HA-HA-HALLOWEEN NAILS!

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Here's a little silly instagram video of this month's manicure that I forced my dear husband to film.
Note that is has extra zombie-moster sound effects in the background improvised by my two-year old son. Family project!

I have tried out a couple of different shades of a colour changing gel polish this fall (not at home, at my salon) and I am excited like a child about how my nails shift in hues and colour (darker when cold and lighter/brighter when warm)! Variation for the win. This manicure in honour of Halloween goes from a sparkly red to a sparkly purplish-black.

Oh, and,  not to forget: Happy Halloween!

INSTA-IMATRA

Last weekend we drove eastwards for a show we had; this summer most of our shows have been and will be in Carelia for some reason. 'Easternfinland14' as we in innovatively named it; this was 2 out of 4. This time we were performing at an outdoor event. We stayed at this jugend-style hotel.

Waiting (in proper style for the 2010's) for our ride to the venue.

After-show bubbly and red nails.

(pic from @ruskarieban)

The event took place at an island in the middle of the big river. It's deep and the current is very strong so you can't swim even though the surface looks mirror calm. Beautiful and scary, especially since it was said the water was 20m deep under the jetty we stood on. 

Next-day-hotel-exterior-posing.

The hotel is just next to the steep, deep dry river bank. I remember standing on the opposite side as a kid looking at the water rushing down the waterfall when they let it out of the damm. I wish I had brought my camera but I also know I seldom have the time to take photos on gig-trips so the iphone had to do. 

On the way home we stopped at our cabin, which is just along the road, for a quick swim.

The water was warm and clear as always.

So time to jump in!

The woods were full of blueberries so we picked some around the cabin before leaving.

The berries then made it to a late night pie when I got home.

4 x SO FAR

Some things I've done so far this summer...

Midsummer barbecued in the cold rain. Rain rain rain.

After which, eventually, comes sunshine! And warmth!
Spotted a fancy rainbow.

Gone on light midnight runs around the fields listening to rautalanka and surf (and been distracted by things I just have to photograph and instagram right now!).

And hung out at an art deco casino rooftop by the sea.

(Pics from my Instagram @turrrbocherry)

NAILS x 4

Four of my latest manicures. Pink with accent glitter, french in pink with gold tips, mint green with gold tips, shimmering peach. Nails are fun, now that I'm on to them.

I remember a funny thing from the harbour some years back. Can't recall if it was me or my sister who had some temporary glue-on nails with a french manicure on, and one of the guys asked "is that a French manicure?". There was a deep silence where all the other guys stared at hime and he said "I probably should not have known that much". Oh my, the harbour years, sometimes I miss them quite a lot. But was I there now my long fancy nails would suffer...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: MONDAY MORNING

Dag was reading the paper very seriously.

 Had a peanut-butter apple mash sandwich.

And made a smoothie milk shake of frozen black currants, some banana, tropical juice and almond milk.

It was so popular I had to make a second set.

The rest of the day has been spent in bed, trying to entertain Dag with picture books and cartoons,  as I have caught a cold of some sort.

THE FIRST TO THE TWENTIETH

Sometimes I tend to be a little over-employed and -occupied and thus spend rather little time with my dear old friend Internet (or Nemesis, depends in how you relate to the Hello-three-o-clock-am-I-should-work--or-at-least-sleep-not-look-at-the-most-hilarious-faces-in-places-and-more-internet...). Breaks in blogging happen every now and then but when I'm really busy you can see it in my Instagram feed which becomes less frequent; sometimes even my smartphone gets something of a short vacation. (Or then not. Compare to ten ears back when I did not check my mail daily and not certainly via my phone. Or even five. Quite the change already there too).

well,, here's some of what I've been up to lately, as seen in Instagram.

Been in Turku.

For Eddi's PhD thesis he is defending here behind a flower pot.

And then got to take out my long velvet dress for his dinner. 

Then he was off to Bolivia for two weeks working and Dag and I were by ourselves.

Went back and forth from the city to the farm a couple of times. Hung lanterns in the tree in the yard over there.

Got a new manicure. The next one I'm going to do will be totally crazy because: Mistle Tease.

Sew lots of blingy thingies. 

 Hanged around with some samba queens.

Went on some adventures with Dag and his animals.

Made myself various versions of pink smoothies. 

And pink breakfasts.

And then Eddi came home and Dag got a tiny little mini poncho which he has been walking happily around in.

SHOWTIME!

Last week we did a pretty epic performance to live music (provided by yours truly in a very formal concert pianist outfit), with very refined sultry sining by Lola Vanilla (ehrm ;) and some semi-improvised top notch burlesque by Tinker Bell. Most likely to be seen o stage some point!

Tonight however it's time for the more usual stuff, on my way a few hours east - we are performing in Imatra at OC bar. So if you are around those hoods (or, as we are in Finland; woods...) , see you there!

MY SISTER'S WEDDING

My sister got married to my (or, our; they met there) long term harbor colleague last saturday. It was a fine day that went by terribly fast.

Away in a Ford Mustang, oh yeah. (I snagged this one from our friend @Johannesslotte ...) 

The party was at a small old ship yard on the sailing club's island right outside of the absolute centre of Helsinki.

 

My youngest sister, brides maid. They (the bridesmaids) wore similar short versions of the wedding dress. 

And yes, I managed to finish my dress in time! It turned out pretty damn good although I of course succeeded in spilling nail polish on it the last minute before the wedding. Oh well, that's life. And, the stain wasn't that bad in the end; tiny as you can('t) see.