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Welcome warm summer nights! I've got just the lacy dream for dancing the night away. Just the softest, lightest hand dyed lace... Hugs the body perfectly. Hemline has a faerylicious cut, sleeves open with antique lace trimmings. Beautiful and comfy, a bona fine princess dress. * This magical piece is artwork by Oona Elena Kassila, and it was inspired by and created in one of my favorite cities in the whole world: Barcelona. And in Catalan, it whispers sweet nothings into my ear... An invitation for a tango, or a shot at flamenco... ♥. ~*♥*~

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A treasure box came from Barcelona, full of handmade wonders worthy of a Goddess... Silver Mauve Shooting Star Feather Earrings. I was so excited that I didn't even make it all the way home from the post office, had to open the parcel STRAIGHT AWAY... So we popped into a café nearby, hot chocolate for the kids and scissors for mama. And WOW what the packet held inside... A golden beige Aphrodite lace dress.... A mauve lace faery dress (purrrrrrrfect with these earrings by the way) and many, many other dreamy treasures... I'll photograph them for you later, promise. I had to gather all my willpower not to start a fashion show right there in the café but we did make it home for that.. Boys were impressed by the fact that mama's latest fashion statement  now is feathers in her ears :) . All the beauties in my parcel are handmade by the lovely and unique Faery Princess Oona Elena Kassila. You can find her treasures at Moonalia etsy shop. A new collection, Faerlica Alliance, a collaboration between Oona and her man Mo Puccino, is on it's way... And you can just feel the love of these two people, in each of the pieces they've crafted together. Beautiful, and beyond. ~*♥*~

This one is pure girly stuff... My darling friend Oona Elena Kassila flew all the way from Barcelona to Helsinki for the last fitting of the Bohemian Princess Rose Cradle Dress I had requested her to design for me. The following day the dress flew to London to attend the London Fashion Week... AND got photographed by Vogue, among other adventures... Dear readers, welcome to the making of my most beautiful dress, ever: * * Mmmmmmm.... Some refreshments were required and shall I say earned, with all those sleepless nights spent while making this dress divine... Oona worked on the dress for 80 hours, before she stopped counting... Every single silver chain, each pearl, every bit of vintage lace is personally sourced and chosen with love and care, then the dress itself... Handmade in Heaven. Oona's artwork. She rocks my world and you can see why. * * I can not tell you how much it means to me, how fortunate I feel,  to have been involved in such creative and artistic process - not to mention how much fun we had - but maybe these photos tell their story more poignantly than I could.. * Details details... This dress is filled with secret details all around. * Luxury dupino silk, French velvet in brocade as the slip... Too beautiful and absolutely unique. If you're into treasures and wonder, Oona's clothing and her partner Mo's jewellery can be found at Moonalia etsy shop. ** * Life. It can't possibly get more Rita Hayworthesque than this... And.... Swoooooooooooooooosh! All photos by the one and only, Pipsa Lagus ♥. ~*♥*~

On Wednesday, I was invited to the movie premiere of "21 ways to ruin a marriage". What a great evening we had... Movie was feelgood funny, new and old friends were all around - an evening of laughter and friendship it was.

The dress code for the event was, of course, a wedding dress. The fairest of all the brides amongst the cast & crew was our lovely Duchess Hannele with her vintage inspired lace wedding dress, soft white Dior boots and a three-string pearl necklace. Chic, sophisticated, feminine. Accessorized with the warmest smile. [caption id="attachment_12062" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Make-up artist extraordinaire Hannele Herttua with a bona fide fashionista and make-up artist in the making, Jemina Pouttu.[/caption] The rest of us dressed up - or down - in a very unwedingly fashion. The queen of the fashionistas in attendance was, once and again, Heli Kajo. She had a quirky turquoise bag to go with her fuscia top and gold jewellery. Cool bold colors that I could never pull off... And Heli always does. Black pailleted dress, Givenchy suede over the knee boots, vintage silver and marcasite earrings (a gift from Pipsa!), and a Chanel bag was as weddingly as I got.

One of the truly lovely people I got to meet that evening was Laura Reunanen, who had just published her first album the day before! She was so kind and even gave me a copy of her cd - Café de Abejas: Mascot Moth - and I must say... I haven't stopped listening to it since. And could you imagine, this lady has actually composed "Les Fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire into chanson. My imagination wouldn't ever have reached those highs... But in fact, my husband gave me that very book by Baudelaire for Xmas...  Now I have just the music to listen to, when I dive into his poetry. Incredible.

* * [caption id="attachment_12088" align="aligncenter" width="422"] True class: lace dress Zara, pearls Kristiina Metsi, lace cuffs Moonalia, boots Dior.[/caption] Then there was the afterparty... With complimentary wedding cakes, perfectly styled for each of the impossible marriages of the film. [caption id="attachment_12053" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Vesa Vierikko and director Johanna Vuoksenmaa having a blast[/caption]

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The cakes were too yummy... This is what the table looked like when we were through with them.. The beautiful Jemina had real problems at the afterparty... There was such an interest for her phone number that our table was surrounded by quite a buzz throughout the evening... Not to mention the bombardment of text messages, after her number was discovered... [caption id="attachment_12065" align="aligncenter" width="382"] Jemina's shimmery Celine purse from Luxbag[/caption] Hannele and Torsti. Such an aura of love there is, around and between these two... Just being around them makes one feel warm. * Pipsa my lovely! The one, the only, the indomitable. The heart and soul of every party. AND a shoulder to cry on when the world roughs a little person up and down and all around. [caption id="attachment_12059" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Eeva Hautamäki & Hannele Herttua.[/caption] I get you, Johanna Vuoksenmaa. After this movie, I too wanted to kiss Armi Toivanen. Or Riku Nieminen, if I'm quite honest... Never ever again will I associate that man with Munamies :) . Sorry dear readers outside Finland, there are things that just don't translate... I'll finish with this scene - one of the funniest in the movie. Sorry, no translation.... EILA: Mites isäs otti tän, kun siitä ei oo nyt kuulunu mitään? Se on yleensä joka kesä, kun mä oon vieny matot ulos, niin napannu ne ja pessy ne jossain vaiheessa, mut nyt ei oo tapahtunu mitään, vaikka ne on ollu siellä jo pari viikkoo. SANNA: Etkö sä halunnu, että se jättäis sut rauhaan? EILA: Ei nyt kaikkia traditioita tarvii silti katkasta! Vaikken mä isääs enää rakasta niin kyllä mä hänestä välitän" ~*♥*~