The Great Fan Art Competition — Second FINALIST!

  Congratulations Iris and little baby Ava Gillian!
                                   Ava Diva - Live in Concert is funny and lovely photo with such a cute star! 


I like the way you used fabric patterns to create this picture. Well done!



Pssst! You can still send me your fan pictures. 

whenmybabydreams (@) gmail.com


Competition is on until the Valentines day, 14.2.2012!

The Great Fan Art Competition — The First FINALIST!

       Congratulations Farrah Beller!

                                   Amazing composition and peaceful picture with the lovely colors! I love it!


There was plenty of other great pictures too, so don't worry if I didn't pick you right now,

 I might do it later. And remember you can still send me your fan pictures. 

whenmybabydreams (@) gmail.com

Competition is on until the Valentines

Ciao my friends!

A while ago I gave an interview to one italian magazine called D – La repubblica delle Donne (Magazine No.770, pages 128-129 and 130-131, article by Valentina Pigmei) and I liked that article a lot, well I can't speak italian, but I translated it with google translator, so I believe I understood the most of it. Grazie mille!

PS I've received a lot of lovely fan art photos, thank you so much for

The Great FAN ART Competition!

I
have noticed from Mila's Daydreams Facebook page that many
of you guys are inspired to make your own dream pictures with your family. (See the photo gallery) That's so cool!



So I have
decided to create a competition for you.  You can send your own dream
picture to whenmybabydreams(@)gmail.com   (Remove parentheses from @. Only one picture per person. Add your contact details for the

3 weeks and it is HERE!

...and it's a BOOK! 


Can't believe it, only 3 weeks left until When My Baby Dreams* is here! 

I hope my stork will bring it to you too. 



(*From this book link you find list of retailers and can pre-order When My Baby Dreams in a click!)

Where do dream ideas come from?

BEFORE                                                                                         AFTER



From her real dreams, don't you think? 





Coming soon: More making of dream pictures and some funny before and after scenes. 
                              Also "When My Baby Dreams" -competition for YOU. Stay tuned!

Paintings and drawings

This autumn my favourite thing was to paint or draw meanwhile I listen audio books from my Kindle. Well, until I got so nauseous that I couldn't draw a line without feeling sick. My morning sickness has been quite unpredictable and abstract. I guess now I know how my hubby felt two years ago, when I got nauseous from his composed music and threw up after we saw movies like Avatar and Up! 

Sorry for the radio silence - I've been...

...oh, how to put this nicely? Well, I've been a bit nauseous lately.



"Morning sickness", who ever come up with that term is a very lucky woman or man, who has seen his wife only at the morning time, since the feeling is definitely 24/7 sickness. At least for me.

But Yay! I'm pregnant! Mila is going to have a sibling next spring!

And I promise I try to update this blog more often now that I

Art course - Autumn

After a long break I decided to continue my painting and drawing hobby. I think I have nowadays more patience  for that, being a mom has changed me for good. Mila sleeps now two naps per day, and I try to write during the morning naps and draw or paint on the afternoon. But sometimes I do a little sketches at the morning before I write. It helps me clear my mind and concentrate.



So here's

Mommy's summer job: Music Video

Artist: Emmi Salo

Director/Writer/Make-up/Wardrobe: Adele Enersen

Producer/Assistant Editor/Lighting Assistant/Playback: Lasse Enersen

Cinematography: Juge Heikkilä

Camera Assistant: Heikki Slåen

Color Grading: Timo Luomanen/Post Control

Editor: Santeri Enstedt



Last summer I had an opportunity to direct a music video. We had very tiny budget and only one day to shoot, but we had a

Rainy Day Fun

I love autumn and rain...especially 'cause it's perfect reason to stay home and do something funny.
So we built a indoor "swimming pool" to Mila, and meanwhile she was playing with her best friends (Cat theCat & Tigger) a draw some comics etc with my new markers.



