FROST

After a very cold night the humidity had crystallized in flakes and we found these tiny Christmas tree on the edge of the wooden pier. Natural frozen wonders...

BRAKING ICE

This week was really cold, so the sea got frozen quickly and it was thick enough to walk on the ice... Here our friend is making a large hole in the ice and we will use it for getting a quick dip in to the ice water while taking a sauna...The hot and cold that invigorates the circulation in the whole body and afterwards you feel so good...

MY BEDROOM

Our main bedroom in the chalet is "en suite" with the bathroom and the colours that I have use for the decoration in  the whole area are brown, turquoise and white... Most of the wood is birch wood which makes the bedroom side very light... The bathroom can be seen in the summer posting earlier this year, it has some nice details as well...

BED LINEN

Today is the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, it is 10.18 a.m. and the sun has just come up behind the forest... These winter periods, when the days are short and it feels like the night never ends, specially here in Finland and other northern part of the globe. The Bedroom has even a more important meaning this time of the year, warmer duvets and good bed linen are important for these frosty nights... My duvet cover and pillow cases are from South Africa and all the cushion covers were made by me. Here some bead details from the double cushion that can be folded behind the back while I read in the bed...

PRINTED LINEN

The bunk bed is in corner next to the kitchen/dining area in our chalet, my brother made the bed and it serves well when we need some extra sleeping place for guest otherwise it serves as a relaxing reading place...The fabrics are from Marimekko, I have made the two duvet covers with a satin print from the Unikko Marimekko collection, it was a limited edition of that fabric and it goes well with the black and beige smaller print of Unikko Marimekko... These Unikko means poppy in Finnish comes in many colours, have a look at the Marimekko website, they really have stunning fabrics. My pillow cases are made of Marimekko's cotton fabric...