project 365: 274-306 / OCTOBER MEGA POST

274: Lil' pies and and Christmas lights. I'm usually the kind of Grinch who gets annoyed when Christmas is started before December, but this year we had our first Christmas lights put up the first of October.. Then again, what's the difference between Christmas lights and fairy lights anyway?

275: I've always knitted but lately I've done it a bit more frequently. I have lots of time on my hands now that I'm unemployed, so there's time to be crafty:--)

276: Got a text from mum that she was about to come home with guests and she asked me to bake something. I obliged and made a plum cake and some pigs in blankets with home-made pastry!

277: Kitchen details. (I'm not sure if I ever talked about how my mum moved while I was at uni, so I'm living in a new house now.)

278:  My wee squirrel eating huge 'shrooms.

279: I was feeling poorly and taught mum how to make pumpkin soup for me.

 280: Cleaning day and all that.

281: Not the worst sky.

282: I made a table out of a milk pail and a darts board, haha.

283: Northern lights and accidentally got the Orionid meteor shower in the picture, too! I've been really into astronomy and trying to get a little better at night-time photography. And even if I'm not taking photos, I like to go and do a bit of stargazing and am outside on most clear nights.

284: Got my old typewriter out!

285: Lingonberries.

286: Went to a birthday party, looked fancy, you can't really see it.

287: How could you not be obsessed with squirrels when they're so cute and pretty (and will bite your fingers off if you get too close)? Just the right amount of beauty and feistiness.

288: Pumpkin pie!

289: Uno. I did say that I've been forcing people to play it with me on most days..

290: Pyjama day:-)

291: Another birthday party. And a close-up too close.

292: I got some new yarn that has sequins in it. I have no clue as to what to use it for!

293: My favourite doughnuts.

294: Duvet days.

295: Such a pretty sunset.

296: We made our first Christmas tarts in October, haha.

297: Reading children's books and eating doughnuts.

298: The wildlife you can spot just from our window is great. Squirrels are obviously my favourite, but I don't mind seeing  great spotted woodpeckers either (that's what I think these are, I'm no ornithologist). On another note, I've also seen a lil' fox now in December, and I don't think I'd seen other foxes than London city foxes before this!

299: A rare occurrence; I went for a walk. It was really foggy and this looked like a ghost island.

300: My cousin's daughter had her 1st birthday so I drew her a card.

301: Baby food -  my favourite.

302: My mum asked me to come and see this butterfly she'd "never seen before" and showed me this moth. What a weirdo.

303: Rewatching Downton with mum!

304: Leftovers for dinner.

305: Car journeys in frosty landscapes.

306: Visiting graves on All Saints'. (We celebrate All Saints' Day on the last of October, I think, and don't know if it's really that much of a thing elsewhere, or even in Finland now that Halloween is getting bigger all around the world.)

That was my October. And you'd probably be more interested in hearing about what I did during Christmas or what I plan to do on New Years, but that's about to happen in just a few posts, just you wait! And I'll get back to regular posting next year after mega posting, ha! Catch you later!

project 365: 244-273 / SEPTEMBER MEGA POST

 Yet another picture-heavy post, but look at what I did in September:

244: Got this as a present and it's so good. I didn't even know I liked the smell of sandalwood so much, but it's so good.

245: September calendar.

246: A Hattifattener pencil! You all should know by now that I love Moomins, so what could be better than this.

247: Right, so. The reason I went back to the UK was that I was supposed to be an au pair for the year, but it didn't work out in the end and I left in less than two weeks. This was the view from one of the windows at the house and  the sea view was pretty exciting.

248: Spiderwebs are rather pretty.

249: I did take pictures of the house as well, but I just don't feel like it's my place to really share them on the internet, so here's a candle. (Haha.)

250: A lei I got last year from a random guy, some wooden flowers from mum and a wee angel from a family friend.

251: Went to the beach, and it was really lovely, though also very windy. If I had stayed here longer this would definitely have become a place I would've frequented at. So pretty.

252: Another day, another stroll by the beach.

253: Packing my things already.

254: Some stuff I decided to donate to a charity shop instead of taking all the way to my mum's.

255: And after about 24h of travelling I got to a friends' house in Finland, and was pretty much ready to sleep straight away.

256: Day 2 back in Finland and sightseeing in the south.

257: Packed my things yet again to take the train up north.

258: I had some Moomin books waiting for me at my mum's! These are compilations of the original comic strips that used to be in newspapers:-)

259: Some of my dad's old books I brought back from uni.

260: In September it was still exciting to have candles in the dark, now I'm almost hoping for a little more daylight already..

261: Mess.

262: Sweets from the market are my favourite, even more so as I only get them a few times a year, if even that!

263: Food, flowers, flames.

264: One of the last poor violets.

265: Snacking and organising the bookshelves after I brought some books back from uni.

266: Put my grandparents' engagement photo on the wall. Fun fact: This is 1940s  photoshop as they never got a picture taken together at the time of their engagement and this photo's made of two separate photos instead! Also, how handsome were they both.

267: Flower pressing.

268: September's Moomin calendar.

269: Funeral chic. I bought this black vintage dress only this summer and addressed it as a 'funeral dress', little did I know I'd have use for it so soon. Although it's always sad to say goodbye to friends, relatives, anyone, I've always quite liked funerals. Especially when they are done properly and the deceased and their life is fondly remembered and celebrated as well as mourned.

270: I was so into the whole supermoon lunar eclipse, and basically stayed up all night to watch and try to photograph it...

271: ...but didn't manage to get a good picture of the supermoon in the end. It was worth it, though.

272: If you've read my blog for a while, you might have heard me mention how I love Reader's Digest. However, it turns out I'm not too great at Word Power.

273: A funny thing (that I tweeted about) at the funeral was me meeting the photographer there. We were seated in the same table while eating and because of my veiled vintage hat and my whole funeral attire he asked if I'd agree to model for him dressed like that. I had(/have) nothing else going on in my life at the moment, so that's why I started my one-day-career as a model. He had some flowers as props which I got to take home as well:-)

That's September, then. Time flies and all that. On Tuesday it was my 5th blogiversary, how crazy! Thank you to you all who've stuck with me, and you all who just happen to be passing by right now! I truly appreciate every read, every comment, every follow and most of all every friend I've got via this blog. Anyway, I hope you all have the most wonderful Christmas and I'll see you shortly after (I'll maybe even try to get these mega posts to an end before the end of the year)!