tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022186119905988362024-02-02T15:12:26.749-08:00Omena PuuMy life in FinlandFlavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-68934691711279754832017-03-08T22:41:00.002-08:002017-03-08T22:41:59.880-08:00Find me hereIf you're interested, now you can find me<a href="http://khuzdul.blogspot.fi/" target="_blank"> here</a> :)Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-6648063031913790012016-02-28T13:06:00.000-08:002016-02-28T13:06:50.204-08:00WhiteToday, a lovely comment from my sweet blog-friend from <a href="http://rosesanglaises.canalblog.com/" target="_blank">JARDIN ANGLAIS</a> reminded me how much I neglected this blog. So here I am ! I am fine, and so it is my whole family. Did I say we already celebrated two birthdays this year ? My youngest doughter turned 12 and I turned 40. She is growing, while I experienced some kind of regression, I probably mixed up forty with fourteen. So in the last month I spent so much time drawing, listening to music, writing and spending time outside. I am dreaming of a long series of teenage-like things I want to do. I wonder if this is just normal once you become middle-aged. I mean, I don't need to prove anything anymore, I don't need to compete, I don't need to behave. It's kinda fun, even if few of your children might think you've gone nuts ...<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-61280965657458955192016-01-25T05:42:00.000-08:002016-01-25T05:42:34.223-08:00Following the lightIn the past five or six years I got more and more interested in the natural world. I started my journey thanks to <a href="http://www.clarewalkerleslie.com/" target="_blank">Clare Walker Leslie</a> and her beautiful guides to nature journaling and observation. Since then, I kept many nature journals and nature studies, and when we moved here in Finland my interest was especially drawn to how the light (or the lack of it ) impact the natural life, and which are the signs that the outdoors gives us to hint snow, or rain or especially low temperatures. So far I learnt a lot, but so much it is still out there to observe and understand. In the last couple of weeks Finland experienced very low temperatures, friday was the coldest day for us, with -29 here in the south. The amazing side of these freezing days is that usually they are bright and sunny with clear blue sky. So one day I had some fun litterally following the sun during the day, taking pictures every once in a while from the same window. If you wonder why all this excitement about the sun, here some facts: at the solstice, one month ago, the sun was rising at 9:23 and setting at 15:07 ( we had 5 hours and 44 minutes of daylight ), today the sun has risen at 8:49 and the sun will set at 16:10 so 7 hours and 22 minutes of daylight, almost two hours more in less than a month. This has a terrific impact on every living being's life. Birds wake up earlier, and humans wake up easier and feel less tired and in general the energy level increase so much. Life begins anew somehow. But here my four more significant pictures, showing the path of our star.<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-33738223504464700292016-01-08T15:16:00.000-08:002016-01-08T15:16:00.590-08:00Late ! Late ! Late !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know, it's a long overdue post. But I really wanted to post those three pictures from New Year's night. Why ? Well first of all because I like the idea that my blog it's somehow my journal. Then because I really love those picture. But most of all because that night has been beautiful and fun. My older children are most of the time now truly great friends, with whom I can laugh and talk and share all aspects of life ( and yes, sometime they're an handful too ) while my little one is pure joy and curiosity and sweet love ( and yes sometime he's an handful too ). And I love all of them. And I'm very fond also of you my dear readers ;) </div>
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So... Happy 2016 !!!!!!!</div>
Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-78932539792820933812015-12-30T14:53:00.000-08:002015-12-30T14:53:07.717-08:00Bye bye beautifulAnother year went by. It has been a painful, beautiful, full year, filled with laughs and tears and thoughts. The last year of the third decade of my life. A lot of reflections about who I am, who I was and who I want to be. In this year I tried to come to terms with the fact the the dream I have been chasing for 10 years will not come true. It has been hard, but now I feel like I finally let it go. It belongs to the past. This has left me wandering in my own life somehow. You have a target, a goal. You know what are you aiming to. But when you deliberately close that door you find yourself walking along a very long corridor filled with doors and you're not sure which one you should open ( or want to open ). So I decided that with the beginning of this fourth decade I will go back to square one. My first passions: drawing, writing and taking pictures. Not because I decided to become a writer or a painter or a photographer. Or maybe because I decided to become either a writer AND a painter AND a photographer. Or because I want to lit the flame of passion again. I Know 40 will be a great age: my older children have become such great friends, with whom I love to laugh and talk and learn, and my little one keep me young, letting me see the reality with his pure and joyful eyes, and my age set me free from the stress of pleasing other no matter what. I have the luxury to be myself, no competition with my fellow human beings. I feel so blessed. So what I am doing this year is to sign in for an online class (illustration and mixed media art ), writing few short novels and maybe entering some literary contest for beginners, taking more pictures. AND keeping a written nature journal and journaling more. AND reading a lot of books. Oh and eating healthy and living and vegan as much as possible. It seems that 2016 will be full of interesting things. So bye bye 2015, bye bye beautiful, you've been a good teacher, but now I need to move on. With Love, Flavia.<br />
