Salt Bae\'s fitness motivation involves fueling his body to work out, and rewarding it with the food he loves. The post Salt Bae Incorporates Body Pos ...
Photo via: @angelineilmastDenim lovers should stock their online carts with this season?s coolest style: baggy, wide-leg jeans. We love oversized deni ...
This limited edition holiday collection celebrates small gestures with big impacts, wrapped up in a signature Tiffany Blue Box®. The post Tiffany � ...
Swedish-Australian Kelly Gale, famed Victoria\'s Secrets model, emotes Bond Girl and sizzles in this photoshoot by Cameron Hammond for Australian swim ...
I am such a Wes Anderson nerd; so can\'t wait for this one! To quote cnet: "Wes Anderson out-Wes Andersons himself". ...
Filling this one up.IÂ took a walk in the woods today, and walks this time of the year - although this winter is very much warmer than normally - al ...
I have worked so much and done so many things this summer I once again have some 5000 pics and 500 blogposts I will not manage to ever actually write. ...
Ok so it is July already. No biggie. Just prepare mentally for Christmas already, and 2021 and Dag graduating. (I was going the say "the retirement ye ...
This year\'s Suvi-Vintage poster that I did got summery vibes from the late 1950\'s.The vintage fair is in Tampere 29-30.6. I am performing elsewhere ...
It\'s nice when it is summer and the nights are pale and light again!Here we are outside at 10pm.It is also nice when it is warm and one can wear ligh ...
I made a poster and next week I am putting up a show - come go bananas with us, our co-performers and our students at The Shangri-La Summer Show 2019! ...
Well hello there. I have spent my time working and sleeping, or, rather; lying in my bed making lists in the ceiling of all the things I should be doi ...
In between of being away working on Friday and Saturday, and before starting rather hectic May, this Sunday was a day off, letting the to-do list be f ...
In today\'s hectic life and it\'s social media climate, where you don\'t always have the time to sit down and read the paper properly but still have t ...
Or, that were today.Long time no smoothie! I have a bit of chaga at home of so I made an antioxidant-rich smoothie out of chilled chaga-tea, mango, so ...
Now as the sun has returned to our hemisphere it\'s time to show the plants some love, re-pot and take care of them after the winter darkness. This ye ...
 I got myself a present -Earrings from Mine Güngör! I have been eyeing her designs for some time but not being able to choose a pair, until I saw ...
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Entertainment-tip for this weekend:April Fools Burlesque in Pikku Hanhi in Lahti and our RubiesKlubit: Hikiklubi at Sture 21 in Helsinki tomorrow! Com ...
a.k.a. it was aliens!Some time ago I made myself a UFO-sweater!Somehow I managed to go almost 38 years without one.I bought an appliqué (via Etsy*)Â ...
You may know that my love for putting wheels on, or rather: under things, is just about as big as my love for pockets.When we made Dag\'s room we p ...
I\'m continuing my -apparent- theme colours for this fall; here in a jumpsuit I sew myself in a dark, plum-brownish shade.I\'ve noticed that sewing is ...
The crowd-funded Atelieri O.Haapala book is finally here and it is so beautiful I almost want to cry!The bi-lingual book -the texts are both in Finnis ...
Do you still have apples from this fall" One of my favourite things to make of autumn apples is apple mash with ginger!Apple mash is what we usually c ...
You\'ve seen me talk about it trough the years - my love for autumn. I do enjoy all seasons (except perhaps for spring, as spring in Finland often tur ...
Today it\'s the gloomy Halloweenish weather one would expect with mid-October approaching (already! What" How"), but yesterday we woke up to a breatht ...
Let me first start this by saying that I am definitely and foremost waiting for Halloween (and now that the second week of October is about to start I ...
Last spring before I went to France I quickly made this yellow ochre-coloured A-line skirt (like, the actual night before, because that is what insane ...
Photo: Neil KendallIt will be a full moon tonight and if the sky is clear I know I will most likely be woken up by it, as it stares straight into my w ...
We finally have a living room!Yes, there has always been a living room downstairs, but that room still has boxes and extra furniture from our forme ...
Summer 2018! And what a summer it has been!               Never before has it been this warm - ...
