Illustration Friday- Missing

Digital Collage by Kirsi Illustration Friday topic: Missing

Honey...I miss u...I m counting hours....

Eva Dahlgren - Vem tänder stjärnorna

Illustration Friday- Moon

Digital Collage by Kirsi & Rob

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon
From the slow opening curtains of the clouds
Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

George Croly, Diana

This Is The Beginning....From 0 to 1....

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

beginning

entering a new phase
striking out on a new path
expanding horizons
starting something new
beginning an adventure
going on a journey
heading into the unknown

being spontaneous

living in the moment
letting go of expectations
doing the unexpected
acting on impulse
feeling uninhibited
surprising someone
feeling carefree

having faith

trusting the flow
staying open
letting go of worry and fear
feeling protected and loved
living in joy
recapturing innocence
believing

embracing folly

accepting your choices
taking the "foolish" path
pursuing a pipe dream
being true to yourself
taking a "crazy" chance
trusting your heart's desire

A poem from my favourite poet Rumi

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

you and I, with the garden's beauty

and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,

and we will show them

what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,

indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar

as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,

and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

Sunrise Twice A Day

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness.

unknown

tHanKs rOb 4 sHariNg tHis anD evErytHing!

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Illustration Friday- Twist

Digital Collage by Itkupilli.....Illustration Friday this weeks topic: Twist

...and I must admit....I'm twisted...and this post has no sense at all....anyways one more time Ville Valo...you should check this....

Amazing Grace

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Every single morning I try to remember not to remember anything...I try to keep my mind open...I promise to give up all my defences…all my thoughts…all my expectations…how long it takes to remember this only thing I need to do…how many times I forget this…and allow my thoughts shadow the light…once more I promise to forgive and forget everything…and start the new day with amazing grace…:))

Are you real?

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Is bloggerville a little fantasy world where we make friends and pretend them to be real? What do we know about each other…or is this just place where we can make things look like we want them to be? A place without borders and limits of reality? All we have is our imagination and intuition….can we really trust on them? I do…and I prefer to trust more to my intuition than knowledge…sometimes these are not in balance…it can cause confusion…but I really think that only real thing is the spirit…and that’s something you can’t reach with knowledge…only with intuition…that's the only way to get to know somebody...without any bias of the "reality"....

I've had this quote here before...but I think it is worth to put it once more:

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Knowing about is helpful for practical purposes. On that level, we cannot do without it. When it is the predominant modality in relationships, however, it becomes very limiting, even destructive. Thoughts and concepts create an artificial barrier, a separation between human beings. Your interactions are then not rooted in Being, but become mind-based. Without the conceptual barriers, love is naturally present in all human interactions.

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks



The Kinks, Days....one of the most beautiful songs I know...

Midsummer

Digita Collage by Itkupilli


Midsummer is the most popular festival in Scandinavia together with Christmas. It is a celebration of the Summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Midsummer is celebrated as a public holiday during the third weekend of June, when everybody escapes to the country to spend a relaxing time in nature.

Midsummer's Day was later Christianized as the day of Saint John the Baptist, an important Christian saint. Yet, many of the ancient pre-Christian customs that marked the Summer solstice have survived to this day and are still being celebrated in Scandinavia as they were many hundreds of years ago.

Like in every major Scandinavian celebration, meeting friends and family is as important as having plenty to eat on the table. Midsummer traditional delicacies are fresh potatoes with pickled herring or smoked fish from the nearby lake, the first strawberries of the season for desert, and some schnapps and beer to wash down the herring. Though many people prefer less refined traditions…then the main thing is to get very drunk.

Ville Valo & Natalia Avelon: Summer Wine

Romantic Alchemy

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Here is my first attempt to make banner for Kelly…I’m so excited that I had to post it right away…but I will do more….this is really fun….here is some elements from my banner...next I try something different...

Edit

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

And here is the second one....but hey, since Kelly changes her blog twice a day, I could make two banners everyday...right Kelly?

Bittersweet

Digital Collage by Itkupilli


Learn finnish:

Vihdoin vihdoin vihdoin. = At least I slapped myself with a birch-switch.

Apocalyptica: Bittersweet featuring Ville Valo and Lauri Ylönen:

"The Three Graces"

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Oh here is a nice pic...my southern sisters during their first visit in Finland...they are not sure who dares to jump first to cold water...

…and well not so cold… the climate in southern Finland is similar to…let’s take a random example…similar to Wisconsin...

Although the time zone is curious…physically it is GMT +3(Eastern Europe Daylight/Summer Time), but my mind goes 8 hour behind…it causes strange symptoms, like intense heart beatings, awakenings in the middle of the night, warm waves and exciting vibrations…;))

And here is the best site if you want to know more about Finland: Your window to Finland - http://virtual.finland.fi/

The video for to day has wrong season, but it is the right choice for to day: HIM's Funeral of hearts...and here you could see also a glimpse of Finnish men

Digital Collage and Mixed Media by Itkupilli

Perfect day

Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark, we'll go home
Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie too, and then home


Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging x2

Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun

Just a perfect day
You make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good


You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow

Illustration Friday- Suit

Digital Collage by Itkupilli
Illustration Friday topic: Suit

The suit makes the man.

Love Today

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

Illustration Friday-Your paradise

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

My paradise is where the Water Lilies grow. By the lake, by the river, by the sea…

Passion

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

Passion makes the old medicine new:

Passion lops off the bough of weariness.

Passion is the elixir that renews:

how can there be weariness

when passion is present?

Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:

seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

Love Poem of Rumi

What on earth is Love?

Digital Collage by Itkupilli

I think I just had a post about love...or something like that...but anyway here are once more some quotes....I don't understand...beats me....you tell me...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Doubt that the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth shine Doubt that truth be a liar But never doubt that I love.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 2, Scene 2

Illustration Friday- Car

Digital Collage by Itkupilli Illustration Friday this weeks topic: Car

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980)

Source: Mythologies, "La nouvelle Citroen"