Sailalai

A happy-to-be-a-Finn and loving travelIing! I work on social field, in an open rehabilitation unit for alcohol and substance abusers. On my free-time I enjoy good music and friends, I also enjoy reading and doing things with my hands. I am a very visual person and enjoy looking at beautiful things :)

Last but not least, I really love to explore, I have been travelling a little and plan to travel more. For example, I have lived in Vietnam for a short while and would love to go back!

EDIT: Had a few years break from swapping and now starting again, just making a comeback 😊

I like making jewellery and scrapping photoalbums, however I end up doing all sort of crafts or self-made things, like jam for example :) Is baking a form of craft? If not, I enjoy it anyway. I like to do something new out of old things, like paper crafting using old books as material or combining something found from the nature with something I already have but don´t use.Anyway, recycling, but with a style :)

• Vintage birds
• Owls
• Feathers
• Matryoshkas
• Natural materials, like wood or shell or recycled paper etc.
• Recycling and recycled things, I just recently made earrings out of metallic lids of glass bottles, these are more than welcome!
• Books, magazines, pages... Reading has always been one of my top hobbies, so I love books, especially old books and magazines, pages that are so old they turned a little yellow already
• Worn-out looking things
• Maps
• Stamps
• Coffee, coffee, coffee
• Shopping at thrift stores
• Romantic prints, but not only roses you know
• Old tea cups and laces
• Old stuff in general, NOT meaning old and dirty

• Green, at the moment I like different shades of green, but not very bright greens
• Black
• Grey
• Different shades of powder, from pinkish to more of a beige kind of shade
• Earth tones, or warm colours, whatever they are called
• Worn-out looks in all colours :)
• I also love the colours of an early morning, just before the sun rises, that kind of a blueish but not blue moment of the day, especially in summer

IMumford and Sons, I also like Bob Marley, Delay Trees (FIN), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oren Lavie, The B and the Band (FIN), Katajainen Kansa (FIN, Christian reggae), Gogol Bordello

Mongolia, Afganistan, France, Italy, Vietnam again, South-Korea, Holland, Israel again, Russia again

• russian doll (matrjoshka)-related items
• letter sets
• deco-tapes
• anything owl-related
• old laces
• beads
• organic teas
• herbs
• beautiful hand soaps
• old-looking things in general
• silver in jewellery
• self-made envelopes
• old photographs
• items for scrapping
• matrjoshka- or owl fabrics
• origami papers
• natural or home-made papers
• Graham Franciose, art, pc´s, anything, I adore his pieces
• Nicoletta Ceccoli, I don´t want her, but her pieces of art, pc´s etc. :)

• childish flower-stuff
• pink
• hearts
• plastic beads
• gothic style
• plastic items in general