Working for peanuts

You need beautiful cups for eating peanuts, don't you? We found the perfect ones when visiting Iittala's outlet in Arabia. These are from Rörstrand (Svenska rödlistan -series).

Mother's little helper

I don't even (want to) remember how hard it was to move gravel without our dear mr Ferguson. We are now tackling the second level of the garden and without the tractor it would take ages. Well, with it, it still takes ages...

Flowers and sunshine

Even though the winter was really wet, all my tulips survived and now there is more color than ever in the garden.

I love pink!

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

Just in time

In this year I managed to use all the berries in the fridge before the new crop arrives. I don't much care for baking anymore so more often than not I still have some blueberries lurking in the fridge in the end of the summer.

Back to school

Ms Ebba Masalin illustrated the most amazing educational (plant) boards for Finnish schools in the 30's and 40's. New productions can be bought in Taito Shop (link...). They are rather beautiful but the originals are even better as the colours are much deeper. The tins here are of new production, too. The whole product serie is new in fact, there were no tins with Ebba's illustrations when she was alive. I think she would have loved these, the colours and design are quite beautiful. I saw the new productions in one magazine or another and first wanted to have a table runner with Ebba's design (new product line this, too). Luckily I went to Taito Shop in Helsinki to see the product instead ordering the thing online right away. I was a bit disappointed as the supposedly black background seemed blue, not black. So the runners stayed in the shop and I bought two boards and the four tins instead.

I can, can't I?

The first of May decorations are not only for the first of May, are they? I could have them outside for at least a week, couldn't I?