New sofa!

Did I tell you that we've ordered a sofa! Finally! It's from Danish Karup and it's a futon sofa bed, linen coloured. It's perfect and hopefully coming soon.

Himalayan

Winter. Silent blog and just being inside, reading books, sauna, dreaming and sleeping. And just now I bumped into these weird shoes from Camper that somehow are quite interesting. I don't know if I really want these or if I really hate these...

Flora & Laura

I just surfed into the coolest flower shop ever: Flora & Laura! A flower shop that doesn't really exist but that makes beautiful flowers stylings. This ticks all the boxes in my florist-graphic designer-gardener heart.

Perfect things for home

After moving into a new apartment we've noticed that we need a kitchen table and benches and a couch. A hunt for the perfect ones has begun and we have had few candidates. But today I bumped into these in Japanese Hiromatsu online shop: Cielo couch and Gala table! P-E-R-F-E-C-T! Too bad that I think these are custom-made and delivered only in Japan...

Made from Cool

I love these Jack & Jones' advertisement videos. Christopher Walken is so cool and great and these videos are just AWESOME! These also remind me of my grandma who was a dressmaker and she had all the same sewing things that you can see on these clips.

Landet Järna

I just found the most perfect flower shop I've ever seen! Landet Järna in Sweden is specialized in wild flowers and it follows the seasons with their collection of flowers. It also uses the locally grown flowers. I've been wanting something like this in Finland too. Maybe someday. Or maybe I should move to Sweden...

Found via Emmas designblogg

Corkigami chair

I really like this idea of a chair by Carlos Ortega Design: making 3D things of 2D materials. Makes me want to fold papers into things the whole day!

Found via Cool Hunting

Pi

I love mathematics! Especially when it's visualized. Because it's actually visualized everywhere you look. Omg, I could talk about the beauty of mathematics for so long...

So I love these data visualizations by Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski. These are Pi and other mathematical numbers. Gorgeous!

Ukki

Ukki means grandfather in Finnish. And today I got something from my Ukki. He died a long time ago so this gift has kind of been waiting for me. When I was born, he opened a bank account with 1000 Finnish marks. And that was 28 years ago! The deal was this: when I turn 18 years old, I would have to buy jewel for myself so that I could remember my grandfather forever.

I turned 18 and then a bit more but I just couldn't buy just any jewel. I wanted it to be special and I wanted to figure out what's my style. So that I could wear the jewel every day. Then I had to get the money out of the account and luckily my dad found the original bank receipt and a note from my Ukki (a note that I haven't ever seen before).

And today is the day! About a month ago I went to a local jewelry designer, korus DESIGN, and he made me the most beautiful pendant that reminds me of my Ukki. The bigger stone is obsidian, which is basically naturally occurring volcanic glass, and the smaller is tourmaline. Now I have my Ukki with me all the time.

Paper bags?

Is it paper or is it fabric? These Funagata waxed canvas bags (from here) look so amazingly like paper! 

Found via Design Squish Blog

Ricoh GX200

Camera family is growing again! I bought myself a smaller camera: Ricoh GX200! It's used but in a good condition and ticks all my boxes. I've noticed that I'm just too lazy to carry my big boy Pentax K-5 with me all the time. But I still want to carry a camera in my bag. And I like if it's quiet. And it takes cool, a bit tinted and very high in contrast photos. And look how old-fashioned and nostalgic it looks! Perfect for me!

Linen sheets

Lately I've had some strange sleeping problems. Waking up all the time and then I just cannot get to sleep anymore. Z blames the moon, I don't know what to blame. But it's a good time to think about sleeping (which I love) and bed. For a while now I've been dreaming about linen sheets! I've been hunting linen fabric (to make my own sheets) or just the perfect sheets from somewhere. Any recommendations (Mom, who is your linen dealer)? Still hunting.

Hypnopompic

These textile designs by Kustaa Saksi are just amazing! His exhibition Hypnopompic is now at Korjaamo and it looks very interesting.

Photos from here and here.

Stormtrooper

Look what I got from my little brother! A wooden stormtrooper! I love it! And it was our good luck charm while roadtripping.

PRISM

I love this table by Fredrik Paulsen. Especially the way he has dyed the wood surface! This makes me want to test wood dyeing, now please.

Sale founds and others

I've treated myself another gift because I found a cute little dress from the Marimekko's summer sale: Laiturilla dress. It arrived yesterday and I feel like Little My (from the Moomins) in the summertime when I'm wearing it. 

Another treat is inspired by my kitchen fanatic boyfriend who insisted that I have to stop poisoning myself with my teflon frypan. So he suggested that I should buy this traditional La Lyonnaise steel frypan which is a bit of a professional stuff. But after it arrived yesterday and of course Z wanted to test drive it (my job was to get rid of the old teflon frypan), I'm convinced that is the best frypan I've ever had! 

So quality at first is my new motto!

Taped

These porcelain cups by Studio PS are so great! And the colours so fruity and dreamy!

Found via this is paper magazine

Clogs from Stockholm

I just got these beautiful clogs! These are a birthday present for me from my Mom! Thank you thank you! I ordered them from Lotta From Stockholm and the clogs feel so good when walking. And look so good too!

Babylon light

Mixing plants and design, yeah! I love this lamp by Object Interface.

Found via More Design Please.

Sauna things by Marimekko

Last day at work before Midsummer! And the only thing I wish for it is the chance to go to a sauna. And these new Marimekko towels and clothes are so cool I would want to have them all.