There posts are about anything we’ve bought for our home.
An American indie electro pop band Uh Huh Her released their first album on August 19th. I pre-ordered the album during the summer, and finally today the CD arrived. The cover was signed and the package also included a signed photograph. The only disappointment is that my name is spelled wrong in the photo.
If I had a study, I’d frame the photo and hang it on the wall. For now, I’ll keep it above my desktop computer.
Here is what we brought home from our impulse trip to Ikea today. The succulent, a white Kapa plant pot (close up above) and a Jorun cushion cover (below).
These days our livingroom is very green+white, my favorite color combination. But I just realized now looking at this picture that this corner of the livingroom is mostly stuff from Ikea! The sofa, the small table, the rug, the plant pot, the plant, some of the picture frames on the wall and the lamp and the chairs in the background. All from Ikea! We love Ikea but we don’t want to decorate our whole home only with Ikea. We do have a lot of other stuff too, mainly trift store finds and furniture we have inherited from relatives, but looking at this picture you would think that we only own things from Ikea!
The vintage Arabia leaf bowl looks great next to the new pillow.
I made some great finds today at a local store that sells vintage ceramics and china. I bought a small Arabia ‘Bellis’ plate and a tiny Arabia bowl shaped like a leaf. The bowl and the patterning on the plate are both such lovely shades of green and they’re in good condition so as soon as I saw them in the store I knew I had to have them. They’re my little treat to myself since today I was offered a really nice temp job. It’ll be nice to be working again!
I don’t know yet if I’ll hang the plate on the wall (I love all those lovely plate walls people have in their homes, like this one for example) or if I put it under a plant in the livingroom.
I also bought this Metsänväki postcard (designed by Kristina Isola) from Marimekko and put in on the living room wall. More lovely greens!
For the whole summer, I’ve been obsessing about netbooks. I have spent dozens of hours reading about the old, new and up-coming models. Surprisingly, after several monologues of trying to convince her, Katja agreed that a netbook (mini-sized laptop that is meant mainly for web use and e-mail) would be kind of nice to have around the house. We are planning to use our new baby at home (e.g., on the sofa) and on the move (on the beach, in the park and during trips). A netbook is a great and mobile option for someone who’s looking for a device for e-mail checking, web surfing and light text processing. A netbook also offers entertainment in a form of games, videos and music.
[nerd jargon] First, I was after a brand new Asus Eee PC model 901 with 8.9″ screen, Intel Atom processor and 20 GB of storage space, but, on last Thursday, I ended up getting an older 701 model with 7″ screen, Intel Mobile Celeron processor and 4 GB of storage space. [/nerd jargon] 701 wasn’t nowhere near as expensive (toy) as the 901 would have been, so I bought that one instead. Netbooks, regardless of the technology inside the chassis, are not capable of replacing “a real computer” so, in my opinion, it doesn’t matter if the processor is not the newest of kind or the screen is a tad smaller than in the other model. Netbooks are always mini-sized laptops.
As you can see from the picture above, our Eee PC is very small. It is 22.5 cm wide and 16.5 cm deep. The height is some where around three centimeters. This netbook weighs about 920 grams. It fits into almost any purse or bag and it’s easy to take along. In addition to all other features, it looks very pretty on our new IKEA side table!
Today I bought this book called Mitä teet viikonloppuna? (= Any plans for the weekend?) by Finnish artist Jenni Rope. I just recently found her work but I’m already a fan. I’ve had my eye on this book for some time now but I’m happy I didn’t buy it earlier since it was on sale now for only 6€!
Even Lissu is interested in reading the book. The last page says: “If I can’t get sleep I take a hot shower with two pieces of chocolate in my mouth. How about you?”