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The last pictures for this year, nature and family and Christmas. So much joy. </div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-71601366207935191582015-12-23T15:18:00.001-08:002015-12-23T15:18:33.717-08:00Merry ChristmasChristmas has arrived. It is knocking on the door of my heart. I want to wish to all my friends and relatives, closer and far away the most peaceful and joyful Christmas day. May this special day fill you up with happiness to last until the next one. For my Christians friends ( as me ) this is such a very special day, in which we celebrate the birth of our very special friend and the wisest and most loving teacher, Jesus.<br />
Here few pictures from my house, mostly the lights, colourful and so necessary in the darkness of this month.<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-64320845216799765592015-12-21T13:59:00.000-08:002015-12-21T13:59:40.516-08:00Happy Solstice !So here we are. The darker moment of the year is here, but this mean that the light is about to come back. In two days the hours of daylight will be longer and longer. I love this moment of the year, as it reminds me that in life we have darkness and light, and even if darkness can be scaring and depressing and sad, it is the prelude to light. A light much more sweeter and bright just because of the previous darkness.<br />
I took these pictures of the sky at 15:00 (3 pm ) just when the sun was about to set. In few months at 3 am we will have much more light than this.<br />
I love the Creation we're living in.<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-63969721628241300632015-12-18T14:05:00.001-08:002015-12-18T14:05:58.976-08:00Morning frostThis is a very strange season. Somehow out of pace. Calendar says december, Christmas, winter solstice, but the sky whisper maybe autumn... we still have mostly plus temperatures and rain. The annoying grey foggy rain you'd expect from an autumn day. Almost everybody I meet ( ok not so many people since my life here is quite secluded ) is desperately waiting for snow and we make no exception. After the glorious one-day-of-snow it all melted away and it has been dark and muddy ever since. So, few mornings ago, once the light finally made its appearence and showed the world, I was very happy to notice the thin layer of glittering white cover the reality and I <i>had </i>to grab my camera and capture some of that beauty.<br />
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sunrise at 9:21</div>
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sunset at 15:06</div>
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hours of light : 5 hours 45 minutes</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-33537581710663965712015-12-14T14:28:00.000-08:002015-12-14T14:28:06.457-08:00SunriseOnly few days until the solstice. I'm litterally in love with the magic and mystic that happens during the solstices. The shorter and the longer days in the year. The sun making a leap from darkness to light and vice versa. Of course the winter solstice is the most exciting, after so much darkness, knowing that finally the light is about to shine again it is so comforting. No wonder Jesus was born around this period. He is so comforting too.<br />
This morning I took a picture outside around noon. The sun is under the top of the trees at the horizon. It not even arrives at west to set, so short its path nowadays.<br />
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Sunrise at 9:17 am</div>
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Sunset at 15:06 pm</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-17709781643455922992015-11-26T14:23:00.000-08:002015-11-26T14:23:50.222-08:00The dark side of the earthAt the moment my adoptive country belongs to the dark side of the earth. Even if I live on the south, several hundred kilometres from the Arctic Circle ( where the sun never rise above the horizon in this half of the year and never sets in the next half ), the differences light-wise between summer and winter are truly dramatic. If during the summer months we enjoy countless hours of direct sunlight and we never experience the night ( the only down side : no stars ) in this period at 16:00 is already pitch dark and in the morning before 9:00 the light is so dim. The official sunrise is at 8:47 and the sunset is at 15:27, giving us 6 hours and 40 minutes of daylight ( and it's going to get shorter until the solstice ). So in this period light, or the lack of it, it's something really important to everybody living at these latitudes. Houses and towns start glowing of many white lights, most of them on the windowsill or hanging over the windows or on the front porch. Candles are lit in many gardens and on the tables and sunny days and snow (which brings a great deal of light ) are celebrates with cheers and smiles and gratefulness. This makes me think that today for my American friends is Thanksgiving, the '' giving thanks'' day. What a beautiful tradition my friends. Let me borrow this celebration for a moment . I'm so very grateful for the four seasons we enjoy every year, because each of them makes us appreciate different aspects of the glorious creation we live in. And at the moment I'm especially thankful for the gift of light in all its magical, poetical and joyous aspects.<br />
