Cold toes are forbidden

Allora, today my post is something ugly :) Here in Finland, there's one design of some kind of shoes... actually they're meant for old people, but some young people has them too :) Also they're ugly, but really comfortable and actually keeps your feet warm (:

Reino shoes ( I call them töppöset in finnish :)

  

Mom bought me these because of my foot. I don't have any other shoes which would fit on my foot, so I'm  gonna walk around the Finland with these shoes about 4 weeks =) so people, please, do not stare my shoes when I'm around! : D 

I got a nice present (for no reason). It's from Ikea... Different colors of slippers! 4 pairs of them, they looks so soft and warm *-* red, grey and 2 pairs of white slippers :) Now my feet won't be frozen ever again! 

And if I get bored with one color, just a fast change to other color after that I can keep warming my toes :) One pair with these slippers will travel to Italy with me in a month :) 

Cute Cupcakes

I'm gonna post this 'little' late. I made these cupcakes little while ago, but never got posted them here. And I wanna do it now, cause they looked good and even was delicious :)

My friend visited here from Switzerland couple months ago and brought me a lot of stuff from there. And one of souvenir was there cupcake forms. It took while to test them, but finally i did it :)

Cupcakes are all chocolate. Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, Nami ;) And on the top i sprinkle some white pearls. It looked really nice with red forms with white spots.

Not the day I planned...

This morning started well, I wasn't tired and actually I was pretty happy to go to school to see all my friends :) But when I enter a restaurant (where I'm on my training period) everything changed. 

I had to set the tales for 24 people who came to have lunch for the restaurant. We fixed it 4 times, cause always something wasn't good. Like knives wasn't one line and napkin was too close to chair and everything like that. In the end the teacher who was mocking all the time, accepted the tables and we started to pour water for glasses, customers was nearly there. And when they arrived, they told us that they don't wanna go to that room where we were set the tables, and we couldn't say no. We did that for nothing, and had to take them off. 

 The next task we got was that we had to plan drink list for Friday, there will be 200 people in the restaurant and we have made up some drinks for them, and they get to taste them. It took while to get it done, well we did it halfway first, the easiest part. And after that we did the more difficult part. And we finally got it done! We showed it to my teacher, and then she told that we have to do it again, cause we're gonna change the drinks. And she couldn't tell it when she told us to do that list. 

Now the school ended and I was happy to get home :) I slept for little while there and I rushed to bus to go to my greek lesson. Which I skipped in the end, I sent some stuff to my friend and went to library for little while.  From there I left to the bus which took me home, but when I was on my way to the bus, I hurt my ankle :/ I was walking home and I noticed my keys aren't in my handbag.. they were at home and of course my luck today, no one wasn't at home. I was sitting outside of the door for 30mins! After that mom saved me and came home.

 In the evening my sister pick me up and took me to a doctor... I really hope tomorrow will be way better day :) 

Just wanted to add this picture, cause I think it's really cute :3

No more shopping!

Today at school day went pretty fast, I had to be there just 4 hours and I really didn't do much. But after school I went to Helsinki. In same train was two of my friends, so I got little company for the way there :)
 In Helsinki I had to wait my mom to come there little bit over an hour, so I went to café to wait. When my mom arrived we went to Sokos and Stockmann. We spent way too much money, even we didn't buy much.

From Stockmann, we bought couple pieces for NominatioN bracelet. I got my chinese zodiac sign, Scimmia, monkey :)

Also my friend told me where I can buy these NominatioN pieces from Rome when I go there. Last time when I was there and tried to look for these, I didn't find them anywhere, everyone said they don't sell them. Same was in Florence. Well I was lucky there, I found one place where I was able to buy them, but the selection wasn't large. There was just few different. 

Piú (+) 

These stuff came home with me; 

Neobio's organic lip balm. I really love the smell and the feeling what it gives your lips. It makes your lips so soft & kissable ;) 

Rimmel Match perfection face powder. It seems pretty good, at least if I compare it for the price. It was just little bit over 7€. 

All the stuff I bought today

And now I'm gonna be on shopping strike! I've spent way too much money lately. I gotta save money a bit, well try to survive with no money these last days of October and entire november! o.o

Cocktail Party

My friend has planned a cocktail party for several last week and now the party is finally here, well tomorrow it will be here :) This is great, cause something good happened to me because of this. I sold one bottle of white rum and one tequila bottle to her, so even I earned a bit ;)

 And tomorrow I'm able to dress up and look awesome : D There's all the dress codes and everything, they're trying to be elegant. 

