Moomin Haul

Many of you know that I started university to study nursing in September 2011 and from then until March I’ve had almost no money at all. However, I’ve just received a huge backlog of payments for uni and so I’ve definitely treated myself over the Easter holidays, but it was greatly deserved!

It was my 19th Birthday on April 5th, and I was given a budget of £100 off Tomm for my presents. I decided to shop around and bought some of the Moomin books – mainly from Amazon, which is the cheapest place.

 

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Posted on April 18, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Tove Jansson’s Studio

Sadly, this is off limits to the public. I will try my best to be allowed in one day though! It’s around a 10 minute walk from Helsinki city centre, located on the corner of Ullanlinnankatu and Kasarminkatu. This was where Tove lived and worked until she died.

Images and text are from Drawn and Quarterly.

 

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Posted on March 26, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , ,



My 25 Favourite Moomin Cakes

As a passionate Moomin lover and also cake baker, I thought that I would post a countdown of my favourite Moomin cakes that I have seen on the internet – and believe me, there are more than 25, so this was really hard for me!

25 – This was found on Vesselin väkerrykset‘s blog. I really love the Groke and I think this looked like great fun to make. Not many people like her because she is scary, but she just wants to be loved!

24 - The Moomin cake at the Bury art museum on October 24th 2010 for the Magical Moominvalley exhibition. It was simple yet beautiful. I stole one of the boats!

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Posted on February 24, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Moomin T-shirts

Over the last few years, New Look have been the main producer of Moomin t-shirts. Play.com have had three t-shirts in the last three years, but they stopped selling them rather soon. What really annoyed me about New Look is that despite the t-shirts being great quality, price and designs, they would not appear online so I would have to go in store, which was a pain because I like to check new products for Moomin stockists every week or so, and it was asking a bit too much of me because it’s easier to do this online.

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Posted on February 16, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,



An Unwanted Guest – Skurken i Muminhuset

The title ‘Skurken i Muminhuset’ translates to ‘The villain of the Moomin house’. It was published in 1980 but has never been officially translated into English.

The pictures found within the story are all photographs taken by Per Olov Jansson (Tove’s brother) from within the Moomin house which was constructed by Tove Jansson, her partner Tuulikki Pietilä and Pentti Eistola in the 1970s. This is now situated in the Moomin musuem (muumilaakso) in Tampere art gallery, Finland. The story of its creation is available in the museum, but photographs are not permitted. The next time I go, I will write down exactly what it says.

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Posted on February 15, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Gifts and Interior Design Trade Fair/Vårmessen

From January 26th-29th the Gifts and Interior Design Trade Fair took place in Norway. I personally did not manage to make it there because of university, but a lovely person on Twitter blogged about it and took many photos which I will show here (with permission!).

http://messe.no/no/GaveInterior/Mummitrollene-kommer/ This is the website for the fair’s Moomin page for if anyone is interested in going in the future. One day I hope I can go. The text translates to:

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Posted on February 13, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Podcasts & The Joy of Books

Whilst browsing through the iTunes store, I thought I’d search ‘Tove Jansson’ in and see what results I’d get. You can get a lot of the Moomin music, most of the books and free podcasts. Seeing as I have all the books and some music, I decided to have a listen to the podcasts.

The first one I listened to was from an English lecturer called Kate Macdonald, which I think was released on September 22nd 2011. She makes podcasts called ‘Why I Really Like This Book’ and this one was called Tove Jansson and the Moomins. I thought it was fascinating to listen to someone describe all the Moomin characters in such a perfect way,  so I would definitely recommend listening to it. It’s just less than 10 minutes and is completely free! Her website is http://www.reallylikethisbook.com/ – the podcast can be downloaded there or on iTunes.

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Posted on January 12, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,



Discounts & new products

I forgot to mention yesterday that Artbox have reduced the prices of their mugs from £15.90 to £14.50! They also have a lot of new stationary like notebooks (which I plan to buy before I start my placement at a hospital soon). I bought a pen recently but it snapped before I even used it, but luckily superglue managed to fix it.

I’ve just realised they’ve also updated their stock too – these two products have just shown up:

They’re really cheap too, only £4.40 each.

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Posted on January 11, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Presents & new knickers!

As expected, I got tons of Moomin products for Christmas. I chose most of them off Artbox in November because they were offering a 20% off discount code for one day, so Tomm spent £150 there. They have the 2011 limited edition bubbles mug so I had to get that before it shot up in price.
I basically chose all the things I always wanted to get but never had the money for because they weren’t necessities, and Artbox is my favourite place to get anything cute from.

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Posted on January 10, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Merry Christmas!

Christmas is so hectic! Luckily we managed to get all our presents in November so we’ve just been relaxing. Of course, we put up our small Christmas tree at the start of December and added Moomin baubles and the new 2011 mini mugs.

 

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Posted on December 24, 2011 Tagged , , , , , , , ,