WATCH: DO WHAT YOU LOVE NO EXCUSES!

Today I gave a speech about entrepreneurship and my own story of how did I get here at my old University of Applied Sciences HAAGA-HELIA. I want to share the story and my thoughts on entrepreneurship here too but meanwhile I want you to listen to this TED Talk. Inspirational, funny and thought provoking - enjoy and get inspired!

MARINA AND ULAY

"Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s. When they felt the relationship was ending, they walked the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again.

At her 2010 MoMa show Marina shared a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing and this is what happened."

TEAR ALERT! But every tear worth it.

NANNANDA - SPIRITS

I wanted to make a video for NANNANDA jewelries, to somehow share the emotion, feeling or essence of NANNANDA spirit. So I asked some friends to join the project and we took off to an island last fall and this is what was born in a day. No plan, just a vision and freedom for flow - just like NANNANDA jewelries. I'm SUPER happy with the end result, I hope you enjoy it too.

NANNANDA - SPIRITS from NANNANDA on Vimeo.

Big heart to

Meri Mort, my Goddess sister in crime

Joni Helminen, mastermind behind the camera, Time Films

Tiia Savuoja, for keeping us warm and serving us some soul food

Family Wuorenheimo, welcoming our crew to their beautiful island and keeping the sauna warm

Poola Kataryna, for the gorgeous fringe dresses

OH SUMMER WHERE ART THOU

This winter has been the cloudiest, therefore darkest in 50 years. This video gave me some light of hope as the day's will be now getting longer and lighter, yei!

Finland - Land of the Midnight Sun from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

JUST A LITTLE BIT

WATCH: MINI DANNY

MADARA BLOGGER CHALLENGE - LET'S GO TO LATVIA!

Some years ago I started to pay more attention to the daily cosmetics I was using. Mainly because I had been suffering from major migraine attacks and decided to change my living habits and diet to see if they would make any difference - which they of course did! When I was eating clean, organic food it started to become clearer to me that I didn't want to have any extra chemicals from other sources like cosmetics. First natural thing was to cut off the parfymes - I've always suffered from most of the strong chemical fragrances but now I ditched all my parfymes to the bin. Especially after reading a research where I learned that the patent right of the fragrance actually allows the cosmetic companies to add more chemicals to the parfymes and NOT mention about them in the list of substances... This would then of course go with other cosmetic products too! It freaked me out and there out from the garbage door went my parfyme bottles!

Slowly I've changed the content of my make-up bag even it still has some oldies left like Lancome mascara which I've used ever since I started to wear make-up. But the biggest difference has been that I've changed the face cleansing and moisturizing products mainly to MADARA Cosmetics. My first touch to the brand was when I found their deodorant to be perfect for me. For the face I had tried couple other cosmetic brands over the years but they didn't seem to work with my type of skin. Usually the face was moisturized from the surface but soon got dry again or left a greasy feeling in the skin. Now that I've used MADARA cleansing foam and different face creams I feel that my skin is feeling so much better than with the other brands. I feel that the effect is deeper than in the surface and more long lasting. Also you don't need to use big amounts of the product to have the wanted effect so I don't mind putting little more money to a product that is effecting, ecological and long lasting! 

When I got invitation from Sugar Helsinki to participate in a blogger challenge for MADARA I was naturally excited! I didn't know what we were supposed to do but felt that I wanted to be part of this. Not only because I like creative challenges but also because I admire the story of the brand, how the young Latvian girls started MADARA out of their own ambition and need for organic cosmetics and now after six years they are internationally known ecological cosmetic brand! Very inspiring don't you think!

MADARA means a special type of flower in Latvia, one with a sweet fragrance and is very suitable for the brand as they use mainly local raw materials to make their products. To celebrate a special cooperation with a Finnish company Nordic Koivu we were asked to think on two ingredients from the Finnish nature that could fit our favorite MADARA products and then produce a short video testimonial of it. So here's the videos and all the bloggers guesses! Mine was inspired by my morning porridge - oat and raspberry:

NOW HERE'S THE DEAL LISTEN UP DEARS!