  Some weeks ago I was at my other friend and there came some people and we were trying all kind of drinks and shots for this party. And we did find some good ones which my friend wants to serve in this party :) 

Kiss on the beach. This drink is one of my fave, it's not on the cocktail list in the party, but  it's really delicious ;)

You can find the recipe from here 

Also tomorrow morning I'm going to visit in one baking shop which is here in Espoo. Confetti, the shop is full of everything cute stuff. Cookie cutters, colors with you can color doughs, creams etc. I'm going to buy those colors from there. After that I can try corset cookies! I really can't wait that, even I know they will fail at first time, but just try to practice the technic :) 

Handicrafts

Some days ago I got pretty bored and I hadn't nothing to do so, I tried to little bit everything. And then I was looking for my nail polish boxes. I found them, I have two of them, and one is decorated and then I knew what I'm gonna do next, I decorated the other one too. I took some magazines and started to look for pictures I probably could use.
 The box is bought from Ikea. It's meant for cd covers, but It was perfect for this use too. It's just build up and then I took some glue and I started to make some handicrafts! (:

Here's the box in the end. White one turned to pretty nice one. I really like it myself, especially the high heel picture ;) It's not too full of anything and it's pretty simple. 

Here's on the left side is the cover of the old, first box I decorated some years ago

Back to Italy!

 I'm leaving to Italy for Christmas and for the New Year's eve with some of my friends, we booked flight about a month ago, and also we booked a room from a hostel, Ostello Palazzo Pierantoni. 

Some weeks ago we talked about this coming trip with my friend at school, and suddenly we got more people to go with us. 

There will be 4 of us now. So we got 2 people more. And now the duple room is way too small for all of us. And we knew there's one apartment in that hostel, cause I lived there with some people for 2 months last spring. So we sent an e-mail to hostel and asked would we be able to rent it. And this afternoon we've got a reply, and we can rent the apartment for 3 weeks! :)

Photos of Foligno and other cities in Italy (: 

                          

Roma / Rome 

      

Firenze/ Florence

  

Ben & Jerry's Ice cream ♡

 - My fave one is Strawberry cheese cake 

We visited in one restaurant there, and all the walls were covered tiny pieces of papers where were written or drew something. Greetings or just anything what people has wanted to write. And in the end, before you left from the restaurant, they gave us tape  and you were able to tape your own piece of paper on the wall (:

Sleepless night

Last night I couldn't get a sleep until morning and I was a bit bored. Earlier yesterday I was shopping with my friend in Helsinki, and I bought all the baking stuffs. So I decided to try out something what I haven't tried since ever. I did royal icing and tried to do a tiara with it. But it was just a trial (:

First I drew the tiara on the paper and then I drew it on a greaseproof paper too. That picture I taped around a bottle. ( I think I made one mistake with this one, it would been better to tape on a semicircle or something like that, but not to a bottle. )
 Now was turn of the royal icing mixture. I mixed one egg white and about 4dl powdered sugar, it little depends what's you're gonna do with the icing and sometimes it just needs little bit more powdered sugar. Also I added few drops of lemon juice. It helps the mixture solidify.

Royal Icing
1     egg white
4dl  powdered sugar

•   few drops of lemon juice

This recipe of royal icing is meant of making outlines for cookies and decorating.

Here's all the baking stuffs I bought yesterday afternoon

Here's the Tiara around a bottle . Also one mistake which I made was that I used way too big piping tube.

