Looking good

I made this brussel sprout/cold-smoked reindeer/walnut/cream cheese/lingonberry pie on Saturday. We chosed to take the picture before putting the pie in the oven. It looked good enough to eat :) The pie tasted ok but it was more of a novelty than a recipe to try again and fall in love with. The recipe was from the January number of "Glorian ruoka ja viini".

The most amazing thing about this pie is that we were driving through Kymenlaakso area and had to visit five stores before we found the sprouts We first tried Kausala's K-market and Kausala's S-market, then Kuusankoski's Lidl and Kuusankoski's S-market and finally found what we wanted in Citymarket in Kouvola's Veturi.

Glass and paper

I collect beautiful glass vases and art glass. And now it seems that I collect paper baubles, too. I bought this big one for home and I guess it will be in the living room long after Christmas.

Nice place to have your home in

We live in an elevator shaft. Really, we do. Our living room used to be a shaft and there is still the elevator meter on the wall as a proof.

Light up your home (or hair)

Of course we have candles at home, too. We bought these candle holders about 15 years ago. They used to stand behind our dining table at one of our previous homes -not a good idea as I almost burned my hair once.

Something to remind us of the countryside

These two hang out on our living room cabinet and remind us about the life in the country. Of course there are not ceramic, flower covered piggies there, never mind the stone lambs, but you get the idea, don't you.

Polish the balls

This is just a normal command at our house :) These glass balls hang from the ceiling light and they get dusty and you need to polish them every now and then.

As I already told you

I love books...I have them everywhere...these are at home in the living room and I have more of them in every other room, at Vårkulla and at the cottage.