Vegan fast food

What a pleasant day! It was sunny (probably the last time we´ll see sun before May...) and I had a long walk with my family. That was followed by some quality TV  and gossip with my best friend - accompanied by an excellent seitan kebab from Vegemesta! If you ever come to Helsinki and plan to have a hangover (I didn´t today!) or are otherwise in need of righteous junk food this is the place! Everything in the menu is vegetarian and a good portion of it is vegan - and the prices are reasonable.  My current favourite is the seitan kebab - how can they make it so crunchy?! The staff can´t be called fast but they´re very friendly and not stingy with their portions. The only problem with the place is that it´s fairly small and on Sunday afternoon you´re not the only one in need of a snack...

Burger made with organic hemp - how righteous can you get?!

The best dram in Helsinki!

Finally, finally, FINALLY we had a night out with my partner!!! (Our daughter is 17 months old. Anyone who is or has been in same situation doesn't need any explanation for all those exlamation marks.) After eating leasurely rather nice vegan food we went for a drink. Since it was only going to be one drink we wanted to go somewhere nice and definitely made a right choice in going to a place called Maltainen riekko (means "malty grouse"). They had about a million organic beers and ciders from small and local breweries and a massive list of good whiskies! I was after some special Ardbeg since it´s my favourite (even if I find the current owner Vuitton rather dodgy!) but they'd run out of it (must've been good!) and I had something called Longrow instead. Very palatable! I really liked the pub too with it's suitably kitchy Scottish theme decorations. And for that part of town it was very peaceful - none of the usual professional drinkers in sight!

Salt for scrubbing

Definitely the best thing this week so far was a visit to my lovely organic beautician in Ekohoitola Lumme! I was scrubbed and polished and masked and moisturised and pampered - just what the doctor ordered! All of it was lovely but the scrub was something I'll try at home. It consisted of:

- coarse sea salt
- organic olive oil
- a few drops of essential oil (I think she used lemon but anything you like would do, I guess)

Mix together and rub all over your person! (Avoid any stingy and/or sensitive bits though.) You can just get rid of the extra salt with towel if you don't want to shower. My very dry skin felt soft and nice - and just think how affordable this mixture is!

Knitwear!

What can be more frivolous than a knitted woolly mini skirt? If you really want/need to keep warm you´re not going to really wear a mini skirt are you? They look really cool though. Here are a couple of my favourites!

This foxy one is made in UK by Reluxe using upcycled (Shame on me, I actually had to check this one! Apparently it means re-using some material from something else, like making sandals of car tyres - I guess here the yarn has served some other purpose before) wool.  There was a wide selection of patterns but I liked this one the best. You can get it at least from Fashion-conscience. (One of my favourite places in the World Wide Web.)

Now if I would be(or at least feel) very rich this would be it. It´s from the new autumn/winter collection by Finnish designer Minna Parikka. Made in Finland (so one would hope it´s fairly made) of viscose and dralon (what ever that may be) so it doesn´t even pretend to be warm and serious. And it comes in several different overly sweet colours! Mmmm!

Testing....

I just couldn't wait anymore! After a long debate with myself I decided to write this blog in English - mostly because I couldn't come up with a satisfactory name for the blog in my native Finnish! ( I was really pleased with this one actually.) Anyway, this blog is dedicated to frivolous but ethically and environmentally sound things in life - all that unnecessary but oh so deliciously fun stuff like fashion, cosmetics, edible and drinkable treats and so on. (Terribly materialistic, I know.) Just wait and see! Maybe I'll occasionally get on a somber mood and do a book review - I am a librarian after all.


I feel a wee bit silly writing in English since it's not my first language - maybe you could call it a second one though since my husband is a native English speaker. Anyway, using English multiplies my changes for reaching like-minded people I guess - there's only 5 million of us Finnish speakers around!


I'm pretty happy that I finally got this started - I've been mulling it in my head for ages. And now I have a legitimate reason to invest on a new camera too!