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A sunny snowy day is worth a celebration in this season.</div>
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My neighbour's garden. Magical.</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-18580498304601657152015-11-21T14:05:00.000-08:002015-11-21T14:05:44.450-08:00First snow<div style="text-align: center;">
Tonight the magic happened again. The water turned into snow and sugar coated the world. May the miracle of snow bring peace to our lives, as we slow down our pace to wonder, nose up to the sky, if the white falling might really be the feathers of angel's wings, as we used to believe as children....</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-83177706353841042782015-11-14T14:10:00.000-08:002015-11-14T14:10:48.486-08:00Blowin in the windYesterday it has been a very special day for my family. A <i>first time </i>kind of day. My youngest doughter went to her first live concert ( Nightwish in Espoo, Finland). She is only 11, but she has loved Nightwish for some years now. My husband and I have been probably more excited than her and kept texting '' Is she happy ?'' all the time they were gone. At home me and the four siblings left had an evening of junk snacks, pizza and movies waiting for daddy and sister to come back and tell the tale.<br />
They came back around 1:30 am, happy and excited, sporting a new t-shirt and booklet.<br />
Before collapsing in bed my husband checked his e-mail and got a glimpse of the news. Came in bed with a puzzled look '' Something very serious is happening in Paris ''.<br />
This morning I got up earlier than everybody else as usual, but instead of crocheting or drawing I switched on my computer ( breaking my own rule of no computer during the day ). I read about Paris. I read about people going to a concert, to a football match ... and I didn't read but KNEW about families left home, partying and waiting eating pizza to hear the exciting evening of their loved ones. My heart skipped few beats thinking that Paris could have been Espoo, or Rome, where the rest of my family lives. And then came the prayers, and the questions. How can a human being do such things ? What will happen now ?... My family started to wake up, we started talking, grieving the death of our fellow human beings, and then went on with our day. And like most of our days with a deep sense of un-ease I witnessed to the fights, lack of patience, lack of compassion, lack of empathy that happen daily in my family. And I felt guilty. And humbled. I am wondering how a human being can commit such atrocities and all of a sudden I realize that so often we treat even those who we love the most in such bad way. I let anger rule, I feed my greed, I don't show enough care or love for my own family. So it came to my mind my french teacher in high school. She never did any strike or demostration. She was teased for this reason. But she kept saying that her way to protest was doing her job and living her life the best she could. At that time I thought that she was too lazy or afraid and I have fattened the group of the teaser. But today I got a grip of the real meaning of her words. Peace comes from every single peaceful action we do in our days. A better world can come out only if we build it a brick at a time. Love can spread only if WE love and spread the love around. Pointing finger to each other, hating each other, let anger rule ... those are the seeds of evil. To honour the death of yesterday's victims I want to live my life better, love more, be more patient, be mindful and caring.<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-88417584355372215492015-11-12T14:38:00.001-08:002015-11-13T14:53:17.199-08:00Be-LongingOne of my sons love old movies. You know those classic italian movies, those that made the history of italian movie making itself. I've never been a great fan of these kind of things, but now we spend a lot of our evenings just watching one of these black and white productions ( btw many thanks to my brother in law, who sent us few more movies to add to our collection ). Being in a rather emotional mood lately, these movies trigger always all kind of feelings. The word that crosses my mind more often in my thoughts is <i>belonging. </i>Yep. I realized that I <i>long </i>to <i>belong.</i> For many different reasons, for my past experiences, for the path I have followed in my life, I've very often felt the sting of loneliness. And the feeling of being 'scattered'. I try to stretch in every possible direction, doing everything doable in order to find my right cozy spot in this universe and life. And I just came to realize that I have become a real control freak lately. I can forgive others 'mistakes' but I can't forgive mine, because each of them makes me feel like it's just because of it that my longing to belong can't be fullfilled. Anyway, those old movies make me long and cry for those time in which life was simpler. Simpler, not easier, I'm not that naive. Simpler, made of few smaller things but real life interactions. Evening spent with family and friends laughing and talking. Visiting for no reason, without the need of calling in advance or texting. Children and grown ups from different generations sharing life together and creating everlasting bonds. Oh my oh my too much thinking and controlling and longing and ... just need to relax and give up and let be and let flow ...a few pics from this morning frost ... <br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-11700374847125830542015-11-08T14:29:00.000-08:002015-11-08T14:29:56.088-08:00Busy busy busyWow ... such a very very busy weekend ! I have to admit most of this busy-ness it's my own fault, I have so many projects going on and saturday I decided also to bake some goodies for the following days. And ... And James has started to sleep in his own bed ! I can't believe it. We have been co-sleeping since day one and now it feels so strange ... yesterday he has been in his bed until 1:00am who knows how tonight will be ...<br />
