Sushi Pillow

Sushi is my favourite food in the world and I could eat it all the time. And I'm so happy that I'm finally moving into a proper apartment with a big kitchen and that I can start doind my own sushi dishes again <3 It's been a long long time since I did them the last time. I've been a victim of my own laziness and uncomfortably small kitchens. I love sushi so much that I wanted to make a pillow that looks like salmon nigiri. Maybe not a good idea, because now every time I see it, I crave for the real thing. Anyways, this was a fun project :) Something to do while watching movies and being a lazy ass.

 

I got the idea from this website: 

http://www.theoriginalsushipillow.com/nigiri.html

But I made my sushi look a little different... (Not so good, because mine looks  more like some ancient Nintendo game mushroom). But I still like my version better, because it has sequins :) Maybe later I make a shrimp nigiri. But then I want to have a sewing machine, because my fingers look like shit after doing all the sewing myself.

A praise for Lush

My plan was really to stick to design and only design in this blog, but I can't help myself now. I love Lush so much. And I'm sad some people don't know that company. I prefer buying almost all my cosmetics apart from make up from Lush and so it becomes kind of a decorational thing that all the boxes/cases/packeges match. They're all black, my favourite "color". And Lush is really committed to environmental issues, for example they're motivating customers to recycle the packagings: when you return 5 of them back to the store, you get a free face mask.

I really really recommed Marilyn for all the blondes. I don't know how they're able to make a blonding hair mask using only natural ingredients (well, almost only...), but somehow my hair always looks so much lighter after using this. (The picture in my profile is really old, now I'm a blonde, especially under my hair.) So, go there: lush.com.

Festivo Design Wine

Finland is a place where everything is forbidden and I have no idea if advertising alcohol in one's blog is illegeal, but still I will do this. I got so happy this summer when I found these wine "bottles" in Alko (the only shop in Finland where you can buy wine), because they are both really handy and so pretty. (Plus they taste good, especially the white one.) Handy they are because you can open and close them during the night as much as you want  for example on a private island on Midsummer festival :D The prettiness comes by Paola Suhonen, a famous Finnish designer. I had a cute terry skirt with the almost same print when I was about 15 and I wore it all the time until it got some permanent hair color damage... Anyway, it says also in the back of this 2 liter wine box something like this is the first wine which matches the typical youthful and scandinavian table setting. In short, I love this new summery fresh idea and will propably buy the white wine again sometimes when I have guests coming.

Marimekko, my love.

This summer I needed to buy a new wallet and a new make up bag. My old wallet was torn apart and my old make up bag was way too small, so I headed straight to Marimekko. It's my second favourite Finnish design company and they're known all over the world. Even Carrie Bradshaw had Marimeko curtains! (The print is called Satula.)

http://www.marimekko.fi/eng

In Helsinki there's a lovely luxury shopping centre, Kämp Galleria, which has a huge Marimekko store in two floors. I love to go there although it makes me sad because I normally don't have money to buy the clothes or bags. But I bought these (the more inexpensive stuff):

The blue stripey one reflected my style so perfectly. It's not a usual wallet, it's kind of granny style, but I love stripes, blue and white and it was so easy to throw everything there, money and cards in the same pocket. BUT some mean idiot stole it in Spain. I lived there for a month this summer and with my friend we went to the biggest 2nd hand market place in Fuengirola one Sunday and after the round I noticed my dear wallet was gone :( And there was also a Marimekko store in Fuengirola (million Finnish people live there...) but I thought I would move on and not buy the same kind again.

The black and white bag I also love really much (the print is called Pirput Parput). I hope I never have to get rid of it.