Final score! It broke down when I tried to take it off the bottle and paper :/ Not so successful , but maybe next time I can do it better :) 

Pics

Today here won't be much text. I just went outside and took some photos today cause we finally got an awesome weather :)

Autumn Colors

My friend stayed over night here last night. We wanted to find something to do and we decided to bake a carrot cake! We had all the other ingredients expect sugar, so we had to go to buy it. We went to one shopping mall called Sello. We also did some other shopping too, clothes, and other outfits :) 


Below this text there's a picture of the carrot cake. I think it looks pretty delicious, but this time, the taste wasn't so good. Almonds on the decoration tasted a bit like plastic. Let's see who wants to eat it : D

CARROT CAKE

4 eggs
250 g of sugar
2 dl of oil
300 g of flour
3/4 ts of salt
3 ts of baking powder
2 ts of cinnamon
400 g of grated carrots
55 g of almond crumbs

Frosting

180 g of soft butter
250 g powdered sugar

200 g of Philadelphia

Whisk eggs and sugar until fluffy and add oil. Mix all the dry ingredients, flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Pour to egg mixture and mix well. Add grated carrots to dough and mix smooth with mixer. Grease and flour the casserole. Pour the dough to the casserole and fry about 45mins in 180 Degrees (or as long as necessary).  The cake should rise high in a oven. Let the cake cool down before you move it to a plate.

While the cake is in the oven you can prepare the frosting. Whisk butter and powdered sugar, add Philadelphia and mix it smooth.

After the cake has cool down, pervade the frosting with a spatula on the cake and sides of it.  Decorate with almond crumbs

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Also I was working on my nails today. I wanted to use some Autumn colors, so I ended up to orange with glitter. The nail polish today was O.P.I Goldilocks Rock. First I applied nail hardener and then one level of base coat and after that I applied Goldilocks Rocks nail polish. I finish the nails with top coat. 

O.P.I Goldilocks Rocks

The Unlucky Day

When i woke up today, I thought it's gonna be a good day, but it was the opposite.
Today was pretty important day, cause my teachers at my trainee place judged me how have I learned everything and how I work.
  So I went to school and i had to print one document for that, I did it, but at some point my teacher came to ask what is that paper which I have printed. It wasn't correct document, then I found out that I have never done the right document. And after I had solved this problem everything was fine, at least for now.
  After some hours we were opened the lunch I got my first customers... well i got 3 table at the same time, and It was really busy, and some of the customers had to little wait and because of that my teacher yelled at me all the time and was complaining (well he's doing that always, but now he did it more than normally) In the end I was able to serve everyone and they we're happy (Until they find out what I've done)
  Sooo... I kinda mixed up the tables and the bills, but I'm happy we were able to fix that, even the customers were left already, when I found this out. Rest of the day went well till 4 p.m. I was suppose to go home at 3 p.m . But I had to stay there for little longer, 1,5 hours longer... The teacher said he'll come soon to talk to me and while he's gone I have to check everything's ok at the restaurant. There wasn't anything to do and I decided to check my schedule for tomorrow... THEN i saw that I have come to work an hour earlier than I was supposed today. So I spent 2,5 extra hours there... This wasn't even the end of this crappy day.
I was at home around 5.30 p.m. And I tried to set the security alarm off, but it refuse to work, something happy happened, I got it work and I was able to set the security alarm off, but I nearly got security guys to my house. So glad that didn't happen, it would cost 60€ because it would been for nothing.
  I had to leave for a Italian class in 30 mins and I tried to rush, but my lucky day.... I was late a bit, and rushed to the bus stop, and on the half way I realized I'm on my way to wrong bus stop, so I had to turn around and try to get to the right bus stop at time, I almost did it! But then I heard bus came and it passed me.... Ciao Ciao bus! It was even raining all the time I waited the bus, but after a little while I was sat in the bus, it stopped... How I love Autumn. I waited next 30 mins new bus and fortunately I wasn't so late from my lesson :)


P.s. I think i shouldn't have miss my morning coffee this morning, but maybe tomorrow's better day and It's FIRDAY! Party party party ;)

Oh Africa!

Since last January I have been dreaming of travelling to Africa, To Kenya for a safari trip. How awesome that would be? ;)
Well today I talked with one person from South Africa, he showed me some pictures and that reminded me about Kenya and how badly I wanna go there. Well now I decided that after Christmas I'm starting to save money for that trip. I wont be able to go there for several years, but when you work on something i feels even better when you achieve it :)

So now I still keep dreaming of Africa and all the wild nature and animals!
Maybe visiting in Zoo might help a bit, to see lions and leopards: D

Also I told about this to one of my friend. And she really liked the idea and she said she probably could come with me. We already checked the flights and stuff so we know a bit how much we have to save... It's gonna take while to even get those money for flights. I really need to get a job after Christmas, maybe that will make this dream come true faster, I hope :)