And next friday my youngest doughter ( 11 yo ) will go to her first live concert with dad ! Nightwish are playing in Helsinki and she has loved the group since she was six or seven ... time runs away so fast ... I want to finish my huge amount of projects
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-84803324184081929452015-11-05T14:03:00.000-08:002015-11-05T14:03:36.071-08:00Challenges and prioritiesFinally tonight I decided to log on my poor neglected blog. I found two lovely comments by my blog friend from the <a href="http://rosesanglaises.canalblog.com/" target="_blank">JARDIN ANGLAIS</a> (check her blog and web-shop are soo worth ! ) and this made me realize how I missed my blogging and how I should try to be back and more active on here. But as the title of this post says, this is a very challenging moment of my life and it's now time to set my priorities in order to get out from this depressing feeling of being a failure i'm stuck in. I have to say that my fifth child confirmed my feeling that it's much more easier to have children very close in age. My first four were born in 3 years and 10 months, I have heard the sentence ''you have your hands full'' so many time when they were very young. And now I keep hearing how much easier must be for me to have the little one so much younger than the others. Well it is not. When the fab four were small they always played together, wanted to eat, drink, listen and watch the same things, it was so easy for me to have them all happy, of course I was very busy, but knowing they were happy and having fun was the best reward. Now my little one has to share his mom with four siblings that more or less just started to navigate the mysterious teen-age-land. They love him to pieces, they have fun spending some time with him during the day, but they don't see him as the whole person he already is, just like a small funny little thing, and they hardly want to spend their time doing what he loves or letting him get hold of their stuff or watch something suitable to him, that he can understand. So most of the time I find a very sad, sometime quite angry and bored three years old running around looking for a playmate ( which usually it's me ). And yes, homeschooling it's not always easy, and you find yourself doubting ten thousand times a day this choice, but still at the end of each day you decide that you wouldn't really want it any other way. But well, the point of my very long rant is that this is one of the most busy, challenging moments of my life. I can't remember to have ever been so overwhelmed before. So yesterday I read this quote from Elizabeth Gilbert '' sometime you have to give up something you love to do what you want to do most''. So here I am, ready to declutter my life. Not my house. The moment has arrived to decide what to keep and what to give up, at least in this busy moment. My little blog won't be among the things I will be giving up :-) So here I am, with a couple of pics to make you smile ....<br />
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Fun ! While he was painting the leaves I could sit near him working on my drawings or on my crocheting. When he got tired of painting I wrapped some foil over the little 'jar' and saved the color for later use.</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-27232891650241081402015-10-01T13:08:00.001-07:002015-10-01T13:10:22.993-07:00The first of the tenthOctober !!! Can you believe ? How did that happen ? 2015 is galloping towards its end at light speed. But, I have to say, that this newborn month has brought some peace of mind for me, some very good news for my husband ( and family as well ) and a lot of new projects I want to accomplish. And no, this has not been an especially good day, actually my little one has been grumpy and stubborn most of the day, so my better-than-usual-almost-good mood does not come from a restful day and if you can follow the track of my thoughts this is good, it means that this positiveness is coming from the inside.<br />
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I've been away for so long from this little spot of mine here on the wide web. I missed it and at the same time I dreaded the idea to log and write what has been crossing my mind lately. Every given year, after the summer, when a new long year in Finland is in front of me I, more or less, fall in pieces and it takes a while to pick them up and glue them in a human-like shape and face again head up everyday's life. And it's not easy when you don't have family or friends nearby and it's not easy when you homeschool five children and you have a large family of seven people to care for, and you'd just love to have someone caring for you for once. It feels so terribly hard the idea of facing new long months of lonliness, just living a life I never really choosed. Five years ago when we sold everything we had in order to pursue a new way of life I was so full of dreams, so filled with hope, so sure that I was about to give my children the great chance to savour something totally different and incredibly beautiful. Then a sudden U-turn to which I didn't rebelled took me here, in a place where I don't belong, leading a life I feel as worthless and aimless and pointless and i simply can't forgive myself for being so feeble and I can't forget that U-turn. How is it possible to make peace with myself and let that ghost ship go ? Or better, would it be possible to dive into the sea and start swimming full force