Happy New Year & 2015 in review

End of the year always evokes bittersweet feelings. I’m swinging between happy and sad. It feels good to wrap a year that was as good as this one but a part of me doesn't want to let it go.... I worry. Time. It is passing much too swiftly. I realize my little ones, my muses, my children, are not so little anymore. But here we are again rewinding the year and I'm so happy to have captured it. To have pressed the shutter and saved these memories.

As every year I used Photobox (UK) to print my calendar. Last year was an exception but the quality wasn't so good and returned to Photobox and A3 Simple (which is their best seller). Delivery was late, but it finally arrived - just before new year.

We are sharing our December collages here! Join if you wish.

Here is my 2015 in pictures! 2016! Happy New Year everyone ♡

My resolutions:

Live simply.

Dream big.

Be grateful.

Give love.

Laugh lots.

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A month in photos {December 2015}

As the year draws to a close, it's time to take a look back in December. As you know, we waited for the snow impatiently and did not receive any. We might be getting some for New Year but that remains to be seen. December was good - a festive wait of Christmas. I can't quite remember what it feels like to be a child on Christmas but I think it must be almost as exiting being a mother, making memories for my own children.

December:

a month of lights, snow and feasts; time to make

amends and tie loose ends; finish off what you 

started and hope your wishes come true

And here we are. Putting together our last collage of the year! Thank you for travelling along and I most warmly welcome you back in 2016. See this post to find your 2016 free download Photo Calendar Template.

My this month favorite is taken by my sister. Me & my family on our home road.

What was your month like? Join me and link up your month in photos below!
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Christmas ✮

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joy

love

peace

believe

Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone!

It wasn't a white Christmas. 

But all those quiet hours we spent together inside were the real beauty of the Holiday.

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Your Free Download Photo Calendar Template for 2016

Time really flies and suddenly Christmas is just around the corner. December has it very own spark which has just grown while having two little ones in my life. Unfortunately we are still missing snow.... The darkness is becoming almost unbearable. Every candle and light is appreciated now as we wait the snow to enlighten our days and continue to dream of white Christmas.

It's been a super busy past few weeks at work but today after getting home I took the time to put up the design I had in my mind for 2016 Photo Calendar Template. I hope you like it!

Feel free to download here!

I will continue my month in photos project next year as usual and I invite you to join me to share your monthly collages on my blog in the very end of every month. Note that you don't have to use my template in order to join, or any template at all. Feel free to pick your own way to present your month in photos. I hope to see you around :)

Should you need help with using templates, see this tutorial! Would you like to shop some templates, click here!

And if you wish to see my past years in photos,visit my  Pinterest boards, for 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 will be wrapped soon.

Sampling with random 2015 pictures...

Thanks for being here ❤

A month in photos {November 2015}

I took all my November pictures in the very beginning of it. After that the darkness took over and I haven't even thought of my camera... It was a good month however. Time to slow down (which didn't quite succeed...), take out candles and lights, read and bake the first Christmas pastries. But I must say I'm not sad to move on to December. We are officially waiting for Christmas and even more for the first snow to arrive. I'm predicting it's not far away...

Light is easy to love.

Show me your darkness.

 -R.Queen

November favorite...

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First Sunday of Advent

Enjoying this first Sunday of Advent ☆

Shorter days

It's here! Dear November! With its drizzly rain, cold weather, and short, dark days, sometimes it seems like November is the cruelest month, or at least the most hated. I happen to love it however. The shorter days and darkness feels cozy and nothing can beat the comfort of warm sweaters, fuzzy socks and candles (yes, we will be fed up with them in six months...). This is the season of novels, baking, lanterns and the wait of Christmas! It's time to enjoy peppermint, gingerbread and cinnamon flavored everything. And on the top of it nature tones have turned from multicolored explosion to beautiful soft gray and brown. Just take a look...

"My life isn't perfect.

But it does have 

perfect moments."

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A month in photos {October 2015}

The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees | that burned with sweetness or maddened | the sting: the struggle continues, | the journeys go and come between honey and pain. -Pablo Neruda

This month favorite... classic October colors!

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Around the block {Liiketie Tapanila}

I had small trip (to Rome!) and after that I got a flu and since then I've just been super busy and I when I finally got out for a walk I could barely believe how much the scenery had changed. And also how cold it was and how the dusk crawled in so early. Just a little walk around the block. Perfect.

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