What about me?

How are you going to remember me on my 100th birthday? To honor Tapio Wirkkala, Iittala reproduced a beautiful glass vase Wirkkala designed. Not bad. I bought a brown one on sale (couldn't resist) and I'd still love to get the slim green (or grey) one, too. So if you get an urgent need to buy me something, you'll know what to get :)

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 know

Yes, we have enough coffee cups already! But the new Issey Miyake cups for Iittala (link) were so beautiful we just couldn't resist buying new morning coffee cups for ourselves. Pink for me and green for the husband (couldn't have guessed this one without saying, now could you :).

Short fuse

I am no good at collecting. I need to have everything right away. Case in point: Klaus Haapaniemi designed Tanssi wall decorations for Arabia and I kind of wanted to buy all four at once. They were a bit too expensive and I decided to wait for awhile. Then, just after Christmas, Sokos in Helsinki sold these with 40 % off the price. I bought one (my husband thought they were still too expensive). Then, a week later, Sokos made an offer of 30 % off from the reduced price. This I just couldn't resist and bought the three I didn't yet have. So...it took me all of an week to create the collection. It is a good thing I don't collect diamonds..

Summer drinks

As every drink needs its own glass we started to look for some nice glasses for this summer's ouzo drinks. These Oiva Toikka's Flora glasses are perfect: a thin glass with fun floral ornaments, the icy ouzo will taste better than ever this summer!

Magic for the kitchen

We have Iittala's Taika (Magic) crockery at home. Now there are even drinking glasses and we bought them for Vårkulla. The "new" picture is a loan from Iittala's homepage at www.iittala.fi.

New from Iittala

I just had to tell you about this...Iittala has a new light that is absolutely beautiful. If you want to buy me a present, this would be great :)

More information www.iittala.fi