Merry christmas to all:)
Earth is white here in Finland..
As you can see




This was taken from the near by forrest:) It's -10 celsius outside

I had a happy suprise today in my hotmail mailbox. Maria Van Bruggen gave me 3 month premium to da. Thank you so much sweetie:)

She is having a contest so go to check it out!

Thing is to choose 3 favorite piece from her artworks and explain why they are your favorites.
She has really cool artworks so it's difficult to pick. As a prize you can win some of her original paintings:)

Here are my favorites

First one is..
Autumn has come



Autumn is my favorite time of the year. I feel very lucky living in Finland since then nature is on it's glory. Red, yellow, green leaves.. and the scent...
Maybe it has something to do with it that I was born in the end of august (yes that's why I'm autumngirl87). I love porcupines. We actually have a porcupine family living in our backyard.
I found this painting so mystical. Very bright colors and I love the fairy's dress (wouldn't you like to have a dress made from leaves?)
Look at that gorgeus lantern light, so cozy and inviting, butterflies, porcupines eating autumnberries.. I would love to jump in to this scene.
Every autumn I just jump and swim in big piles of autumnleaves. I think this picture shows that nobody shouldn't never grow up.. :)



When leaves are falling





Suprise.. I picked another autumn picture. There is something really peaceful and joyful about this painting.. maybe it is the colors. There are mermaid stories all over world and I'm always happy to see pictures of them.. rusalka, melusine, lorelei..
Since this mermaid is lying on autumnleaves I think she must be really small.
Like a tiny fairy. And those waterdrops look so real:)
I found something really nostalgic in this painting. When I was a kid I always watch the illustrations on my storybooks so this reminds me a bit of those illustrations and all the poems and little stories.





Priestess of the moon exclipse

I love the combining of the yellow and purple:) I'm really found with egyptian mythology so I was happy to see this painting.
In this painting I recognice many different symbols. Mark under priestess eye I think is the eye of Horus and there is ankh- cross hanging in the cats ear (symbol of eternal life).
My sister has huge obsession about vampires and egyptian mythology, so she wears ankh-cross all the time. People might look us quite long time since she has an anchross in her neck and I have a protection pentagramm:)
What I really like is the eyes of the priestess and the cat. Both yellow and striking.
As an owner of two cats I love paintings with cats, foremost egyptians forshipped cats.
Cat and the priestess must have a magical connection between each others.







I wish you all happy holidays!
And many greetings from Finland:)
Oh.. I'll be moving to Budapest Hungary for two months in the spring 2010!
I'll be going there for my artschool's working period and will be working in a creative agency:) But I tell more about that next time.
If some of my lj friends live near Budapest I'd be more than happy to meet you!!

Much love and light
Niina

Wohoo.. I can't believe it's alreaydy November. And it is christmas soon.
I'm so happy that I have bought and made all the presents in time.

If anyone would like to have christmas card exchange with me this year please leave comment here with your e-mail and I send you my adress:)

Here are some pics of our christmas past.







Much love
Niina

Happy Birthday Noki poika!

You are the best!!

Too long time since I updated.
Thank goodness is my fallholiday now. And that title means "oh my nose" in english (yeah weird sense of humor).

What you are up to on halloween? I'm still wondering wich Tim Burton film to watch? I love "Beetlejuice" but "sleepy hollow" has more halloween spirit?

I was wondering would some of you like to exchange halloween cards with me? They are not that much sold in Finland. So I make cards my self.

This one is oldie but it's one of my favorites. Inspired by Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap books. Forth one of the book serier comes out this month!!! exiting!!

Of course mermaids needs to have their own trick or treat tour too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUMPULI! I can't believe my baby is now 10 years old!
I love you so much my little aristocat:)

Hello you all! Yes I'm still alive and well. Just so busy to update.
Thank you for your birthday wishes:)
I have some exiting news Mistydreamz is offering cross stitching patterns of my artworks. So if you like cross stitching and want to stitch something different and magical this is your place http://mistydreamz.com/NEW.htm

Since halloween is few months away this should get you in the mood




Autumn is my favorite time of the year:)

Much love to you all
Niina

I took some pictures at home:)
Look at my doll collection. That black Christie-Barbie was my best friend as a child. She looks pretty drifted I've cut her hair few times and painted her lips with nailpolish. True love I call that.



Mother gave me this old tin-box. When I look at it I wish it was christmas:) I love old tin-boxes I always put my letters to them. Jessica I got your letter yesterday:) I'll write you back soon!





Here is my bookshelf with all my fantasybooks and Harry Potters. And I also have a very very old copy of "Little Women" it's my treasure.




And here is my moominhouse!
Next I'm making a bathroom.

Hello!
Moving is so stressing. Finally everything is almost on it's place.

Here is my latest painting. Some finnish mythology "Mielikki" is the finnish goddess of nature and caring.





and here is my latest cross-stitch. I started this stocking three months before christmas. But i just now got it finished.
Better late than never. Teddygirl came out really pretty.

Oh my..it's very rare that my babies are giving kisses to each others. Most of the time they just chase each others around the house.

Noki is the black one. And pumpuli the white one. My little boy and my little girl.

I'm selling lots of my original artworks at etsy.com
with really REALLY slow prices.
You can see them here http://niinan.etsy.com

Some of them are few years old and some i've painted earlier this year:)

You may find some of these:)