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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Suomen Kädentaito messut

Kenana Knitters monkeys  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Kenana Knitters monkeys  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Kenana Knitters monkeys  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla


Here a few images from our stand - didn't even realize it, but I actually built a Christmas tree of the whole stand :D. And - I know, I promised no red before December, but…well. A little anyway ;)

Cottonhut Fair Trade Felt products  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Cottonhut Fair Trade Felt wreath  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Cottonhut Fair Trade Felt slippers  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Cottonhut Fair Trade Felt products  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Cottonhut chip basket  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla


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Kikoi coffee measurement scoop  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

Cottonhut Fair Trade Felt Bodum cosy  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla


Tässä muutamia kuvia miniosastoltamme Suomen Kädentaito -messuilta. Enpä huomannutkaan, että rakensin joulukuusen melkein koko osastosta :D. Ja - tiedän - lupasin, että ei punaista ennen joulukuuta, mutta…no. Ihan vähän vaan ;)

Cottonhut Fair trade felt balls  - Suomen Kädentaito messuilla

On kyllä kiva olla tällaisilla kuluttajamessuilla, tuolla verkkokaupassa kun ei näe teitä silmikkäin ikinä! Eniten myytyjä ovat olleet Cottonhutin huopapallot, huopaiset pannunaluset sekä huopatossut. Kenananlta - yllätys yllätys - värikkäät apinat! Niitä on 4 jäljellä tuossa selän takana, onneksi tulee huomenna iso iso satsi lisää Keniasta :).



Friday, October 18, 2013

Christmas present tips from Weranna's - Joululahjaideoita Werannasta

Christmas present tips from Werannas - Joululahjaideoita Werannasta







It's starting to be here. Christmas that is. The other day I was just saying in Twitter @WerannasRiikka (come and talk to me, please!) that it is just fab, when it is dark and rainy and cold out there - feeling good about yourself you can just have your bedsocks (and slippers) on, cuddle inside a blanket and have a cup of tea. Or a glass of wine. Perfect.

It feels strange that it is only now that Christmas is here. In January, when I had just thought that now a few months WITHOUT Christmas, got a mail. From a wonderful Interior Magazine. Asking, if they could have their Christmas photoshoot in our show-room, now our home. Of course :)! Eeee - would you like to use some of our products, as well? And right there and then began planning for this Christmas.

Just very short time ago we did the Christmas photoshoot to the shop - I don't know how to do it so much in advance. Rushing suits me somehow better ;). This time just me and @SallaThure - I did get that new camera, you know ;). We managed somehow, took 10 times more photos, than Paulina, of course, but some of them are quite okay. You can at least recognize the products. Mostly. We are all earthy this year. White, linen, grey, a bit of black. Very little bling-bling. Perhaps some red just before Christmas. Let's see.

And - don't worry - Paulina Arcklin is still with us - and we were planning next summer already some time back. Trying to decide, whether it will be Hippie trip in Europe, or a Hippie safari. What do you think? I'm quite sure how the safari organizers would take it (yes, they would be very professionally rolling their eyes when they saw our pink tassle cushion covers). Yes, in Simba Experience we trust. 

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Se alkaa olla täällä. Joulu nimittäin. Huokailin tuossa Twitterissäkin @WerannasRiikka (tulkaa juttelemaan!) tuossa joku ilta, että on ihanaa, kun ulkona on pimeää ja koleeta ja märkää - voi ilman huonoa omaatuntoa laittaa villasukat (ja huopatossut) jalkaan, käpertyä filtin sisään sohvan nurkkaan ja ottaa kupin inkivääriteetä. Tai lasin punkkua. Yhteisvaikutus sama - nukahtaa. 

