be simple

here are new jewelry boxes, available at Onéa design shop.
one with the scooter and the other with rabbits. can you see them?

my works are getting more and more simple. i feel so natural in this way.

Onéa design shop ( inside of the sielunpeili galleria)
fredrikinkatu 28 Helsinki
http://www.onea.fi/ ( not yet ready)

a jewelry vitrine

Onéa design shop ordered me a vitrine for jewelries.
the shop owner E gave me the size and her image for the vitrine.

a very simple form with a door!
hope she liked it.

!thanks E for giving me this exciting project!


Onéa design shop ( inside of the sielunpeili galleria)
fredrikinkatu 28 Helsinki
http://www.onea.fi/ ( not yet ready)

outdoor show

i was at this outdoor show last week.
my friend K used to work for this event and brought me in.

it was not the perfect summer weather though it was O.K.

i met an old lady who used to live in japan and came back to finland 20 years ago.
she said " i forgot japanese" but she spoke very well.
she gave me her contact and we exchaned a few emails already.
how nice!

i like writing emails and letters.
letters are specially nice to send and to receive.

some months ago, i met an old gentleman on the train to my studio.
he run into the train and sat across from me. he looked around as if he was making sure if he got on the right train. then he asked me " is this going to kirkkonummi?" he asked me in swedish but i somehow understood so i answered him back in finnish and he spoke me back in finnish.
then we talked little bit of this and that. then we changed our language to english.
he spoke his hobby. as he is almost same age as my grandmother, he recalled me my grandfather.

at the end, he gave me a book that has an article of him.
he wrote my name and his name and address on the book.
during this summer, we have exchanged 3 letters.

treasure every encounter, for it will never recur...yes, in deed.

welcome!

the other day, i got a call and was asked "Are you still doing the one day lesson ?" and i welcomed them by saying " sure, sure! welcome!! "

3 girls (?) came to do the one day lesson. talking and making and making and talikng. got know a bit of each other. it was fun! great time.

the cats house

i made afew vitrines for Onéa design shop. those vitrines are made of glass and box shape but the shop owner E calls them as "house." so i made a vitrin with a house shape, this time.

i acid-etched cats images on the walls and on the roof. you see? foggy and fuzzy cats walking around on the glass house. there are 3 of them.

this cats house is now at the Onéa. please go and check it out!

Onéa design shop ( inside of the sielunpeili galleria)
fredrikinkatu 28 Helsinki
http://www.onea.fi/ ( not yet ready)

a new shop!

Onéa is a new shop in helisnki, they opened recently!
they have neat and lovely handmade items and fair trade stuff. AND have MY house candle holders, too.
please visit there for summer shopping.... and check my items out, too!

Onéa design shop ( inside of the sielunpeili galleria)
fredrikinkatu 28 Helsinki
http://www.onea.fi/ ( not yet ready)

a travel to the south

i was in Estonia for 4 days.
as same as my last trip to Sweden, this trip was also short but full of fun.

only 1.5 hours on the boat! easy ride to there, indeed.

spent time with my friend M.

went to an outdoor music festival in the countryside with M, S and other friends who i saw them last time 5 years ago!! great to meet them all!!

staid at M's parents house. her mother made us cottage cheese!! so fresh. ate it with the mother-made berries jam. yum-yummmmm!!
M's mother baked us wonderful cakes, too. sweet of her.

at last, visited M's studio in Tallinn. she also works with glass. she got a great view to the old town!! M took me to some glass suppliers. unfortunately, i could not find the glass sheet that i was hoping to find there. but fund out that glass sheets are less expensive there than in Finland. according to the shop girl, Finnish glass artists often come to buy glass sheets to Estonia. i see, i see.