I need more orange

These two cigarette tins we found in flea market last weekend are colourwise suitable for spring.

Better now than then

The old Rettig cigarette tin looks rather romantic when photographed on a table cloth with roses. We know for sure that someone has smoked these cigarettes in Vårkulla as we found a broken tin when renovating the back yard. It was nice to find the same tin in mint condition - the plate is really thin so I guess many of these have not survived through the years.

At least it is not too late

I decorated for Easter in the weekend. I know, it is not time yet but the tables seemed so empty after I put away the Christmas decorations and I wanted to have colour (there is none outside, only white and grey). My Easter decoration means eggs and more eggs, I don't have any yellow birds and things like that so the concept of early Easter decoration in our house is not as scary as it sounds...

It's all about Christmas

We have been collecting cigarette tins for a some time now. My husband asked me yesterday if we should put all the red ones on the show for Christmas. A good idea, even cigarette tins can be Christmassy if they are red :)

Yazy, anyone?

We bought a cigarette tin yesterday for three euros. The tin was filled with dices and of course we had to play a game or two of yazy. I lost. It must be because of the white dice, next time we'll play with a set of red ones and I will be a winner for sure. 

Art for table

I bought this ashtray for our outdoor table. Not to be used as an ashtray but for decoration. A boy lounging in a pool shaped like a shell. Perfect decoration for summer days.

Tins and stuff

Our cigarette tin collection grows a little every month. Maybe I'll put some of the tins on the show to our museum when it opens :) (read more about the museum here, link)

The tins are on a flower pillar that we bought in the beginning of the summer. We got it cheap as the pillar was missing a top. We bought a metal cake stand from Ikea and it's top fitted the pillar perfectly. We just need to paint it black but as we have worked a lot in the garden, we haven't yet have the energy to do the smaller renovations...and once again, when I say we I mean my husband...

Eastern realism

Our newest cigarette tin is from Sarajevo - a factory is a factory, there is no reason to beautify it. But I like the colours!

But where to put the plates?

I bought this shelf for plates. But then we started collecting cigarette and candy tin boxes and before you knew there were more tins than plates on the shelf.