moomin mug inspired: dark blue

 Another absence followed by some Moomin photos - you know what to expect from me!

moomin mug inspired: inspector

Here's another little Moomin post for you! I got these yellow roses at the beginning of the summer (uh, yes, partly so that I could take these photos - that's just what I'm like these days!) so they don't look like this anymore, but there's still some new buds coming in. I'd hoped the roses would bloom again for my birthday (today!) but that didn't happen and we might have to wait until early September. And do you know who else is very much into roses? The Inspector from the Moomins!

moomin mug inspired: dark yellow

 Hello. We'll see if this post leads up to more regular posting or even occasional blogging! I was going to post this on Tove Jansson's and Moomin's Day (09/08) but had issues adding photos which did make me rethink whether or not trying to get back to this is a good idea. But I do want to! So here we are, a couple of weeks later.

moomin mug inspired: hibernation

 Hi! Hope you're all good, healthy and home (if that is at all possible)!

moomin mug inspired: snow lantern

"Until at last he saw that it was an ordinary candle, thrust steadily upright in the snow. Around it stood a small sugar-loaf of a house, built of round snowballs. ... On the other side of the lamp someone had dug herself a cosy hole, someone who lay looking up at the serene winter sky and whistling very softly to herself."

winter rail yard and winter knitting

 Hello. It's been a while.

moomin mug inspired: snorkmaiden (pink)

 It's time for me to be Snorkmaiden yet again!

moomin mug inspired: snorkmaiden

 "... the Snork Maiden frisked in and out between trees picking flowers to match whatever mood she happened to be in, and putting them behind her ears."

moomin mug inspired: fuzzy

 No, I didn't get married this summer. Not even close.

moomin mug inspired: keep waters clean

 Keep waters clean!

moomin mug inspired: midsummer

 "While the fire slowly died down to a glow and the morning breeze lazily drifted over the grass, the Snork Maiden and the Fillyjonk gathered their secret nosegays."

moomin mug inspired: siesta

 Happy Moomin's Day, friends!

moomin mug inspired: spring winter

 
Hi. It's me. Yet another month later. And because it is a month later, it certainly is proper spring and not spring winter now. 'Spring winter' isn't even a real term in English but it is in Finnish and it's the name of this Moomin mug. Spring winter, quite obviously, can be either late winter or early spring which basically looks like these pictures; there's still lots of snow but it's also really sunny and it's getting warmer. And I suppose it makes sense there's no word for such an in-between season when this is definitely not what spring looks like in most places.