Treasures of Wasteland

"When we discovered the growing waste

mountains we decided to change something.

Caring for the environment took us on an

adventurous journey. We brought you some

cool souvenirs, the Treasures of Wasteland."

Having decided to go back to Finland for this summer to spend some time with my family and Finnish friends before leaving them behind again (and this time much further away and therefore for much longer time, I guess, as well.) Also, I think this might be the last time I will live in Finland this long period of time.... God knows, but this is my idea for my life anyway. SO, I started a desperate job hunting which was quite difficult from UK, but I managed to get a job interview for Easter holidays when I was visiting my brother in Helsinki, which is c.5 hours drive away from where I live. The job was to work (in many challenging ways) in this cool design shop that sells pretty art, fashion and design stuff made of recyckled materials. I was actually very excited to work with this mentality and meeting the people there who shared their exciting vision... it just seemed such a great opportunity!

So, I got the job and then finally didn't take it which seems a bit crazy -- but really: how much are you going to spend time with your family if they live 5 hours and 80 euros away from you?!

Anyway, the shop is defenitely worth introducing - I just love their products and the life style they promote!! If you ever go to Helsinki you should visit them. Take a look their website (I added it to my links: SECCO SHOP).

But not accepting this job means that I have time to start my own waste-treasure production, and develop useful skipping skills into recycling factory! :) so, don't worry I am SURE I'm not going to get bored this summer either!

Oh, and another funny thing is that and you can apply for the Wasteland citizenship, of course in practice it's just becoming a member and receiving emails of their new products and events but I thought it's quite a cool idea and really promotes the idea of developing a new community of people who care for their environment, and that way for their fellow citizens as well. I was told that this mentality is growing a lot in Finland now and I am sure I will be happy to discover that, while designers, engineers, scientists etc. work for finding more sutainable solutions, recycling in all creative ways IS becoming a strong part of contemporary life style all around the globe. [....I waaaaant to believe!!!]