The mother of pink

Instead of writing about all the idiots and cheapies at the craftsmans fair last weekend, I try and think positive thoughts. At least I don't have to get knitting a whole new bunch of shawls and other goodies.

I can have a bit of a lazy, movie-watching week in front of the telly. And try not to dwell on misers and nasty things I'd like seeing happen to them... Well, at least I TRY and be cheerful and positive about it...

Anyway - always a good word to throw in here and there - maybe I should tell you a bit about some of the items that somehow ended up accompany me home last week? When looking at the picture to your right you can see that there are a few red things in there. The mother of pink can't be too bad!

All of them actually come from the Designtorget (aka The Design market), a place in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö where different kinds of designers can - if they manage to be approved by a jury, out of which criterias they chose the designers I have never really understood. There are a lot of really unique, fun and wellmade stuff there as well as some real rubbish... - sell their stuff (although paying a hefty commission fee of 45% of the price).

Anyway - for the second time - from the left to the right, from top to bottom the picture shows:

1. A holder for the dog-poo-bags, leash etc. Couldn't resist, too cute to be left there. Will go well with my cute red, heartshaped doorknobs on the closets in the hallway.
2. Resting on the dog-holder is a nice looking lighter, for all those candles that'll be lit this Autumn.
3. My humour is sometimes of the simplest kind, this is a fridgemagnet which has most of the Stockholm's subway-stations on it, but translated into dirty words instead... Can't stop laughing, a true moodlifter for the simple-minded!
4. Oh yes, this is THE thing, a little match-box with a picture of the Swedish designer/TV-profile you either love or hate nowadays (he's just too good to be true sometimes and he seems to be everywhere and on every TV-show these days... Please, could someone shut him up or lock him into a closet in the smallest house in the middle of a dark wood on a deserted island?!). Along with the picture is one of his, not always too bright, familiar quotations. But this quotation really is shining both bright and beautiful - it translates something like: When a cat lies sleeping in a room there's nothing for an interior designer to do there.
5. And last, but not least, a sleek designed cleaner of DVD:s and CD:s. Every girl should have one.

Having written down all this about one day's shopping in the life of a Stockholmian woman in the best years of her life - as always - I do feel a bit better despite this awful waste of my precious time this last weekend. Shopping or remembering shopping, big and small, for all types of wallets and their content, always seem to do the trick...

Talking about wallets, there's the most beautiful new patchwork one in bright Autumn colours at Mulberry now...