Pumpkin All the Things!

Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin and chocolate muffins
Pumpkin and potato curry
Pumpkin risotto
Pumpkin lasagna
Pumpkin monkey bread
Pumpkin Finnish flat bread
Cheddar pumpkin sauce with spatzle
Pumpkin scones
Pumpkin cheese cake

Pasta with pumpkin cream sauce
Pumpkin pancakes
White lentil and pumpkin soup
Pumpkin quick bread
Pumpkin scones
Pie with winter vegetables, cheese and pumpkin
A billion and a half pumpkin seeds

eat | menu - Slow Food Helsinki Harvest Festival

The Menu:

Forest mushroom soup and homemade organic bread

Fried vendace and mashed potatoes

Apple pie and vanilla sauce

eat | menu - Jani Leinonen's Housewarming Party

Salty, savoury, and extremely Finnsh treats from Eat & Joy. And good Finnish beer. Honestly, I don't remember anything else. Might there have been a pole dance?

Food Flea Market - Bitten | Into

One of the first things that happened at the Kellohalli at the new Teurastamo was a food flea market. And I spent far too much. Thin rye Finnish crackers with poppy seeds, meringues with blueberries and cognac, spice cookies cut to look like autumn leaves and a zucchini muffin with cream cheese frosting.

Not actual muffin. That one didn't make it home.

Herkkujen Suomi - Bitten | Into

At the delicacies from Finland show this year, it was all about the vendace. Some like them big, some like them small. And since it looks like Finland will have a herring shortage this year, you'd better like them.

Fry in butter. Eat whole.

eat | menu - Helsinki Design Week

Design Market
The Cable Factory


Koepala - Street food wraps with smoked fish or goat cheese, root vegetable chips and dip, and tomato juice flavored with selected herbs.

eat | menu - Helsinki Design Week

Opening party
Helsinki Design Week
The Old Customs House

Red and white wine, cranberry vodka Collins, and Finlandia Cranberry Martinez (Finlandia Cranberry, maraschino, red vermouth, cocktail bitters)

By Koepala: little rye breads with small reindeer burgers/ kotijuusto and sweet potato on a stick

eat | menu - Katja Tukkiainen

The Klaus K Hotel

Opening party for the Katja Tukkiainen suite.

Sparkling wine, marshmallows, chocolate hearts in red foil, 

of course!

eat | menu - It's not what you think.

This is not the year of art, design or fashion. It's not about books or music. We are concerned with something much more visceral than any of this.

We are going to sit down and think for a while about food.

clean | laundry - Tarja Rautiainen

Wear something haunting. The dark time in Finland can be the most beautiful time of year. Tarja Rautiainen searches for pictures full of nostalgia and mystery, pictures that entice and fascinate, and makes them into wearable art.

If you need light, this tin artist makes candleholders and other beautiful household objects too. Visit her here.

clean | laundry - United Nude

You live in your shoes. Why not let an architect design them? United Nude builds homes for your feet. Just go ahead and sell your flat. You won’t need it anymore after buying these. 

Check out the spring collection. And yes, you can order online.

clean | laundry - the sin of perfection

vainio.seitsonen's maxi dress

It's perfect, and I shall love it forever and ever. I will wear it for Christmas, for my name day, for the office party, for going to the opera, for drinking a glass of wine with friends, for champagne at New Year's, for dancing and listening to music. I will wear it in the winter with flowing wraps and in the summer with bare feet.

Buy perfection from Liike.

clean | laundry - Olivia Rouge

If you love Olivia Rouge as we do, you will want to be her. And this is deliciously easy to do. Just check into Olivia's webshop and squeeze yourself into pencil skirts to your heart's delight. Her circle skirts are perfection. Just pull that measuring tape tight around your waist and place that order.

light | vision - Saara Salmi

The rabbit hole was deeper than we thought. Get lost in the darkness as the story of Alice continues in Saara Salmi's solo show at Galleria Volga.

Saara Salmi is half of the photography studio Atelieri O. Haapala, the arbiter of all things Victorian.

now | here - the sin of extravagance

There is no drink but champagne. 

There is no cabaret but one.

Saturday night, The Champagne Circus

I can't imagine being anywhere else.

now | here - HDW LIVE

Helsinki Design Week LIVE is kind of a miracle. Shows from Vuokko and Tuomas Laitinen at the same event? Heikki Salonen and Samuji? Someone has worked some tremendous magic behind the scenes.

Not to mention the R/H show and DJ set, not to mention the dulcet tones of Anna Järvinen and Mirel Wagner. See it to believe it.

now | here - Design Market

Five reasons to never, ever miss the Design Market:

1. Amazing design bargains
2. New clothes
3. The designers who bring their clothes and design items there are the ones who care the most about building their business. Know these names, and you know the future of design and fashion in Finland.
4. The chance to meet the designers personally.
5. Amazing design bargains and new clothes

The Design Market will be held at the Cable Factory on the 10th and 11th of September.

clean | laundry - Kaksitvå

The guy above is kind of good-looking, perhaps a little rugged around the edges. Cool sweatshirt, of course -  perhaps a bit of a trim is needed? I'm sure she takes care of him. Because she certainly takes care of herself. That sweater dress by Kaksitvå is one of the necessities of this season and is absolutely destined to become a classic and is available at the Indian Summer Store. We're not sure about the guy.

light | vision - Ilona Sampovaara

The Unhappy Rabbits show at Art Alex Gallery is a study of how guilt can disguise itself as innocence. Ilona Sampovaara's new works tie together themes such as Adam and Eve, playfulness and the cruelty of children.

Ilona is a Finnish artist residing in Mexico, and the works in the gallery show the progression in her themes from the anthropomorphism of dogs to exposing the sins and fragilities of humans through using animals as images. Ilona also uses her paintings as muses in her Victorian-esque jewelry line, the Bug Girl Co. Small glimpses of faces and little objects decorate tempting silver and brass lockets and charm bracelets made with vintage beads and Swarovski crystals.

light | vision - Artist Peter Jones

You need color. Color environments have the power to calm, energize, enrage, entice and inspire you.

Peter Jones' Colourscape is a maze of colored spheres suspended above the ground with ropes. Allow yourself to be yellow for a while, or sit in gray and allow yourself to absorb the blending colors around you. At times the true color is too intense to interpret, and at times you will be soothed like a baby.

Colourscape is part of the Turku European Capital of Culture 2011 program.