Vihreä Vyyhti täytti kymmenen vuotta Hakaniemen hallissa - ONNEA!

10 years' celebration in Hakaniemi market hall, Vihreä Vyyhti 1.10.2008.

Shop owner's job is multitasking: decision making, ordering, carrying, storing, selling, representing, marketing, very often sweating, swearing and even smoking.
Kässämessuja siellä sun täällä, Lea se ei istu villojen päällä.
Kutoahan voi joka säällä, sitten onkin hyvällä päällä.
Tralalalalaa.
Saiskohan Hartikaiselta tähän sävellyksen ...?

On se putelinsa ansainnu tuumi Murtsikin kun halliin heräs.
ROSEBUDilla on vielä runsaat 9 ja puoli vuotta ekoihin kybävuotisjuhliin tuossa Mariankadun nurkassa, tsemppistä Iialainen! Tervetuloa Frankun kirjamessuille hakemaan lisää virikkeitä! Hos geldiniz sanoo messujen special guest Turkki.
Matkani ylläriohjelma - spontaneous program in Helsinki ICE HOCKEY MATCH
HIFK - Oulun Kärpät

the reason was this guy:
32 Lennart Petrell
HIFK - laitahyökkääjä *** s. 13.4.1984 Helsinki *** 191 cm / 95 kg /
NHL-varaus: 2004 Columbus Blue Jackets 6. kierros #190sopimus: 2010
Ura: Lennart Petrell pelasi junioriuransa HIFK:ssa piipahdusta Karhu-Kissoissa lukuun ottamatta. Teki läpimurtonsa kaudella 2003-2004 ollessaan IFK:n junioreiden johtopelaajia. Edusti Suomea myös vuoden 2004 nuorten MM-kotikisoissa ja varattiin kesällä 2004 NHL:ään Columbuksen riveihin. Kaudella 2005-06 oli Sheddenin luottopelaajia. Keräsi 20 tehopistettä runkosarjassa, mutta kunnostautui eniten likaisen työn raatajana. Kausi 207-2008 nosti Petrellin IFK:n ykkösnimien sarjaan ja myös maajoukkueeseen.
Or should I say the reason is to be found in this picture on the right, this dark lady is the aunt of Lennu and next to her are Lennu's proud parents. So we just had to go and see the match. Thanks for the tickets.
Lennu really has fan club, the smaller one here is his godson.
Yes, actually it was quite fun to watch the match, not that I understood much, but it is the atmosphere that crabs you. It is amazing how much advertisement there is all around the stadium, and also the players are carrying company names even at theit buts ... very clever, most of the time the back part of the players is up on the air anyway!

If I was 15 years old would I also dream of being a cheerleader girl in an ice hockey match ...? Would I? Should I?
At the end of the match the boys got carried away, at least three fights started even before the final whistle was blown. Lennu (32) kept cool, how good for him.
By the way, the final score was 4 to 2, for HIFK, of course.

It was a big sports night in Helsinki, next to the ice hockey stadium there was a soccer match, Honka playing against Santander from Spain. The Finns lost the match with 0-1. I could have bet that the Spaniards cannot make it as it was pouring rain the whole evening.
HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK 08 /// 25.9. - 6.10. /// Artek showroom: Tom Dixon lamps.
Great. Did not really know about this when I arrived, meaning I did not prepare my trip that much. Should have done it, could have seen some interesting exhibitions. This low profile design week was not really shown anywhere, until you got inside the shops. Too weird. Low profile, indeed.
And now I must admit that I haven't followed the news either. What the h ...? Artek has a BRTITSH artistic manager, Tom Dixon. This information deserved some surfing, and what did I find out? Interesting things, like Artek, the cool shop at Esplanadi Street selling world famous finnish design products, mainly furniture, belongs to swedes. And now they hired a brit to manage the artistic development of the shop.
At least this guy seems to be modest: "We do not plan to implement a revolution in the first year", says Tom Dixon, the new artistic director of Artek. "When Artek was founded in 1935 by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl, it was a manifesto of creative people, who aimed at being more than just an export company. The attitude was very modern, and we should take Artek more in that direction, rather than keeping it as an Aalto museum, which it has been for some time now."
Asked if Artek’s line would remain Nordic by nature, Dixon answers with another question. "What is Nordic? Is it just Scandinavia, or does it extend to the equator? The Japanese probably represent a more Nordic kind of design than the Finns do."
(HS 27.8.2008)

Punertaa marjat pihlajan, kuin verta niillä ois - finnish tango.

But this trip was basicly green, so this is the whirlpool in my sister's new house and you can bathe in all colours! The house is good, congrats to the new home, little sis.

Our little big godson might find his career as a cook ...? If not as a filosofical rally driver ... Thanks for driving me around, Walde!

Checked Sirpa's new place, too, actually I should rename this post "the home checking tour". But as the third home checking was exhanged to ice hockey, the title will stay green.
Little Anni likes drawing with old Ode, that was fun. Next time we'll meet with more time.
Next time you fly from HEL, check the Alvar coffee shop decoartion wall at the departure gate 25. I could swear the lights are not green. My camera just sometimes does what it wants. Omapäinen niinku hallikauppias. The idea with the Aalto vases is brilliant, like the brits say. Cheers Mr Dixon!

I really really really prefer window seats, beacause sometimes you really really really can enjoy the views.
The football season has just started in Germany, so Saturday afternoons are booked, mostly in front of the tv-screen. Poor Eintracht Frankfurt, something is really really wrong.
I won't change the title of this post because it is still green in Frankfurt, much greener than in Finland.