“If you have a troubled mind, watch a mobile and unwind” Ole & Aase Flensted

Danish Flensted was first created in 1953 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe to celebrate the birth of their first daughter. By 1955 Christian gave up his job to devote his full attention to the mobiles and “The Stork’s Nest” was now based on his home island Funen. By 1971 the mobiles had became so popular and the business had expanded so they needed a larger premises, so they moved in to the old school on the island which became the Flensted Mobile Centre and still is today.  Flensted Mobiles is today run by Christian’s son Ole and his wife Aase.

All the lovely mobiles are hand made in Denmark. For nearly 60 years their skilled and diligent home-workers are mounting, assembling and packing the mobiles.

When we opened the shop, one of my suppliers (now my friend) tipped me about Flensted. She was pregnant at the time and looked for something for her nursery and had come across these. As you are aware I was quite pregnant my self and fell in love as well!

So why this long before they arrived in the shop? Good question but we have a long list of Scandinavian brands we love and would like to see here in the shop and decided to introduce them after some other brands, and finally, here they are!

We hope you enjoy them and fall in love just as much as we did. We have started with a small selection mostly for children, but as you can see on the Flensted website there are many designs.  But of course since we are in Edinburgh the Panda Mobile was an easy choice, who doesn’t like pandas? However I know my daughters favourite, the first thing Stina said when she came with me to the shop the other day was “Moomin” and she pick up all the Moomin boxes and gave them to me…

Charlotte x

As soon as a delivery arrives I get very excited.  So when Danish MENU arrived last Friday afternoon, lucky me was the one to receive it, unpacked it and got super thrilled! Stunning fresh designs! Over the weekend lots of the products became new favourites with our customers and got new homes!

Danish MENU is quality, functional, bold and good designs. Often theirs designs are award winning such as their thermo mugs, water carafe and our latest edition in the shop, the stunning jewellery tree in aluminium.  All their products comes in beautiful gift boxes and are our number one brand for wedding gifts. Here are some of the designs we have in the shop from MENU (and yes I know I have said stylish way to many times, but stylish design is what it is…stylish).

Personally I have not been able to resist a few products for my own home. Love my Verner Panton colourful bowls and storage jars. The Nordic Wool mugs, we use them daily now since they are our new favourites, just so lovely to drink from and very stylish. And in June when my birthday is I think I will wish for the bread basket set. Perfect for my knitting:)

Charlotte x

It is time for a competition here at Spektakulär!!!

Spring is here and we like to celebrate with an amazing competition. We love colours and we love functional designs too, most of all we believe everyone need a little colour in their life. So do join the fun and compete for one of the lovely MENU silicone “Dropp” bowl in the colourful spring leaf (green). Perfect on the lunch/dining table filled with rolls, salad or perhaps a trifle!

So this is how it works, you need to like us on Facebook , and share this competition on your own wall or a friends wall. That is it! Super simple! The winner will be randomly drawn from those sharing this post when the Competition ends midday Friday 25th May and will be announced on our Facebook page.

Well a big GOOD LUCK to all of you!

Charlotte x

P.S. Each person gets one entry in the Competition, there isn’t an extra chance every time you share

The shop is receiving more and more seasonal designs and it is getting all colourful again. So it is changing from day to day which is so nice and make me happy.

I hope you will have a lovely weekend and please do pop into the shop and say hello if you are in the area.

Charlotte x

We took the opportunity to keep the shop closed on Easter Sunday so we could invite all our lovely girls working in the shop with their families to come over for Easter lunch  Swedish style… well all of us girls are Swedish except Emma our very own Aussie.

So it was a squash and a squeeze, but so lovely to have us all gather at the same time. I know the pictures are not very good and I kind of forgot to take photos as well but here only a a few, and none of us! Terrible:)

Easter in Sweden is a bit different than here, but it has also changed a bit since I was a child as well. We use to dress up as witches and knock on peoples doors asking for sweets. Kind of like Halloween I guess, but we also gave a lovely handmade pictures as well. I remember my dad used to hide paper Easter eggs around the house filled with pick and mix… amazing how they coped with us children all sugared up!?

As I remember it a Easter lunch/dinner is not far off our Christmas lunch, a bit more fish perhaps. We obviously eat a lot of herring, lax, egg and lamb at Easter and rinse it down with a strong Schnapps and sing silly songs.

I need to take some photos of us who works in the shop…one day!

Charlotte x

GLAD PÅSK – HAPPY EASTER

A slight change in our usual opening hours over Easter.

Good Friday          10.00 – 17.00

Easter Saturday   10.00 – 17.30

Easter Sunday              CLOSED

Easter Monday     10.00 – 17.00

Stylish MENU have launched as always some exciting designs for Spring 2012. Delivery this morning with these gorgeous spice grinders. Same shape as the “Bottle” grinders but in fresh greens, set of 2 in a giftbox.

Wedding season is starting and I am sure these will be a fantastic gift for the stylish couple. Or perhaps perfect for the green kitchen/dinner!

Hope to see you during the week in the shop! Charlotte x

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there! Hope you have a fantastic day and getting really spoilt!

Our fanatstic Mother’s Day offer today Sunday 18th March is:

10% off all Kitchen Linen (Aprons, tea towels, oven gloves, pot holders and napkins) 

It sure is a beautiful day today, a perfect day for a walk around Morningside/Bruntsfield Place so do pop in and say hi to Emma!

Charlotte x