Showing posts with label luonto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luonto. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2017

♥ Ildera - The Spirit of Winter ♥


Oletko koskaan miettinyt miten talvet pärjäävät kylmänä talvikautena? Miten luonto selviytyy ja tulee eloon jälleen jäätävän kylmien ja pimeiden kuukausien jälkeen? Sitten et olekaan kuullut vielä Ilderasta, Talven Hengettärestä ja Metsän Hoitajasta.

Luontoäidin ensimmäinen tytär sai ensimmäisen elon kipinänsä pienestä versosta lumen alla. Oli kylmä päivä, mutta muutama auringonsäde ulottui pieneen kasviin ja kuin avunhuutona se puristi itsestään ulos vihoviimeiset lehtivihreänsä ja näin Talven Henki oli syntynyt. Aivan kuten äitinsä, Ildera on aina huokunut rakkautta luonnon hoivaamiseen ja erityisesti villejä metsiä kohtaan. Hänellä on kypsyyttä, empatian tunnetta ja erityinen yhteys kaikkeen vihreään. Hänen kykynsä kommunikoida puiden ja muiden metsän elävien olentojen kanssa, on tehnyt hänestä osan sitä kaikkea. 💚


Have you ever wondered how the forests cope with cold winter season? How nature survives and comes alive again after long months of freezing cold and darkness? Then you have yet to hear of Ildera, the Spirit of Winter and the Caretaker of the Forest.

The first daughter of Mother Nature came to life from a little sprout under the snow. It was a cold day, but a few rays of the sun reached the tiny plant and as a cry for help it pushed out the very last leaf greens it had and a little green Winter Spirit was born. Like her mother, Ildera has always shown love for taking care of nature and especially wide forests. She has maturity, a sense of empathy and a special connection with all things green. Her ability to communicate with trees and other living beings of the forest made her a part of it all. 💚


Photos & Copyright:  Eliza Rask Photography



Hän kävelee äänettömästi jäisiä polkuja, tanssahtelee, samalla kun lumihiutaleet laskeutuvat maahan. 💙

She walks the frozen paths without a sound, dance all around, while snowflakes touch the ground. 💙



Kiltteyttä sydämessään, hän hiljaa hoitaa nukkuvaa metsää alla kirkkaan ja kiiltävän lumen. 🌲

With kindness in her heart, she quietly takes care of the sleeping forest under the bright and shiny snow. 🌲



Laulut maan kirjoittaa muusikin hänen sieluunsa. 💙

The songs of the earth write the music in her soul. 💙



Kuiskaukset leijuvat ilmassa, kun Ildera kantaa sisällään kasvun voiman ja vihreyden, antaen metsän talvehtia. 🌿

Whispers float around the air as Ildera carries the power of growth and green within, letting the forest hibernate. 🌿


Peruukki | Hair: Wig is Fashion

Syvällä talvisessa metsässä voit löytää taikanomaisen paikan, minne Ildera Talven Hengetär lukitsee lehtivihreän, sen voiden kevään tullen jälleen kukoistaa. 🍃

Deep within the winter forest, you can find a magical place where Ildera the Winter Spirit locks away the evergreen for it to bloom again in the spring. 🍃



Kylmyyd ja uva täyttää taivaan jäisen maan, kun hän kuuntelee kuisketta puiden vanhojen, kärsivällisyyttä rakkaani, metsän uni ei kestä ikuisuuteen. ⚘

Chills and haze fill the sky in the freezing land, while she listens the whispers of old trees, patience my dear, the sleep of the forest does not last eternally. 



*Ildera ja hänen tarinansa on itse keksimääni fantasiaa, joka ei perustu mihinkään tarustoon tai kertomukseen. Luonto ja metsät ovat iso ja tärkeä osa elämääni ja tämä kuvasarja kertoo jostakin itselleni tärkeästä. Halusin sen jakaa teidän kanssa ja toivon, että siitä välittyy omia tunteitani tätä hyvin rakasta asiaa kohtaan~ ♥

*Ildera and her story is a fantasy made up by me, which is not based on any mythology or stories. Nature and forests are a great and important part of my life and this photo series tells about something important to me. I wanted to share it with you and hoping, that it shows you some of my own feelings towards this precious thing~ ♥

❤~ Saija Sasetar


Thursday, December 15, 2016

🌼 Story of a mori girl dress 🌼


Moikka söpöläiset 💛

Ensinnäkin, kiitos niin niin paljon rakkaat ja ihanaiset ihmiset kaikesta vertaistuesta ja tsempistä aiempaan postuakseen. Ootte aivan mahtavia! 💝 

