Retro heaven

I love 60's teak stuff. This lamp was without a shade but we found a perfect fit from Hemtex. Even my husband liked the pink colour as it goes very well with the brown and bronze.

Just what I need

It is a hot day for heavy gardening. If it were the 60's I could take a sip of Sinalco and get on with shoveling refreshed.

The games you play

Every real card player needs (60's) drink glasses and an ashtray with playing card motives.

Just to make sure

If you have problems waking up, just get a couple of alarm clocks and problem is solved! These three are USA made General Electrics clocks from the 60's.

Cute as a kitten

It's rather hard to find 50's/60's chocolate boxes that are in a good enough condition for the shop museum (but don't cost too much). This Panda's box from around the 60's was a good catch.

Not a sweatshop any more

I am a big fan of our new fan :) We found a 60's Durch fan that is in a perfect working order and looks great. I am sure the shopkeeper had just one like it in our shop during the 60's!

Coloured glass, one more once more

You may have noticed that I collect colored glass...my latest find is a beautiful red bottle from around the 60's by Riihimäen lasi. Usually red glass is too expensive for me but while this bottle wasn't exactly cheap it wasn't too pricy, either.

Now I'll (always) need one more

The eternal trouble with collecting: we first bought one Scheurich vase from around the late 60's. Then we found one more. As a really good vignette needs odd numbers, we started to search for one more. Well, we found one...but then we found another one and now we have four and would need a fifth to make the vignette look good again. As these vases are rather cheap and I just love them, it was not an option not to buy the fourth one. Just guess, what'll happen right after I'll find the fifth one...well, the more the merrier.

All that is missing is the summer

Last weekend was a great one as we found a lot of stuff for picnics next summer. The lunch box is a beauty and we are sure to never go hungry again if we fill this to the tilt. We also bought a "new" picnic table - we already have one but it doesn't have enough chairs, the newest has four so we might invite some frieds to picnic with us. Just wait for the invitation!

Bon voyage!

Now we have everything we need for summer trips: a suitcase, a small radio, a 60's road map and a nail kit (can't travel without a nail kit, now can you?).

The map and nail kit are from Villähteen kylähullu (link), a great vintage store.

I love shopping (in flea markets)

This was a great summer vacation day! We visited Hämeenlinna and bought a lot of stuff for the shop museum. Here are some of the items: hair water, leather paints, coffee tins etc. I love the 50's chair as I need one when I keep the shop and museum open - I don't want to stand the whole day and it is nicer to sit in a chair from the right era :)

In addition to the finds above, we are especially glad that we found an old shop coffee grinder from the 50's/early 60's (photo follows on a later day). I found it when I browsed tori.fi in the car when driving to Hämeenlinna.

In addition to visiting several flea markets, we also visited an adorable shop museum in Janakkala; the Hyvikkälän kauppamuseo. We strongly recommend for you to visit there too! Here is the link to their Facebook page, link.

I need some shelves

We have found a lot of stuff for the shop museum and now I guess we'll need to build some shelves as the drawers of the counter are getting full. Great! Below are the latest finds (from yesterday).

Waiting for a picnic

As we now have a 60's car, we of course needed a picnic table to go with it. Thanks once again to tori.fi, we found a 60's folding table. So Ruukki picnic (link), here we come! By the way, when you have an old car you really should have a picnic lunch with you where ever you go as the trip might not go quite as planned. And then it is nice to have a table and chairs, too - I am not willing to sit in a car without air-conditioning (waiting for help if the car doesn't work).

Rational thoughts

How do you make decisions? Everybody knows that you shouldn't buy a house by judging it's yard/garden (we did, twice). And I guess the most important thing when buying a car isn't the perfect colour or that it looks great. Well...our new baby has passed inspection during May this year and the motor kind of runs so it's ok to make a decision based on cuteness, isn't it? The colour is cream, in the photo the car looks a bit too white. So picture it as a cream one and it is just perfect! The Opel Kadett was in production from 1962 to 1965 and was registered for use in 1966 and has had only one owner (a restaurant help) before the guy who sold it to us bought it. So we are the third (happy) owners.

Who grants you a good time?

You'll get one guess :)

Iittala's (Tapio Wirkkala's) Gaissa glasses we have had for ages but the tray is "new".

I love pink!

We got two pretty little pink (or violet) 60's glasses from my mother-in-law. Lovely!

More and more

I guess you are already bored with my tins but here are a few more. I just love orange and it seems that people loved it in the fiftie´s and sixtie´s, too.

Good forks are hard to find

We have Hackman's Memory flatware in Vårkulla and as the series is discontinued, we need to find the smaller utensils from other series. But nothing seems to please my eye. For serving salmon and herring etc. we found these small forks for an euro - they look cute and the price was right so finally, result.

Have a sip of Apsi

The last weekend was a good one for finds at flea markets. This one we bought from tori.fi and had to drive to Kotka in a terrible icy snowfall. Sinebrychoff made the non carbonated lemonade in 60's. The metal advert cost a little more than we are usually prepared to pay, but I think it was still worth the price (and ride) as I have never seen one like it.

Green leaves

For home I love the 1960's muddy colors. We found this Uppsala-Ekeby plate for a song in a flea-market in Kotka. It is by Sven-Erik Skawonius.