Jan
27
Knit and purl
by Sofia - in Good things for kids
Hattara on ollut kovin innostunut käsitöistä viime aikoina. Onneksi, koska omat käsityötaitoni eivät ole mainitsemisen arvoisia. Äitini on kuitenkin taitava käsityöhommissa ja on opettanut Hattaralle kaikennäköistä. Hattara toivoikin joululahjaksi omia ompelutarvikkeita ja sopiva setti löytyi Tingelingistä. Olin nähnyt siellä tällaisen Moulin Rotyn ompelusalkun jo kauan sitten ja onneksi niitä oli edelleen valikoimissa. Se oli erittäin mieluinen lahja!
Jan
26
Bonpoint Fashion Show Live
by Sofia - in Good things for kids Shopping
If you are a Bonpoint fan then you may want to know that their Winter 2016 fashion show will be streaming live at 4.30 p.m. CET on Wednesday 27th ( tomorrow) on their website www.bonpoint.com. You can also see a version of the coming summer´s collection´s runway on the site. Plenty of clogs, straw hats and some ponchos too. Did you know Bonpoint is turning 40 years this year!? Here you can watch a video from their Studio.
Bonpointin talven 2016 malliston muotinäytös näytetään ensimmäistä kertaa livenä Bonpointin sivulla huomenna, eli keskiviikkona 27.1. klo 17.30 Suomen aikaa. Itse olen silloin vielä töissä, muuten katsoisin sen mielelläni. Yllä myös kuva Bonpointin studiolta. Bonpoint täyttää tänä vuonna 40-vuotta ja heidän studioltaan on nähtävissä myös video täällä.
Hyvää päivää ( itselläni on tänään kolmen latten aamu, mutta niitähän sattuu)!
Have a good day,
Lattemamma xoxo
photos from Bonpoint
Jan
25
I´ve had requests about posts regarding home keeping. So I thought why not!? I sometimes wonder if writing about such matters makes one easily sound somehow “Stepford wife´ish” giving silly ideas about how to keep your home tidy. But then again I always like to read about great tips and hints to ease my everyday life. I know some are not that interested in such subjects and then for some these are matters of heated discussions ( honestly, I´ve had wonderful conversations about shiny countertops that would bore some of my friends to death). But I will actually try to make this a new fairly regular subject on the blog. If you love reading about people´s housekeeping because you want to read their confessions about how their laundry pile is so high then this series is not for you ( yes yes, mine gets too high sometimes too but I´m not one for taking pictures with my laundry hanging in the background if you know what I mean). I want this to be inspirational and I would love to also learn great new tricks from you in the comments.
But I do have to make a few comments ( or confessions) about tidiness before I start the whole thing. I was asked how I run my household chores so that for example the magazines don´t pile up and everything runs smoothly. I don´t. I mean I don´t do it by myself. My home is definitely not always in absolute spick and spam order but I do like it orderly and clean. It just makes me happy. But I´m fairly sure that without my husband the house would not be quite as nice as it is. So I´m going to share a few very easy tricks that he ( as a very neat and orderly person) has taught me by example.
1. Put everything in it´s place after you have used it. Let´s say clothes. After you used it put it either back to the closet or in the laundry. Don´t leave it lying around on a chair. If you don´t put used clothes that you tend to still wear back in the closet then have a designated space for it but then use it again and don´t let things pile up.
2. Clean as you go. If he spills he wipes up immediately, if he cooks he puts everything in the washer, if there is hand washing he does it right away. It really makes a difference.
3. Do it now, not tomorrow. This is my weak point. If I´m tired, I want to drink my cup of tea and watch something on Netflix so I think I´ll just take that box of Christmas decorations to the attic tomorrow. He does everything right away. It takes 5 minutes and then it´s done. It´s worth it! I´m also a procrastinator when it comes to filling any formal forms ( In Finland for instance those maternity papers for Kela were a nightmare for me) or such. He does it immediately when it comes, it´s done and won´t bother you after that.
4. Recycle immediately. If he´s read a newspaper or a magazine he throws it away ( honestly sometimes too efficiently as I find the newspaper in the paper trash when the girls are out the door with him in the morning and I finally have time for my coffee and reading). But the point here is to not leave that stuff around too long. Take the bottles to the store, the glass and metal to a sorting station ( luckily we have on in our building) etc.
