Changing of the seasons

it´s the changing of the seasons
he says ”I need them”
I guess I’m too Scandinavian
the relief of spring
intoxication of summer rain
the clearness of fall
how winter makes me reconsider it all

 home full of candles, spicy smells.. it's fall and i'm loving it.

I bought some new candles with sweet scents of cinnamon, vanilla and black berry

It's getting colder, we have 18 celcius with a cold mistral wind

I need my wool shirts and scarfs, even I have seen tourists walking with t-shirts. uh.. are they serious? 

People keeps on asking me that how comes I'm always cold, "you come from north, how comes you are so frileuse? I can be sensitive to cold, yes, but I think also that there is different forms of cold.

This mistral is freezing. 

So the finnish -30 celcius is cold too,

but in a different way. still, I prefer the minus degrees.

I know it's fall, i'm drinking tea more than ever again.. 

And at these fresh mornings i'm making cinnamon latte.

I'm seriously considering to find my gloves soon, 

I keep on having blue fingers already at mornings when I go out..

Our tiny kitchen

and only half of our kitchen stand, with full of stuff.. 

I left other half off, as it's too messy. Even messier than this

 I'm listening again one of my favourite artist, Ane Brun

and the song

"changing of the seasons"

petit déj

mmm... last saturday, Raph had prepared delicious breakfast for us.

croissant and pain au chocolate

it is so french to dip croissants and biscuits in your drink, I once said that it's awful but now i'm doing the same..

as well as now I love olives too. I used to hate olives..

and I didn't like of avocado, it's actually really delicious.

Happy beginning of the weekend!

you make my dreams

I was looking through old photos, when I came across with the year we met with Raphaël. It was 2006, august, when he came to Finland. These 4 years has passed with many ups and downs, I have been so happy.
We don't have any special date for the anniversary, for me the most important is all these days we spend together.

I love my life.

This also made me think that have I changed within these years, as sometimes I still feel like people thinks that I'm 20 years old, sometimes even I think that I'm not growing up. I guess it's the time to search myself.

2006, we had night out in Helsinki.

 

2007, new year together in Lapland

2008

2008

2009

and finally, this year.

I'm already getting fine grey hairs, but no wrinkles. 27. I wonder how I will look when I'm 37,47..

I'm not scared of getting older. 

I just want to find myself and have a life without constant thinking of what to wear today, how to have perfect makeup and is my hair looking good today. 

Don't get me wrong, I want to still think of these but not that these are the main thing in my life. 

I want to find the natural person in me. 

I have already started this journey, I cook everyday from scratch.. I love baking. I would love to have garden of my own, to put my fingers to the dirt. I want to learn sewing again, I lost the ability even I learned it in school. 

I want to continue knitting. create things. decorate this house and feel like at home. 

I do feel like at home, but more.

Now I need to start moving, it's time for lunch and then I have my french lesson this afternoon.. and dinner with friends.

salty sunday

Yesterday morning we took our stuff and headed to Montpellier.

It's the 5th biggest city in France, with the look of Paris but you feel like in a cozy and small city.

It's also home for R's sister and we went there to celebrate her 31st birthday.

After birthday lunch we headed to small village, where they make salt. 

Salt... birds... salt... birds.. salt.

so many flamingos..

and beautiful sky..

 

We got lost in our way, we ended up walking 2,5hours instead of little walk.

In the way we saw many horses and cute donkies!

 

happy weekend

 via my Pinterest

Isn't this piggy the cutest thing ever?

Have a lovely weekend!

my kind of plants

Cactus is the only one chez moi which survives the heat of southern france AND my lack of experience with plants.

sunday walk

One thing we love to do is to have longer walks, but we rarely find time and energy to do these.

Last sunday even we were really tired, after checking up parent's house in Orange, 

we headed to Dentelles de Montmirail, to have a walk. 

Not sure how long the trail up to the dentelles was, but it took us 35 minutes to go up with a small rocky path

This was still easy, with the rocks bigger than I am.. it started to be bit hard to climb up. And my heel was aching badly, my hiking shoe (right one) is too big for me. I should find new ones, but it's not possible when my other foot is bigger than the other ;)

Soon at the top..

There is only one place where to reach top by walking, but we didn't go there yet. 

We decided to come back to make longer whole day trip there. 

Rest of the dentelles you can only reach by rock climbing, looks amazing place to do that!

I'm sure my sister would love it!

Can you spot the climbers in the pictures?

But not me, I was scared at the inside climbing already..

On monday I wanted badly to make my blog wider for the pictures, instead waiting that R would finish his workday, as he is a web designer, I couldn't wait few hours and I ruined my blog by editing the whole template.

Gosh.. it's not the first time I do something like that :)

So now I have this new look what is waiting R to edit it.