Dec
6

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!

by Sofia   -   in Random

Vapaus!

Jos on suurta tehty missä,

sit’ on tehty sydämissä,

kautta tarmon, kautta kunnon,
hyvän kautta omantunnon;
siell’ on Suomen juuret meillä,
jotka kestää elon teillä,
kestää, vaikk’ on vaara vakaa,
kuuluu vuosisatain takaa.

Terve teille, Suomen suuret,
joill’ on synnyinmaassa juuret,
syvät niinkuin Suomen puilla,
syvemmät kuin meillä muilla;
kuka enin kärsi, vasta
häll’ on tieto maailmasta,
tunto isänmaankin oman,
armahan ja onnettoman.

Vapaus, sana meille soipa,
Väinön virsi kaikkivoipa,
kauas kuulu, kauas kaiu,
Suomen rantamilla raiu!
Vapaus, teille vankilasta,
muille kerran koituu vasta,
mutta elää vapaa henki
halki Suomen surujenki.

Eino Leino

Dec
2

The prettiest crowns

by Sofia   -   in Good things for kids

I don´t know if I should call these head bands or crowns but these are the prettiest thing I´ve had for the girls in a long time. When I heard I was going to be the godmother of my friends baby boy I immediately started planning for the Christening present as well as our outfits for the event. I was in Paris looking for some dresses for the girls when I saw these lovely crowns for little girls at Bonpoint. Needless to say they were quite pricy ( at about 300 €) as they were designed by a famous jeweller or milliner. I have seen similar gorgeous head pieces in many children´s look books lately and I have been loving them so. I thought about my mothers friend who is the most talented woman I know in making such things and sent her some ideas as to what I meant and asked if she could try to do something like that. She has impeccable taste so when her designs came I could not choose just two but ended up taking 6 of them. I´m telling you, they are so gorgeous and they look so so cute on little girls and even on bigger ones really ( like me)…

 Bubble Gum´s party dress is from Marie Chantal. I wanted to get the same in pale pink for Cotton Candy but she refused because of the collars. But we found her another pretty one.

Dec
1

Have a great weekend

by Sofia   -   in Random

I´m so sorry for this very short week on the blog. You guessed it, I was a little swamped at work in the beginning of the week and now I´m leaving for a very exciting work trip which just means I have been trying to spend as much time as possible with the girls. And yesterday when it was my day off I had to put my feet up for a minute, put on some relaxing classical tunes and take a bath in candle light. It helped to calm me down from going on the fourth gear and it also physically warmed me up.