22/08/2009

ciao and some delightful finds



Sorry my dear English readers for that I've been just typing here my little stories only in Finnish lately. Amidst painting and redecorating and spending my latest summer holidays here and there I've been just a little bit hasty and tired to write in two languages, that's all. But now my home embellishing is starting to be finished (well, it will never be totally finished, happily, but you know that temporary feeling it's done. Before a new inspirations comes again...). But now, just some little trims et voi, pronto, done. Today I'm planning to go to buy some shelves and then when they are placed on the wall I'll be able to introduce to you my home-making achievements. Meanwhile I decided to show you my latest finds. Both from my own stashes and from an antique dealer.

My collection of fabrics is worthy of respect. Well, of course it depends on one's standspoint but taking into account that my home isn't any fabric store it is. Even me who lives here can't remember all the treasures which are hiding in my fabric boxes. So one delighted yell blared in the air when I found a perfectly beautiful linen/hemp fabric. It's lovely sturdy and really heavy. Colour is lovely, natural and sedate. The only stupid thing is that the piece is just two meters long. Two meters - what the heck I've been thinking when buying it, ten meters would be definitely more sensible amount of such a perfect "basic-fabric". Now I would like to use it somewhere here, not to forget it anymore. So I put it on a table for to look at and think about it. And to place pretty things onto it to take some photos.

I also found a pile of old summery photos. In fact I've been hunting those for many times after my moving in here. And you may imagine my face wreathed in smiles when I found those. As wide as a boy's smile in one of those old photos.

Then I found also that dark shades are so very beautiful here in my brighter whiter nooks now. Oh, how I like it. Even black is good now when the red floor is gone! Black coffee, black old stamp, blackened metal... I would like to have something very deep brown or even black here now. Yay, new ideas!

And the latest and the cutest find: four soup plates from my favourite antique dealer. With violet patterns. Prettypretty!

14 comments:

  1. Tuo matto on täydellinen, mutta niin ovat ihanuuksia nuo muutkin kuvissa näkyvät.

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  2. Merruli, matto on ihana, se on Marokosta, se on vanha ja silkkiä. Ja minä siitä niin onnellinen :)

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  3. Tuo matto on kyllä kaunis!

    Ja ihania löytöjä sinulla taas. Valokuvista tuli mieleen hämmentävät kuvat, vanhoja nekin veikkaisin 50- lukua, jotka löysin vuosia sitten kirpparilta.
    Kuvissa perhe poseeraa pihalla puutarhatonttujensa kanssa. Kuvan perhe on oikein juhlavaatteissa, niin kuin kunnon potrettiin kuuluukin,ilmeet vakavat ja sitten on nämä tontut.

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  4. Lovely images...I adore the hemp fabric....I just made some pillows for my sofa with some! Your blog inspires me so much...thank you!

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  5. Näyttää NIIIN hyvälle. Tuo matto on ihan huikea.

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  6. Näissä kuvissa on vielä ihanaa kesän valoa. Ihastelen myös mattoa!

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  7. Thanks for gracing us with one of your delightful English posts, especially when you are busy! Much appreciated, by many i'm sure- as for me i await them patiently , enjoying your lovely photo compositions.
    That white floor is just so right! A perfect foundation...

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  8. beautiful dish! i want it!

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  9. tanja, your photography is so beautiful. i am kind of blah since my daughter just left for college again. may i comment on one of your commenters' blogs? koralee, your blog is amazing, too! really cheered me up, as pretty gingham's artful beauty always does. thanks!

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  10. Kaunis tunnelma näissä kuvissa.

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  11. Sulla on aivan super hienoja kuvia!!!

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  12. heipä tanja!
    on lattiaa ja mattoa ja vaikka mitä!
    silkkistä ja siliää! pidän pidän pidän paljon, kaunista ja mukavaa tunnelmaa sinulla, kiitos kun saan vierailla!

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  13. i love found photos - and yours are just great!

    that fabric looks stunning. happy tuesday!

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  14. When your posts are not in English I can read them via Google Translate--I copy the weblink, choose the translation (Finnish to English) and voila!..I can enjoy all your posts. So do not worry if you are unable to post in English. And your photos speak by themselves..I do enjoy them very much.

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