Tuntuu hassulta, että joulu alkaa kolkuttelemaan ovelle vasta nyt - viime tammikuussa ajattelin, että nyt muutama kuukausi ilman joulua, ennenkuin aletaan miettimään seuraavan sesongin tuotteita. Meni pari päivää ja eräs ihana sisustuslehti otti yhteyttä, ja kyseli, josko silloista show roomiamme, nykyistä kotiamme, voisi käyttää joulukuvauksiin parin viikon kuluttua :). Tottakai voi, öööööö...olisitteko kiinnostuneita muutamasta joulutuotteesta meiltäkin? Ja siitä se tämän joulun miettiminen sitten melkein alkoikin.

Teimme tuossa joku aika sitten joulukuvauksia kauppaan - en osaa koskaan tehdä niitä etukäteen, koska  tämän tarvitsee tehdä ne sen mukaan, miltä tuntuu just silloin. Tänä vuonna Weranna'sin joulu on täydellisen maanläheinen. Valkoista, pellavaa, ruskeeta, harmaata, jopa vähän mustaa. Vähän kuusen oksia. Ja vahingossa ehkä vähän jotain kiiltävää piristämään. Ja ehkä sitten ennen joulua päästään vähän punaiseenkin. Katsotaan.

Kuvaukset toteutettiin tänä vuonna ihan omin voimin @SallaThure :n kanssa - mullahan on nyt uusi kamera ;). Oli pakko kokeilla, mitä saa aikaiseksi ilman ammattilaista. Ja kyllä me jotain saatiin - otettiin varmasti 10-kertainen määrä kuvia, mitä Paulinan kanssa, ja kuvaajat löytää varmasti tuhat virhettä, mutta meillä oli hauskaa ja kyllä niistä nyt jotain tuotteitakin tunnistaa. Don't worry - ihanainen, maailman paras sisustuskuvaaja Paulina Arcklin on mukana yhä edelleen, kevättä ja kesää miettiessä. Mitäs mieltä olette - vaihtoehtoina hippireissu, tai hippisafari. Kumpi kuulostaisi kivemmalta? En osaa päättää! Tosin en ole ihan varma, mitä safarin järjestäjät ajattelisi, kun me pölähdettäisi paikalle meidän pinkkien tupsutyynykasojen kera. Täysi luottamus kyllä Simba Experienceen - pojat pyörittelisi ammattilaisin ottein silmiään ja ehkä jopa auttaisi raahaamaan kamoja. Siis se yksi Paulinan matka-arkku painaa tonnin, oikeasti.

No tulipas sepustus. Ja sitten pitäisi vielä kirjoittaa englanniksikin jotain vissiin.  

 




Thursday, October 10, 2013

Kenana Knitters - changing lives stitch by stitch

Kenana Knitters


Ms. Patricia Nightingale, a beautiful, kind and talented lady - the founder of Kenana Knitters which is a grassroots business that was founded by local Kenyan, Patricia Nightingale, who wanted to assist a group of individuals, as they were lacking a market for their homespun yarn. 

With clever consideration, she helped transform their yarn into unique creations with her distinctive designs, including plush toys, home décor, clothing and accessories. With a vision to further impact the community, the group taught women in the area to knit beautiful, organic products using local, sustainable resources. By providing a safe, family-friendly working environment, Kenana Knitters empowers women, offering them a chance to work and take charge of their lives, with dignity.

Patricia Nightingale - founder of Kenana Knitters


The women are allowed to work from home, or they gather at the Kenana Knitters workshop and do the needed spinning, knitting or weaving there. They may even bring their children with them.

Kenana Knitters - perfect snacks on their way


Kenana Knitters - the workshop



Kenana Knitters - spinning wheel





Kenana also supports women and girls, who might be disabled, for finding less demanding tasks for them to do.

