a week and a half of Android pics.


dinner one day last week: sweet potato mash, cooked broccoli and carrots, fried tofu. om nom.


japanese class.


something i do a lot is stand at my window (on the 6th floor) and stare out into the street, or the windows opposite.


am super late in getting around to reading Orlando! i did try about six or seven years ago, but i was still very uninterested in reading back then, so i gave up after about 10 pages.


my (dry and damaged) peacock blue hair! it makes me so happy!


apparently i enjoy photographing floors or pavements quite a bit. this is from Metsätalo, where the English Department is housed on the UoH campus.


had tea with Emma on monday! something i definitely need to do more of :) love how instagram-y this turned out due to the fact that the focus was off!

the post office at 6pm on a monday night. there were 50 people in the queue before me!!


i have done an unprecedented (lately) amount of photographing this past week, and so a lot of editing as well. i continue to have contradictory feelings about it; i feel that if i was a really good photographer i would not really need to edit my photos much at all. after all, before digital cameras, people barely edited their photography at all, and yet managed to produce beautiful shots. and yet…idk
and another meal to end the post with: cooked broccoli and cauliflower with spinach and cream scrabled eggs!

giveaway info.

a couple of things i just realised i should probably specify:

1) you don’t have to comment in english. you can comment in finnish and swedish, if you’re more comfortable doing that, and i would absolutely love it! Suomi ja/och Svenska = OK!

2) the deadline for the giveaway is next Wednesday, February 15th, at 6pm GMT!

please participate! it would make me super happy ;)

introductions (with giveaway!).

i’ve noticed a lot of new & increased traffic coming onto the site, which makes me super happy! but i have no idea who you all are!

i would love for you to leave a comment telling me something about yourself. it doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading a longer time, of if you’re here for the first time, i’d love to get to know you!


as (hopefully!) added incentive, i will select a random comment to win a 13×17,5cm/5×6,7 inch print of one of these photos. just let me know your email address and which print you woul like in the comment field, so i can contact you if you win!

now, to get things rolling: i am Katja, a 25 year-old student of english philology. i am a wannabe hippie, on my way to becoming happier and freer! my passions include books, photography and blogs. my favourite colour is blue.

HUOM! unohdin aivan sanoa, että suomeksikin saa kommentoida, luonnollisesti! se olisi itseasiassa todella hauskaa! :)
OBS! man får förstås kommentera på svenska också! det vore jätteroligt! :)

EDITED TO ADD: i should probably have a deadline for the giveaway, huh? let’s say Wendesday February 15th, at 6pm GMT!

***GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING***
feel free to introduce yourselves regardless, it really does make me happy :)

sunny day.

life thru fxc.

1) it was -29 this week, at its worst! this -5 degrees stuff feels like a cakewalk after that.
2) went voting on sunday! sadly, my candidate didn’t win, but he did pull of a great campaign and made people think!
3) frosty window.
4) sunday lunch. i know none of it is in focus, but i actually like it!
5) sunday afternoon tea & textbook reading in Robert’s Coffee.
6) reading the same text book today in the library at my uni building.
7) tea with Kaisa P at Cafe Java today (she doesn’t like getting her pic taken, much to my chagrin).

kaunis arki.

title is finnish and means “the beautiful everyday”.

what’s in my bag?

1. my Kånken bag, which i got for christmas from mom. love it. (first time in about 10 years that i have a backpack)
2. Pekka Haavisto pin, given to me by Milla! vote #2 ;)
3. contents: passport, napkins, sanitary napkin, painkillers and other meds,  pill case, umbrella (teal blue with white polkadots, though you can’t see them here), ipod and headphones, wallet, university calendar, lipbalm, keys to my flat/parents’ flat/bicycle etc, keys to Ovi’s clubroom (with cute sandal keyring!), and finally a usb stick with school stuff on it. also, my toes, but i usually don’t keep those in my bag.
4. close up of keys & the aforementioned adorable sandal keyring.
5. close up of (4 gig) ipod & (Koss) headphones.

hit me up if you do/have done one of these! i love knowing what people have in their bags.

8 x pictures from last week alá Android.

(i used FXcamera for Android to take these pictures, the first one in polaroid mode, the rest in toycam mode!)

1. book shopping @ the Academic Book Store’s winter sale, 2. i would kind of love to live in a house like this (on Torkkelinmäki, close to where i live), 3. realised this is almost certainly where they shot parts of Missä kerran kuljimme, a finnish movie set in the early 20th century, 4. stuff i love about last week! (there’s double that amount now), 5. strange stickers on doors, 6. added some o my own art to my inspiration board, which is in need of a complete overhaul anyway, 7. japanese homework!, 8. our courtyard this morning. poor bicycles, mine included.

HAPPY MONDAY! let’s make it an awesome week, huh? here are some of Jetta’s ideas for how to do that, if you’re in need of inspiration (love it!).

debate night.

3 x pics from my phone. went to Virgin Oil last night to see MPs Jani Toivola & Jussi Halla-Aho, + MP Silvia Modig & TV host Tuomas Enbuske debate about gay marriage and capitalism vs socialism, respectively. met up with Vilkku while there, too! awesome night.