Anywhere (Every dream’s a journey away )

Last January happened something super special to me. I took my most beautiful victorian style outfit and styled it with my Purple octobus moon necklace, Sanna von steam victorian skirt looked so good I wear it the whole day, even at home. Anyway.. Heidi came in Pori and I had a chance to get on a horse first time in my life, with amazing support from my best friend.

It was so hard to get on the horse, Pihla was so big! I needed a stoole and still Heidi needed to pull me on the other side, with corset, satin skirt and high heels.. and no saddle. It was so amazing to do my first horseback riding experience elf style. I felt like I was on Lord of the rings! After I almost pass out for getting so exited about finally getting on and then get scared about the fact that I am on, I started to grin so much my face almost stayed that way. I soon realized how much muscle you need to ride the horse and stay on it, my butt hurt even the day after.. corset helped a little with the posture but it still needed a lot of work I didn´t forgot that. It was amazing, although I didn´t ride that much and only in little circles because everytime Pihla moved I got freaked out she will throw my over, gladly she just wanted carrots from her owner haha. Pihla was so calm and beautiful, I totally fell in love with her. Earlier

I had just pet horses a little and I have a memory of me trying to get on a little horse when I was a child but got scared so much I started to kick the saddle and crying.. poor horsie, gladly even that horsie didn´t mind. My fear isn´t about that I am scared horses all together, but the fact you need to get on it. I just like to watch big animals, not get killed or force them to do anything. But after my experience, I can gladly say, horsies and ponies loves the riding just as much as human. Pihla would have wanted to ride with me, shoot was so boring for her haha. I bet she was thinking "why are we just standing here, when we can eat or run?".

 After the shoot and now that the time has passed so much, I can truly say, I am not afraid anymore, everytime I even think about doing it again, my heart start racing and I start smiling. It was so amazing, soooo amazing I say. Now that I watch the bts pictures I look so happy and I remember how magnificent it felt to hug Pihla while being on her back. She was so furry and big, I felt all of her muscles and she felt mine too. It was so other world experience to communicate without any words, only with your body. Because I didn´t have a saddle I needed to hold on horse´s mane and bridle at the same time, while I did that I was just thinking was Harry thinking the same thing that I am when he was riding on Buckbeak in third book.

Have you ride a horse? Or is it your hobby, life already? I want to hear all about your experiences!

And the song which starts to play in my head everytime I see the picture.. I listened it so much when I found Nightwish. I had my headphones and cd player in my parents summer house, the whole year went by while listening Nightwish and imaging the world Tuomas have made in my head.

The days were brighter 

Gardens more blooming 

The nights had more hope 

In their silence The wild was calling 

Wishes were whispering 

The time was there 

But without a meaning

Away, away in time 

Every dream’s a journey away 

Away to a home away from care 

Everywhere’s just a journey away

The days departed 

Gardens deserted 

This frail world 

My only rest ?

The wild calls no more 

Wishes so hollow 

The Barefoot Boy 

weeping in an empty night

Away…

Cherish the moment 

Tower the skies 

Don’t let the dreamer 

fade to grey like grass

No falling for life 

A gain for every loss 

Time gathered me 

But kept me flying

“For this gift of dream I must pay the price 

with the loss of life’s pleasures”

Wish list - Alnilam

Alnilam table at Medieval festival 2012

Because all the Harry Potter reading (I am on the 6th book, it´s my 14 time reading it, first ones I have read 18 times) and watching movies (AGAIN!), having this huge obsession about witchy stuff, old steampunkish things and getting my cabinet of curiosity bigger, I wanted make new wish list about.. well all of this awesome things!

I already have 1 minute hour glass and beautiful compass from Alnilam, so my wish list for my birthday or Yule is this.. very big list ha!

Nocturnal

A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the local time based on the relative positions of two or more stars in the night sky. Sometimes called a "horologium nocturnum" (time instrument for night) or nocturlabe (in French and occasionally used by English writers), it is related to the astrolabeand sun dial. Knowing the time is important in piloting for calculating tides and some nocturnals incorporate tide charts for important ports.

Even if the nightly course of the stars has been known since antiquity, the mentions of a dedicated instrument for its measurement are not found before the Middle Ages. The earlier image presenting the use of a nocturnal is in a manuscript dated from the 12th century.Raymond Lullrepeatedly described the use of a sphaera horarum noctis ou astrolabium nocturnum. Wikipedia

Telescope

Sextant

A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. The principle of the instrument was first implemented around 1730 by John Hadley (1682–1744) and Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749) but it was also found later in the unpublished writings of Isaac Newton (1643–1727). The history of these and related instruments, and their forerunners, may be found in the article on reflecting instruments.