Kenana Knitters - home spun and dyed natural wool


We visited Kenana farm last week, arrived a bit late Friday afternoon due to some problems with the traffic in Nairobi (this doesn't tell anything about it really ;)), and didn't have a chance to see the women at work. But we saw the garden (the board meeting room, that is), we saw the container (the office, that is) and we saw the warehouse (some more containers, that is). We talked for hours with Patricia, learning about the project, and their way of life in rural Kenya. We stayed in one of their beautiful, unique guesthouses (you can learn more about the guest houses at www.kembu.com) built and designed by Andrew, Patricia's son. Had a wonderful dinner prepared by Isaac (we even asked for the Ginger-Carrot soup recipe, will be in the blog during the weekend). The nights are cool, as the farm is around 2000 m above the sea level, and they are also DARK. No difference whether you have your eyes closed or shut ;).

Everything is so wonderfully, peacefully down to earth, and yet they have everything they need.  This project is 100% what I believe in - women helping themselves with their own hands, learning a new skill, becoming good at it and supporting their family locally, with locally purchased materials. And passing the talent forward to others around them. And this project, in turn, is already able to support the local orphanage.

If you wish to purchase any Kenana products to show your support, please visit our shop at www.werannas.com. Please contact us at info(@)werannas.com, if you wish to become a reseller for the products.


Kenana Knitters - home spun spider monkeys

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Monday, October 7, 2013

Kikoi trading - we take care of the faces behind the products


Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya




First of all: I want to thank Maijakaisa, the owner of Kikoi Trading, from the bottom of my heart, for joining me on my first trip to Kenya. First to Africa actually. I saw HER Kenya, and I’ve fallen in love already.

We spent hours on Thursday in Triangle market, a small handicraft market in Nairobi, where the artisans sell their work. Some of them were making the products right there, some of them make them during the evenings, some of them gather a group of women and make them together (I even met the Picasso of Africa ;), or at least he introduced himself as such. And I mean - who wouldn’t support Picasso by buying some of his work, if he comes to you in a market in Nairobi??).

This place is where some of Kikoi’s products are originally from, and I truly can sign Kikoi’s statement – we take care of the faces (and hands, one could add) behind our products. Wonderful, just beautiful women. Funny, smily….and when I ask to take a photo, they get all serious J!! When the others see Maija making orders in number of stalls she has made business with also before, they wait patiently, and then call ‘Sista, please come inside and take a look at my products, as well!’

Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya

Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya

Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya


We passed by Westgate shopping mall a couple of times, where the terrible things took place just couple of weeks back. The roads were blocked and there is the army and the police everywhere in the city center, their machine guns visible. You wouldn't want to mess with these people.

On our way back to Maija’s friend’s house, where we were staying before hitting the road for Kenana Knitter Critters in Njoro, we stopped to buy some flowers and to meet Robert, the talented man behind Kikoi’s banana tree products. We ordered some of new products, let’s see what he comes up with J.

After having a quick dinner we were back at the house – and met the most hilarious people on earth – the owners of Simbaexperience.fi, a Finnish travel agency organizing tailored trips to Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. I don’t remember laughing out loud like that for a long, long time! And and and – we were offered some dinner company AND a Night Safari in the Nairobi national park on Saturday evening before my flight back home (more about this later).  What all you can fit into 3 days when you happen to be in right places at right times…Below what I thought would be my Safari experience ;).
Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya


Triangle market, Nairobi, Kenya - I was told by the seller this is Kenyan technology ;)








Sunday, August 11, 2013

Formex Fall 2013 - preparing for the show

Fall 2013 trends - Syksy 2013 trendit - building a DIY stand
The past 2 weeks have been a bit hectic, to put it mildly. Just the way I like it, but sometimes it makes me wonder how do the other entrepreneur mommies with 3 kids manage...

The kinda painting-photoshoot-meet-suppliers-in-Istanbul-join-soft-landing-for-daycare-prepare-for-Formex busy. On top of the normal work and everyday life in a house not yet so organized after our move and summer holidays. But our DIY stand and everything else is now on it's way to Formex, the largest interior design show in Scandinavia. Wish me luck :)?

For the coming season I wanted to go Earthy. Browns and greys, and some muted pastels. Hand-made, natural materials etc., the usual story on that front.

