ARCHIPELAGO

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I spent all my summers as a kid at our place in the archipelago. Now I only have time to go there a couple of days a time, a few times per year. It's sad in a way, but then again, I once more noticed I'm so bad at relaxing. I just kept on thinking of jobs not yet finished and the blog and nightlife in the city...shame on me. Well anyway, it rally is a lovely place and I played around a lot with my new camera (since I fially got one!) We have a small beach, a big garden, so many flowers and berries, lots of rocks and cliffs. The old house is from the 1800's, the other from the 1920's.












What I also like about the place is all the things there. It would be wrong to call it vintage, it's just original and old. But sometimes I take somethings with me back to my plac ein town, and then it does become vintage - like my couch, a funkis-style teak sofa from the 1930's (that's when teak was still not an ecological no-no). It was just stored among a lot of other unused stuff in one of the rooms in the big house. Of course I'd like to take a lot of other things and furniture with me too, but that would take the joy of those things away from the other members of my family...


But some clothes always make me company back to town. Last year my mothers red-and-white skirt, this year a tiny flower-patterned jumpsuit with a very dress-like cut.


On Tuesday I'll go to the other part of my family's summerhouse, it's by a lake in the South-Eastern part of Finland. Totally different form the archipelago. Over there I've found a lot of my grandmother's wonderful dresses; let's see if I have not emptied all the drawers yet. Maybe something will follow me home from there this year too.