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Peas in Australia!

I was very excited when I was contacted by Australian Homespun magazine, they wanted to feature my peas on earth chopping-board on this awesome spread! I think need those peas in a pod earrings by Sudlow jewelry!

So look for this cover in your shop! The magazine will be in newsagencies, supermarkets and craft shops around Australia and online (www.zinio.com) this Thursday (September 3). Print copies are typically available in New Zealand, Europe and North America two to three weeks later. 

How lovely! I'll have to take my teen girl shopping to Helsinki in a few weeks! I want to add this mag to my collection, it looks like a great issue. 

I'm back!

...with some pretty pictures of my chopping-boards, taken  by my friend Karin Lindroos, I love her sense of colour!

And this first day of Autumn (looking grey outside) I am also loving the sense of Summer in these pictures...

The chopping-boards and trays are made for me by a family company in Sweden. The quality is great, I think! 

Phew! One post written. Been away so long, so much I could say. Talk to you soon again.

     

 

Studio update

Next weekend I am taking part in Konstrundan, an open studios event, which means there is a great deal of tidying up going on here in my studio. My trainee Jennifer is helping out and has been busy all day ironing and folding fabrics. Guess which shelf she is done with?

Fall is in the air so I wanted to bring the season into the shop and composed a harvest teamed cushion.

I've also bought two skeins of yarn, which seems to happen every year this time. Now I hope that I will have a pretty shawl to show off in a month or so!  

 

New cutting boards and some business thoughts!

p.s. If you take the time to read this post you get a coupon code at the end. Scrolling down is also allowed :) d.s

I think it's been two years since I first got the idea of having cutting boards with my appliqué prints made and now they are finally here! There are a lot of products that I could have made with my prints, but most of them do not fulfill the ethical and ecological standards and the quality I want my products to have. I want to feel as proud of the products that I have had made by someone else as of a product I made with my own hands!

And I am very proud of introducing these cutting-boards that arrived on our doorstep yesterday! They are made of quality material, that is birch veneer, by a family company who specializes in making trays and such. The cutting board has a durable melamine coating that protects the printed picture, so you do not have to be afraid to use your sharpest knife on this one!

This peas on earth cutting board immediately moved into my own kitchen! I think there will have to be another blog post about the peas that inspire me so much right now, because today I feel like saying something more about quality products and craft business.

Most of you are familiar with my postcards, it is the Syko product that is most well-known and liked by so many people, which I am very grateful of. I have many resellers that sell my cards only. I love to have a product that anyone can afford! And it is pretty cool to have your own postcard collection, who would have thought? Still, I consider myself a crafter and take great pride in what I make and do. Which is why the cards are printed on recycled paper by a small business in Helsinki, were I know people personally. The cards are important, because I try to make a living on this business and I think the people who are able to make a living solely on handmade products in Finland today are not many. Above all I want to make and sell stuff that puts a little (or a big) smile upon your face in your everyday life! And that, I think, can be achieved by selling happy and cheerful things, but also when you know that what you sell has been ethically produced!

So the post about my new cutting boards became a little talk about my business policies, I hope you enjoyed it :) And since this is business, so I would like to offer you free shipping on all orders over 15€ from my Etsy shop until Friday night with the code BOARD4U. 

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