Our space is 33 sqm, and we are presenting 4 main brands + 2 smaller ones, together with some Christmas beauties. How to tie it all together? Some planning action from Paulina combined with my thoughts - with a nude wall and white furniture, of course! It will be so pretty. Weranna's kinda furniture, that is, all recycled or reused somehow.

We need a sofa and some sofa tables (our painted cable crates will do this year, as well), we need some travel trunks, we need some tree trunks, we need some ladders and hangers and some pallets. And a table (my family's dining table, nice to hear the kids cry 'but mommy, where do we eat then??')

The sofa frame and the ladders I just had to order from our trusted carpenter at the summer house - he is the best. 

Our wall panels, which were mussel blue last time, needed paint. This was truly a project, as the tone of the paint REALLY is different when the structure of the paint is different - see below. A hint - when you purchase paint with structure, ALWAYS choose a lighter tone than the one you desire to have. Otherwise you might need to do like I did - paint 3 times. 

Fall 2013 trends - Syksy 2013 trendit - building a DIY stand
Also our bed side tables from our summer house, painted tree trunks, that is, travelled south. Together with our carpets, and cushions - even my pot holders, which are at the moment fully sold out - they will be there telling the story 'we last'. One thing's for sure - I will feel like at home on that stand ;). 

A few days - and you'll see the outcome - I personally cannot wait ;).

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tee-se-itse, syksy 2013 trendit, sisustusideat



Friday, August 2, 2013

Fall Winter trends 2013-2014 - behind the scenes

Fall Winter trends 2013-2014 - behind the scenes



Well – it was some time ago I wrote a post ‘Earthygoes city’. Now THIS post could be very well called ‘Earthy returns home’. Especially this season this trend really speaks to me  - hopefully to you, too <3! It feels good to be able to see, as well as feel, the work that has gone into the beautiful pieces we have around us at home.

Back in March we, Paulina and I, were having it all sunny and hot on a Zandvoort beach (you can read the story HERE)  – to come up with Weranna’s summer collection inspiration photos, to show you how we see the selected products.  This sunny and hot July week we have been having it all cool and snowy somewhere in southern Finland – physically sort of back where we started.  They say you don’t know how to learn to make music unless you’ve started in a garage making really bad music with pots and pans. Perhaps the same would go for home décor, as well - if it's starting to look good in a barn, it looks good everywhere ;)?

Fall Winter trends 2013-2014 - behind the scenes


There was white paint everywhere - even some in places where it was supposed to be. At least on one side (don't look at the ladder too closely ;)). There were also a few thousand flies to cheer us up. And there was also plenty of laughter, stupid jokes (VERY stupid), salt licorice and cold coffee. Heavenly.

In the middle of it all we accomplished some really, really awesome images. As you know, all the products Weranna's represents are soft in forms, even if the material is hard – they make a home feel comfy. Again it feels like the best images, which really capture the essence of Weranna’s Warehouse, are those which were brainstormed on the spot – looking around, seeing the material available right there right at that moment. And ideas start flowing and they keep coming, and coming….and coming.

You don’t see my favorites just yet – we’ll need to get organized first.

We are almost done with the Weranna’s home page, as well – combining the different elements of Weranna’s. Our target is to publish the site before we head for Formex August 15-18 in Stockholm. Keep your thumbs up :)!

Fall Winter trends 2013-2014 - behind the scenes


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Do diid – joku aika sitten tuossa keväällä kirjoitin otsikolla ‘Maanläheinen matkaa kaupunkiin’ tai jotain sellaista. Tämän postauksen nimi voisi hyvin olla ‘Maanläheinen palaa kotiin’. Varsinkin juuri nyt tämä tyyli todella puhuttelee – toivottavasti sinuakin? Suositaan käsintehtyä, ja annetaan kodin tekevissä elementeissä näkyä ja tuntua (ja välillä myöskin kuulua) se valtava työ, joka niiden luomiseen vaaditaan.