Eilen tuli ihan metsän otus fiilis ja muuntauduin sitten tämmöiseksi luonnonlapseksi. Pukeuduin ensimmäistä kertaa kunnolla mun muokkaamaan kettu pellavamekkoon, mikä on ihanan pehmeä ja mukava päällä. Sain innostuksen tehdä myös pisamia, ne on niin söpöjä! Yleensä vaan ihmiset kenellä on pisamia, ei haluais niitä ja ne kenellä ei ole, niin haluais. Mulla on vähän nenässä, ne on näin talvella ihan haaleita kylläkin. Nyt teki mieli saada pisamanassu keskellä talvea, joten lähdin sitten testailemaan mitä saan aikaiseksi. (*^◡^*)


Hello cuties 💛

First of all, thank you so so much dearies and lovely people of all the love and support for the previous post. You are absolutely awesome! 💝

Yesterday I got a feeling to be a woodland creature and then I transformed into this kind of nature child. It was the first time properly dressing up into a fox linen dress I have altered. It's lovely and soft and comfy to wear. I got excited to do freckles as well, they are so cute! Usually people who have them, don't want them and those who don't have them, would like some. I have a little bit of them on my nose, they are quite pale though during winter. Now I felt like being a freckled girl in the middle of the winter, so I started to play and see what I can come up with. (*^◡^*)



Eilen oli siis morityttö päivä, rento metsäinen ja kerrostettu hippityttö-päivä. Oon siitä ennenkin sanonu, mutta mun mielestä mori girl -tyyli tai mori kei, eli metsätyttö tyyli on aivan ihanaa, koska se yhdistää luonnonläheistä hippimäistä keijutyyliä ja feminiinisiä röyhelöitä. Siinä yhdistyy mun kaksi ääripäätä, se puskassa hyppivä luontotyttö ja materiaalisesta kauneudesta pitävä asuilija. 

So yesterday was a mori girl day, a comfy wooded and layered hippie girl -day. I have said it before, but I think morigirl -style or mori kei or forest girl style is absolutely wonderful, because it combines nature-like faerie style and feminine frills. It's a combination of my two extremity, the nature girl frolicking in the bushes and the material beauty loving dress up girl.



Mun pellavainen kettumekko on alunperin UFF:n lastenpuolelta napattu pellavamekko kokoa 164 cm ja se maksoi hurjat 2€. Pikaisesti peilin edessä katselin, että kyllä se mahtuu päälla ja niin se lähti kotiin mukaan. Kotona kokeilin sitä päälle ja se ihan melkein istui hyvin, tarvitsisi vain pieniä muutoksia. Mekko odotteli hetken muiden ompelujuttujen seurassa, kunnes yksi päivä tyttäreni ollessa päiväkodissa otin mekon pikkuprojektiksi.

My linen foxdress is originally from a second hand shop's children's section a size 164 cm flax dress and it cost mighty 2€. Quickly looked in front of a mirror, that yeah it fits and so it came home with me. At home I tried it on and it was almost fitting well, just needed a little bit of altering. The dress was waiting for a while in the company of other sewing thingies, until one day when my daughter was in the daycare I started the dress as a little project.


Btw..if I could, I would always have bare feet. It's such freedom and I love it! 


Ennen & Jälkeen    ⇊ ⇊ ⇊ ⇊    Before & After







Ensin valitsin sopivan pitsin ja muut materiaalit. 

First I chose the suitable lace and other materials.

Sitten oli vuoro poistaa ei toivotut osat: vyö ja olkaimet. Vyö lähti helposti ratkojalla, sivuille jäi reijät, jotka ompelin sitten kiinni.

Then it was time to remove unwanted parts: the belt and shoulder straps. The belt and shoulder straps. The belt was easy to remove with seam ripper, there were holes left to the sides, of which I then fixed.








Olkaimien kanssa joutui ratkomaan useamman sauman ja huomasin, ettei sisäsaumaa ollut huoliteltu kunnolla. Sain senkin sitten fiksattua.

Had to unpick several seams for the shoulder stratps and noticed, that the inner seam was not done properly. Got to fix it too while was at it.

Mulla on järkyttävät kasat kankaita ja siellä seassa jämäpala tämmöistä vaaleaa puuvilla-pellavaa. Siitä leikkasin kaitaleen helmaan ja olkaimet.

I have enormous piles of fabric and there I had this leftover piece of cotton-linen. From that I cut a strip for the hemline and the shoulder straps

Olin saanut lahjaksi joskus kettunauhaa ja sehän sopi tähän täydellisesti! Sitä oli vieläpä sentilleen tasan se määrä, mitä käytin yläreunaan ja helmaan. Ei senttiäkään yli tai ali. 

I had gotten fox ribbon as a gift some time and it was perfect for this! There was even the precisely right amount, of which I used for the top and hemline. Not a centimeter more or less.

