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The lovely Tita Sirén from Bottega Verde invited us to celebrate the arrival of spring, in Tuscan style. With freezing Hel all around us, we did our best ♥.
The wonderful Café de Abejas were there, treating us with a live concert. Honey for the eyes as well as ears. Such a charming couple they are, that it's a pure joy to follow their success ♥.
Despite the, öhm, shall I say weatherly limitations, we were determined to color things into spring.
I'm a living proof of how one 1 mm wide detail can make anyone look pro... You wouldn't believe how many doors my red stripe, the Canon one, has opened for me.
Thanks to this little stripe, I've been invited backstage in fashion shows to photograph models getting ready, to interview designers behind the scenes, give comments to magazines and even once to a tv (!). Huh, I say.
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Queen of the day, Tita Sirén. Our hostess, with the right kinda sparkle in her eyes.
My favorite couple, Hannele and Torsti. If ever there is a match made in heaven, here it is.
I had met these two lovely people only once, when already they started helping me out with something that I had tried to work on for two years... And alone I was just too technologically challenged to get anything right. I couldn't find anybody to help me out.. But with Hannele and Torsti, I didn't even need to ask. They just realised I was in trouble and started helping.
Their generosity and kindness has touched me more than I can say.
The Beautiful Leena Sarvi with our hostess Tita.
I've always admired Leena's look and graciousness, but in this event she actually approached me and told me she loved my style!!!
Wow, got completely flustered! What a compliment, and from such an elegant lady nonetheless! somehow, I managed to blurt out that I also really loved the creamy beige furry vest she was wearing. She told me she'd found it from Ajatar AND the following Monday I actually found the very last piece there, and got it as a gift :) . Wow! I'm on a roll here.
Heli Kajo, below, didn't want to be photographed without make-up and with new experimental hair - but as she always has the coolest accessories, those I immortalized. A large golden Donald, furry ginger scarf, pinkish hair. I could never pull something like that off, Heli always can.
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Friends, friends... The salt, spice and sugar of life.
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Okay, the dress was: shirt with satin ribbon under the chest, find from France, tweed skirt with lace detail Férrer, bag Chanel, Italian boots gift from Pipsa, silver bracelets handmade, gift from my dad when I was 6, from a Zambian silversmith. He gave them to me in adult size so I'd always remember that period of my life.I do.[/caption] Afterwards, we all went out to eat together... And if it's true what they say about laughter prolonging one's life, I owe at least one future decade to Pipsa and Lalli's past adventures. [caption id="attachment_12660" align="aligncenter" width="500"]
Pipsa Lagus, Lalli Savolainen[/caption]
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♥ My friends ♥.
Love ya.
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