About

I'm terrible bad in this stuff in Finnish and even worse in English. But because I always like to read what bloggers tell about their backgrounds, I assume others like it also. So. Here you are.

About me

I live in Helsinki, which is the capital city of Finland. The capital used to be Turku (until 1812) and people like me find it very important to always tell that Turku is still the capital of our hearts. And with people like me I mean a person who has studied in Turku University and who is born in Finnish West Coast.

I studied Finnish language and comparative literarure and some pedagogics. That means that I'm a qualified Finnish teacher. Only I don't work as one. And that's because I'm chronically ill (I have ME/SEID). So I have a little bit too much time. And I really mean that. There is too much time not only because I'm almost always home but also because I'm often too tired for doing anything or my hands are in too big pain for sewing or painting or writing. But. When I do something, I prefer reading, writing, paiting, drawing, talking, sewing and digging information about manor houses.

I would love to sew a period costume for myself. (Here we are. Another paragraph with "I" in beginning. That is one of my miserable problems in writing in English. Since year 1989. I'm Elina. I'm nine years old. I like cats. I live in a red house. Nothing has changed. But I promise I don't begin every paragraph with word "I" in Finnish! I begin with word "but" instead.)

Back to period costumes. They are such fabric-eaters! (And I'm afraid, finger-eaters also.) So sewing period costumes for dolls is a very practical business. You can use sometimes the finest materials and still the expense can be reasonable. You can also test even mad ideas, and if it doesn't work the waste is not big. The best thing is that you can sew many outfits in short time (if your brains and fingers allow). Sewing for dolls is a bit like building doll's houses (I have three of them). You can make your impossible dreams come true... in mini-scale. 

About this blog 

I have two blogs in Finnish already. Why have one in English, specially when you are uncomfortable with writing in foreign language? Because if I google "period costume blog" in Finnish ("aikakausipuku blogi"), the first result I get is my own blog. Of course it is maybe because of my computers memory. But really. I haven't found blogs about period costumes in Finnish. I haven't found blogs about doll's period costumes in Finnish either. So writing in English is actually only way to become a part of the group of the other... freaks.

I love winter (when it's snowy and cold) but summer is also ok.