Tiny tiny kitchen garden

This summer I have two garden projects. I might write about the other one bit later but today I want to share with you my tiny herb garden. You see, I like making food and I especially love using fresh ingredients when ever possible. My current home has a nice spacious kitchen with a sunny window so to keep me in fresh herbs, I decided to turn the bench in front of the window into a small kitchen herb garden. 

I currently have six herbs in my garden: oregano, basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, and parsley. I think it's a pretty good selection of herbs and I do use all of these quite often. How ever I'm also considering getting few more to add to the selection. We'll see if I end up doing that or not.

I'm trying to learn to be a good blogger again and taking photos of the things I might want to share here. It's more hard to get back into that habit than you'd think! So here are pictures of me planting the herbs to terracotta pots back in May. I'm quite proud of some of the photos.

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Minulla on oikeastaan kaksi puutarhaprojektia tänä kesänä, mutta esittelen tällä kertaa vain toisen niistä. Siitä toisesta kirjoitan ehkä joskus myöhemmin. Tällä kertaa halusin kuitenkin esitellä teille pikkuruisen keittiöpuutarhani.

Pidän kovasti ruuan laitosta ja tuoreista aineksista. Siksi on ihanaa, että nykyisen kotini keittiöön ikkunan eteen mahtuu oma pienei yrttipuutarha. Tällä hetkellä puutarhani koostuu kuudesta yrtistä: persiljasta, basilikasta, marokon mintusta, oreganosta, timjamista ja rosmariinista. Olen tosin harkinnut hankkivani muutaman yrtin lisää, saa nähdä.

Tässä teille muutamia kuvia yrttien istutuksesta ja yrteistä ylipäätään.

Dirt under my fingers proofs I've done some planting work.

All the planting supplies your really need: the herb, the pot with a piece of broken ceramic to block the water hole, some dirt, and some newspaper to cover the table.

Basil.

Rosemary.

Mint.

Oregano.

Thyme.

Roommate appreciation post

Sometimes it is so very easy to love my roommate (who is the best of the best usually anyways). Like when I come home from evening sift at 10pm and she has made us cupcakes. She's the best. <3

Even our horrible kitchen lights can't undo the awesome that are these chocolate heart cupcakes with whipped cream.

PS. Tomorrow morning will start the March and my journal challenge. I can't believe how excited I am!

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Joskus on ihan kamalan helppo rakastaa ihanaa kämppistäni. Kuten vaikka silloin, kun kotona iltavuorosta palatessa on kasa herkullisia kuppikakkuja odottamassa. 

10 things I need

If you could have just 10 things (furniture, items of clothing, tools or other objects that are not disposable commodities), what would you need to get by? This was a question asked by the top Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat bit over a week ago. A very interesting question I'd say and not an easy one to answer. 

The whole question was inspired by an article written about a new Finnish documentary called My Stuff (in Finnish Tavarataivas). The documentary is about a 20-somehting man, Petri Luukkainen, who decides to put all the things he owns to a storage unit starting from the beginning of the year to try out how much he really needed to get by. According to the rules he was allowed to get back from the storage unit only one item per day.

I haven't seen this documentary yet, mainly because it only has it's premiere tomorrow (January 23th) at DocPoint film festival, but I'm definitely interested. The project documented in the film is obviously very extreme, but already the articles I've read about it have made me thing about how much stuff I have and what do I actually need. I guess this also hit me at the right point of time as I was already doing some decluttering at home, but it also gave me more ideas to chew on.

How many of these things do I actually need?

Oh, and what were those 10 things I chose for the HS quiz? I based my choises on the idea that I should be able to do the most important things in my daily life such as domy job and to keep contact with people. Basically to be able to keep up some level of normal life. Here are the items I chose:

• pants
• a shirt
• shoes
• a jacket
• a bra
• public transportations travel card
• eyeglasses
• a computer
• a mattress
• a blanket

So, which 10 items would you choose?

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Helsingin Sanomat kysyi verkkosivuillaan, mitkä kymmenen tavaraa valitsisit, jos et saisi käyttää mitään muuta. Ohesta löytyvät ne vastauset, jotka itse annoin tähän kyselyyn.