This is the best part of the renovation!Choosing colours and getting to paint.(or ok, second best, after actually being done. or maybe third, because ...
Buongiorno! I am still in Italy and hopefully eating some nice pasta or gelato (not or! AND) plus enjoying myself some wine. Meanwhile, for the rest o ...
Hello! Even though it may not always seem like it, I am still here! At least for the joy of all of those marketing SEO- and escort services, who I ...
If you want more sparkle in your life, and even if you don\'t, but just want to have fun and be entertained, come watch our studio\'s Summer Show Frid ...
When it gets warm, and like now, when it STAYS warm, I keep on being amazed by how pleasant it feels. And by how light is is. You forget that during t ...
I just drove my husband out to his tractor on the field to work. It is so dry and dusty everything gets coated in a layer of dirt. And I laughed a bit ...
This week I was in Strasbourg with +27C and I was prepared to come home to boots and jacket-mode still but alas! - I brought the warmth with me an ...
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I took a pair of sleeves and made myself a bow.Here we have a vintage blouse that I adopted when my mother wanted to get rid of it, but that I am - le ...
At the end of last summer we renovated a room for Dag!Ever since we moved out of the flat in the city to stay in the countryside permanently we have b ...
Lets start the week with some cake!The other day I was a guest at a radio show where we talked about the usual things that I tend to visit various sho ...
Lately I\'ve let the foundations and powders (I usually use mineral powder foundation for everyday use) rest in my drawer and used only this - Lumene\ ...
You recently saw a couple of the photos we took with AskoJonathan Photography for my Happily Ever After-act.Because behind-the-scenes photos always ma ...
Happy Easter!Here is my little black cat on this year\'s Easter-ing tour (or whatever we shall decide to call it in English).As our house still looks ...
Altough being stacked up in every store for the moment, it still seems I am in the minority of Finns actually rejoicing that mämmi season is here! We ...
Ok, perhaps not exactly. But suitably for a time of growth, flowers, resurrection and Easter witches Asko and I did a photoseries for my act Happily E ...
Four things right-right now.The books above my head.A cat in the after noon sunshine.Reading the Egytptian Book of the Dead (but now I got distracted ...
(Half of the headline is indeed in Finnish in case you had to look twice. It gives the content of this post away.)Easter is just around the corner and ...
The other day I realised that the oldest piece of clothing in my wardrobe, apart from vintage, is a cardigan I bought in 1997 that I still use. I ...
Anyone who has rad my blog troughout the years would by this point be familiar with Atelieri O.Haapala, the neo-victorian portrait studio by Saara ...
Tonight! At our studio starting 18hrs - Dr.Sketchy\'s Helsinki presents: Wonderland! Come and draw and enjoy the nice setting, music and atmosphere.Ph ...
Ah, the joy of a clean surface.Especially since it looked like this moments before:To be honest, half of this is on the floor now but the mind rests s ...
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Ok everybody!Long time no internet, and happy we-are-totally-living-in-what-was-once-sci-fi-future-2018!So, last year I was working in this production ...
When I don\'t "have anything at home" and need to cook dinner I tend to make this tomato-lentil-noodle soup. I still always have lentis, crushed tomat ...
The Helsinki Burlesque Xmas Xtravaganza event I performed at all weekend long was truly fantastic but really sucked the juice out of me as well. Here\ ...
Things are not too busy over here. I know, but meanwhile in real life I am very busy picking cocktail bites from a silvery platter of burnout. I appar ...
Late last summer we shot a series of editorial photos with Karl Vilhjálmsson for a feature article series for Hufvudstadsbladet. The series ...
What to do today"Let me help you with that:Come to Sture 21 for a set of Dr. Sketchy\'s and then in the evening join the best, most sparkling and craz ...
In a time when I kind of dream I would catch the flu so I could lay in bed and just watch Netflix with a clean consciousness (that wouldn\'t be ...
What\'s the opposite of preparations" Delays"1. The damn tomatoes.I am not even going to tell you, although I clearly am; but Eddi and I dug out this ...
Last week\'s Wednesday I turned 36 and this week\'s Wednesday this blog became a decade old.The later is a lot and the first neither a lot nor a littl ...
