MOOMIN MUGS

A nice morning starts with a mug of nice cappuccino and not in any kind of mug, the Moomin characters light up my mornings. The colourful mugs can be found in many Finnish families. I got my mugs as a Christmas presents from my children and some from friends. These mugs are "Made in Finland" and some models are quite rare and they are already collector items. The black and white mugs on the coffee machine is part of the new collection called "Seikkailu", meaning adventure. In that collection there are trays, mug, milk jug, cereal bowl. Actually the colourful collection also have matching cereal bowls.

NAANTALI BY WINTER

Naantali is a small town in South west of Finland near Turku... The old part of Naantali has very old wooden houses which has been renovated and people love to live in that area. It is close by the leisure boat harbour and restaurants. Naantali is more a summer city they even call it the "St. Tropez de Finland". Summer time brings the Naantali back to life, the small street are busy and many tourist comes to visit the historical part of town and families comes from far away to visit The Moomin World. See my posting about Naantali summer on my July postings...

CRAFT ROOM

I found suitable furniture in IKEA for this room. The shelves are attached on 3 aluminium poles and what is good I could choose how many and what kind of shelving I needed. Most of the storage card board boxes are from Ikea as well. Opposite side of the shelving is the bed that can be open to a double bed when needed and it still has 3 large storage drawers in it as well. The duvet cover and pillow cases are from Finlayson's Moomin Collection. Finlayson is a Finnish company that has a nice collection of fabrics, duvet covers and table clothes and every season they will bring some new designs...

MOOMINWORLD

The hugging the Moomin is a highlight of the summer for many young visitors of the Moominworld in Naantali. It is a theme park where you can meet all the characters in their own habitat. Let's hug when me meet is the Moomin motto.

THE MOOMINS

The Moomins in Finnish " muumi" and in Swedish " mumintroll" are the central characters in series of books and comic trips by Finnish illustrator and writer Tove Jansson. The carefree and adventurous family lives in the Moominvalley. The Moomins became better know the worldwide public in '80 by the modern day cartoon series in the TV.