following the ghost ship hoping that someone might notice me and help me on board ? And how can you swim full force if you have 6 more people to bring with you, five of them which rely on you completely ( and already blame you so much because you let that U-turn happen without rebelling) ? But as every year I will manage to bury all those thoughts deep deep down in that dark place of the soul and I will focus on 'here and now' and on my many blessings and I will try so hard to forget my sister life for a while, pretending I'm living my dream and not someone else's. Please dear reader forgive my ramblings. I tried so hard to find something light to write about but it simply didn't feel honest. This post needed to be written to turn the page of my silence and open a window on the world and look outside for beautiful things to go through the arctic night and long and lonely winter. See you soon sweet souls for something more joyous. Have the nicest week possible dear ones !<br />
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-9435437533989986312015-08-31T08:12:00.000-07:002015-08-31T08:12:00.264-07:00PreservingHello dear ones !<br />
So following my berries' post here the natural sequel, PRESERVING !!!<br />
I grew up in Rome and my mom didn't enjoy cooking so in my childhood I don't have memories of jam making or canning or anything like that. When I became a mother I took my own path and trying to leave off the land has become a dream of mine. Even if I'm in no way close to make this dream come true, in the last 10 years I have always had a vegetables garden and when picking and harvesting wild fruits, berries and nuts in the nature. So preserving and canning the goodies I was so kindly provided for has become a real priority and a lot of fun for me. I'm kinda of addicted :) ! I'm passing the knowledge to my doughters ( I'm not sure if they're enjoying it as much as I do eheheheh ) so we work alongside most of the time. Here some pictures of the current preserving season ( almost at its end here in the far north ).<br />
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Milla and Gaia cleaning and sorting the berries</div>
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Cooking the fruit according to what I am doing ( syrups or jams )</div>
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And then here we are straining the cooked fruit before adding sugar or pectine or whatever it is needed. As you see I always try to be rather thrifty, so only bought this straining cloth ( I couldn't find the right fabric at home ) but not the strainer and I invented my own method. It worked very well !</div>
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And here a part of my production !! Lovely isn't it ? Some of them will be sold, some will be stored and some will be lovely gifts. </div>
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I'm so so grateful for this earth hosting us little humans. We should treat her better because sure she is is providing us with a top quality service.</div>
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Please if you want to share you canning journey leave a link in the comment or if you might enjoy to know more about mine don't esitate to ask.</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-34402678383236994502015-08-25T14:22:00.000-07:002015-08-25T14:22:17.076-07:00Gifts from the forestAs much as I feel I don't fit finnish society at all, I truly and deeply enjoy the wild nature and the strong connection that here human beings have with it.<br />
Here almost everybody grows vegetables ( those who live in the cities usually have family country houses ) and picking berries and mushrooms is the 'national sport' during the summer and the early autumn. In the four year I have been living here I have learned a lot about wild berries, something that was totally unknown to me, as I grew up in Rome to move later in my life little south from Rome. No forest of course, eventually something more similar to the desert :).<br />
So here I am, to show you the bountiful harvest we had this year from the generous forest, I'd say in total we picked something like 12kg of berries in different day\places.<br />
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I already talked about strawberries. I can't really say how many we picked, but for a month we ate plenty of them every single day and still we have a frozen bag for smoothies and such.</div>
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Red currant, 1,5 kg ! and black currant (unfortunately no picture of it ) 500gr</div>
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Gooseberries, red and white 5kg !!!</div>
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Such a huge blessing !</div>
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Onions have been a great success, here you can see their bed before picking them, now they're drying, all the four kilos !!!! And I already used few of them, so it was more ! </div>
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Here my tomatoes plants, unfortunately the summer here in Finland started only one week ago ... so now I have rather big plants, but only flowers and few tiny green tomatoes ( which probaly will never become ripe, but still a satisfaction )</div>
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Here my spring onions, words can't describe how much I love them in salads !! I'm using them all the time !</div>
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Here few of our peas, very good harvest !</div>
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And here a look of some mixed goodies picked for some day's lunch, onion, garlic leaves, carrots and baby spinach.</div>