If you comment to this post, like it in Facebook here and share it, me and one of you readers in Finland can win a trip to the motherland of MADARA, Latvia! Wouldn't it be nice? YES! The trip will take place 5.-6.7 which would definately work with my summer plans and I'd love to share it with some of you peeps! Unfortunately this Inspiration challenge concerns only Finnish readers but if you want to help me to get a short visit to the Baltic, comment and like! ACT FAST, SPREAD THE WORD AND LET'S GO!

Here's some pics from the PR event that took place in Annala which I'd visited the previous day for the seedling market. I was happy to go back there, it's a beautiful place!

Natcos and Sugar Helsinki representing!

Natural Finnish birch sap drink.

MADARA's founder Lotte Tisenkopfa-Iltnere giving very inspirational presentation.

Challenge is on - are you in? 

UPDATE! Me captured with Lotte's lovely sister Paula Tisenkopfa, MADARA's export marketing and sales manager. They are both very charming and inspirational young women. More pics here!

WATCH: NATURAL CREATIVITY

THANK YOU MOM

SLOW YOGA IN PORVOO

Some pics from a yoga course in Porvoo couple months back. My teacher Janne Kontala held a weekend course of slow yoga with a Saturday evening of chanting and yoga philosophy. Loved it! Porvoo was vibrating with cosmic love!

Quiet and snowy Porvoo, Finland.

Me in the middle. This and the pics below by Meri Mort.

Our teacher Janne.

Couple variations of the shoulder stand, salamba sarvangasana. Me on the right.

ENJOY LIFE EVERY DAY

WATCH: TV OFF - RELIGION

Pics from the music video shoot of a Finnish band TV OFF. Cocoa Music produced the video and we all had so much fun making it! You gotta watch the video in the end of the photo diary, tell me what you like!

Miia Magia creating master pieces

Little tickly when I gave her a smily face lift

Twin me from the other planet, Planet Ice.

TV OFF

SOME JUST HAVE IT

It could be the heart or entrepreneurs soul - this kid has both of them.

FAKE CAKE IN THE BLOGSPHERE

We got visited and written about by many blog writers, some even from Denmark yipee! If you wanna read or look more pics, click

ME!
or MEEEE!
or maybe ME
and then after that ME!

Here's our Danish visitors video made of The Restaurant Day - our cafe isn't unfortunatelly shown in the video but Cathrine's words are making us believe that the day was successfull:

"Mix a yoga studio, a girl that makes incredible tasty raw-food desserts and an upcoming local artist. Blend in sponsored furniture, dresses and plants. Stir and add friendly hosts, relaxed guests, a good atmosphere and pretty signs. Turn up the heat, take off your shoes and enjoy the dim lightning – Then you have the perfect pop up restaurant. Visiting this place made you wish it was open every day."

Picture from Tomoland.dk

TOMO at Restaurant Day in Helsinki from box1948 on Vimeo.

RAW POWER

Finland is going to vote for the next president this Sunday and it's been interesting to follow the wave of support that Pekka Haavisto has gotten from "ordinary people" to celebrities. I'm so happy and excited to see that these kind of guerilla marketing, action in the streets, is happening in Finland too! Very good and beautiful idea!



This weekend will be full of excitement! First our FAKE CAKE raw food cafe for the Restaurant Day and then  the elections on Sunday. Today Jutta started with some small treats and tomorrow we will put our hands on cakes! All the preparations, like soaking the dried fruits and nuts, have been done today so we can start, put full non-heat on and start making the cakes! Raw girl power!

HAVE A COLOURFUL 2012!

MERRY CHRISTMAS PEEPS!

ADVENTURES AHEAD!

Dogs in Cars from keith on Vimeo.

PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST

YOU GOT 99 PROBLEMS

Pic via likecool.

MK12 ZeroFilm NYC Open from MK12 on Vimeo.