Award!

I've been awarded! Sitruuna from sisustusta ja sitruunoita and Anna from Chocolate & Capri blue passed on the award 'You Make My Day' to me. Thanks girls, you really made and make my day ;)



The rules say, that I should give this award to 10 people whose blogs bring me happiness, inspiration and make me feel happy about blogland. There are so many blogs that I enjoy reading, so therefore I want to give this award to all of you bloggers! Keep up the good work ;)

Let's Celebrate!

KARTIO GLASS SERIE

Happy Birthday Kartio! Iittala's Kartio glass serie was designed by Kaj Franck in 1958 for everyday use. An essential part of his original idea was that the colors should be mixed. The form of the glass is simple and pure and is therefore easy to combine with any dinner set. Kartio is celebrating its 50th birthday. Can you believe it?

Kartio glass, new color: turquoiseblue.

BLACK IS BACK WITH FRIENDS

Have you been missing Black Teema tableware? Well, now you can dry your tears, because Iittala brings Black Teema back in production. Four pieces will find their way to stores in black and they are plate 21 cm, big and small bowls and a mug.

Black Teema bowl.

And the black friends are:

Origo

Aalto vase

Mariskooli

The Enlightenment

While netsurfing last week, I came across this lamp in the form of a book. If you are a book lover I think this could be THE thing in your bookshelf.

Not a heavy book, a light book! 'Inspired by bestseller such as the Bible, Koran and Thora, we designed an object for lighting and enlightment. A book as a light. A light as a book: The Enlightenment' says Studiomeiboom. Studiomeiboom has launched the 'Light up your world' project which plans to throw a new light on a world famous designs.

The Enlightenment is made of white plexiglas, 24 cm high, 17 cm wide and 8 cm deep and is supplied with a 9 watt energy-saving lamp. It costs 89 € with 10 % of the sales going to charity. Every purchase brings a bit more light!

Panic!

My brother decided to take a little break from the renovation and went for a little holiday to London, He'll be back on sunday. He was kind enough to ask me if I want him to bring me something. Hmm... what would it be? Something small and cheap! Oh my, I think I'm running out of time. He'll be back home before I know what I want...

Well, I did ask him to bring me Tord Boontje's black Garland light from Habitat because it's so cheap, only £ 14,40. I already have the silver one in my bedroom so I actually don't know where to put this one, but girl's got to have it!



But what else...

Can You See?

When was the last time you had your eyesight checked? Can you read the last line? Take a closer look!

Innervision mirror by Gavin Coultrip for Thorsten van Elten. On close inspection, the letters spell well-known phrase by Oscar Wilde "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances". There is also another one available with a phrase "To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance".

Kitchen Disaster!

Imagine getting a brand new kitchen. A beautiful and expensive kitchen (at least for your budjet). Those doors, cabinets and kitchen appliances you'll be looking many years after... Then the disaster happens, when the kitchen arrives and the work begins, just about everything goes wrong...

This is what has happened with my brothers new kitchen. Here are only few examples.

My brother ordered a cooking hood cupboard with a door because he didn't want the hood to stand out from the kitchen. (The kitchen opens to livingroom and the whole livingroom/kitchen space is small).

This is what he ordered, this is how the cupboard with cooking hood should look when you open the door...

This is how the cupboard looks now in my brothers kitchen... Can you see the similarity because we can't... There are bits and pieces missing and there is a huge hole on top of it that shouldn't even exist.

And what about the kitchen sink then? Well... the sink is wrong, of course, and it takes more than five weeks to get a new one. My brother ordered a sink with a faucet hole in it but now there's a sink with a hole on the counter, 1+1=wrong sink. How on earth my brother can get water out of this tap when there is now way to open it. Well, I think the photo will speak to itself.

Make a wild guess what are my brothers feelings and thoughts right now!!! I think my feelings and thoughts are quite alike...

Sorry, about the bad quality of the photos ;)

New Year...

Happy New Year 2008 to everyone! I've been a bit busy these last few days and haven't got the time to update my blog, but here I am again.

I have a very good news to tell you if you are into finnish design. Chad from Finnstyle send me email and told that they have a huge after christmas clearence sale going on. Finnstyle sells many finnish brands like Aarikka, Artek, Iittala, Marimekko, Tonfisk Design and many more... Have a look at Finnstyle.com and hurry, sale ends soon!

Marimekko Fandango Holiday Serving Plate. List Price $20, Sale $12

Aalto Finlandia Blueberry Vase -10". List Price $135, Sale $85