All Saints' Day and Halloween

Current Finnish Saints' Day is a combination of the two, especially the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages leading a celebration, which are all saints day 1 November, and all believers Souls' Day 2 November. Today Lutherans in Finland and Sweden spend Saturday in All Saints' Day the earliest 31 October and no later than 6 November. In 2009, the All Saints' Day is 31 October here in Finland.

In Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria, Romania, Moldova, Hungary and Catholic parts of Germany, the tradition is to light candles and visit the graves of deceased relatives. I think that cemeteries are then very beautiful.

Young people here in Finland are not so interested in All Saints' Day. They are more interested in Halloween. In Europe Halloween is not as popular as in the U.S. In recent years, Halloween celebrations have become more common in Finland. Some of us may wear a Halloween dressing or like to decorate our home with Halloween decorations. Here in Finland many people love an American popular culture, comic books, films, celebrations and so on. Halloween is celebrated in Finland in general on the eve of All Saints Day.

I don't celebrate All Saints' Day or Halloween but I love candles and Carved pumpkin lanterns.

Happy Halloween!

Pink cosmetic bag

October has been The Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yesterday we had here in Finland "Get Dressed Pink and make a donation Day". I dress pink almost every day, so it was easy for me. I didn't make a donation but I have bought many pink campaign products and I wrote about breast cancer earlier here (my Finnish pink blog).

For me it's important to help other people every month and every day. So... I buy those pink breast cancer products also after October. I have bought even the pink "Lambi" toilet paper: "Lambi loves to help":)

I found this sweet pink cosmetic bag, which helps us to help others. This pretty pink waffle weave fabric cosmetic bag is great for storing all your make-up or travel needs. The outside features three little embroidered daisies with zipper closure. The inside features plastic interior lining with two zip-close pockets on each side. Sleepyheads.com will donate 20% of proceeds from this pink cosmetic bag to Breastcancer.org.

More Pink Ribbon Products

Pink Guitar

My husband plays the guitar. He has two acoustic guitars. Now he wants to have an electric guitar. He is very good at playing the guitar and he needs to have a very good guitar. I love to listen his playing.

I don't play the guitar (lazy me). If I started to play the guitar, I would buy this lovely pink guitar (photo above). Pink Daisy Rock sells Girl Guitars. They have many beautiful pink guitars. I found this Pink guitar from Debutante by Daisy Rock

The pink electric Daisy Guitar is so sweet that I would like to own it, even though it's maybe (just maybe) too little for me. The pink guitar has short-scale design for younger guitar players but it's the real guitar. This Pink Daisy Guitar is cool! If I had a daughter I would buy this pink guitar for her and I would borrow it every day.

If I had a pink guitar band, would you play the pink guitar with me?

More pink guitars

Pink Rose Award

Pink Links and me (My name is Taika = Magic) got the lovely pink rose award from Amy. Her pink blog Midtown Girl is fantastic. Thank you for your beautiful pink rose award! I love pink roses.

I have received a lot of lovely friends, which I appreciate. In blog world some bloggers love to get and give awards. Some bloggers hate awards if they get those awards too often. If you give an award to some bloggers, others feel sad. If you give an award to every reader, nobody believes that you really care about your friends.

So... To give or not to give... I have to give this pink rose award to those bloggers who often discuss with me here. You are important for me:

Couture Carrie You have so many readers and still you come to my little blog. You are so friendly and beautiful.

Nookie I love your humor and smart thoughts.

Manju Your deep thoughts and posts are very interesting.

Meraldia Your blog is like a sweet home.

PinkBow is my pink sister:)

GirlWhimsy I love your colorful blog.

Janetteria is the surprising blog.

Snapping Panda is so lovely poetic blog.

I also have very interesting other friends who are as important as those who now got the award.

I love you all!

Pink mushroom

Autumn and mushrooms. Help! I can not stand mushrooms. I know that mushrooms are healthy, except poisonous mushrooms, ha ha! Although the mushrooms are full of vitamins, those great vitamins do not get me to love mushrooms.

My childhood rule number one was that all food was edible. The basic principle is good, but the mushrooms became a nightmare for me. My father made sure that I and my sisters ate our mushroom sauce. Couple of hours at the dining room table I tried to get my mushroom sauce down the throat. Sometimes I had to vomit and then I came back to the table. Eventually my mother got my father to give up the mushroom project on the grounds that I quietly ate anything except mushrooms.

Even today I hate mushrooms, taste and smell. I have tried to eat mushrooms but it does not work.

My pink mind always finds the positive aspects of things. Mushrooms are nice looking. Red Amanita is very beautiful. I have a pillowcase with Red Amanita. I would also like to have a chair looks like a Red Amanita. I have seen that kind of garden furniture, which are really beautiful.

I love pink mushrooms. I have not seen a pink mushroom in the forest but I have seen photos of pink mushrooms. The photo above is my favorite almost pink mushroom photo. This purple and sometimes pink mushroom is a mystical and very beautiful Laccaria amethystina. This purple mushroom is edible but apparently tasteless. My almost pink mushroom might be perfect mushroom for me, if it really is tasteless. Pink and it's purple cousin are my favorite colors in many ways.

What do you think about mushrooms? Do you like my pink mushroom?

Pink pedal car

I don't have children but if I had I would like to buy them a pink pedal car. Usually boys get pedal cars but now girls can also have fun.

I found the lovely Pink Princess Pedal Car. My little princess would be delighted to have this beautiful pink pedal car. I didn't have a pedal car when I was a child. I don't even have a real car now. I don't know anything about cars but I love cute cars, especially pink cars.

If I had a little boy, he maybe would have pink clothes and a pink pedal car. He might hate me. Though I know many men who likes pink.

One thing is sure. This pink pedal car is a fantastic gift for your little princess. It's not so easy to find unique children's gifts. This Pink Jalopy Pedal Car is ride on toy reminiscent of the 1920’s.

This pink pedal car is child safety tested and approved.

Many online shops sell this beautiful Pink Princess Pedal Car. If you live in USA or Canada you can buy this pink pedal car from Pedal Cars and Retro Collectables. If you live in Europe it's possible to find this pink pedal car for example from Pixmania.com

If you live somewhere else, I don't know how to get this pink dream car to your parking place, but at least you can enjoy my pink photos.

I wish I were a child... Somehow I still am:)

Do you like this pink pedal car?

Pink Chloe bag

I maybe found my pink Chloé bag. I don't know if it is real or not real Chloé bag. Officially this Chloe bag's color above is purple red but for me this beautiful Paddington bag is enough pink. This Chloé bag is beautiful.




I also found a dark pink Chloe bag, which is as beautiful as the first Chloe bag above.

If you like light pink bags, this is maybe the dream bag for you.




I found these beautiful Chloe bags from onelle.com. There are many beautiful bags. This shop says that they sell both real designer bags and not real but quality bags.

This lovely purple and dark pink Chloe Paddington Padlock Satchel Hand Bag I found from ebay. The seller says that it's 2009 Unique, Brand new 100% Authentic Chloé "Paddington".



How can you certainly know, that you buy the authentic Chloé bag? I know one place, which is very real:

Go to the official Chloé. I didn't find my pink Paddington Chloé bag from there but they tell you boutiques and E-shopping sites which sell their lovely Chloé bags.

I have been looking for a pink bag. Dark pink Chloé bag would be my dream bag. I hope that Santa Claus brings me the authentic, beautiful dark pink Chloé bag.

Do you love Chloé bags?

What kind of bag is your dream bag?