Hook: a little lamp with a big conscience

With over 60 years experience and a portfolio of over 3000 lighting and fan solutions you could say Faro Barcelona knows a thing or two about lighting! This makes it especially exciting that the team has chosen to unveil its latest lamp 'Hook' at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. Made in Spain, the versatile Hook can be used with three different accessories to create a wall lamp, magazine rack and shelf, creating both indirect lighting and brightening up dark corners of your home. It's also designed to reduce environmental impact by between 30% to 70% compared to other non eco-designed products. Amazingly, the profit will be donated to Mary's Meal - an NGO which aims to provide chronically hungry children with one meal every school day, encouraging education that can lift them out of poverty in later life, meaning that for every lamp sold, one child will be fed for an entire school year.  Faro Barcelona are also donating 2 euros from every sale to Fundació el Maresme, a non-profit organisation that promotes and encourages social integration and improving the quality of life of people with disabilities.  A lamp that lights up your home and other people's lives - how wonderful is that?!  

If you're visiting the Stockholm Furniture Fair you can say hi to the Faro Barcelona team and meet the new Hook lamp at Hall A Booth 16:30 from 7th - 11th February. 

Have a lovely evening!

This post was sponsored by Faro Barcelona. All words are my own and I only ever work with brands I love and know you will too! Thank you for supporting the brands that enable me to create fresh content for you to enjoy.

The Scotch™ Brand Tape gift wrapping challenge

In my family I'm known for going all out with the Christmas present wrapping - I'll spend hours over it! And then this year something wonderful happened. I received a mail from Scotch™ Brand Tape (Swedish site here) asking if I was up for a present wrapping challenge - who me? ALWAYS!!!!  It seems we share the same sentiment: 'let no gift go miswrapped this holiday'. A box of gift wrapping heaven arrived in the post a few days later, including no fewer than five different tapes: there was magic tape, gift wrap tape, transparent tape , double-sided tape and expressions tape! Oh joy! After careful deliberation I decided to go super natural with brown and white paper, monochrome ribbons, fresh cuts and a sprinkling of pine cones and lots of the wonderful 'magic tape'! I hope you like the results! 

Photography: Niki Brantmark / My Scandinavian Home. 

Any guesses what's inside (apart from the obvious one)?!

Do you know how you'll be wrapping your presents this year?

If you're in need of a little inspiration, you could get some tips from Scotch™ Brand Tape magical elves: Scott.E, Smitty, Zoe, Jack and Emily.

Have fun!

This post was brought to you in collaboration with Scotch™ Brand Tape. All words are my own and I only ever work with brands I love and think you will too. Thank you for supporting the brands that help bring fresh content to your inbox each day.

Abbott & Mosley watch winner / 15% reader discount

Thanks so much for entering the give-away to win an Abbott & Mosley watch. I absolutely loved reading your entries, they were so imaginative! It was soooooo tricky to pick a winner, but in the end I was taken with a poem by Siv. Congratulations! Please send me a mail so we can organise for Santa to bring you your watch on his sleigh this Christmas!  And for everyone else - the wonderful team at Abbott & Mosley are offering a 15% discount with code 'xmashome15' until 7th January 2017  -everyone's a winner! Yay! 

Featured watch: Rose Carrara Cream. 

This post is brought to you in collaboration with Abbott & Mosley.

Christmas gift guide – Nordic and unique

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? How about something a little unique this year. Something handmade by Nordic designers, artists and craftsmen to be specific? You may remember NOORVERK from this lovely Christmas decoration feature and now, I'm returning for a little Christmas shopping! Excitingly NOORVERK has something for everyone who cares about quality and craftsmanship, tradition and sustainability (and of course, beautiful design!), from pillows and blankets, to jewellery and scarves and wooden children's toys. Here's my pick:

For her

For the host
 
For design lovers

For best friends

For art lovers

For him 

For me!
For children

1. Leather desk organiser 2. Hand turned bowl. 3. Porcelain paper cups 4. Grey vase 5.  Painting by Matilde Friese 6. Merino scarf 7. macbook folder 8. Backpack

So beautiful and unique, what perfect Christmas pressies don't you think? Which would you choose?

NOORVERK deliver to Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg. Be sure to order before 14th December to ensure they arrive in time for Christmas!

This post was sponsored by NOORVERK. All words are my own and I only ever work with brands I love and think you will to. Plus I genuinely would love to receive / give any one of these as a present (hint hint!).