They opened a new shopping center here in Oulu yesterday. The center is located next to the new Bauhaus store, about 6 km south from the city center. In addition to a relatively large car dealer, there are two home electronics stores, two kitchen-specialized stores, a paper and crafts store, art and frame shop, Marimekko store and Iittala Outlet.

Of course, we had to go and see the place with our own eyes last night, and also check out the opening sales they were offering. Because I’m a tech geek and nerd, I wanted to visit the Verkkokauppa.com store, but Katja was more into Iittala Outlet. I have to admit that I was pretty impressed with the quantity of different glass and china dishes! Most of the stuff aren’t first class quality but there are small defects, like tiny air bubbles in the glass. (Sorry about the picture quality, my camera phone isn’t the greatest.)

There were enormous color selection of the Iittala Kivi candle holders at Iittala Outlet.

I haven’t ever seen this many Moomin mugs at the same time!

More Moomin items (post cards) were found at Gallerix, a Swedish art and frame shop.

The Marimekko store was kind of a disappointment because it was just like all the other Marimekko stores here, except little larger and more spacious. Marimekko should open outlet store too!