Richlands NC , USA - 9th March 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Hi everyone! I just got my activation details so now I can travel! I live in North Carolina and I want to see the world. I love candy and would love to have my picture taken with candy that is not found in the USA. Of course for my USA host's any candy will do!! I look forward to meeting all of you and seeing your town!!
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Posted Mar 9, 2009, 6:41 pm Last edited Mar 18, 2009, 10:57 am by Pixiedustlady
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Amadora, Lisboa, Portugal - 22nd March 2009
By: carinafernandessousa
Hi everybody!
In the last few days I was able to rest from the big trip. Yesterday we didn’t go out but we took the time to enjoy a little of homecinema.
We all helped Carina making butter flavored popcorn!
The movie was really funny! We watched Robert Downey Jr. and his great performance on “Iron Man”.
See you soon!
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Posted Mar 22, 2009, 7:06 pm
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Amadora, Portugal - 8th April 2009
By: carinafernandessousa
Hey everybody!
Sorry for the long time without news. Carina has been sick and we have been helping her get better. She is feeling alright now!
Today arrived two more little friends and now we are a family of six! Look at the great photo Carina took us!
We have already watched a movie together – Get Smart - and we had a great time.
Carina told me a little secret…. Thursday we are all going on a trip! Yes! We are going to visit one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal – Leiria! The trip takes one and an half hours by car so in the way I can get to know Carina’s family, Carina and my new friends!
I hope Thursday arrives soon!
See you soon.
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Posted Apr 8, 2009, 12:34 pm
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Richlands, NC, USA - 4th August 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Well my owner had to reincarnate me because the last host seems to have dissapeared off the face of the earth and never updated my travel journal I just found out that I am going to go to Sweden!!! I am soooo excited to finally be traveling again!!
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Posted Aug 4, 2009, 5:11 pm
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Gunnebo, Sweden - 13th August 2009
By: MintTe
Hi everyone!
I’m in Sweden now, I arrived today. I'm the ony toy here
Ingrid have told me that it’s a typical Swedish summer, sun in the morning and in the afternoon it starts to rain. So just now it raining cats and dogs.
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Posted Aug 13, 2009, 3:25 pm
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Gunnebo, Sweden - 19th August 2009
By: MintTe
Hi Everyone!
Today I have learn about some about Finnish china and glass. My host, Ingrid, collect Moomin china and Iittala glass.
Moomins and Arabia
Rörstrand got a permission to establish a daughter company in Finland on 25.11.1873 and Arabia’s first factory buildings were erected in 1874. In 1885 the Arabia factory became a limited company, Arabia Aktiefabrik. In 1881, Gustav Herlitz was appointed technical director of the factory. In the 1890s Arabia’s production capacity expanded quite considerably. The Swedish artist Thure Öberg and the Finnish architect Jac Ahrenberg were employed to improve the range of models produced at Arabia. A product range exclusive to Arabia was slowly taking shape and Arabia started the production of its own models of tiled stoves, vases and sets of tableware. Arabia’s collection was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World Fair in 1900.
The first products with Moomin figures at Arabia, a set of children's dishes and a serie of miniature figures, came out at the end of 1950's. Still, the "Moomin boom" strated by the second launch of the moomin products in 1990.
Iittala
Iittala is a Finnish design company specialising in houseware objects made on the principle of "modern Scandinavian design". The Iittala Group consists of a number of businesses within its portfolio of operations: Arabia, Hackman, Iittala, BodaNova, Höganäs Keramik, Rörstrand and Hřyang-Polaris.
The most famous products to be fabricated by the Iittala company are the glassware designs of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, such as the so-called Aalto Vase (or Savoy vase) (picture, right) from 1936, and the glassware designs of Timo Sarpaneva, who started designing glassware for the company in 1950. In 1956 Sarpaneva designed the Iittala i-logo. The founding of the Iittala company is said to date to 1881, when a glass factory was founded by Swede Petrus Magnus Abrahamsson. The first workforce had to be brought from Sweden due to the lack of skilled glassblowers in Finland.
In 1917, the company was bought up by timber refinery company A. Ahlström, who also owned the Karhula glass factory. These combined to become the Karhula-Iittala glass factory up until the 1950s. At first the factory specialised mostly in bottles for chemists and for holding lamp oil, though there was also some production of domestic items.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the company expanded into more experimental and artistic ventures, as well as producing more domestic products. One of the first major successes was the glassware designed by Aino Aalto, followed later by the glassware of Alvar Aalto.
The bowl are designed by Marimekko.
Peace!
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Posted Aug 19, 2009, 10:25 am
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Gunnebo, Sweden - 12th September 2009
By: MintTe
Hi everyone!
Remember those blueberry that we pick, today we turn them in to a pie! I have some photos to show you, but Ingrid camera run out off batteries.
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Posted Sep 12, 2009, 12:56 pm
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Gunnebo, Sweden - 17th September 2009
By: MintTe
Hi everyone!
I have some fun news, because my host Ingrid have been working so much this month have she with and the family decide to take a short weekend on the west coast and do some shopping at one of the biggest stores in Sweden. So updates will come on Monday.
Peace!
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Posted Sep 17, 2009, 4:49 pm
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Ullared/Tofta, Sweden - 19th September 2009
By: MintTe
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Posted Sep 21, 2009, 10:33 am Last edited Sep 21, 2009, 6:44 pm by MintTe
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