The primary use of a sextant is to determine the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. The determination of this angle, the altitude, is known as sighting (or shooting) the object, or taking a sight. The angle, and the time when it was measured, can be used to calculate a position line on a nautical or aeronautical chart. Common uses of the sextant include sighting the sun at solar noon or Polaris at night (in the Northern Hemisphere) to determine latitude. Sighting the height of a landmark can give a measure of distance off and, held horizontally, a sextant can measure angles between objects for a position on a chart.A sextant can also be used to measure the lunar distancebetween the moon and another celestial object (such as a star or planet) in order to determine Greenwich Mean Time and hence longitude. Wikipedia

Sundial

Storm glass

A storm glass is a type of weather forecasting device, composed of a sealed glass container filled with liquid. The appearance of the liquid purportedly predicts the weather, but most modern experiments have failed to confirm this. The liquid within the glass is a mixture of several ingredients, most commonly distilled water, ethanol, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, and camphor. This specific mixture was developed by Admiral Robert FitzRoy and used on HMS Beagle. Wikipedia

Calligraphy pen and ink

Calligraphy

Notebook

Hourglass 30 min

Armillary sphere

An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (in the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centred on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features such as the ecliptic. As such, it differs from a celestial globe, which is a smooth sphere whose principal purpose is to map the constellations.

With the Earth as center, an armillary sphere is known as Ptolemaic. With the sun as center, it is known as Copernican.

The flag of Portugal features an armillary sphere. Wikipedia

Dragon globe

Star map that glows in the dark

Sunstone

The sunstone (Icelandic: sólarsteinn) is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the sun in a completely overcast sky. Sunstones are also mentioned in the inventories of several churches and one monastery in 14th–15th century Iceland. A theory exists that the sunstone had polarizing attributes and was used as a navigationinstrument by seafarers in the Viking Age.

A stone found in 2013 off Alderney, in the wreck of a 16th-century warship, may lend evidence of the existence of sunstones as navigational devices. Wikipedia

Book shaped box

Binoculars

Solar system mobile

World map

Barometer

A barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. Pressure tendency can forecast short term changes in the weather. Numerous measurements of air pressure are used within surface weather analysis to help find surface troughs, high pressure systems and frontal boundaries.

Barometers and pressure altimeters (the most basic and common type of altimeter) are essentially the same instrument, but used for different purposes. An altimeter is intended to be transported from place to place matching the atmospheric pressure to the corresponding altitude, while a barometer is kept stationary and measures subtle pressure changes caused by weather. The main exception to this is ships at sea, which can use a barometer because their elevation does not change. Due to the presence of weather systems, aircraft altimeters may need to be adjusted as they fly between regions of varying normalized atmospheric pressure. Wikipedia

New victorian skirt

All pictures by Tero Tuoriniemi

 Sainpas uuden viktoriaanisen hameeni ((Made by Svs) ja koska oli mahdollisuus päästä näyttämään sitä ja päivänasua studiolla, tässä tätä nyt olisi! Kuvat tosin on otettu viime kuussa, mutta mä tässä nyt teen näitä postauksia vähän jälkijunassa, päässyt kerääntymään niin monta aihetta jo, kun olen sairastellut ja ollut kiireinen. Anywho, takki on lahja Janilta meidän seurustelun alkuajoilta ja kaulakorukin on uusi, mutta se ei harmillisesti niin näissä näy, pitänee ottaa lisäkuvia myöhemmin. Niin ja joka vuosi tahdon alkuvuodesta saada vihreää tukkaani, tämä vuosi ei ole poikkeus, nyt se ilmenee osittaisena, nimittäin otsatukka saa aina parin viikon välein yhä vihreämmän värin itseensä.

Translation:

I got my new victorian skirt (made by Sanna Von Steam) and while I got a chance to go to the studio, here is an outfit from last month! Yeah I know, little bit late but the skirt is just too pretty to not share with you. It was more than I wanted so I am going to keep being customer of SvS. That lovely steampunk jacket is gift from Jani, way back when we started dating. And I am using my new bat necklace but it isn´t showing that well on these, but I can say you may see it later on. Oh yeah, and I keep coloring my bangs even more green now. Every year when I have my spring love, I need to have green hair, even part of it.

Leena

Halloween calender Day 18: Tik tok

 Tänä vuonna on tarttunut netin syövereistä ja kaverien salakätköistä vaikka minkälaisia kivoja juttuja mitä en ole vielä täällä esitellyt! Nyt sainkin sitten hyvän syyn esitellä Lauralta löytyneitä ihanuuksia (pinssit sain lahjaksi, miten ihana yllätys!), kun Halloween aiheisia vintagenaisia löytyy nyt pinsseinäkin. Enpä olisi voinut ilahtua enempää, kun luukusta lehahti kirje josta löytyi uudet steampunk korvikset, lempparihalloweenkuvia ja vielä toinenkin paketti pinssejä joissa on kuvia eräästä suosikkisarjastani, kaikki varmasti tunnistavat. Jos ette, niin Addams familyn kummallinen perhehän niissä esiintyy! Pentagrammikokoelmaan liittyi myös jälleen uusi koru, tekstillistä ei ole vielä aiemmin ollutkaan.

