ANDON lamp

my friends who are checking out this blog have asked me to make a table lamp.

K got a new job and she orderd me a table lamp to congratulate on her new start. how sweet of her!
and other friend J also orderd me a table lamp.

K and J do not know eache other, but as if they have talked about it together, their orders are pretty similar to each other. it is funny.
what they wish for their lamp is a table lamp with simple form.
something like "ANDON" ( japanese oil lamp; made of wood frame and covered with a papaer)
it is quite rare they both came up with this ANDON idea.

anyway, i started to plan and made a sample of the ANDON lamp.
K and J's lamps will be something like it....?? what do you say K? J?

a princess mirror

this is a princess mirror that i named.

grinding small glass pieces into round shape takes some time. but it is surely worth of doing it.

pretty pink glass was given as a farewell gift from my stained glass teacher in japan. on my last day at her lessen, she gave me a few glass sheets, and this pink was one of them. saying " you can play with them untill you find a sheet glass shop in finland"

she was a great teacher and with good sense of humor. we stay in touch by sending postcards. ( not emails!)

the priness mirror is pretty on the wall as well as against the window.

if you have a spare mirror and want it to be a priness mirror, you are very welcome to contact me. ??

thanks for Ms M!!

this company in finland gave me an opportunity to make their business gifts.

orders are business cards holders and candle holders with freiendly-green and with a bird ( as thier logo) on them.

meeting with Ms M from the company seems went fine.

many many thanks for Ms M for giving me such a great opportunity!

a craft shop in tammisaari

lastweek, on the way to V's mother's cottage, we stopped by at tammisaari where my works are sold in the craft shop.

tammisaari is a cozy small town with cute and old wooden houses and the beautiful bay.

most peopel in this town speak swedish. that maybe the reason that being in this town makes me feel that i am traveling somewhere abroad.

since tammisaari is one of my favorate place in finland, i always wanted to have a reason to go there frequently. so i am very happy that my works are there in the craft shop.

i remember that the sale contract papser that the shop gave me was only written in swedish. yes, there was not even finnish!! and the salesperson casualy asked me "do you know swedish?" it was really sensatiolan thing for me, because i do not have at all " able to speak swedish" kind of look.

the shop holds many lovely craftsman works ( includes mine!)
when you visit tammisaari, please drop by!

the craft shop info

address: gustav wasas gata 6

on a sunny day

there are windows next to and in front of my working table.

often there is a sunny spot on my tabel, and sun light makes glass look even more gorgeous.

my friend J told me that after seeing my studio in my blog, he started to imagine himself in this place. he has not yet been here, but just traveling his mind to here.

yes, this studio is such a place that fills people's imagination.

here are more photos!

we have a play ground in front.

a view from my working table.

from our room, there is a door to our back yard.

picture was taken from the back yard. our working room is just go up some flights of stairs.

we would spend more time in the back yard in summer.

i can not wait!

a colorful window

our flat locates in the pale box-ish housing area.
so we mainly see row of those dull and unattrative flats through our window.
when we moved into this place, we talked what we can do for this view we have. and i suggested V that i will make a nice glass panel that can over the part of our window to blok the housing view.

however, that time i was so tired from moving back to finland and i was feeling up and down.
did not have energy for making things yet.

some months past, one weekend, i suddenly pulled a big paper and started to draw the plan for the window.

V was very happy. after seeing me up and down, he was simply happy for me doing thing with joy. and he was super happy when the window was made.






sunshine in this morning.





it looks even nicer in such a day.

the package

planning a package for my work is always challenging and exciting.
my special assistant V helps me to make the package for mt work.
V is a very talented for a graphic and has a good color taste.
i make a draft and V does a graphic and printing, making my plan into a real.
this works perfet.

this time, our projet was to make apackage for my keys.
here is what we made.





i LOVE it!

a lamp again

last week, i made the same lamp again.





i LOVE it!

new starts

finally, i moved to the new studio.
today was a wonderful weather. it was really a perfect day to move into a new studio.



we got a beautiful old fireplace with ceramics tiles.



from now on, i am going to make things from here.
very exciting.

glass boxes

right before i left japan, i found a paper shop where they have a huge collection of beautiful japanese handmade Origami papres (handcraft papre). i bought some Origami papers and keep neatly in the file. occasionally, i pull the file out from the shelf to look at them and wonder how i could make the most out of those beautiful papers.

finally, an idea came out and i made a glass boxes with Origami papers.

there is a japanese handmade Origami paper in the bottom.



i made several different types of those boxes with Origami papers. ther are so cute and happy look. as well as boxes without Origami papers are pretty.