocabulary, but... I can read very difficult and complicated language, but to produce good written English is different thing. I am reading books mainly in English these days and live in an English-speaking country (some Irish people don't like that expression). Writing, writing. That's the best way to make a better writer. Engrish always helps, when I think my English is crap. It really makes me laugh every time.☺ There are some other people making mistakes and even funnier than mine!

Valokuvatorstai 108.

3 photos for this week's Valokuvatorstai challenge.







Location: Kinsale Old Head, Co. Cork, Ireland.

Finnish Art in Dublin

Virginie by Albert Edelfelt. Photo from here.

Good news for all Finns in Ireland and those, who are interested in Finnish culture. The National Gallery of Ireland is hosting an exhibition of Finnish Art. The Exhibition is called Northern Stars and Southern Lights: The Golden Age of Finnish Art 1870-1920. There are works for example from Albert Edelfelt, Akseli-Gallela, Pekka Halonen and other painters, whose works almost every Finnish person must have seen somewhere. At least in the History books at school, if nowhere else. However these artists are not that famous in other countries. The exhibition started last weekend and will be open until beginning of February next year. I am definitely going to see it, maybe on my next trip to Dublin. I think I have seen many of those paintings in Finland, but I think there are still I haven't seen before. So more about it later.

New look for my blog

I am going to do some changes on this blog soon. I am getting tired of this current look of my blog, it looks really boring at the moment and doesn't inspire me to write very much. I would like to make it look a bit different. I have some ideas, but my skills are not enough to make it as I wanted, but I am going to try.

I want to wish Happy Halloween to everybody!