October! The month changes and the sun says \'K bye!\' and we get Halloween-ish storms in an instant. Not that I am complaining per se; I have big sha ...
The Pin-Up Finland calendar for 2018, featuring the finalists of the competition, is out now! And the very intense yearly "pageant"-weekend is also ov ...
In the beginning of summer we went on holiday to Spain. We had a great Air Bn\'B in Xàbia / Jávea; spent a week swimming and sweating and drinking s ...
This summer and fall I have as usual been working with Pin-Up Finland, which is the oldest and biggest pin-up competition for aspiring pin-up models o ...
Hello there!I am on my way to Brussels to perform and it seems I am only, or well mostly, planning on wearing green things.Must be a sign that autumn ...
You may have seen the Gucci campaign already, or you may not, and if so then here it is and I totally love that they did this: ...
Doing my barre workout in the garden. Organising things with the help of a glass of bubbly. Reading in the hammock chair under the tree. Â And the w ...
Hi! Here I (still) am. Sitting by my flower-and herb pots on the backdoor stairs. And it\'s sunny and almost warm -which is something of a thing this ...
Heya internet!Long time no see. Yesterday both dag & dad went to the barber shop to get their hairs cut for vacation mode. This little fella is ...
Some things that never get old -That first warm summer evening when you can have dinner in the green and the wind is warm and soft.Sudden snuggle-ups ...
I have noticed that keeping a jug of water on the table with stuff in helps me get closer to the goal of drinking enough water during the day (as in o ...
Last Sunday we turned our studio into interstellar space -or intergalactic if you so like- they way it would look if an, umm, elementary school or som ...
Four nice things right now.Small kumquats on a branch.Who wouldn\'t get happy over cute small orange thingies like these"Green branches and leaves in ...
Waiting for spring like -WHERE IS IT!Apparently spring is like a month late here or so by now they say on the news and in the papers.Well yes, thanks, ...
It\'s time for the next Dr.Sketchy\'s Helsinki! This time we create you a little mini cosmos over at our studio, where the drawing takes place.Dr.Sket ...
For the moment.Apart from the daily to-do list(s). And apart from the weekly and monthly ones as well.I am a total list-person. I write lists on my ph ...
Easter. This year I managed to plan a little in advance (as in I beat my side note challenge from last year, did them the night before; tada!) and did ...
Gingerbread brown blouse that I came across for less than 5? the other day at the Fida thrift shop.Breakfast. Or, part of it.Also: unintentionally ins ...
Fennel is a vegetable which anis-like taste I sometimes crave for, and sometimes makes me go \'Uh, not now!\'. It is however mostly the first option f ...
Pretty much two of my favourite things!(Well you know, depending on what level of life and living you are referring to.)I find these images of snacks ...
Hello Turku Åbo!(For some reason I feel like adding a CHOO CHOO or HONK HONK here after that, so, there you go, either one.)I am teaching my hair wor ...
Today I\'ve been wearing blue.From top to toe, rather literally; I have a new sky blue faux-scarf turban that I\'ve been hiding my somewhat un-styled ...
When it comes dressing; dressing up, and the preferences that goes with it, it tends to be very cyclical for me. For most people I guess. So after som ...
A couple of photos from the gigantic number we created for the tenth and final Helsinki Burlesque Festival with both of our performing student troupes ...
(because at this time of year, you can just name everything starting with "spring"-)Apparently there\'s some gene that determines weather you like cel ...
Last November when in Prague we had a chance to do a quick (in the lobby of a dance studio) and fun shoot with fabulous photographer my FB page whe ...
Some time ago I watched the film Sayat-Nova / The Colour of Pomegranates.It is a1968 Soviet film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov that tells t ...
I guess we are at that point of the year again when small whispers and hints about a possible arriving spring start showing up in blogs on the norther ...
Tonight the tenth -and final- Helsinki Burlesque Festival begins!Just checked into the hotel (staying in the city to avoid the long drive home two nig ...
You know I like it when something is more healthy than it may seem" These pumpkin treats would be something that fits that description. It is also som ...
Some casual evening chilling with a book and my hang-around cats.Photos by Asko Rantanen / Asko Jonathan Photography(Actually part of another series, ...