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And strawberries !! We had plenty of big sweet strawberries ! Unfortunately today we picked the last two, but I still have a frozen bag that I use for smoothies and vegan ice cream ( If you might like some recipe, just drop me a note ) </div>
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... and the most lovely carrots ever ! When I picked them I couldn't believe my eyes and came in calling all the family to show my sweet treasure !</div>
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In the next days I will show you some of the berries we have been picking in the nearby forrest and the ways I'm using them :)</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-2740067043304013682015-08-12T09:17:00.000-07:002015-08-12T14:53:52.566-07:00Here I amSo here I am. I must confess that we came back two weeks ago, but I started using my computer again only two days ago. For me is always rather traumatic coming back. Unfortunately it seems that I can't really fit in the finnish society, like there's no room for me, but you know nothing triggers these feelings more than visiting your country. The funny thing is that I always felt I didn't belong to Italy. I never felt really 'italian' or better I never cared anything. But after four years here in the north I can say that at least I am a southern soul, made for places and people full of strong feelings, temperatures and contradictions. So when I come back I try to postpone my routines as much as possible, maybe as a way to deny that here I am, again, for another terribly long year. Of course at some point it becomes too silly to avoid everything that brings me fully back and finally I start my ''here'' life again. And this year there is an additional bad news, my camera died during the trip back :( . I dreamed this camera for years, I bought it 8 years ago, and during the trip I let it fall from my closet while we were traveling in the caravan. I'm sad beyond words since I don't have the money to fix it or buy a new one. Luckily the pictures taken are still readable, so today I will show you few ( well not really few ... ) pictures from the trip, but from now on only cell-phone-low-quality-pics. and yes I keep telling myself that it's only an object and that memories are stored in the heart, but still ...<br />
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In Rome visiting my mother. my aches only looking at those pics. Fun in the amusement park, a simple meal in a little restaurant ... fun fun fun like we can only dream of here ...</div>
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Playmobil Fun Park in Germany.</div>
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In the next days updates from the garden, from my crocheting and cooking.</div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-4590351057788633782015-07-09T05:57:00.001-07:002015-07-09T05:57:08.288-07:00In Italy !!!<p dir="ltr">I will keep this post quite short, as I'm using the phone and I find it rather uncomfortable. We've been in Tuscany for almost one week and tomorrow we'll be off to Rome. Very hot but after the finnish non-summer I'm almost enjoying it. Here's few pictures ...</p>
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Traveling, or better, being on the road is one of the favourite activities (or way of living ) of my family. The first time we traveled abroad with the children has been 13 years ago. We came to Finland for the first time (by plane ) with a three years old, two one year old twins and pregnant with our fourth baby. It sure has been an hectic vacation, but fun and exciting indeed. The following year we became more brave. One four years old, two two years old and a newborn. And we didn't only stay in hotel in the city centre, but we rented an old VW and headed to the countryside and then a friend borrowed us his apartement in town.<br />
Two years later we traveled for the first time by car, from Italy to Finland, and lived in Helsinki for few months. Long story short, our travels became such an important part of our life that on 2010 we bought our first caravan and lived on the road for 3 months straight, visiting almost all Europe.</div>
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And the following year with a bigger caravan ( the one that we still have ) we traveled again for four months, up to NordCap.</div>
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On 2011 we moved here in Finland, and traveling happens at least once a year to go to Italy and back to Finland. And here we are, on sunday evening we will be leaving for a new adventure.<br />
Two ferries, from Finland to Sweden and from Sweden to Germany, and then the neverending road unfolding in front of us. <br />
As a (mainly) unschooling mama, traveling has been one of the biggest sources of learning for my children and the best curriculum. While traveling they learned to read ( by themselves ), to count, to read numbers. They learned about the geography, the flags, the currencies of many countries. The form of governement and the products and typical foods. They had hints of the history of Europe, ancient and contemporary.Traveling ignited they will to learn english. And they learned to know and appreciate people. Different people, same heart. Home is where your heart is. Learning is where life is.</div>
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Here my own words about our first experiences of 'roadschooling' from my old blog </div>
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<a href="http://mamaf-theappletree.blogspot.fi/" target="_blank">The apple tree </a>:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>'' Last year in april ( on year 2010 ) we left our more then comfortable