Kaikki nämä pienet muutokset mekko sai:


✿ Postettu vyö ja olkaimet
✿ Uudet olkaimet
✿ Yläreunaan kettunauha ja puuvillabrodyyri
✿ Alareunaan kettunauha, puuvillabrodyyri ja kangaskaitale
✿ Kavennusta vyötärölle


The dress got all of these little alterations:


✿ Removed belt and shoulder straps
✿ New shoulder straps
✿ Fox ribbon and cotton embroidery lace for the top
✿ Fox ribbon, cotton embroidery lace and a strip of fabric for the bottom
✿ Narrowing for the waist



Leikin samalla mun uusilla ihanuuksilla: Haltijakorva kuullokkeet !! 💖 
Olin ihan morityttö haltija metsäotus menninkäinen tai jotain sellaista. Haluisin pitää noita korvissa koko ajan. Ihan mahtava idea! Tein niistä vielä pienen hassun videonkin, jonka laitan youtubeen, kunhan saan sen editoitua. Mun kanava ja aiemmat videot löytyy >täältä<. (^-^)

I was also playing with my new lovelies: Elf ear headphones !! 💖
So  I was like a mori girl elf woodland creature or something like that. Would like to wear the ears all the time. Such a fabulous idea! I even made a little funny video about them, which I'll be posting on youtube, once I get it edited. My channel and previous videos are found >here<. (^-^)


❤~ Saija Sasetar

Thursday, November 3, 2016

✝ Dying gothic deer photoshoot with Askar Ibragimov ✝

© Askar Ibragimov

Enjoying a moment of harmony and silence. The last colors slowly fading away, taking me with them into an eternity of peace in the darkness.



Hello darlings ♥

This summer we did this photoshoot together with Askar Ibragimov. We've been taking about working together on something for a while now and it was left to my brain to plan something. I had been thinking about this dark deer-like photoshoot I would like to do. 

The story behind the idea is a sad deer all on its own. It has no companions, the home forest is empty and silent. Everything seems like dead. The world around the deer stands still in total quietness. The deer in lonely and sad, soon to be dying. There is no hope or happiness. The deer is till a mighty creature of the magical forest, saying goodbyes. 

This is a combination of depression, loneliness and being left out. Lots of my personal feelings. One thing that has influenced into this, is the fact that so many forests are being taken down for the benefit of humans. Finnish forests are especially dear to me and they are continuously building around my home city, in places they should not. There is this big area right next to where we live to be taken down for new apartment complexes, but there is this new big area being done just near here. There is no need to destroy a new piece of the forest! Especially when there are nests and routes of flying squirrels, that need to be protected! The city has just accepted the plans for the area, but some nature associations are trying to make a complaint about it. Sorry for rambling about this so much, just red new turns about this and it made me very sad and angry. Nature protection is something I'm very passionate about. 


© Askar Ibragimov
 Feeling like falling, losing my grip, leaving behind. The isolation of being an outsider. Surrounded by darkness. The part where happiness came from seems to be locked away. The hole is getting deeper. The light barely seen anymore.

© Askar Ibragimov
Dance with the hidden language of the forest. 🍃

© Askar Ibragimov
| Horns: Deadfine.fi | Hair: Wig is fashion | Necklace: H&M |
| Blouse: Fan plus friend | Skirt: Corset story | Circle lenses: Uniqso |

© Askar Ibragimov

Behind the scenes

 Before and after photoshoot selfies~ ^_^

© Askar Ibragimov

We had an assistance with the light by a friend of the photographer. She really had to work to get the light to stay up. The place where we shot is a wide power line in the middle of the forest and there was some wind and that big of a hing definitely grabs the wind. 

We played with some corn syrup fake blood as well. It was super sticky and had all sorts of tiny pieces from the forest stuck in them! We tried to get this one shot of me lying in the ground, but I haven't really decided if the end result is working or not. Gotta give it time. For now it will stay unshown. Btw I got so many damn mosquito bites from this trip! They just love my blood. Think I counted 16 ones from my other ankle and leg only! They swell up a lot and are super itchy for a long time, at least a week, but usually longer. 


 Always goofing around and making faces, yup, that's me! x)


Let me know if you have any thoughts about this set,
would love to hear them! ♡

❤~ Saija Sasetar


Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Elvenpath ✣ Fantasy elven photoshoot


Hearing music from the deepest forest
Songs as a seduction of sirens
The elf-folk is calling me

Tapio, Bearking, Ruler of the forest
Mielikki, Bluecloak, Healer of the ill and sad
Open the gate and let me follow the uncarven path



It's the honesty of these worlds
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past



The moonwitch took me to a ride on a broomstick
Introduced me to her old friend Home Gnome
Told me to keep the sauna warm for him

At the grove I met rest-the folk of my fantasies
Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies,
Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarfs
The path goes forever on



As I return to my room
And as sleep takes me by my hand
Madrigals from the woods
Carry me to neverland
In this spellbound night
The world's an elvish sight

~ Nigtwish - Elvenpath



Photography by Pii Photo

Wig: Wig is Fashion  |  Dress: Topshop  |  Hairjewelry: H&M

❤~ Saija Sasetar