Maaliskuussa fiilisteltiin Paulinan kanssa kuumaa ja aurinkoista säätä Hollannin Zandvoortin rannoilla (voit lukea tarinan TÄÄLTÄ), jotta saatiin kerrottua niistä kuvista, joita mielessä liikkui Weranna’sin kesätuotteita valitessa.

Tänä kuumana ja aurinkoisena heinäkuun viikkona ollaan oltu ihan kylmissä ja lumisissakin tunnelmissa jossain eteläisessä Suomessa – ikäänkuin takaisin siellä, mistä aloitettiin. Joku sanoi, että opit tekemään musiikkia vasta, kun olet soittanut kammottavaa sellaista autotallissa padat ja kattilat soittimina. Voisiko ajatella, että jos sisustus alkaa näyttämään hyvältä ladossa, se näyttää sitten hyvältä missä vaan ;)?

No, kuten arvata saattaa, valkoista maalia oli vähän joka paikassa. Jopa satunnaisesti siellä, missä sitä piti olla. Ainakin toisella puolella (älkää katsoko noita tikapuita kauheen tarkasti). Meillä oli myöskin kannustusjoukkoina muutama tuhatta kärpästä. Ja kaikkea säesti jatkuva pälpätys, huonot vitsit (TODELLA huonot), monta pussia salmiakkia ja paljon jäähtynyttä kahvia. Ihanaa.

Olen sitä mieltä, että kaiken sen keskellä saimme myös aikaiseksi aivan mahtavia kuvia. Kuten tiedätte, omaa silmääni hivelee eniten reilut tuotteet, joiden muodot ovat pehmeitä – vaikka materiaali olisikin kova. Ja todella näyttää siltä, että parhaat ideat syntyivät taas juuri siinä hetkessä, kun mietittiin, missä tämä tuote olisi juuri paikallaan ja kotonaan. Silloin syntyy sitä omaa jalanjälkeä. Sellaista rentoa, vähän sinnepäin, ehkä jopa kotikutoista. Mutta kauheen mukavan tuntuista.

Lempparijuttuja ei paljastetakaan  ihan vielä – koitetaan vähän ekaksi organisoitua. Mutta ihan kohta.

Olemme puuhanneet tässä myös kovasti Weranna’sin kotisivua, jotta saataisiin koottua yhteen näitä päässä syntyviä ideoita – se saadaan auki toivottavasti ensi viikolla, ennen seuraavalla viikolla starttaavia Formex sisustusmessuja (Formex 15.-18.8.2013 Tukholmassa).  Pitäkäähän peukkuja :)!

Fall Winter trends 2013-2014 - behind the scenes

Sunday, May 5, 2013

About blogging and chasing your dreams - bloggaamisesta ja unelmien toteuttamisesta

Feng shui in home decor - Feng shui sisustus
Really wanted to post this in the morning, but a soccer cup and a laser game birthday party were keeping me busy until 2 p.m...And now it is still so beautiful and sunny out here on the terrace that it is hard to see what I'm writing. Life's small (quite nice) challenges :)!

A wonderful, inspirational 'stora bloggdagen' was organized yesterday in Stockholm. A great big thank you for the main organizers Bromans Bravader and Titta in hos Tess. The program of the day was really built professionally for us, who are starting blogging (or like me, struggling to find our way).

The day was started by Malena behind Malenami - a life style blogger, selected as the blogger of the year 2012 in Finland among the blogs in Swedish. She really, really is a darling :)! Her smile could melt icebergs. She is so sincere and so herself, you can't but smile when listening to her story about how her blog came to what it is today. BE YOURSELF AND BE POSITIVE.

