Win Iittala/Arabia Finland Dinner set for 6!

The most beautiful Christmas table setting competition is open to all lovers of Arabia & Iittala Tableware. You can win your favourite Arabia or Iittala dinnerware set for six! Make a table setting that inspires & looks like you, if possible use Iittala & Arabia products. Upload a photo of table setting in our Facebook page and you're in the race. We will publish all the photos in our Facebook page and the picture who gets the most votes will be the winner of the dinner service. The contest is valid 1.12.2011-6.1.2012. The winner will be published on 7.01.2012.

House Doctor Candle Decoration

(photo: House Doctor)

If you have not found the perfect candle holder from House Doctor this might inspire you. The box gives a lot of decoration opportunities and you can easily get a new expression for next years Christmas!

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Black Friday

What is Black Friday? A traditional event in the United States and thanks to the Internet, a growing global e-commerce trend. With Black Friday the holiday shopping season is opened officially by launching promotions and special offers.

In Artic Design Black Friday will be celebrated with 24 hours of discounts: -10% on everything + special offers during the day. Stay updated about the offers and follow us on Facebook.

Stylish home in Sweden

I found these pictures of this gorgeus apartment from the Alvhem site. You can see that in the styling of the apartment have been used many famous design items such as the Flower table from Swedese, the Norm 69 lamp from Normann Copenhagen, the Aalto vases, Acapulco chair and Componibili from Kartell.

Christmas card shopping

This year I wanted to be on time to send out Christmas cards so today I´ve been surfing on Etsy to find some pretty cards and these 3 are my favourites so far:

Hand Screenprinted Christmas Cards - Charcoal & Red

Christmas Card Set - Kraft Snowflake

Christmas Card Set - Red and Gold Ornament Snowflake

Which one is your favourite?

DIY: A butterfly tree

Make your own butterfly tree! I found these DIY instructions for this spectacular butterfly tree from Stylizimo blog and if I´d have a space i really would give this a go!

Textiles from Kauniste

Upper row from the left: Sokeri kitchen towel blue, Sammal kitchen towel yello, Kuusikko Kitchen towel blu
Lower row from the left: Kuusikko kitchen towel green, Sokeri kitchen towel pink, Sammal kitchen towel black

Kauniste textiles are hand printed on a traditional fabric printing technology in Finland. Their textiles combine tradition and the fresh ideas of young Nordic designers.

From the left: Metsä cushion cover, Sokeri cushion cover

Christmas is arriving again quietly and suddenly and I know the panic of last minute gifts. These are a great gifts that delight for sure the gift recipient and the giver. In fact, I know what wrap in the gift paper!

Tine K's Home

I just found these beautiful pictures of the home of Tine K from Line Klein's blog. Hope you like them too!

Saturday sweets: Eames

Dreaming about Eames DSW chairs..This picture makes me want them even more :)

Happy Saturday!

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Sugar from Kauniste!

Sokeri Kitchen towels designed by Hanna Konola for Kauniste. Sokeri is finnish and means Sugar. Aren´t they pretty! These are on their way to the shop :).

New Christmas Magazine!

We released on Friday our first ever Christmas catalogue and if you are curios to see it, you will find it here. I wish it could be a help to you when selecting gifts, we´ve gathered there many ideas to him, to her, for children, small gifts, & timeless design for home so if you are short of ideas, just check it out!

House Doctor DK

This is happy day! The House Doctor products are available online. The collection is still small so if you are looking for some certain product and cannot find it, just let me know and we will do our best to help you!

Questo è un giorno felice! Per la prima volta in Italia i prodotti House Doctor sono disponibili anche online. La collezione è ancora piccolo, quindi se stai cercando un prodotto determinato e non riesci a trovarlo, fateci sapere e noi faremo del nostro meglio per aiutarti!

Green..White..Kitchen

I just found these pictures of this lovely kitchen! One my favourite colours is green and in this kitchen it is nicely mixed with white. If you wan´t to see more photos check here. Did you note how in the first photo they´ve used cutting/bread boards as a decoration?

Be creative!

Who would have thought that you can also use cords to decorate! This is creative!

(ps. sorry, i don´t remember from where this photo is saved)

Cool Gifts for Men!

This year we´ve managed to put together a nice collection of gift ideas for men!

Sunday Sweets..

Lovely Bedrooms from Alvhem. Which one is your favourite?

Saturday Feelings!

Rainy November Saturdays...

..What better there is to do than flip trough beautiful catalogues and magazines and search new pretty things for the shop..

..Turn on some mood lighting..For the first time this year I light up the traditional Finnish Christmas candle decoration!

..Not really thinking about going outside when it looks like this..

..Foggy and rainy..Happy Weekend!!

Iittala Allas

Iittala has launded the most beautifull candle holder, Allas, seen in while in my eyes! The traditional candle holder has been combined with cast iron and modern Scandinavian design so it has a surprising and fresh look. This will be on my wishlist for the Christmas!