Finnish Design Shop Giveaway

Finnish blogger Hunajaista is hosting a killer giveaway on her blog together with Finnish Design Shop. The prize is Myy-lamp by Danish company Muuto, which mission is to bring new, fresh perspective into Nordic-design and elevate Nordic design back to the level it was before. I’m paraphrasing here but you get the idea, right? The lamp itself is inspired my favourite Moomin-character, Little My. I mean who doesn’t love her attitude?

I’m not sure if people outside of Finland are excluded or not from participating but it doesn’t say so in the post. It never hurts to try right? All you have to do is tell your favourite colour for the shades available for the lamp. You get also a second chance for sharing the giveaway on your blog (which is what I’m doing here). Click HERE to go the giveaway, it’s open till May 1st.

Thrifty Finn. Liking giveaways.

UPDATE! Hunajaista replied that international entries are a O.K! Yay! So what are you waiting for?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up (in Helsinki)

Last Saturday I went to a fashion/thrifting related event in Helsinki and on my way there I snapped some photos in Helsinki city centre…

Helsinki railway station

High above a shopping street

My favourite attic spaces…

Chapel of silence in Kamppi

Clouds

Classical architecture

Up the street…

Does anyone live there?

If you are interested in more UP: challenge entries, click HERE. If you would like to know what I look like now, without endless posing for PhotoBooth, click the link on top. I’m the one with red face and a balloon body. Sigh.

Thrifty Finn. Pondering about a diet.

 

 

Link Parties

My February Giveaway is coming to a close (March will happen together with April) and noticed only few comments. Since I thought 25% chance of winning is too easy, I decided to share my Giveway in a few link parties just to mix things up:

Sumo’s Sweet Stuff (Moomins are sweet. And I’m sweet for giving away stuff.)

Sew Chatty’s Made With Love (in my case, thrifted with love)

Jembellish: A Round Tuit 146 (as soon as I get around to it. Get it? This works for me on so many levels)

Uncommon Designs Monday Funday Link Party (possibility to win free things is fun right?)

Keeping It Simple Crafts: Motive Me Monday #166 (I’m motivating you to like me. And Moomins.)

Sugar Bee Crafts Take-A-Look Tuesday (hey, because I like people to take a look at my blog!)

Now I’m off to click on some links myself!

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I <3 Lapland

SInce my battery charger is at my sister’s and I cannot upload my new craft pics, I thought about sharing something cute that was in the news today.

Finnish tabloid, Iltasanomat, shared this story about a prematurely born reindeer that had to be nursed back to health by the owners. The reindeer, Milla, is now an adult but “works” as a cuddle reindeer. How cute is that?

Since the newspaper wouldn’t share a link to the farm website, I did some interwebs research and found it HERE. The site is in finnish and in german. And here’s another cute reindeer pic for you to enjoy:

Now I have a problem. How can I justify eating reindeer meat after this story?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

You know what I love. Lapland! My every visit to Lapland begins with…

Rovaniemi train station. I believe it was around 9 o’clock in the morning. Straight out of the sleeper train. Why do I visit Rovaniemi the every chance I get? Because there is:

Lovely nature. This little heart shaped tree stump is sitting in my uncle’s yard. Those red berries are lingonberries and when made into jam, is delicious with reindeer meat. Guess who is writing this text hungry?

 My grandpa. Here with my youngest cousin Antti. During my other cousin’s Confirmation. Yes, there have been a lot of Confirmation parties in past few years in my family.

 Grandma and cousin Jonna. Two of my favourite people. When I returned to Finland, Jonna said (after seeing my butt cleavage. I had gained weight) that “Oh my god what your a** looks like!” She was 5. And yes, those were her EXACT words. Gotta love the Lappish honesty.

And last but not least…Midnight in August in Simojärvi, Lapland:

Lapland is awesome.

You can find other interpretations HERE and if you are interested my other Photo Challenge Entries, you can click the WPC category in the drop down menu. Should be there on the right sidebar.

Now I’m off to bed. Dreaming of Lapland.

 

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