happy little places

don't you just love it when you discover a happy little place that you can connect to
the kind

that makes you feel like you could just stay there
the kind
that you can't wait to go back to

I have a couple of those places that make my heart

GLOW

I'm going to share one of my happy places with you

are you ready for all this!

Fiskars...
yeah like the scissors

those
orange handled scissors!!!

did you know they came all the way from

Finland!

HONEST

Fiskars, Finland

go ahead...
go look at your orange scissors...

I'll wait
(tehehehehehe)

I will spare you a lengthy history lesson on scissors

(I heard you go whewwww, it's okay, my feelings are not hurt)

I'll let you just browse around

at Fiskars (here) if you are curious

so the place has scissors

why would that make this a happy place for me?

welllllll....

they have some other stuff going on

the village is just really so very very quaint with their

cobble stones, beautiful old buildings

the river that was the heart of it's history

makes the village just so picturesque

and then there is the thing that makes me smile and do a happy dance

there is the
LITTLE SHOPS

my

VERY VERY VERY

favorite kind of shopping

is in the

little artsy shops

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

how I just LOVE those little shops!!!

it's

inside the little shops

I find those special little things that are made from someone's heart
you know what I'm saying

it's

those things that speak to me

that tell me to pick them up and press it to my heart

and
forget where I am at or who is looking

yes

I do that

I have always done that

it's just what I do when something
realllllllly
touches me

some day a shop owner is going to ask that I please remove their art work from my breast

maybe that will break my art to boob habit

hahahahaha

yeah, probably not!

back to my happy place...

there are

working studios of local artisans

creating

beautiful ceramics, blowing glass, forging iron, making paper

you can shop for

fine jewelry, hand made clothing
traditional handy crafts
furniture, fine art

oh
and
scissors

of course there are scissors in lots of colors not just orange and paper punches and garden tools and flatware and a whole lot of other things in the Fiskar store

although when we go to Fiskars I am not so much all about the scissor store

I think you might have picked that up

there really is a lot to see

and

cafes to lunch at along the river
and
sweet benches to rest on and hold hands

rain rain go away we are going to go on a picnic soon! can you see the rain in the water :-(

my favorite building made of slag (black) bricks
(this is our secret picnic spot)

we had our romantic picnic here under the trees next to the river
we held hands and kissed

it was

a happy little day

XOX