Helmi

I'm a 20 years old girl living in Tampere in Finland. I was born in a small countryside town in July 1991. Two years ago from now I moved to Tampere in order to sstart studying at the university. My major is Social policy, and societal matters interest me otherwise as well. I enjoy painting (mostly with watercolours) and making decos, ATCs and other beautiful stuff like jewellery. Among crafting I like playing piano, reading good books, playing board games with my sisters (Settlers of Catan is my very favorite!), listening to music, watching movies and hanging out with my friends. Summer is my favorite time of the year, that's when Finland shows it's best sides. I truly love the few hot, sunny days Finland gets a year.

• Colours: I do like colours, but I'm not a big fan of very colourful things. My favorite colours are probably red and pink with all shades of them, purple (but not in pastell shade), turquoise/cyan and other shades of grey or brown. Green isn't my favorite, but I don't hate it either.

• Vintage things: Things that actually are old are more interesting than things that fake being old, but I guess the're okay too :---) I also like a little old-fashioned style, such as black and white colours in postcards.

• Cutie things: I like letterpapers or stickers with cute animals or such in them, but please no Hello Kitty or Diddl, God I hate those :D And pink is a good colour! I also like butterflies and dragonflies (but dragonflies only in pictures, please don't send me real ones, they're scary :D).

• Eatable things: I love sweets. Especially chocolate, salty liquorice (which is common here in Finland) and jelly beans and such soft candies. I'm not a big fan or cocos, stuff that includes liqueur or anything too hard (such as Menthos). Among candy I like peanuts, hot chocolate and tea, which I drink multiple mugs a day.

• Craft supplies: I like beautiful (self-made) crafting papers (those little left over pieces too! :--), buttons, stickers (especially alphabethic ones!), stamps, laces, ribbons, eyelets, stampers and inks, pearls and beads or any other beautiful/cute/pretty scrapping material.

• All other small stuff: Pens (coloufrul ones or black ones sized 0.1 or smaller), erasers (somehow they all always get lost...), cute or beautiful jewellery, badges, self-made things, small boxes, old keys, old photographs or anything else you could think I might like! I do value using imagination :---)

I just love Grey's Anatomy, and it's absolutely my favorite TV-show ever. Among that also True Blood, Desperate Housewives and Skins are favorites of mine.

My whole family likes crafting, but the one thing they haven't got me interested in is sewing. Well, I don't knit that much either even though I've always kinda liked it... Instead of making clothes and such I like making decos and other paper crafts like cards, ATCs or scrapbooks and art journals. I've also tried out jewellery making and since I found out it was fun, I'll probably be doing that more in the future.