October Favourites

Hey folks, here is my top 5 wish-list for this month. Many things to indulge the soul in this grey month. 

1. The days are getting colder, so it's time to spend some evenings in the bathtube. LUSH has some amazingly new Halloween products that I wanna try out, above all this Pumpkin bath bomb. It has the scent of vanilla, spicy cinnamon and biscuity home-baked desserts.

2. I have always been a fan of vinyl, but since I went to Finland and saw Roosas and Tonis vinyl collection I wanna get more myself. I wanna treat myself with the new Solstafir album Berdreyminn and when I saw that it's also sold as a vinyl, I went like "ohh I preferably wanna have this as a vinyl..."

3. This coat is such a pretty casual piece to wear. Suits to everything and is absolutely chic and a total autumn piece!

4. Autumn time is candle time, right? When I buy candles, I mostly buy them from this brand JOIK. They are soy wax candles and every candle I had from this brand smelled AMAZING! The one shown in the picture is "Cinnamon coffee", but it was sold out. I got "Cinnamon bun" instead and that one is wonderful, too!

5. Since I gave away many old bowls I am looking for new ones. This one by TineKHome is really pretty and timeless I find.

Finally it's autumn!

Hello and happy autumn!

Finally it's my personal favourite season of the year! The days are getting shorter and it's time to get cozy at home! My living room table is full of candles, scented ones, normal ones, beeswax candles. I collected some chestnuts, pretty coloured leaves and some apples to decorate my apartment.

When I've got some free time (what is really rare in the past time) I go to the beautiful forest nearby or for a walk in the botanical garden with friends.

I stocked up on many books, mostly crime stories placed in England, bought some spicy christmassy tea and a new candle with "cinnamon bun" scent. Hello cozy time!

Finally I got myself a pair of Doc Martens! My new companion through the colder days.

One from early autumn: Swan family in the forest lake.

Some autumn musings: A new vintage bag, notebooks, postcards and autumn leaves.

A trip to beautiful Porvoo

Roosa and me went to Porvoo as a little day trip. The bus tickets from Helsinki were very cheap and the distance isn't that far. So we bought ourselves some vegan snacks at the supermarket and caught our bus to Porvoo at Kamppi. It was just a 30 or 40 minutes drive and we were there. Unfortunately the weather wasn't with us, it rained non-stop. So we bought some cute umbrellas so we could walk the streets of Porvoo.

Porvoo is a summer town, but I also liked it in autumn. In the old town are lots of cute wooden houses in all colours. We found some antique shops, bought some postcards and finally went to Café Helmi, probably the prettiest café I've ever been to.

Travel diary: Helsinki

Last week I came back home from a wonderful little journey. I was the happiest girl because I traveled to Helsinki, Finland on my own to visit my beloved friend Roosa. For more than 10 years I dreamed about traveling to Finland and finally it came true! And of course it was the best to meet my friend again after two years. I was so happy to stay at her cozy place, it gave me the feeling of being part of it all and not the feeling of just being a simple tourist.

Roosa and me strolled through vintage- and vinyl shops. The photos here were taken at Hippie Shake Records. We also went to Music Hunter, where I bought 3 vinyls: The Doors, Bowie and Blues Pills.
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We took a walk to the orthodox church in Helsinki, which is build up on a hill

From there we had a fantastic view over the city. You can also see "Helsingin tuomiokirkko", the dome of Helsinki from there.

The orthodox church from the inside was really stunning to me. So much gold and details, it is really really pretty.

Exploring made us hungry, so we stopped at "Date and Kale", a vegan restaurant. We had some yummy black rice with cauliflower, red lentils, fresh coriander and pomegranate seeds.

Pretty autumn forest. We went for walks in the nearby forest every morning to walk the dog.

Missing forest walks with these two...

The Moomin Café (Mumin Kaffe) in Helsinki is a must-visit for all Moomin fans though it is more aimed for children. We enjoyed coffee, tea and cinnamon buns anyway.

Moomin Café guest book entry ( :

Of course we also went to the Moomin shop, it's a must-go-to when you're in Helsinki. I bought several cards, what else? Oh and a new Moomin mug, my fifth, in the Iittala shop ( :

One rainy and cold afternoon we went to Ateneum museum to watch an exhibition about finnish art.

Some artworks that I really liked at Ateneum.

Roosa and me are both art postcard junkies so the museum shop was our happy place! ( : We bought lots of cards of paintings that we admired in the gallery before.

One of my favourites in the exhibition. The painting shows Ilmatar, the virgin spirit of the air who descented into the primal sea and was impregnated by the wind.

Walking from room to room.

Vegan oat-apple-crumble for breakfast! So simple made but so delicious! And how I wish we had this oatly vanilla sauce here, too! I would literally eat it everyday! :D

One of the vinyl I bought at "Music Hunter". So in love with the cover of it, too! // Cozy evenings eating vegan dishes while listening to vinyls ♥

Cute vintage shop. We both found something cute to wear at this place.

Beautiful autumn forest