SMALL WOODEN HOUSES AND DESATURATED LANDSCAPES

We took a day trip to one of those small towns by the sea, one of the typical ones with old wooden houses, a church square and ships and other nautical parnaphelia in the windows.

KITCHEN, STEP BY STEP

The kitchen renovation out in the countryside farm house is evolving! It is almost two months since we started it which for me feels like forever as I am only used to flat renovations form before which are a totally different thing than an old house. Two months ago it looked like this (and a week from that it was even emptier...) which is a pretty big difference form now...

 For once a mess that is not mine. Hehe. We have had two local carpenters working on the kitchen. Most things will be custom built on spot. Nicer, and more affordable in the end.

We will not be able to paint the windows before summer though. 

 Me and my food-storage-walk-in- cupboard-to-be.

And the rest of the house looks like a storage hall. Or a wood workshop.

Give it a week or two and I'll be cooking in there!

IT'S LIKE LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE

If you ever wondered where a slave to the details comes from it is form this song!
This was my all-time favorite song for many years, many years ago. When I studied in Budapest we had this record on repeat night after night, while drinking red wine, painting our nails and smoking out of the window of our apartment on Fó utca. I just realized it has been such a long time since I have last listened to Interpol and this is an instant Budapest flashback for me, but also of my life in general in the early and mid 00's; small apartments around town, bleached hair, pale summer mornings and cold Helsinki nights, cigarette smoke.

THE YEAR THAT WAS

These photos are from a summer trip to a nearby town we took when Dag was five weeks old. It was pretty much the only really hot day of summer last year.  It never made it into a post then though. Feels like forever ago... but then again I wonder how the hell it can be such a long time since that day already, and summer in general. Which only can mean it should be summer again in no time!

Before life goes all back to normal here again after the festivities, days off, munching, gift unwrapping and learning to write a number three at the end of dates instead of two I thought we'd throw in my annual best of-blog post giveaway!

So, what was your favorite post here of 2012?
Link it to me in the comments! You can of course also say why you liked it best.

The winner will receive a small surprise gift (which as usual is also a surprise to me at this point as I haven't come up with the price yet) and will be drawn randomly a week form now; on Thursday the 10th.

The competition is open to everyone, anywhere. But if you're not a follower at all and just pick out the first post here on the main page in order to win just whatever or promote you handbags or women's wholesale clothing or what you folks usually try to sneakily advertise miss Fortuna might have another round, just sayin'. Make sure you are reachable to me trough your comment. I say this every time and there's always someone with a hidden profile or anonymous comment... but then again, your loss in that case, someone else's lucky day :)