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bright night 20.6.2017 at 22 29 pm by BLOGitse

natural light nights in Finland…

It’s midsummer weekend, midnight sun, the sun remains visible… I shot this the other evening     Check how it looks in Northern Finland   Utsjoki: Tie970 − Nuorgam − Tenojoki: Play lifetime   Here’s a google map showing the web cam location Nuorgam, Lapland, Finland       On Wed 21.6.2017 at 7:24 it

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peony bud 9.6.2017 by BLOGitse

water + color…

    together is watercolor 😆   Last couple of days have been SUNNY and WARM!   I bought a pile of 300 g paper from England. Oh, and have I painted – yes, yes, yes! I really like that paper and I must, must order more of it before all 100 sheets are gone……..

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one of my suns by BLOGitse

Fri 9.6.2017 sunrise 3:59 – sunset 22:42

  and we have full moon today here in Southern Finland! I wake up every morning 5 am because it’s so bright (I get up later though).   We’ve been painting outside walls, planted grass seeds (hopefully good ones), organizing furniture and stuff inside… This sun we bought from Egypt when we lived in Cairo…

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doodling collage by BLOGitse

round and around…

    doodling, round and around, round and around… I needed a break from sauna building renovation things but I didn’t have inspiration to paint nor draw… I did some croquis skething with charcoal but it didn’t go well… Then I took sheet of paper and let the pen flow without thinking or plan…  

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ready sanded and painted old stool by BLOGitse

fountain pen sketches

Oooh what a week!   Men come and go, we move things from here to there and back… Sauna building is now…half done, but still lot to do. I sanded and painted two old stools – now they are ready.           check here how this looked last week   I had

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sanded old stool by BLOGitse

sanded and painted

  Hi everyone!   I gave up sanding the sauna window frames. We’ll do it later or not… But I sanded one of four old stools. Icky brown is almost gone, it gives  interesting surface with transparent pearl white paint.     Here it’s only partly painted. I’ll show it next weekend when two coats

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sewing summer tops by BLOGitse

sewing break

  This week has been mainly sewing –   sauna window frames are still waiting for sanding because I need special liquid to get rid off old varnish…   and I don’t like that kind of work… it can wait…xxx more days… 🙂   I’ve made kind of tank tops or sleeveless t-shirts…four pieces so

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watercolor trees by BLOGitse

weekend #28 – summer greens

  My entry for   Paint Party Friday   is green   trees I saw from a window…         and a few close-ups       And now a few photos with green           Here’s music I love, to listen and DANCE! Do you like this kind of

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lupins watercolor by BLOGitse

weekend #27 – lupins

  ‘home made’ lupins for   Paint Party Friday       quick watercolor splashes on my sketchbook and together they look like lupins! 🙂   Sorry, no, no, joking…here you see REAL lupins 🙂       look at this beauty     What a structure, what a color, just amazing!   Simple but

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Dianthus Caryophyllus, neilikka, watercolor painted by BLOGitse

weekend #26 – green June shots

  but first my entry for   Paint Party Friday       bunch of Dianthus Caryophyllus     In Helsinki it’s green, really green!       Have a relaxing weekend!

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