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✖️ HOME LIFE
As much as I love being outdoors, my home is very important to me. I work a lot from home, and I found so much joy in decorating - especially since we moved into our first own apartment last summer. Now, spending a lot of time here for obvious reasons, has made me feel really good and positive about the space, that for the first time is really all I wanted it to be.
I’m really into the calm, natural tones and the warmth of the bedroom, lots of wood and copper accents (I know, very 2018, but I love them). I enjoy shopping second-hand - like this cabinet. When I was younger, I never thought I'd be much into the Nordic design, but almost 10 years in Finland change that, I guess - so there a bunch of Finnish design items around to be found as well. I'm gonna use this quarantine-time to share some more impressions of our home, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

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✖️ HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
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Sleep is so important and yet many of us don't really make an effort to find the perfect evening and sleep routine. So, how about the following #quarantineproject - now that we're all at home with all days the same: it's a great opportunity to review your own sleeping behaviour and patterns, try out some different things. .
Such as: when you go to sleep, what you do before, temperature, type of pillows, when you eat, how you wake up - and how all this affects the quality of your sleep and how that again influences your productivity and energy levels throughout the day. On the blog you can check out my step-by-step guide of things to consider for the best possible night of sleep. .
Together with Veera Bianca, we explored the perfect night of sleep at @sokoshotelflamingo to celebrate International Sleeping Day (13.3.) - with a relaxing spa evening and perfectly fluffy pillows. Link in Bio!
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Also, on that photo I literally just #wokeuplikethis. What a great look
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#pyjamabileet #elämyshotelli #breaksokoshotelflamingo #sokoshotels #internationalsleepingday
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Paid collaboration with @sokoshotelflamingo

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Those Helsinki streets ❤️

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✖️ IMPRESSIONS
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Yay weekend! A proper weekly routine is so important now that we're in a situation where it's a bit harder for many to tell a weekday from the weekend. For me it's the little things, like using the fancy coffee on the weekend only. Also, very consciously trying not to work - now that feels even more important than during regular times. Having your own business can easily trick you into an unhealthy work-rhythm when you're not bound to any office hours. Now: really cherishing the weekends is the mission. Having some projects to keep you busy at home and distract you from the things you would be doing on any regular sunny weekend so you don't even start to feel funny about it - good strategy to have.
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My plans: setting up my little greenhouse that arrived (I'm so excited), prep the flower boxes for the season, look for an outdoor carpet. Let's see how far we get. How about you?

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✖️ LIFE UPDATE - the last days have been really an up and down, my mood really swings hard from positive, visionary, optimistic and energetic, but I can also be thrown off balance so easily and suddenly feel hopeless and lose all perspective. I've decided to take some time off mid-week while we're dealing with whatever this situation will be. I am thinking to finally get to some lifestyle and/or interior content that I always push away from me, and maybe a new podcast is in the works. Who knows. It's still a journey.
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And I really have to remind myself to go outside, especially now when the days are brighter and the temperatures are up - it was 8°C today and it felt like a spring holiday. I was out with my bike for a few hours, and soaked up all the sun. This moment pictured was from one of the first, long seaside walks this year, and I was so thoroughly happy, I really couldn't stop smiling for some hours. More of those days ❤️
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How have you been feeling this week? What’s been keeping you sane?

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This is probably my favourite shop window. #myhelsinki

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Slow mornings and breakfast in bed ❤️Before things turned to the way they are now, I went on a little escape to @sokoshotelflamingo with my dear @veerabianca to celebrate the International Sleeping Day (the best!), where we treated ourselves to the best night's sleep ever and room service breakfast, in the sunshine, with a beautiful view, after a cozy night in the room with skincare, bubbles and those conversations you never have enough time for. We definitely began our self-isolation in style.
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I was never a morning person, but now it's my favourite time of the day, it still takes me at least an hour before I can have breakfast, but then I try to really enjoy it. And being stuck at home is a great excuse to go back to bed with a lush breakfast like this.
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#pyjamabileet #elämyshotelli #breaksokoshotelflamingo
Commercial collaboration with @sokoshotelflamingo

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Friday is date night! Going out for a nice meal is a Friday night ritual for us, and while the going out part is on hold for the time being, it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy delicious meals by great restaurants. While many places struggle, many have also started to deliver, some changed their entire concept or the take-out menu has been adjusted to these weird times we’re living in. And we as customers can continue to #supportyourlocal businesses by placing delivery or pick-up orders, or buying a gift card. For Helsinki, I put together a huge list of the best places that deliver to your home, for example through @woltapp or @foodora.fi, or that have a great take-away option. For a cozy dinner at home, in times of social distancing and self-quarantine. Another idea would be to jump on a video call with friends and have a virtual dinner together. The link to the post is in my bio!

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It’s definitely mainly weird at the moment. Streets are empty (this photo is from last week before things turned around) despite beautiful weather, the mister is working from home which is nice but I’m definitely not used to it 🤓 it’s been interesting to see neighbourhoods and communities stepping it up to support another, online groups forming to help those in need and more appreciation for those doing the necessary work out there while the rest of the world came to a standstill. I’m still positive but also concerned about how the next months will be, especially now that all this is so fresh and nobody has any clue what the long-term effects will look like. There’s definitely lots of time for thinking, but also this is a great opportunity to ditch the excuses and get things done at the home that we always skip, catch up with friends who are always too busy for a nice long chat, and also remember to check in with those who live by themselves who might feel a bit lonely these days.
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There will be brighter days! And until then, let’s make the best of it and support those who need it.

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It’s been weird to see the world slow down these last days. @veerabianca and I went on a little hotel escape for a night and now I’m trying to find a balance between staying indoors and cozy and not going mad - the next few days are looking wonderful weather wise here in Helsinki, so let’s also remember that going for a nice walk is good for you and bad for the virus.

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Today was a weird shift of mood in Helsinki, there was something in the air since the morning. And then everything went off the rails really fast. Cancellations of events left and right, closing of shops and some restaurants, the first photos of people hoarding toilet paper and pasta (and beer, we’re still in Finland eh) and whatnot.
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I myself have felt the impact of corona on my work situation, projects and jobs being cancelled, and still lots of things on the line, but I’m trying to stay positive. With family in the risk groups back home I am concerned about their safety, but it’s good to see governments taking action. At least here I feel like there’s been work behind the scenes to make sure hospitals and generally healthcare is equipped and prepared for whatever will happen in the next weeks. As for now, more home office days, being smart about what we do and where we go, keep up to date through reliable sources and yeah, washing hands and all that! Take care!

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If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d voluntarily walk across town at 7:30 in the morning to meet a friend for breakfast, I would have probably called you names. But I guess it really does come with age, and I’m totally into mornings now, and breakfast meetings are my favourite. @evaurora and I tried @wegotthis_coffeeandwine the other day, and I’m still dreaming of that Karelian pie with brown butter. In that spirit, I’m gonna have another coffee and wish you a great Thursday!

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