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Recycling factory 2012

This weekend me and my friends from Kimara attended the Recycling Factory market, a sustainable lifestyle event. The event attracts loads of people and it makes you happy to see how many people that are thinking about how they consume today. Everything that is sold in the market can be bought with a good conscious! We built our booth on Friday night, it took hours as usually! I love "before" shots and remembered to snap one!

And this is how our cosy home looked a few hours later, nearly finished...

This is our "candy table". With brooches by me and lace accessories by loru and rings by karuski.

I made a huge pile of word cushions and I still have most left and will soon have them up for sale on Etsy. The pretty white pillows are from tuuni.

It always feels a bit sad when a fun event comes to an end, I began to feel at home in this place!

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Thanks to everyone who came this weekend! And to you who were too far away to come - I hope you have enjoyed looking at the pictures!

 

Kimara pop-up shop at Kinuskilla

Image credit karuski

Last Sunday I was very happy to spend the day with my friends from kimara. We had been asked to build a pop-up shop at Kinuskilla (page in Finnish), which is a charming café and shop in a converted old mill. I am the one climbing the ladder, I made a bunting from old, embroidered napkins that we are mounting to the roof :)

The owner of the café had lots of old doors, ladders and other props that we could use. It was very inspiring! I am so happy with how my cards look against the old door with the fading paint and my birds look so pretty flying on the wreath in the old window!

I also made a little bird bunting. And I finished my dream cushion.

Pretty lace earrings in candy colours from loru, vintage earrings from karuski and chalkboard plates from tuuni.

Rosa Viola, the fairy-angel, came along and was very excited to climb this ladder!

Prettyness from tuuni.

Jewellry from repurposed spoons from beloved.

Image credit Kinuskilla

And there's the whole gang: me, Päivi, Susanna, Tuija and Minna! Do like us on Facebook if you want to make sure to know where we pop-up the next time!

All pictures by tuuni/flickr, unless otherwise noted.

Kajsa's happy stitches

I feel bad for being absent for so long, but I'm back now finally on a brand new little laptop! The last weeks have been very busy. Friday night I had a 5 hour long promotion session for the Finnish edition of my book at the Academic bookstore, which is the biggest book shop here in Helsinki. It was very exciting and exhausting, I talked, ironed and sewed for five hours! I need to finish the piece of art I created in collaboration with the audience, but I will show it here later. The book is called Kajsan iloiset tilkut, which translates to Kajsa's happy stitches :) I have ordered a bunch of books so if anyone is interested in a signed copy, let me know!

Sadly I didn't get a picture of my workshop, I was too busy! I took this picture when I came, the authors of the new Marimekko book Surrur gave a workshop before me. It felt really cool to see piles of my book in the store and to have a snack in the lounch with best-selling authors...

Saturday morning I got up early to drive to the Regatta in Turku where my friends from Kimara had set up a tent the previous night, they had arranged everyhting beautifully. Take a look at the pictures at the Tuuni and karuski blogs! I made a bunch of these boat keyrings for the event and came back home with most of them so when I open my shop again a little boat like this might sail in!

And... it's tomte time again in Sykoland! 

Opening day pictures

 
We're back to everyday life, well nearly, school begins next week and I've had my first full-time work day after the holidays. It feels fantastic! I've started making tomte stuffies for Christmas :) Above is a little quilt I made for our kimara container shop. Here are some more pictures from our opening night a week ago!

Minna looking pretty with lovely balloons.

My house keyrings and badges...

We had some lovely homemade cookies! Love the look of the geranium with the crocheted table cloth (which is actually an old bedspread)!

Cushions I made for the Peonies and weeds exhibition in June and some mobile bags...

My quilt and lace pillows from tuuni.

Another optimistic little quilt, all fabrics are reused, except for the violet flap :)

A little Syko goodness...

I will be in the shop on Thursday, if you're in Helsinki -- do come and see me! If you're not, thanks so much for visiting me here on the blog! Once I get my new computer I promisepromisepromise to blog more frequently!

x

Kajsa

Pop-up shop in Helsinki!

I am very excited to show you the first pictures of the KimaraCRAFTS pop-up shop! Me and 4 other textile artists/crafters have joined forces and created a lovely little shop inside a shipping cointainer at Hernesaari, a harbour area in Helsinki with rough contrasts where concrete meets the beautiful open sea. These pictures were taken by Tuija of Tuuni. For opening hours and such, please visit our Facebook event page!

If you are in Helsinki during the month of August, do come and see us! I would love to meet you! Grand opening on Wednesday from 12 a.m. to 8 p.m. Welcome!

♥

Kajsa