Then we heard from Jannice - if you are following interior discussions in the internet, you will run into her blog and business Add Simplicity sooner or later (rather sooner, that is). I admit - I wrote 3 pages of notes. She is so FUNNY, so talented, and a great lecturer. A true pleasure to listen to her. Rather than focusing on blogging itself, she was discussing the content she is creating, and the actual process how she came to focus on Feng Shui in home decor. Myself a long-time Feng shui enthusiast, I guess one could call me, this was really, really inspirational. I will be returning to this subject a number of times, as there were so many nice, small ideas in her presentation that I just have to share them with you! Weranna's style, of course :). Lot's of home decoration expected during the coming weeks for me :). FOCUS ON WHAT YOU REALLY FIND IMPORTANT.

Last, but not least, the wonderful, wonderful Maria with her blog M.ade b.y m.ary. She was one of the very first bloggers I got to meet in Sweden last year, and I really didn't know anything about her background. One thing is for sure - she is amazing. With all the challenges she has faced she has been able to build her dream and become one of the largest baking bloggers in Sweden. Kram Maria <3! EVERY DREAM CAN BE ACHIEVED AND EVERY DREAM IS AS IMPORTANT.

There. 3 quite important lessons to be learned :). Starting yesterday.

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Tämä postaus piti kirjoittaa jo aamulla, mutta oli vähän kiirusta yhden jalkapalloturnauksen ja laserpyssysynttäreiden parissa kahteen asti iltapäivällä. Ja nyt aurinko paistaa niin nätisti tässä terassilla, ettei oikein näe, mitä kirjoittaa...elämän pieniä (mutta aika ihania) haasteita :)!

Eilen järjestettiin 'stora bloggdagen' Tukholmassa. Ohjelma oli loistava aloitteleville, ja meille, jotka yhä edelleen etsimme sitä omaa tietä.

Päivän aloitti Malena Malenami :sta, life style bloggari, joka valittiin vuoden 2012 suosituimmaksi suomenruotsalaiseksi bloggariksi. Tämä ihana leidi on ehkä vielä hurmaavampi luonnossa, kuin netissä, jos mahdollista!  Hymy sulattaisi varmasti jäävuoretkin. Niin ihanasti oma itsensä, oli mahdotonta kuunnella hymyilemättä. OLE ITSESI JA OLE POSITIIVINEN.

Päivän toinen puhuja oli Jannice Add Simplicity -blogista. Jos yhtään seuraa sisustuskeskustelua internetissä ja maailmalla, on pakosti ennemmin tai myöhemmin törmännyt tähän blogiin ja sen ihaniin kuviin (toki ennemminkin ennemmin). Tämä rouva on NIIN hauska, niin taitava, ja ennenkaikkea todella hyvä luennoitsija. Jannicen fokus oli itse blogin sisällön kertomisessa, ja minä, joka olen Feng shui intoilija ollut jo varmasti 15 vuotta, palaan tähän Feng shui sisustus -asiaan monta kertaa tämän kevään aikana. Mitä ihania ideoita! Weranna's tyyliin tietysti ;). Jos luette ruotsia, Jannicen tähän asti 10 osaa käsittävä Feng Shui koulu löytyy täältä. KESKITY SIIHEN, MIKÄ SINULLE TODELLA ON TÄRKEÄÄ.

Viimeiseksi kertoi oman tarinansa ihana Maria M.ade b.y m.ary -blogin takaa. Maria on yksi ensimmäisistä bloggareista, joita tapasin viime vuonna Ruotsissa, enkä koskaan ole tiennyt hänen tarinaansa. Yksi asia on varma - tämä daami on ihan uskomaton. Kaikista haasteista huolimatta hän on pystynyt rakentamaan unelmansa ja on tällä hetkellä yksi Ruotsin suurimmista leivontabloggareista. Halaus Marialle <3. JOKAISEN UNELMAN VOI SAAVUTTAA, JA JOKAINEN UNELMA ON YHTÄ TÄRKEÄ.

Semmoista. 3 aika isoa asiaa opittavaksi. Aloitin eilen.