Sunny Marine Helsinki ❤︎

Helsinki is called the Pearl of the Baltic Sea, and well deserves this praise. The city is surrounded by abundant waterfronts of The Gulf of Finland. The first photo shows the market place and behind it the Helsinki Cathedral and presidential residence that is now used for official purposes.  Since 1993 Mäntyniemi (Helsinki) has been the president’s winter residence and Kultaranta (Naantali) his summer residence. 

In Kaivopuisto Park there is a popular promenade & gathering place with sun, 

boats and marine feeling - and delicious icecream & cafés.

The original Götheborg / Gothenburg, a trading vessel that belonged to the Swedish 

East India Company, sank in 1745. A full-scale replica Götheborg II was completed 

in 2005-2007 and was on a visit to Helsinki and anchored besides the Market Place.

 The ship is the world’s largest wooden ocean-going sailing vessel in service. 

More about this stunning vessel in a future post.

Wishing Sunny Summer Days!

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Addictio Chamber Choir at Temppeliaukio Church

The Temppeliaukio Church / The Rock Church, Helsinki is located on a rocky hill and has been excavated inside the rock. The church is round in shape and its dome is surrounded by a strip of narrow skylights. Inside the dome is copper and excavated granite is left visible on the walls. The church is one of Helsinki's most popular tourist attractions and, due to its good acoustics, a popular concert venue. Last Friday I attended the 15th year anniversary concert of Chamber Choir Addictio where my son Harri sings bass.

I lived for a while in that red building seen at the background.

HERE you can find stunning photos of the church and text in English.

The page is really worth a visit!

Addictio is a Helsinki-based chamber choir founded by its singers in the autumn of 2005.  

The choir was born out of the enthusiasm of its singers to form their own choir, where they could make as much music as possible, experimenting and to a high standard - not forgetting the fun.  

Their basic repertoire includes traditional and new Finnish and European mixed choir music. 

The present director is this handsome guy, Riku Laurikka (b. 1994) who graduated 

from the Sibelius Academy’s choir conducting class as a master of music in the spring of 2021. 

In 2017-2018, he studied at the University of the Arts in Graz, Austria. 

These are the well-known stone steps that lead from Oksasenkatu up to 

Temppeliaukio and the church.

Wishing a sunny week!

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Friday Bliss #190 - Wedding Happening

One Saturday I went grocery shopping and saw to my surprise that the florist shop

had a great wedding happening. Of course I admired their floral decorations 

and took a few mobile shots.

There was a violin player and the ladies had flower wreaths on the head.

All decorations were made with fresh cut flowers and I suspect they had spent

the whole previous night making them. There were nice ideas for other celebrations as well.

Deep red proposal bouquets with velvet red roses and anthuriums. Price 25 €.

One of the many bridal bouquets with hydrangea, phalaenopsis and eustoma.

Customers could choose their favourite among five bridal bouquets and vote.

The floral decorations of these high & impressive chandeliers were stunning.

A great idea for other celebrations as well. Probably they rent these chandeliers.

A magnum shampagne bottle had a wonderful floral decoration.

A great birthday present even in a normal size.

The talented floral fairy, owner of the shop.

Her green hair had exactly the same tone as her dress.

There was a wedding arch in front of which the customers could have their photo taken.

Floral decorations are suitable for shoes too!

This round bridal bouquet was my favourite.

The young bridemaids were beautiful and slender.

I love the colours of this bridal bouquet in pastel shades.

We celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday - congratulations to all moms & grandmoms!

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Something Blue

The topic of Makrotex this week is SOMETHING BLUE.

We Finns love blue, but the only thing blue I had at home were 

these wine glasses & glass pebbles. I decorated them with Easter accessories.

Grandson Anton’s hockey team, Kiekko Espoo / Hockey Espoo won 

the U18 Finnish Championship! Above Anton with his parents Nana and Sami.

We are all very proud of him.

Happy Easter!

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Congratulations to Essi!

 

Over the weekend we celebrated the 10th birthday of our adorable Essi.

After a week of terryfying world news it was wonderful to meet family.

I wish Essi and other grandkids have a bright future in a world in peace.

The cake was delicious and beautiful, baked by a 16-years old family friend.

Happy International Women’s Day!

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Things that Make me Happy!

Family, friends, flowers and books make me happy. Good food and treats make me happy.

Selma and Silva certainly make me happy, even if they have conquered the whole house. 

Many times a day I get heart palpitations because of their running and dangerously looking jumps. 

But they are so good at what they do!

I would not change, but the drawback is that I have had to put almost all of

my nice decorations in storage. Perhaps they get calmer growing older.

We have many book cases and high closets. These two chase each other 

and jump from one bookcase to the other. Their speed is furious!

 

But they also play nicely and quietly for a long time and love to watch the birds

through the windows.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

- Maya Angelou

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

- Unknown

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you dear readers

and thank you for your blog friendship!!

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