The Launch!

The time has come...

I have finally started writing publicly: I mean FULLY public. I've been keeping 2 blogs for a few weeks now and working on a base for the public one while keeping things more personal on here. The perks of splitting up the blogs is that I have adopted a slightly different voice on the other one, or tried to, and now I can separate my day-to-day and my environmental rants. I do, however, hope that they won't be rants any longer, but rather, carefully thought-out arguments or just ideas for how to lead a more sustainable life. If would mean a lot to me if you checked it out and subscribed:

abcsofgreenliving.blogspot.com

You can also leave comments more easily on the new blog, no log-in required.
Enjoy,

i.

P.S. I'll still post here though, don't worry, this link won't expire.

P.P.S. Photo credit here.

From the Pirkka cooking magazine.

Juha helped me a lot. I almost screwed it up with x8 too much milk. But alas, quick thinking got the job done ;)

A little bit of shopping!

In recent efforts to be more ecological, I've started buying soaps without any kind of packaging. Remember the days before liquid soap? They look especially beautiful when you buy them in bulk and then have a photo shoot!






I also finally bought a new pair of shoes. I thought it was impossible to find shoes in Tampere in the summer... and it pretty much is if you're going to the average stores like Sokos or Stockmann. So instead I hit up this small shoe shop I've had my eye on called Piubello. [They don't have a website but this is their FB page.]

Cooked up a storm.

I asked Juha what he wanted for dinner and told him we had an avocado that needed to be eaten. "Salad" he says. I looked in the fridge and found zucchini and leek that needed to be eaten too. And he'd mentioned a soup the day before so I made that also.




How beautifully fresh does this broccoli look? SO fresh, in fact, that there was a worm that shat all over it. I couldn't quite enjoy my meal knowing that... even though I picked out all the shit and threw the worm out the window. No mercy in my kitchen!





The avocado was no longer edible.

Food pie.

Practice makes perfect...



I've come a long way from the store-bought, plastic-wrapped pie bases and have ventured out to make my own food pies, from scratch. (Mette and I call them food pies, but I guess it's more of a quiche or something... whatever you wanna call it, I made this a few days ago and I was pretty proud.)

Changing leaves and new ideas

I've been brainstorming about ideas for a new blog lately, but this time, I think I wouldn't replace this one with the new, but rather, keep both. Or start several... I haven't decided yet. But as you all know, I've had green on the brain recently: green living, the environment, green-eating, recycling, reusing, reducing...and all the like. So Today I had a thought and I figured I'd just blog about it: how about a blog with tips and tricks for living a more sustainable life. There are lots of blogs out there who aim to do this and quite well, but in my case, I would like to recommend material while also giving you some food for thought and small challenges along the way. Each tip could be single or have various degrees of commitment or intensity Hanna (like buying something with less plastic vs. No plastic, both of which are better than a larger amount of plastic.)
I'm sitting on the idea for now or I might start blogging and share the link later when I have a little metaphorical meat on it.

Also, I finally got a reply from that design program I applied for, 6 months ago. (don't get me started on how difficult it was to get a result out of them after they sent out emails, forgot to send me a rejection and then the office cleared out for the summer.) but in the end, maybe some courses in sustainability would be more beneficial anyway. Only time will tell!

We break a plate. I make a painting.

The subject of this post says it all. The plate broke a few weeks ago, or a few days ago at least, and it's been sitting on the kitchen counter ever since. To save the tears we cried over the broken Arabia plate, I decided to make something of it. So yes, it's a work in progress... but I'm glad to have started at least :)