Irony?

My dear husband (of 8 years on Tuesday!) is, as I type, running the Espoo marathon. It has taken me back to 1992 when I ran the London marathon - as much out of curiosity, one of those things you have to do, sheer madness(?), as well as an opportunity to do my bit for charity. I have just been reminiscing that day, looking at the photos and press cuttings and then it struck me. The charity I was running for was the Juvenile Diabetes foundation. How ironic that now 17 years later, we have a son with Type 1 (also known as Juvenile) Diabetes. How weird/spooky/bizarre that I was raising money for something that would become so important in our lives. Coincidence? Fate? Destiny? - who knows and who knows what may happen in the world of research in the next 5,10,15 years........ here's hoping lots(but no more marathon running!!!!)

Thank you Moo!

I am a huge fan of Moo.com and in particular their mini cards - which I use as fantastic business cards. I can use pictures of my work on the cards which makes them very eyecatching. However I have found a new function for Moo minicards - as a child damage limitation device!
At the craft fair I attended in Helsinki at the weekend, people were greatly cheered by my table full of aliens and viruses amongst other things.
However, as much as I don't mined people picking them up, some little people were hell bent on 'mangling' them. Enter the Moo mincard and they had their own little Alien to take hope - all happy - me, stressed parents and little one!
Thank you Moo :)

Pen to paper...

...Or rather fingers to keyboard :)
Summer is all but gone here, cooler nights and days slowly but surely getting shorter. The children are settled back in school and with luck we should have a plan in place quite soon for Aleksi and his injections.
The holidays ( ie the time the children were at home!!) were busy and fun - lots of time at the summer cottage, lots of jumping off the new jetty, berries and mushrooms galore, only a few horrendous high blood sugar(slight miscalculation for pizza and ice cream!), a wonderful week in Scotland with great friends and a really varied 6 days of orienteering.
The down side - well not much - not enough felting time but managed a few sneaked hours to feed the addiction, a cracked rib - serves me right for trying to run too fast downhill with the last control in sight, the hour queue just to get into the car park at Puuhamaa, an outdoor fun/swimming park - otherwise a lovely summer.
I have a Craft fair in Helsinki this weekend at Wanha Satama , stand C10 - check it out at http://www.kadentaitomessut.fi
I have had a few new ideas over the summer months - I'll try post some photos here and on my flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
Meanwhile here is a photo that just about says it all!

Blog, what's that?

Ah yes I remember I have a blog! What with the children at home on school holidays and any rare 'free' time taken up with felting(keeps me sane!) my poor old blog has been ignored. It probably won't get much attention in the next few weeks either as O starts his holiday and we have to dig out the pier at the summer cottage and install a new one. I have been busy with a felting order which is potentially very exciting for me but will tell more later......!
Happy holidays all - the strawberry season has just started here too, so I'm off to sit by the lake and eat strawberries!

New career - I think not!

School holidays so we have been playing!

Almost perfect

A has had 5 days of almost 'perfect' blood sugars. Thank you , thank you, thank you!
O has taken the kids off to the summer cottage for the weekend as I have a felting order I have to finish by the end of next week. After that the kids are at home so 'work' will have to take a bit of a back seat. So Home alone - feels weird but kind of nice. Nice not to have to worry about anyone but me! Beer and pizza time........!

Whilst the sun shines...

Not quite making hay, but the lawn /dandelion patch got mowed, the lounge rug got washed(good old fashioned on your hands and knees scrubbing and I have the blisters to prove it!), the decking got oiled, the mould got scrubbed from the shed door, the garage floor got a wash and the kids had a ball playing outdoors all day. The ice cream and cold beer helped alot too!