Golden Day

 Fårö, Gotland.

Perfection.

Celebrate the little things

Vii - Celebrate the little things from Three Stops Below on Vimeo.

This little clip was made a little while a go by some of our friends who came by for cake.
Right now I feel like I have a lot of little things to celebrate so it fits quite nicely with my mood :)
That's my hands wrapping one of our watches in the video :) Check them out here!
Why not today?
#varförinteidag?
;)

A place to call home

How nice to come home after a day out in the snow,

to open the door and put your suitcase down after a trip abroad,

to have a sofa to crash into after a long day at work.

I wish we lived in a world where everybody could relate to that feeling,

a world where everybody had a place to call home.

How lucky we are ... 

Vii goes Visby

I promised exciting news so here it is!

About a month ago I walked into this new little store here in town.

I could have been a regular customer, commenting on how nice everything was, deciding on a pair of earrings and a poster, paying & closing the door behind me again.

I'll spare you the details but instead I got talking with the owner. 

Guided by my curiosity, but also because I could see the possibilities straight away, I asked about how she got started, how much she paid in rent (not a very Swedish thing to do but I felt like I could) and when she said that she had been thinking about a collaboration of some sort to share the costs, I pounced!

I left her a Vii-flyer and asked her to look at my products and said she was more than welcome to let me know if she was interested.

I paid, closed the door behind me, but I left with much more than just a pair of earrings and a poster ...

I got a text message the same evening :)

Sara from Pattern & Grading and I met the next week. The same day I moved my stuff into her store and together we rearranged and redecorated the window display.

Now we're 3 weeks further down the road.

I've been in the store on my allocated days, Monday to Wednesday, and selling at Christmas markets during the weekend. If you follow us on Facebook or Instagram you've maybe seen we've even been able to fit in a little inauguration party to celebrate our partnership :)

Yesterday our window got its Christmassy look and we got the logo up as well!

Exciting times, as you can imagine!

Our little idea, that little charming store in that barn on the countryside just got a lot of space to grow!

Stay tuned!

//Aina

Add more colour to your diet!

As nature is losing its colours and the sky is grey rather than blue it's so refreshing to bring some colours into other aspects of our life ... Who said winter fashion has to be grey and black? Buy that green winter coat and bright yellow scarf!

The most obvious way to add colour to life for a nutritionist is of course through food. Salads are colourful by nature but now that we crave more warming food there is still hope for a vibrant colour scheme on our plates! Experiment with anything from the vegetable kingdom! My number one tip would be beets :)

We closed our store location a while back (the winter season is always so much more quiet than I remember it!) so I have a lot more time to spend in the kitchen all of a sudden. (What a blessing!) But just like every year the winter will be over before I know it and at least half of all the projects that I'm planning to do won't get finished. (Why is that?)

The store remains my number one focus though. The webshop is getting updated almost daily with Christmas present inspiration, I've signed up to just about all the Christmas markets here on the island and I might have even more exciting news to share in a week or so!

Until then, keep it healthy!*

*and with that I don't just mean the food on your plate, but also the thoughts in your head, the words coming out of your mouth, your relationships, your stress and activity level and everything else that makes up your lifestyle.

A bit much? I blame the fact that I had coffee this morning  ☕ It makes me rattle ☺️

xxx
Aina Maj

Treehouse Getaway

I'm not often at mum's place without a job description and a to do list, so this was a completely new experience :)

A lovely little holiday in the South of France. 

Croissants for breakfast served in our treehouse.

Lunch outside in the surprisingly hot sunshine, some sunbathing, some sightseeing, but most of all, just relaxing!

We started October in the best possible way.

I did give myself a mission as I am making mum an Instagram profile. Now I finally have a platform to share all the treehouse pictures I've taken over the years!

 If you've been at Orion B&B and have your own pictures to post, don't forget to tag @oriontreehouses and hashtag with #orionbb! 

Why not today?

Market Life

A lot of lists were written while brainstorming about opening our lifestyle store.
A lot of plans were made.
Some of those didn't materialise (or haven't yet) while other things just sort of happened without ever making it onto the lists in the first place.

Selling at markets was one of those things ... quite a few steps outside our comfort zones, to be honest, but with our recently adopted why-not-today-attitude we basically just had to go for it :)

No matter how brilliant our location is during the spring, during the fall & winter not a lot of people visit the local garden center.
From the end of August to the beginning of October markets are in the focus here on the island so from now on that will always be the time we go out and find our customers instead of waiting for them find us :)

Yesterday we had or final and most successful market - what a way to end the season!
We'll be putting the dates for next year's markets in our agendas already now so that we won't miss a single one in 2016!