Miss My Loves Lohja: Cafe Lauri's Christmas Opening 2013

We were told that just after Lohja's Christmas Street Parade our favourite Lohja coffee shop, Cafe Lauri, would have its own Christmas Opening with live music performed by students from Rytmiomena. Some students were young and some were old. Some performed traditional and well known songs and others had written their own songs. 

The owners of Cafe Lauri have organised this event every year since it opened its doors. Even though the Cafe was filled with people enjoying the live music one of the owners, Jukka, managed to have a quick word with us as we were keen on finding out what Cafe Lauri is offering during Christmas time. We got to enjoy Cafe Lauri's home made spiced berry drink (glögi) which is made by Cafe Lauri's other owner, Timo, according to a recipe by Timo's mother. They use their own berries for the drink. We were also offered home made Christmas Star pastries which was the best Christmas Star pastry I have ever had.

Jukka told us that most of their cakes, pastries and savoury things are made on the spot. They use organic and local ingredients as much as possible and I think you can really taste it. We asked Jukka whether they are offering any special Christmas creations before Christmas and he told us that you can get their delicious Christmas Star pastries as well as Christmas Swiss roll and that one Christmas favourite is their English Christmas cake. The Christmas cake gets its flavour from being marinated for several days.

We asked Jukka how he celebrates Christmas. He said he celebrates it with family and that they play music and sing. He said their Christmas is traditional with traditional Christmas foods but with added specialities such as macaroni-egg-casserole and strawberry pudding.

Cafe Lauri is regularly hosting events and performances and on Friday 29.11 at 19:00 the Eero Ojanen trio will perform. Tickets cost 10e and can be purchased in advance from Cafe Lauri.

Interesting fact: Cafe Lauri was awarded the title 'Lohja's Tourist Entreprise of the Year'!

For more information on Cafe Lauri go here:

http://www.cafelauri.fi/

All pictures belong to My Moon.

All I want for Christmas...

By: Pottery Barn

Noin viikon kuluttua joulukalenterin ensimmäinen luukku aukeaa. Myös täällä blogissamme!
Jokainen päivä jouluaattoon saakka paljastaa ihanan jouluisen reseptin, askartelu -tai koristeidean. Joulu on lempijuhlamme ja haluamme jakaa sen ihanan ajan tunnelmaa kanssanne. Luvassa inspiraatiota, joulun tuoksua ja valoa synkkiin iltoihin.
Loppuhuipennuksena luvassa sisustustuotteen arvonta! 

Stay tuned!

A bit over a month to go and Santa Claus is coming to town! Soon we will hear Christmas songs on the radio and Christmas lights and decorations will brighten up the dark winter days. We will try to brighten up your winter days with a Christmas calendar. From December 1st onwards we will offer tips on decorating and gift wrapping, ideas for Christmas presents and lots of Christmas recipes. Every day you can check the calendar and see what we have in store for you that day. We hope you will be as excited about our Christmas calendar as we are! If you have any ideas and/or tips for our Christmas calendar please let us know as we would love to hear from you!

Miss Mo & Miss My

My love for all things Pentik

When Miss Mo and I met in Ireland we immediately found out we had one thing in common. Our love for Pentik. According to their website "Pentik is an international interior design retailer, with over 70 stores in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland. The stores reflect our holistic interior design philosophy that emphasises quality and attention to detail." To me Pentik means lots and lots of beautifully wrapped gifts to my loved ones and myself. Whenever I buy a Pentik item for myself I have them giftwrap it as just looking at the package gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. When my sisters visited me from Holland they spent hundreds of euros on Pentik items as they saw so many beautiful things and their greed got the best of them. They bought so much they probably ended up paying extra for excess baggage. But it's really worth it as their items are real classics.

There is so much to love at Pentik. But here are some examples. Please note that all pictures have been taken from www.pentik.com.