Over here in Finland we call Valentine’s Day ystävänpäivä and it’s more about celebrating friendship than it’s about romantic love. Either way, both are worthy of celebrating! We wish you a wonderful Valentine’s Day weekend and thank you for your friendship. See you next week!
‘I Love You’ letterpress card by pistachio press and Squirrel Love photographic print by Wren & Chickadee.
Just a quick post to let you know that today you can find us at Etsy’s The Storgue as Guest Curators! You know how much we love all things Etsy so we were thrilled to have the opportunity to share our favorites finds with everyone. We hope that you like our picks! You can find more of our Etsy favorites in the Etsy -category on our blog.
Click here to check out our Guest Curator gig! Thank you Alison and Etsy for the fun opportunity!
New art in the house! Moon Lake print by Betsy Walton is my latest Etsy purchase (a Happy New Years! -gift to myself) and I love it, it’s just simply perfect. I have been kicking myself for not ordering her wonderful Bathing Beauties print when it was still available in her Etsy shop so I knew not to make the same mistake again and wait too long this time. How about you, have you bought new art lately? Or even better, made some?
Brrr, it’s cold out there! -28C (-18.4 Fahrenheit), and it only promises to get colder tomorrow… Anyway, didn’t mean to talk about the weather today but to share a better look at the newish art wall that I showed you earlier. It’s a collection of art prints from Etsy, postcards, art made by a friend and collages by me. I really like how it gives the small (and otherwise boring) upstairs landing a nice function as a little gallery space. The small rug is a recent find, it was only 5 Euro at a sale.
December can get a bit crazy with all the Christmas preparations and visits and traveling, shopping and making gifts, projects ending at school or at work, and just the general end of the year busyness, but thankfully January is quite the opposite. All the holiday celebrations behind us it feels wonderful to get back into the everyday life. The new year always feels like a fresh start, a good time to re-evaluate and re-organize your life a bit, maybe even make some resolutions (whether you keep them or not). We have thought about some goals for this year, and the biggest one is to get our home more organized. Our home is small, the rooms are quite tiny and the ceilings low so it can all look very cluttered very quickly, so everything needs to have their own place.
We also have some planning to do this year – we still have many projects (the stairs, the basement, the front and back yards, and lots of smaller projects around the apartment) left to do, we just have to sit down and figure out how we want to do them and how much it will cost and in what order we should get to them. We won’t have the budget to do all of them in 2010 but it’s good to map them out anyway.
A little New Year’s wishlist: Time and Space print set from My Folk Lover, mouse pad from Shim + Sons, metal bowl from Niki Jones, Archive boxes from Muji, masking tape from LemonTree, Ikea PS Sticka blanket from Ikea, Block lamp from Design House Stockholm and Ginkgo in Snow & Olive fabric from Ink & Spindle.
