Gingerbreads and snowy forests

I've spend my weekend in Vesanto and it's been so relaxing in the middle of the exam week. We have baked and decorated gingerbreads and I have gone horse riding in the snowy forests and of course done some stable chores. In Kuopio I put up our christmas tree already and also baked some gingerbreads, I'm really in christmas mood :) Now, the exam week is over and I can let out a sigh of relief. Here's some photos of our ready gingerbreads and beautiful winter forest.

I actually made this one with a gingerbread mold that I bought form Poland when we had our Erasmus+ student exchange :)

My weekend

Last weekend has been full of everything because it's was my birthday celebration and father's day! In Friday I spent time with my boyfriend. We ate out and went to movies, it was a lovely night. In Saturday my friends visited me in Kuopio and we had a "girls night". I had made some treats like caramel apples and a cake for the night. I had also made a card for my father and knitted a pair of wool socks for him. On Sunday I was at home in Vesanto. We went riding with my sister and I spent time with our animals and ate a lot of father's day cake!

I also want to show you a few photos of my latest DIY projects I've had. My favorite one are my decoration ladder made of hay poles. Well, it was my father who cut the poles and made crew holes but I pieced them together and decorated them :P I made some heart shaped ornaments of burlap and put some nice lights on the ladder. There's also a photo of the father's day card and a christmas sock that I made out of my old sweater.

Our home + DIY

Hello!

This time I want to show you our very own home with a load of pictures and I even made you a couple DIYs!  I'm already all in winter and Christmas mood, so I have also decorated our home like it. But now I let photos speak for themselves!

  

And now to the DIYs!

So I made two wintery DIYs. One is a bit more time-consuming and the other is very simple one. 

For the first one I had a red heart-shaped photo frame and there was some random pictures of me and my boyfriend. To transform it to more winter-themed I bought some silver deco spray from bookstore and painted it. I also painted my desk so be sure to protect the surface you are painting on carefully... After it dried out I printed some cute quotes and pictures of us and put them in the frame. I wanted all the photos to be brownish so I edited them a bit before printing. Unfortunately I forgot to take "before" picture of it because it would have been nice to compare it to "after". But I think it turned out nicely and just the way I wanted!

 

For the second DIY, all you need is paper and scissors. I wanted to spice up our kitchen somehow, so I decided simply to make a few paper snowflakes to the window. Cheap, easy and looks nice.

To cut the perfect snowflakes, you need to start with a folding technique which you can find behind this link. You can skip to "How to make a paper snowflake". You can also find patterns you can cut to your flakes, which I used as well, from there.