Monthly Archives: March 2016
Spring Signs
There is still ice in shady places but this view was very welcome! Winter with snow is fun but after a while spring with more daylight, bird song and flowers fill me with joy.
Puppet Theatre at Winter Gardens
Helsinki Winter Gardens are always lovely, but especially at Easter: kids love looking for all the Easter chicken, eggs and witches that have been hidden among the plants. The Puppet Theatre that was on during Easter holidays didn’t disappoint this time either: the story was about Pessi and Illuusia, the troll that met a fairy […]
Circus with Tuktuk Travellers
Easter in Helsinki, there are plenty of options on what to do: with children it would be wonderful to see lambs in Haltiala for free, there is a new puppet theatre play by Sytkyt at the Winter Gardens, also for free and of course one could pay for the Korkeasaari Zoo. But one can expect […]
Winter Animals
A number of albino animals surprised our kids who were exploring a yard in the lovely spring sun. Hopefully the last of simple winter fun this winter…
Painting on a Sunday Morning
I sometimes feel like I am drained of art ideas between full time work, hobbies and kids but the thing is: When kids get older, the results of the same techniques vary. So on a relaxing Sunday morning we started do some simple stuff again that we haven’t done for such a loooong time, and we had […]
Manicure
Hairdressing and massage, my all time favourite “Mum is tired”-games have gotten an alternative: the nail studio. I find the results after this manicure… sparkling…? The colours are carefully chosen to make me more fashionable: Frozen and Angry Birds. The more the better, so make no mistake, the fingers needed the sparkles too.
Free But Fun 