** Terrific Tuesday ** Kaija Rantakari

 I didn't know what I saw when I landed on her blog.

All these unbelievable matchboxes.

So small,with beautiful treasures in it,handmade or found.

Not only this but also....

Beautiful hand-bound books.

And...

brooches.
O, and...

also necklaces.
In all her work is so much sensitivity.
I love those matchboxes, so precisely made !

A beautiful train of thoughts of her ;

 " I started making the matchboxes as a fun little project some years ago. I had just started at a new job and found that being creative after a long day at work was really difficult. So I decided to make something tiny, every day, until I could find the balance between work and creative work again. I first made a matchbox a day for sixteen days. Later I began to miss to little pieces of art and began making them again, this time as gifts for my foreign friends. I wrote them letters in Finnish, a language that none of those friends could understand. I wanted to share my deepest thoughts, but still be able to hide behind something, the language barrier. I wrote apologies, love letters, confessions, or just something about my everyday life or a story I just made up or remembered. I wanted to feel closer to those far away. And from that idea the project started to develop. I want to share a little something about myself with strangers; I want to create something beautiful and affordable; I want to have a routine of creating and sharing. So I now try to create a matchbox every week and post it on my blog and Etsy shop (if it's for sale) on a Monday. I call this my Letters to You -project. Most of the matchboxes have a message of some sorts inside them, a letter, a poem, or rearranged words or sentences from vintage books, but some are wordless, filled with other kind of meaning."

Take a journey through her blog called Paperiaarre and her shop !

Enjoy!