wallet

I finally got a new wallet.
It was this years find from Stoneydown Park Folk Festival.
Last year I got a cupboard. What will I get next year?

14 bling and ting-a-ling

 I was window shopping at Fortnum and Masons.

a cupboard of possibility

This cupboard was an impulse buy from the Stoneydown Folk Festival. I have for sometime wanted something like this for my new home. It is still in our old living room waiting the new home. All the things I could fill it up with!

holiday and work

 I had a holiday in London with my son in Finland.
My good friend M came to visit and made it real.

 We enjoyed the spring and the warm. 

We went really deep in to the culture of shopping.

Like here at the Liberty, 

one of the oldest and most peculiar department stores in London.

 M´s visit would have not been complete without us going to our favorite wine bar.

After this great break I was of to work again. 

Busy with three kids and my own, 

I have for the last two week only slept in my spare time.

As it is the last day of April I decided to make up for my blog silence. 

21. shop window

I was in the city with my son. 

I had forgotten how much fun it can be with a kid. 

We saw the best Christmas windows at John Lewis.

8. color

 We went to Chelsea because M wanted to see  the Designers Guild shop.

 I had never been there and was enchanted by the colors .

Irresistible soft towels said M. 

 We had late lunch at a Japanese deli in South Kensington.

They had hyacinths at the table. 

I love them as Christmas flower with their very intense smell.

3. Christmas market

There are lots of Christmas markets in London. 

I visited one held by Finnish and Norwegian Church in Rotherhithe.

Women where dressed in national costumes. Many of the items sold made me think of Christmases growing up in Finland. At the market they where selling gingerbread cookies and mulled wine.

 There where lots of beautiful decorations on sale and also lots of people.

I bought a swede loaf for Christmas and headed home.