Translation:

I have found many lovely things this year and now is the perfect time to show some of them with you little bats! All these I got from my friend Laura and I couldn´t be any happier, new steam punk earrings, halloween and Addams family pins and new pentagram for my collection. I love all of them! Pins were suprise present, I must say, I have best friends ever.

/Leena

Photoshoot with Harri Sirola part 2

 /Leena

Readers wish: Modelling years

2005

On jälleen aika rustailla lukijatoiveita, tänään olisi luvassa malliurani pähkinänkuoressa. Olen aina ollut aikamoinen linssilude, mutta syksyllä 2005 sain mallikärpäsen puraisun oikein olan takaa, kun sain mahdollisuuden olla kaverini päättötyössä mallina. Päädyttiin hautausmaalla kuvailemaan ja koko homma tuntui niin luontevalta ja hauskalta, että siitä lähtien pyysin kavereita aina kuvailemaan mua ja löysin uusia kuvaajatuttavuuksia ensimmäistä kertaa. Kaveripiiristä löytyi myös muutamia malleja (joita nyt on jo toistakymmentä.. kuten kuvaajiakin), jotka inspiroivat ja saivat haluamaan jatkaa malleilua.

So it is time for readers wishes, today I wanted to tell more about my modelling career. I have always liked to be front of the camera, but in autumn 2005 I really fell in love to it when my friend ask me to be her model in her school project. We went to the cemetery and and I had so much fun and it came so naturally on me that I wanted to be photographed by my friends all the time. I found few photographers and I had model friends who inspirated me to modelling more.

2006

2006

Vuosi 2006 toi pitkin vuotta mukanaan mukavia kuvauskokemuksia. Pääsin ensimmäistä kertaa studioon Annen luo ja otettiin myös ulkokuvia. Elizan kanssakin tuli kuvailtua ensimmäisiä kertoja, ollaan kyllä molemmat edistytty niin paljon noista ajoista. Niinkuin Annekin on. Ensimmäisiä juttuja mitä opin, oli varmaan se, että vatsa sisään aina vaan. Nää on vielä näitä aikoja, kun en oikeastaan osannut malleilun puolelta mitään erikoista, kaikki oli vielä oppimatta. Lähinnä vain olin kameran edessä, mutta malleiluun kuuluu niin paljon muutakin.

 Year 2006 gave me a lot of nice photoshoot memories. I got my first studio experience and I had my first real photoshoots with better photographers like Eliza and Anne. Oh how much things have changed over the years and how much better we all have come.. This was the time when I just stare at the camera and stood still not knowing what to do.

2007

2007 aloin olemaan jo vähän rennompi kameran edessä aloin ottamaan eri ilmeitä ja asentoja. Olin myös jatkuvasti etsimässä hienoja kuvauspaikkoja ja halusin haastaa itseni.

In 2007 I started to me more relaxed in front of the camera and I started to take different positions and faces. And I was all the time looking for cool places to take pictures.

2008

Edellisvuonna olin muuttanut Poriin, joten tämän vuoden kuvailut saivat paikkansa niin Porissa, kuin pääkaupunkiseudulla ja Tampereellakin. Olen aina pitänyt hurjasti matkustamisesta, joten se ei ole ikinä estänyt malleilua millään tapaa. Tietysti hieman hankaloittanut, mutta mistä lähtien ei olisi silti ollut vaikea lyödä lukkoon päivämääriä ihmisten kanssa.. ja sitä paitsi, matkustaminen kuuluu malleiluun. 2008 otettiin Elizan kanssa asiaksi keksiä mulle rentoutuskeinoja, jotta en jännittäisi kuvaustilanteessa. Nykyäänkin käytän niitä samoja metodeja, toiminut tyyliin joka kerta, paitsi, kun kuvasin Andrean kanssa.. niin suosittua kuvaajaa on vaikea olla jännittämättä.

In 2007 I moved in Pori so in 2008 was travelling to Tampere and Helsinki in my photoshoots. I like to travel so it doesn´t interfere my modelling. Well, maybe a little but hey, that is the thing about mogelling, you need to travel a lot. This year we tried different things for me to get calm in photoshoots, we did different funny stuff and now days I use the same things to make myself calm before taking pictures. It works, but when I was with Andrea nothing didn´t work because I was thinking I was really awful on anything.. Andrea is absolutely great photographer.