1) First you need lot of pillows, 2) put a bedspread or comforter on top of that, 3) swim with the friends in a puddle of fabric!

Laundry Day Monsters!

... and how to avoid household chores.

Project Nursery - Coraline inspired painting

I just wanted to paint something cute to Mila's new room. I got my inspiration from Coraline book/movie. This is my cutie pie version of those characters. The clue of this painting is real sewed buttons as a eyes.  



These are our snap photos from
Universal Studios ...



...of real Coraline  stop motion
characters, props and sets. Cool!



If you didn't know,
I'm a HUGE Stop Motion
fan!

When My Baby Dreams of reading her books...

Oh here it is! Our first book cover ♡ When My Baby Dreams (HarperCollins, Balzer + Bray )



This book is highly tested with the target audience. Here you can see the test group in action. ;)



The Project Nursery: The reading corner is still middle of progress,
I'd like to make some kind of babyproof divan there,
where we could read or play with Mila.
 Before I figure out how to make that,

Pssst...wanna see something?

Go to babycenter.com !
(She said mystically and winked to all her blog-friends)

Nursery - Cherry Blossom Chandelier

We went to New York too. This is from Central Park.
What a lovely place.
 I loved all the museums and walking around the city. 



And I absolutely fall in love with the Cherry trees.
They gave me an idea...





I bought some water based and non-toxic Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and lamp shades....



...and this basic "Kronetorp" chandelier.
 I also bought some silk cherry blossom -flowers.

The Project Nursery - Before and the floor

Yes, my hubby used to have his playroom studio at our home.
And it was the only place where I didn't even try to put decorations,
pillows and nice new curtains. His sacred man cave.
Now all these fancy equipments and huge bunch of electric wires
 are at his new studio, and I deserve a medal for my patience.
Don't you think? Now it's going to be Mila's nursery.


makeover starts! 

Happy Birthday Mila!

Mila is celebrating her very first birthday this week.
I took the "official" 1 year old picture of her in a same dress I was wearing in my picture in 1979.


Past is reaching to future. 

Cardigan dress with a button embroidery

             My mom just crochet this little cardigan dress for Mila, and I thought it needed something extra...




Since I've been buying stuff for nursery decorations,
 I've found also other cute things,
 like rosy pink, lila and greenish brown buttons.



Hum... I see an owl! 



Here it is!



This amazing transformer owl was my "model".
(english text: http://animopedia.com/

Back in FINLAND!

Hello my dear friends,



Her Pinkiness at the Rodeo Drive
First of all, I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. Our vacation in States was truly a vacation. Few months in California and one week in New York was an amazing journey. I got new friends, had a great time with my family and enjoyed the sun. Mila got 8 teeths, ate her first handful of Venice Beach sand and learned to stand and crawl

Early Bird Gets a Worm!

It’s true, almost 365 episodes of The Today Show will run before my book, When My Baby Dreams, is released by HarperCollins (it’s scheduled for January, 2012), but if you tune into today’s episode of The Today Show (that’s February 10th, for those of you keeping score), you might see Mila’s first big publicity hit and one unpublished daydream photo! Woohoo!
And since 365 todays means 365

Lunch at Santa Monica

(pictures by: Lasse Enersen)

PS...and here is my first vanity project! Finally I found something to test. 
As a TV heavy user housewife (that's all I'm able to do with my left eye, while I rescue my crawling angel from the dangerous situations 24/7.), I ended up to be a infomercial-victim, so I ordered Wen Hair Care -products. I just received them from the post, so now I'll test them and post

The Real Housewives of Venice Beach

Sorry for the delay with updating this blog. We have been exhausted after traveling. Gigantic jet lag and flu. (Note to myself: You can't sleep in the airplane with the baby.) The nights are very cold and the house was cold when we arrived. So first Mila got the flu and then me, and after that my mother-in-law. So we girls have been just sick and watching all the funny stuff from the telly, like