suburban home for the unknown. Actually we were leaving for Finland, and
we couldn't imagine how longer and interesting that joureny would have
been. So while taking care of boxes, traveling plans and rental homes we
started unschooling. I left the kids free to manage their days, just
proposing them interesting activities in the garden or letting them help
us with the move. Once in Finland, in may, I felt it was too late for
formal schooling so we kept just crafting, exploring and unschooling all
the way.<br />
Then our life took another turn. Long story short, we came back to Italy
in July and we bought a very old motorhome ( out faithful Elnagh Magnum
560 ) and decided to travel from Rome to the south of Spain and then
once there we went all the way back through France, Belgium, Holland,
Germany and Finland. We got aquainted with the idea of roadschoolig, as
we call it. It is not really unschooling, it's more like soaking in the
place we're visiting, knowing people, talking and listening people,
telling our story and learning other people's stories, and watching
around, the nature, the monuments, the animals ... whatever, and trying
to learn about them, not because we have to, and not even because we
want to, but because we're part of it, like getting to know your own
body, made of all the wonders of the world....Call it relax. Call it faith. I know they will learn what's right for them.<br />
So when we decided to leave again in june we were ready to jump again in
the exciting waters of unschooling. We traveled from Rome up to North
Cape and back, visiting Germany, Finland,Norway,Sweden,Danemark. The
kids kept learning, and asking, and knowing people, listening stories,
getting to know different lives, and kept using their skills, reading,
writing, studying, talking in english just naturally.''</i></span><br />
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Of course I know it's not a choice suitable or possible for everyone. But in my opinion so often parent are afraid to engage in traveling with young ones, and this is a mistake. I remember how difficult and hard it was to travel with 4 tiny beings, and how fun and easy is now, travel with four travel companions and a little one fully concentrate in learning. How wonderful it is, as a parent, to see my children confidently walking in the ferry, grocery shopping in sweden, looking for their favourite treat in Norway, and looking forward to some good pasta in our beloved Italy.<br />
Well, very long post to tell you all goodbye for a while. I will try to be active on Instagram and to make few updates here in the blog. We will be back at the beginning of august with so many stories to tell.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Have a wonderful month of july !</span></div>
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Flavia Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12103541808562731972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602218611990598836.post-86762848360422113432015-06-22T15:05:00.000-07:002015-06-22T15:05:32.975-07:00A stroll in the gardenI love so much our walk in the garden. I am so pleased to say that many people come and visit with me during our weekly stroll and I want to thank all of you for your support.<br />
That's why I'm a bit sad to say that for the next 4 or 5 weeks I won't be able to show you around my garden because next sunday ( the 28th ) we will leave for Italy. I will keep updating the blog and Instagram ( probably not so often ) but of course I'l be few thousand of kilometres away from here. But well, let's take a careful look at the garden today, and in little more than one month we will see how much it has changed.... Grab your gardening shoes, and follow me !!!<br />
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Peas and carrots are growing so well, greenbeans are struggling a bit, this year we're having a very cold, cloudy and rainy summer...</div>
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Potatoes are growing ! And yes I need to get rid of all those weeds, hopefully it will stop rain in the next days .</div>
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Spinach are slowly coming. Few carrots too, but many plants have died in the colder days.</div>
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Gooseberries and strawberries are growing so well ! I hope to still find them when I'll be back !</div>
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Onions are a joy ! And the sawdust mulching is preventing the weeds ! Hooray !!!</div>
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More strawberries and herbs\garlic patch ! Have you ever tried garlic leaves ? I did today, finely chopped few centimetres and added to the salad with parsley ... GREAT !!!!</div>
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<br />Few picture from the greenhouse, rucola,sunflower, spring onions, tomatoes and cucumbers. All of them are struggling in spite of being in the greenhouse, is definetly too cold ...</div>
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Wild flowers galore !! I still can't get used to the abundance of wild flowers we have, they constantly change from week to week. Such a joy !</div>
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And before saying goodby for a while a little treat for all of you living in more southern places. A picture I took yeasterday when finally the rain stopped ( to start again today ... ). The sun was shining still very high in the sky ... and it was almost 10pm ( 22:00)... midsummer in the north ....</div>
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I want to wish you all a very nice summer dear friends, our stroll in the garden will start again in august.</div>
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