new home

So many things has happened since I last wrote in here. Lately I have been thinking of returning to update this blog. I do not know how often, but much often than before. 

Month ago I begun to work at woodland arboretum, which was a dream come true for me. Many years I wished to work here and now was the right moment. I will post more photos of the arboretum later and also will write what I am doing in there. I lived a few weeks in one of the arboretums old houses, but felt that I had to move on and get my own apartment. Very quickly I got my own place in the same village where the Mustila arboretum is. I do not yet know how long my job will last, the winter time is long in Finland and when you are gardener one works mostly on summer months. That's why I want to create more and fill my Etsy shop as well. There is many plans for my Woodland Jewelries shop, which makes me want to change the name of the shop at some point. I have been planning to create woodland boxes, woodland dream catchers and decoration and new jewelries too. I have not been creating in few months, which is the longest time! I have been wanting to begin to create something completely new, instead of creating the same kind of jewelries. When this kind of silence happens with the creative things, it is a sign to get ready for the change.

I wish to know more about you who reads my blog! Thank you for sending me notes during the time I have not been updating this blog, It is wonderful that there is still someone who reads it anyway.

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Gathering

Hello again, 

I find that keeping a blog is a struggle for me. Probably because instead of writing too much, I want to post instead photos of the place I live, have visited and things which inspire me. Since my last post I decided to move back to Finland. I became home sick to see the pine tree woods. I moved to England, thinking of that I would find my roots from there or the place I belong to, but such thing did not happened. Instead I found my lost belonging from my own home country. And at the moment I am looking for a cabin in the woods, where I would be able to root down. All those years when I was trying to find out where I belonged to, i became so tired that I did not had solid roots. I so much wish that soon I would be able to find a new home, place to invite people for a woodland tea and maybe a little garden too to grow herbs & flowers. 

I have been here in Finland for 3 months now. Been very busy, I am not sure do I like the word busy at all... Working in my parents garden has mostly filled my days, I brought so many rare plants from England ( I think rare in Finland) with me like Salvias, Persicaria orientalis, Berkheya... At some point I may have a plant nursery on summer times. 

Also I have been making a new Etsy shop called "Pine Woods Home". It is a shop which I will fill with items, which I would decorate my own home in the woods with. This shop has been under progress for a quite long time and finally I opened it yesterday. To those who are my blog followers I am offering 10% off from your purchase, just use the code "pinewoodshome".

But still I will make jewelries for the Woodland Jewelries shop as well.

The days when I have not been creating I have been wandering in the woods: gathering first basket full of mushroom in early of July and blueberries too. Soon is the time to pick lingonberries, which are one of my favorite berries. I have also been gathering ingredients for woodland herbal teas. I will make a raw heather syrup soon as well. I have such a yearning to live this way, to live a earthy life. Grow and gather much of my own food as possible. Shame I can't grow my own coffee beans....

It would be lovely to know who is following this little blog? 

I walked in to the woods today at noon and came back two and half hours later. I was able to see clearly the bareness of the woods. Winter had settled in to the woods, like a squirrel in to it's nest. And it felt so right to see the trees without leaves, just few leaves hanging on the branches like they would want to still linger in the autumn. But i am sure when winter is heading forward it is lovely to see those few lingering leaves, like frosty winter ornaments. 

The ferns looked so lovely against the mossy ground and tree trunks. I decided to walk  different paths today, went to the Jack Reading's woods, which gives me chills. He was an thief who used to live in the woods on 15th century and had no happy ending. It is said that his ghost wanders in this part of the woods.  Usually I do not go there, but the woods was so inviting and did not wanted to turn away.  The atmosphere seemed to be there more dense, hard to explain.... but end of the woods I saw an douglas fir tree family. I was so glad to see them, i had forgot that they where there. Lately i have missed very much to see conifer woodlands, something which I was surrounded by when I lived in Finland. Douglas fir's are such a beautiful trees, one of my favorites... but choosing a favorite tree is like choosing a favorite sister among the three lovely sisters I have. Douglas fir needles smell lemony and you could make tea out of them. 

I found an old hollow way, which used to be an old road to London. You are able to see photos of the hollow way in the woods on my Instagram. And what an lovely road it was, up on a high hillside. on either side of the road old trees where standing tall, among the younger hazel trees. The road was filled with sweet scented crisp brown leaves. 

In the end of the walk dark clouds begun to gather on a sky and trees looked quite dramatic against the dark grey sky, while the pale winter sun touched barks of them.