My kingdom

There is something of a little girl still left in me even if I'm now officially middle-aged. I just love everything princessy...Yesterday I found a Swedish princess coffee tin and the little booklet I have bought for the shop museum ages ago. And with anything with princesses, pink goes more than well.

Treasure box

I know it is too early to start decorating for Christmas. But I bought some new glass bubbles and just couldn't hide them in the closet. In the old coffee box they don't look too Christmassy, more like some oriental treasures...or at least I think so.

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).

Shopping for the museum

As you might remember I plan to open the smallest shop museum in Finland some day. We found a couple of items from a Porvoo flea market on Saturday. Perfect for the museum collection!

Morning coffee

Good morning everybody. We found new coffee tins to brighten up your morning coffee.

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.

New classics

You may have noticed that we collect old tins. Well, we also collect new ones as they will be old someday, won't they? the new ones have to be somewhat special, I don't buy every new tin I see (couldn't afford it even if I wanted to).

From Sweden with love

We have collected coffee tins for some time and so far they have all been Finnish. This one is from Sweden but we have to get it for the beautiful 50's design.

Coffee, anyone?

We have tried to find old coffee tins but most of them are Paulig's basic ones with red background. This one is a bit different...