The feeling of home

You have to wander around our home (except my office room) and you will understand how much of an artist, my dear wife, Annikki is.

Everything has a correct place. The detail is exquisite. It is so fine that one wonders how her brain works.

Yesterday, as I sat in the living room, not really watching anything on the TV, I glanced around the room. It was so beautiful.

I decided to record it on my digital camera. With the flash off, I could not capture the detail I wanted to. So I am giving below a series of shots taken with the flash (hence the light reflections) as I looked around just one room in our home.

It is like sitting in heaven!















Three diverse items of her personal art creations, the chalk sketch of the trees on an island with its reflection in the lake, the crayon drawing of the grazing zebras and the hand-stitched creation of the zebras bottoms which she made for my mother. The last item took over seven months to finish and it adorned my mother's living room till she died.

But there are many more handiworks from Annikki's collection on display here, too incricate for a non-artistic brain of mine to describe. Of course, our collection of art glass, crystal and really beautiful modern glass creations are also found at different locations, each complimenting the other.

Usually friends who walk into our house are stunned by the sheer grandeur, but they do not know that almost 95% of the stuff is from the Flea Markets around Oulu!

And this is just our living room.

I shall take you round other rooms in a day or two - except that Annikki must not catch me taking the photographs, as she would never allow me to put them up on the internet if even one detail is not exactly as she wants it!