2009

2009 oli aika hiljainen vuosi malleilun osalta. Erosin eksästäni ja koin muutenkin suuria muutoksia elämässäni, ei ollut voimia tai aikaa millekään muulle. Kävin silti koekuvauksissa ja Elizan kanssa tuli jälleen kuvailtua. Studio tuntui jo erittäin luonnolliselta ja opin terästämään katsettani.

This year was very quiet.. I had a divorce and my whole life changed. I didn´t have power or time for anything else than getting better and making my life better. But I still went to castings and took pictures with Eliza. I learned how to make my eyes look more fierce.

2010

Tämä vuosi oli edelleen aika hiljainen, oli kuvaukset oikeastaan vain Hemmun ja Marian kanssa, koska olin edelleen sairas ja bulimia vei voimia ja itsevarmuutta. Olin osastolla, lähinnä yritin vain keksiä mikä elämässäni on hyvää.

 In 2010 I had again only few photoshoots (first ones with Maria and my friend Hemmu) because I was still mentally ill at the time. I had my hospital time and my bulimia was still really bad. I didn´t have much self-confidence.

2011

2011 ei myöskään tarjonnut kovinkaan paljoa kuvauksia osakseni, myös samasta syystä, kuin aiemminkin, bulimia ja masennus vei keskittymiseni. Painoni nousi, eikä se kyllä auttanut yhtään minua tuntemaan oloani hyväksi kameran toisella puolen. Loppuvuodesta päätin lopettaa turhan agstailun ja päädyin Sannalle malliksi ja pääsin ensimmäistä kertaa catwalkille. Ensimmäinen kerta meni ihan päin mäntyjä, mutta toisella kertaa osasi jo hetken olla jo itseensä tyytyväinenkin. Kohtasin pelkoni ja pääsin monista negatiivisista asioista ja muistoista yli. Se näkyi jo ihan pelkässä olemuksessani. Lopetin oksentamisen ja keskityin itseeni enkä vain ainaiseen ruokaan.

2011 didn´t gave me that much on modelling view. I was still very depressed and I threw up. My weight started to rise and that make me feel even more uglier and I didn´t want to go any photoshoots because I didn´t like what I saw. When winter came, I had a chance to go to on catwalk I decided that I am going to live my life, not making myself feel bad about it. So I went and afterwards I felt great. I did it. My whole presence changed and I stop vomiting and started to focusing on myself, not food.

2012

Viime vuosi oli oikea muutoksen vuosi. Koko vuoden kokeilin uusia juttuja zombiwalkista lähtien (olin aina halunnut mennä) ja tuli kuvailtua luottokuvaajien kanssa. Laura Takalan kanssa löydettiin toisemme. Laura on se mun "hei mulla on idea mennään kuvaamaan" kuvaaja, jonka kanssa voi kokeilla kaikkia sen hetkisiä ideoita pienellä aikarajalla. Olin myös vaihteeksi Sannalla mallina ja löysin itsevarmuuteni.

Last year was a year of change. I found myself, my style, my confidence and I started to have many ideas on different photoshoots and I started to think what I want to do in my modelling career. I started to take pictures with Laura and she is the one who I call everytime I want to go and do a photoshoot tomorrow. And I was on a catwalk again.

2013

2013

2013

Varmaan turha sanoa, että malleilun kannalta tämä vuosi on ollut tuottoisin. Olen myös oppinut eniten tänä vuonna. Jokaiselta kuvaajalta on jäänyt mieleen milloin mitäkin vinkkiä, pitkät kuvausajat ovat karaistaneet, samaten liian kylmät ja kuumat olotilat. Olen myös huomannut, että ellei jälkeenpäin satu, en tehnyt kuvauksissa kaikkeani. Joka lihasta pitää jännittää ja posettaa kuuluu joka kehon kohdalla. Jos mieli ei ole mukana, näyttää siltä, että on joku aivoja vailla oleva zombi. Hommia on tullut paiskittua peräkkäisinä päivinä ja pitkin poikin Suomea niin paljon, että kyllä tästä viimeisimmästä puolesta vuodesta on pitänyt jotain jäädä mieleen. Tänä vuonna on tullut koettua myös haastattelujen erikoinen maailma. Enpä malta odottaa seuraavia kuvauksia!

Needles to say, this year has been the best one. So many photoshoots with new and old ones and I just keep loving what I do. I have learned that if it doesn´t hurt afterwards, I didn´t do my best. You need to use every muscle and your mind need to be in it. If you don´t think about what you do, you look like a zombie who need more brains. Can´t to wait next photoshoot!

/Leena