Shopping, shopping, shopping

It's been pretty sunny for the whole week so far. Today is actually really hot. We've been shopping every day this week. On Monday we went to the city to find some clothes for me and visit a used-book store. That's where Aleksi always buys his manga because it's cheaper there. This time I found a book about starting a business. On Tuesday we went back to look for a dress and to order a book that DulceCandy87 (on youtube, blog) recommended. And today we went to two flee markets to see if we would find anything.

On Monday I found this cute top

On Tuesday I found this pretty dress for a wedding we're going to next month. It was 50% off!

And I got a new wireless mouse.

 And I made some cabbage soup

Cappage soup:

1 cappage 

3 carrots

 beef stock

400 g minced meat 

3/4 dl rice

2 tbsp sirup

Wash and chop your cappage. Peel carrots and chop them. Put the cappage and the carrots in a pot and fry them for a while. Fry minced meat on a pan. Add the meat to the pot and pour beef stock (or about 1 l of water and 2 stock cubes) till everything is covered. Add rice and sirup and stir. Let the soup boil about 30 minutes and it's ready to serve.

This is a food people eat in Finland. Some love it some hate it. I love it :) This is how my mom does it. I don't know if it's the same abroad.

Today I found this cute tee pot from a flee market.

It was really hot so we got ourselves some ice cream.

Birthday

It was my birthday on Sunday. I turned 24. We didn't really do much. I made an apple pie in the morning since I knew my brother and his girlfriend were coming to visit with their baby boy. 

Here's what my husband had bought to celebrate my birthday. And he sais we'd
buy me a new laptop later. I love him. He spoils me rotten!

Belgian chocolate and champagne

Weekend getaway

We packed our things in the morning and left to the hotel. Maybe a little over packed for just one night but we wanted to be prepared for different ocsassions and weathers.

Here's the gift card we got for a wedding present.



Almost there. Here's a sign to the hotel.

This is the front enterance of the hotel. This hotel is not a fancy 5 star hotel, it is a wilderness styled hotel.

The hotelroom was a disapointment so we desided to go for a hike. The weather was very gray, it actually rained occationally. The good thing about it though was that there were less mosquitos and it wasn't like burning hot.

 

 

 

This is where we hiked to.

We grilled some sausages in this hut and dried ourselves for a little while.

So glamorous looking! We were wet from the rain and sweat. 

 When we came back from the hike we were exhausted and wanted to go to a nearby spa resort and soak in a hottub. We called to the front disk to ask about the spa and found out we had 45 minutes before the hotel's restaurant was going to close. We had to just take quick showers and dress to get there in time. I would've wanted to be all dressed up and put on make-up and curl my hair but there was so little time that I just put on nice clothes and a few jewels.

Here are some pics from the restourant. I forgot the camera in our room so these were taken with my husbands cell.

  

 

It took so long to get the food and we were really hungry that I forgot to take pics of the food. But I did take a pic of the desert. Yam!

 Of course when we were leaving the sun was shining so we desided to have these delicious ice creams.

Cleaning our closets

So today was my last day to work before midsummer. People typically selebrate Midsummer's eve here in Finland. Usually it involves going to the sauna, drinking and watching the bonfire. Many finns go to their summer cottage or rent one.

Here are some pics of what I wore to work today:

Today was actually a warm day after many rainy days but I didn't realize it in the morning before work.

So while my husband was at work (from 3 PM to 9:15 PM) I did some house cleaning. It's nice to come home to a clean house since we are leaving tomorrow for our "second honeymoon"/summer vacation to a hotel for one or two nights. We got a gift card there for a wedding present. We actually went to spain already for our honeymoon but we spent our first night married at home.

I also cleaned our closets and here are some pics of that:
Before
After

I got this idea and how to fold from The style diet -Anna Saccone. She's a youtuber and a blogger.

These are the baskets that I put some of my clothes in. We got them for a wedding present also they were full of plates and such.
And here is just a pic of our doggy Coco 'cause she is just cute :)