Teacher Style day 21, a dress suitable for the last warm days

Hat - 60's vintage

Dress - repro from Ansa Second Hand

Belt - second hand

My little racal Cecil helping with the photos :)

Few little things

Sometimes the smallest, sillies things can make you extremely happy. Like these cat shaped earphones my brother brought me from New York. I bought a pair of these about a year ago when i was there, but broke them, and they could not be fixed :/ I was so happy to get new ones!

 A cup of tea with friends always makes me happy. This picture was taken at our tea dances few weeks ago. The tea had rosebuds in it! It's called "Marie Antoinette" and we got it from ThéHuone (our official tea sponsors :) The next tea dances are 15th of april.

Cecil

 My Authentic Jazz Dance costume. We have matching outfits for our performance group (me and my friend Anni made them), they look especially nice while dancing blackbottom or charleston.

" How To Take Glamour Photos"(1955) & "Figure Photography"(1954)

A gift from my very dear friend Sirpa. We met when i was working for Fida few years ago.

 Bix and my Iron Sky canvas bag.

Now when the sun is up earlier i'm very happy about my Mirkka Metsola sleep mask (and i still think it's crazy cool to have a sleep mask with my eyes on it)!

My cats are gonna be on tv (and me too)

 I was happy to be asked to be a part of a new tv series about blogs and bloggers. It's called Blogistania and it will bw out next month!

The camera crew came to my home and to my atelier. It was a bit stressful, since my home is a very private place to me... My cats Bix and Cecil are in almost every frame, i'm sure. My little tv-stars! They were very exited.

 On the street where i live. I'm wearing self made capelet and hat.

 Waiting...

 Visiting Fida store in Hakaniemi

At my atelier with friends, Miia Magia and Bettie Blackheart 

This marvelous 30's dress is one of the dresses i found while dumpster diving a while ago. I told you about it in this post, remember? I'll post pictures of other dresses i found later, when i'm wearing them. Ofcourse not all of them were my size, some of them i gave away or sold.

Weird sensations (and how to get rid of them)

In the last few days i've had the most bizarre feelings and thoughts. First of all, i had a terrible ugre to watch "Friends" and pretend it's the 1990's again (when i was a kid and i didn't have a care in the world). And second, i felt envious for someone who is rich and famous. That's funny, since i usually don't dream about being rich nor famous. Yes, sure, i would love to afford all the vintage treasures i see. Although if i were famous, i might have to give up dumpster diving, and we can't have that, no sir.

Do you ever have those bizarre thoughts that you don't recognise as your own?

So, i went trough some of my photo archives and posted just some of the photos that reminded me of the good things in my life that i love and photos that made me smile.

I get to travel to new places from time to time.

This picture was taken in Berlin by My friend Juha Arvid Helminen.

I get to share my passion for vintage with great friends, here with Rhia and Riikka.

And by the way, i'm holding a cigarette in that picture, but i don't smoke anymore (it's only been five weeks..). I had a dream about smoking last night though.

Taking a break at a photo shoot with my friend Miia Magia.

Having a horror dinner with my burlesque family.

Having a dinner at home with Sakari.

Cecil.

Iron Sky costume department crew.

To celebrate the birthday of the company who made the elevators to the Stockmann department store, these girls and boys were dressed up in the old elevator operator uniforms.

A blurry picture of my atelier, or "Marias place" as i sometimes call it.

Good times with Sara.

Posing at Helsinki Vintage with my good friend Lassi. Yes, this is one of the failed pictures, but it's good to have a laugh at your own expense sometimes.

Bix.

Me and Sonia hard at work, Iron Sky costume department. She no longer lives in Finland and i miss her!

Bix listenign to tango.

My little keepers of the underworld

Oh how these two little rascals melt my heart!

I know what you did last summer

Now when it's cold outside, it's fun to look at summer photos! Here's few memories i wanna share with you.

I attended few weddings. Here's wedding outfit #1

Spending time with friends...

And ofcourse, garden parties.

I also dressed up as a teacher

Wedding #2

I wrestled a bit..

..went for a picnic by the sea..

..cruised with Minna Parikka and friends. Here's me and Lumimarja.

One of my favourite things in summertime is going out with my boys.

I also spent lots of time at my atelier. One of my favourite places in the whole world. I really feel at home there. And i sometimes can almost feel the presence of Maria, the lady who opened that little hat shop back in 1942.