my home office needs a face-lift

Organizing my office, that is. I have a really nice home office - it is large, one wall is practically windows, it even has a fireplace! There's a 2-meter-wide mind map board on the wall, my desk is a dining-table-turned-office-desk, so it can fit everything needed. But the all over lying stuff... it sucks all energy out of me, just looking at it. There's product samples, material samples, yarn samples, PR material, marketing material, packing material, office material, studio equipment, products coming to photo-shoot,...

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about luxurious and difficult silk

http://www.cbif.gc.ca/ Silk is difficult, isn't it? It is so lovely and luxurious, and still - the making of it requires killing the mulberry silkworms inside the cocoons, usually by boiling. Doesn't sound too nice, does it? Just to get some understanding on the scale - it requires about 50,000 cocoons to produce one silk sari!There is the wild silk, which is produced by caterpillars other than the mulberry silkworm. With this the challenge is the color variations, plus the silk thread that makes up the cocoon has been...

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Lovely dining

We were invited to a 3-generation birthday party Saturday evening, and were dining around this pink and white table. White from the host, pink linen runner and napkin rings made of leather both by Himla was a gift. The dear host decided to use them right there and then, and of course I had to dig out my phone and take some pics. Isn't it pretty? Mateus plates, which are hand-made in Portugal, are so beautiful you wouldn't necessarily need anything to accompany them at a table.Pink roses and pink champagne...with lovely appetizers...

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Chic loft style home I visited last week

designsponge.comLast week I visited a friend to discuss some future co-operation schemes (The pictures on this post are NOT from her home, just her style!).We will start working on some new, exciting things - looking at her home she truly has something special to give to the homes of this world (including mine, I might add, those before-after pics I will happily post here when the time comes!).matissecolor.blogspot.comTheir house - it is all so neat and nice and beautiful, and at the same time - it is a family HOME. They've fully renovated it from...

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Look at this home in Plaza Koti magazine

This black and white home was introduced in the Finnish version of Plaza magazine last month. I promised to post the pictures, and here we go! The text is by Carola Sahlén, photos by Bodil Davidsson, so my guess is that the initial article has been published in the Swedish version, as the home featured is also in Sweden. I feel such envy for this family! For their energy, and for their strong will to be done with it - all of it! My house - hmph. We bought it a year ago, did the necessary, and after that - nothing. Well, there are reasons for...

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Defining a new style - Sköna hem rules

Don't you just love this Rustic romantic style the major Swedish interior desing magazine sköna hem is promoting in their 3/2012 edition? I do! Of course I'm a bit biased after taking their interior design courses some time ago. But the course also made me understand that this magazine isn't made by enthusiasts like me, rather professionals with university degrees or similar on the area.(This article by Per Wennberg and Charlotte Petterson, photos by Martin Cederblad). I will keep this edition visible for a long time, as I sooo like the cover of...

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Wonderful Georgia

Have you ever experienced a true Georgian dinner? With lots (and this is an understatement) of wine, delicious food (layers of plates in front of you) and most of all - lots of speeches.They salute Georgia, they salute the company they work for, their friends, their family, and women. To mention a few. As a female, it is okay to follow the choreography without participating too much on the wine tasting side, it is fully up to your own wishes - for male - well - don't know if they remember much after participating the traditional way :). The commander...

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Inspired by thoughts to the wall

Ville Tolvanen, a Finnish entrepreneur, strategist and growth consultant, is one of those people who make you smile. You know the wonderful people who instead of sucking all energy from you just seem to glow it around them? Well, he's one of those people. With his straight-forward, to-the-point statements which he makes with his eyes smiling.He's blogging for a major web-published magazine Taloussanomat about marketing (www.markkinointijohtaja.com) and marketing strategies (www.markkinointistrategia.net) and growth strategies both in the internet...

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Grey and yellow knits

When reading the Finnish magazine Plaza Koti, there was also an article about Jonna Hietala, who is the blogger behind a Finnish blog mmmustatuntuu.blogspot.com which I am following.mmmustatuntuu.blogspot.comI thought to go check her blog, as I haven't done so for a couple of weeks, and was laughing happily to see her post from February 17 about a knitted tube / mini poncho she had made (also admiring her beautiful daughter who is acting as a model like a true professional :) ) - it would fit perfectly with our charity...

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Apartment in Soho, N.Y. part III - bathroom

Take a black and white checkered tile floor, a shower corner built with old factory windows and a sink bench with an open shelf (the most reasonably priced bathroom item, btw). Combine this with a round mirror from Bruka (yes, they have it in their collection still, these are HARD to find at least in Scandinavia) decorated with a silk garland, some bamboo textiles by Chakra and a vintage zinc pitcher from www.rubylane.com, for example.Add a lilac orchid. <3***kylpyhuoneen sisustus, kylpyhuonetekstiilit, bambutekstii...

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Apartment in Soho, N.Y. part II - bedroom

This post is part II to my previous post! The above bedroom was introduced in Design Shimmer blog, and I would for sure try to introduce something similar to my SOHO loft. Only - if my bedroom was like this, I don't know if I would ever be able to get out of bed!My love for linen won't be fading anytime soon, so I would use linen voile or similar for the bed.Some Iznik ceramic tiles for the wall, Himla linen and Himla cushion covers to build the bed. A vintage foot stool together with Harri Koskinen's block lamps, vintage wrought iron chairs...

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Apartment in Soho, N.Y.

I've become majorly hooked with Pinterest, I love the tool! There it is possible to build anything with pictures on a board! One of my boards is called 'dream home in N.Y.' (You find all the images on this post from there!)- if I was given the task to decorate a home in N.Y., specifically in SOHO, what would it look like?Let's start in the living room:We would have the must-have old brick wall, of course, to start with:We would dig out the old wooden floor:A bookshelfAnd some other items!You think it would work with a vintage leather...

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