cafe members!

"amazing...

amazing....!"


Took me some time to wrap and place them in boxes in order to upload to the car.., it was quite heavy as well...

I got them from auction house the other day.



and I love "coq" series!
kind of matches to Japanese taste as well...





so many pieces! wow...




Hand washed all of them and counted them...
When I got them from the aution house, it said they are 48 pieces..


.., but



it was
10 tea-cups
13 tea- cup saucers
4 coffee -cup
7 coffee- cup saucers
6 big plates
7 miiddle plates
6 bowls
7 small plates
2 mini bowls
1 hute oven plate
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70 pieces!!!...

wow!




Designed by Stig Lindberg, Gustavsberg
"Coq" series (1966-1085)
These are ovenwares and the brown color with chocolate dots and white edges are so lovely!

The unique logo is very cute.



"mmm... lovely"

Mon.version

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Mon. version lunch box ×3

School day trip to Skansen for Kent....
and...,
Lunch boxes to office.....





Chicken version lunch box with..
egg, green veges, carrots, tomato, potato, pine apples and rice balls (sour plum version)





muffins and juce with extra rice balls and OREO!


We had our lunch in the company office garden.
Sunny nice day it was!




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Sun. afternoon...

Sun. afternoon at home....
fixing... fixing...?


We finally found the right cable for our antik lamp and trying to change it...











New discovery on my hus...
He likes Dutch made peanut butter...

"only Dutch peanut butter.." he says...


Isn't this "Spork" great?

"spoon meets fork...."

Found it at DesignTorget the other day for Jack.
Great for picnic, trip.., but it's cool to use it at home.






Jack happily sleeping under "the Louis Weisdorf 1970s Sculptural Lamp by Lyfa"



... zzzz.....



zzzz...









The lamp is yet fixed and hanged...
(We got the wrong piece, need to get a new one...)




→This is how it should look with the new wire.
You don't see in the pic, but the wire is old and dirty..
I can't wait to have our semi-pendant back!

I got this lamp at auction house the other day. Designed by architects Claus Bonderup (b. 1943) and Torsten Thorup, 1967 for Fog and Morup, Dk.

Such a stylish lamp!

The material (fablic covered wire, porcelain) and it is original, but I want to change the wire to new one.
"Ikea" has the nerves to sell a smaller copy as their design!, but uncomparable!

illustrated in " 1000 lights" by Peter Fiell (Taschen books)





"art is in the air!"

Swiss view

My great friend sent me this pic the other day.

What a nice pic he took!
.... beautiful...!


I'd love to live in Switzerland one day...

södermalm mini walk

day trip to södermalm. took a boat from Hammarby Sjöstad (home) to södermalm. It only takes few minutes to the other side of the island.




Cloudy day it was, although Swedish Summer view is beautiful!















city view. We went to Hermans and had a cafe time. Hallon pie was good.

"love love Stockholm!"

xoko × Fritz Hansen @ office

"xoko"'s lever paste baguette.

"mmmm....., lovely!.."














Erik having his lever paste baguette!

... and ...superellipse table!
Design Piet Hein and Bruno Mathsson/ Arne Jacobsen, 1968.
Steel, syntheic material, wood venner. Made in Denmark by Fritz Hansen.


At home with Bruno Mathsson supercircle table and office with this superllipse table!

Wow... I am surrounded by my favorite tables.
I love Scandinavian designs!
→ home dining table and lovely Mr. Mathsson (1907-1988)

great place to be...

Jack's daycare center.




Lots of nature...

playground...

home made food...

great staffs....


and bird humming, twittering...♪

Playing with sand and eating good, jippee

We will put Jack-san in a new place around our place soon, also jippee




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We drive him to this daycare center which is near our old apartment.Only 10 kids in his class "lingonet"= the lingonberry group, very calm and nature environmental place.

3 teachers for his class. I believe in daycare center especially for small kids which is away from city noise/crowds..etc. I want Jack to spend quality time walking in the nature, looking at trees, playing with sand, water, flowers and grass having lots of possibilities playing outside.

The great facilities inside the building, food and staffs are important, too.

Winter here in Stockholm is cold and dark, but they are everyday out and playing in the snow.

I think Swedish daycare centers are unique and great and this is also the reason that we're staying here.
I see the quality in daycare center.


