It's getting crowded

We have found a lot of stuff for the shop museum during the summer and it is getting a bit crowded in the museum corner. We really need some new shelves but haven't yet found any that please the eye.

For an easy life

You gotta love shrubs. They need no care and still look beautiful from spring to autumn. At the cottage I realized a bit late the lure of shrubs but at Vårkulla I have been the wiser and there are lots of shrubs and more to come. You just have to be careful not to include too many variegated ones as they might look a bit restless. But a few are just fine.

A thousand apples a day

There has been a lot of apples this year. Most of them are half eaten by birds / worms / rondents but some are quite beautiful. At least from one side they look perfect and make a nice picture :)

Office work

The collector's life is a lot of fun. We found a 40's folder in near perfect condition in a flea market. This is a great addition to our shop museum's back office...which doesn't even exist yet but someday our shop museum will have two rooms. And then the imaginary shopkeeper has a great folder to file his/her papers away. Of course we had to stage a temporary office in the shop to take a few photos.

Not all diamonds are forever

I watered the flowers on Friday and the ornamental kale still had this beautiful "water diamond" in this morning.

Great design for reasonable prices

You never know what you'll find in fleamarkets. My husband saw this lamp in Loviisa's market place (there are always one or two flea market tables there on Saturdays) and bought it straight away. The design is very modern, you'll find brand new lamps that are almost excactly like this one except the quality is not as great. The lamp is perfect for our living room as we needed more light on the table and there is no use putting up ceiling lights before the room is renovated.

A day as a tourist

We had a great day! First we toured Porvoo's fleamarkets, cafes and the little chocolate factory (guess if we bought anything...). After that we visited Malmgård estate (link...), got a tour by the current owner count Creutz and afterwards shopped in the estate's foodie heaven. We bought flours, pasta, rice made from spelt grains and beer.