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Winter photos. Some of you might know how I feel about this time of the year, so you can imagine how much courage it took to spend 30minutes outside just to get these pictures.

The Gannet. She’s protecting to girl on her back, but the rest of the story.. you’ll just have to figure it out. This one’s for sale, too.

Me and a friend of mine are working on this big project, that will actually give me some more REAL work to do. We’re gonna start a blog about that later on, and you’ve been warned: I will promote that thing a LOT in the upcoming months! So excited!!! Wish us luck, we really need it.

Hello reader! Just a quick update – a couple of paintings I’ve been working on. They’re all for sale! If you’re interested, send me an e-mail or leave your e-address in the comments!

“Hugger Tree” & “My Voice” – Acrylic on deep edge canvas, 20cm x 20cm.

“The Crocodile Ride”: Width 90cm, height 32cm (with frame). Original china ink drawing with wooden frame, passepartout and glass.

I created a so called business page on Facebook. Now you can all show your support and become fans! The group can be found HERE.

Also, I added some items that are for sale, I’ll list them here since unikissa.com is – yes, you know the words – under construction for a while. I’m trying to come up with a new layout and translate everything to English at some point. But, here’s a few pictures of the items. If you like them and want to own them, or have someone special in mind who’d like to receive such things as christmas presents, contact me via e-mail!

So there we go. The painting’s measures and info: width 90cm, height 32cm (with frame). Original china ink drawing with wooden frame, passepartout and glass. Here’s a couple of details from it:

This winter and darkness is really making me tired. I slept for 9 hours last night, but I’m just about to fall asleep on the keyboard and get a random collection of letters pressed on my forehead. I don’t get it. I’ve tried coffee, a bit of moving around every once in a while, kept all the lights on, music loud, all that.. and still.

I think I’m a bear. I should hibernate all winter.

Or just simply fly over to California for a couple of months every winter, which I’m dreaming about every day and wondering how to do it.

Helsinki maksaa freteille 10 euron tuntipalkkaa

Freteistä eli kesyhillereistä on tullut Helsingin kaupungin työntekijöitä. Kaupunki ottaa frettejä citykanijahtiin ja maksaakin työstä. Suomen Frettiliitto pohtii paraikaa, millaisia työehtosopimuksia näätäeläimille pitäisi tehdä. Kaniongelman levitessä lemmikeille riittää kohta työtä eri puolilla Suomea.

Koko uutinen Taloussanomien sivuilla.

Guess this will only open up to my Finnish readers…

Basicly, we’ve been having this “city rabbit” problem in Helsinki. These small-ish rabbits, originated from pet rabbits (escaped or worse, freed on purpose) have been taken over the city, breeding quickly). The city of Helsinki is now considering using ferrets to sort out the problem. These tame, trained hunting ferrets would chase the rabbits out of their holes and they could then be catched and sold on to the local zoo for carnivores. The ferrets (their owners) would be paid for their work 10 euros per hour.

In this drawing the ferret is queueing to pay for new harness he’s been wanting for a long time. Hmm, explaining the joke kinda takes the fun out of it, huh?

A moon man, a starry night. Inspired by a music video by Poets of the Fall – not an exact copy but not far from it either. Acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 50cm, FOR SALE. Doesn’t necessarily need framing, since the canvas edges are black and neat.

Contact via e-mail tiia@unikissa.com for details!

So, I finally did it. I booked flights to Dublin and I’m leaving in less than four weeks. I have no idea where I’m going, yet, but I have a few options open. Anyway, it’s going to be something to do with animals and volunteer work. I’m gonna stay on a farm or an animal center for 3-4 weeks, find out what it’s like, then maybe go back at some point to stay even longer.

This is something I’ve been dreaming about for my whole life! Doing it now! And I couldn’t be more excited. What I don’t get is the fact it’s taken me years to actually make the decision and leave – now that the flight is booked, it feels like the easiest thing in the world. I might end up going from farm to farm, seeing the world, meeting new people for the rest of my life! Who knows.

Oh yeah, wait. I still have a fiance and a dog in Finland. Well, I’ll just have to balance these two things!

The black paintings I posted earlier – I just sold the other one a few days ago. The butterfly picture is still here and ready for a new loving home! I’m planning to do two bigger ones (100 x 50cm) soon, so keep posted!

Here are the latest paintings and details from them. Both are the same size, 80cm x 40cm and for sale. Will be putting them up in my store soon. Acrylic on canvas, inspiration for both came from two beaaaautiful music videos, old favourites.

I was thinking I’d do a whole series of these, already got a bunch of ideas.

Oh yeah. I switched to English now. You like?