When we were in Amsterdam looking for the possibilities for Jack's daycare center, we spent whole day checking places for Jack, but I could hardly found something that I felt "this is it!".
Some even looked as almost like a small rabbit cage. Most of them had small asphalt playgrounds between the buildings, tiny space where one room for play and another for sleep, sandwich lunch and no eco foods, many stairs or no place to put buggy and got really chocked.
(Eco foods not popular in Holland.....??)

Erik told me that Amsterdam is a city with limited spaces and this is the reality, but I also wondered where would parents place kids whom are keen about food, nature and calm places....?
(maybe one stays home in that case???... nanny???)

The funny thing is that if you are used to city life, you would not even noticed the value of nature so much.
(I found 2 nice place between Jacques and Erik's apartment with great facilities and totally closed community daycare center where we signed up and even got a place and in front of the big park although they had a very simple lunch and small garden. I also liked the place where Hanno's daughter goes) If I ever move to Amsterdam, I would probably have a hard time finding the right place.


My dream place for Jack's daycare center is in the middle of forest in Norway the one I saw on TV many years ago. Or in the Swiss mountain sounds great as well.


We have been to 6 daycare centers for check-up in Stockholm.
1 was parents cooperative, 3 private ones, 2 public ones including where he is.
Stockholm areas daycare centers are mostly provided by the state (all public and some private ones) and you need to be in the waiting cue.
Our area is very popular and about 350 kids are in front of our son now in the waiting cue which means it would probably take 1-1.5 year.
I thought this is no chance to get the nearest one from the
state now, so I decided to approach private ones which are not in the state cues.
Now Jack got a place near the home. 4months old newly built place, amazing building with super great high standard facilities and near the park.
I applied 2 months ago and there should be about 300-400 kids in the waiting cue at least. It clearly mentioned in their HP that there will be only 4 available places in 2010 Summer.



How did he get the place then?





.....???






I directly approached the head by phone, email and visiting them with Jack showing our faces and introducing ourselves not in a pushy way, but very effective way, strongly remembers us.
and it worked!


amazing....


Mon. I phoned the head and talked.
Tue. Sent her a mail with our family situation...etc
Wed. Went to the daycare center "visning" (open day) and met her and had a tour in the daycare.Jack attended as well.
Fri. Talked on the phone with the head and got a place!


I guess private school cue system is everything up to the head.
If the head/ decision maker likes you/family, you would get it, otherwise no chance.

Also Jack behaved really good and happy when we visited them. I am sure he gave great impression to the head.

So, Jack is going to new daycare soon.
Sad to leave from the one where he goes, but I see this as a step up.
Much closer to our new home (only 3min by foot), less hours he will be at daycare center. Better facilities and seems more organized.
He will also get Eco lunch made in the daycare center by chef. Fresh food is alway nice!

I hope he would like this place and enjoy his days!


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alart!!

new friendly reminder on the WC door..!

Siemens × Tretti

"love Tretti...
love Siemens...!" (by me)

"As long as my love is happy, I am happy..."
(by hus)

Finally, ordered a new "Siemes dishwasher" from Tretti today.
I'm quite a slow dicision maker and I love thinking about "details...functions.." and took me 2months to order it. I'm a big fan of Siemens products and wanted to have the lowest noise level "40dB" energy rating "A", cutlery rack in top basket, 14 place settings and other reasons, I chose this one!
Soon, dishwashing free life coming back to us!

Thanks, Tretti!

New members..

Kitchen chairs for now!

It mathches good with the Bruno Mathsson super circle table.


Got them as a second hand.

one for me...
one for Erik...
one for Kent....
and one for...? ... Jack??

Sat. breakfast

Our Sat. morning mini breakfast.
Kind of JP style.

I mainly make it for Kent's lunch box for his JP Sat. school and the rest becomes our breakfast.

**** Menu ******
Yakiniku
rice balls with sour plum
sweet honey taste carrots
veges

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I've been making lunch box for years (at least these 6years every once a week) and it is now adays takes even less time making one:)

Tips for cooking Yakiniku!
prepare them night before with ginger, sesami oil, soysause, chili,garlic, onion (+ extra veges). It's extra tasty if you add sesami seeds! Use thin sliced meat!

Jack also had Yakiniku with non-chili light seasoned version!