Finnsight, LLC

Thanks for all of you who visited our table at Heikinpäivä! I hope you enjoyed seeing people and tasting the foods. My absolute favorite was the Karjalanpiirakka, Karelian pies. And I could not pass the table with Finnish candies without buying any...

Hyvää päivänjatkoa! Have a good rest of the day!

Anna (and Meg too!)

 For yout interest, a link to see outstanding photos of Sami life:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/washing-dishes-herding-reindeer/?ref=world

Terveisin,

Anna & Meg

 Hei!

It is almost time to send cards to your loved ones! We have our Valentine's Day postcards on sale for $ 0.49. Order yours now!

If you prefer to get yours from Tori Marketplace, come to Hancock's annual Heikinpäivä festivities on January 28. For more information about Heikinpäivä, go to:

http://pasty.com/heikki/sched.html

Lumisin terveisin, snowy greetings,

Anna ja Meg

 Happy New Year!

We are getting ready for Hancock's Heikinpäivä at the end of January. You will meet us at the tori market on Saturday, January 28.

Enjoy the snow!

Anna & Meg

 ja Onnellista Uutta vuotta!

Peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year!

Anna & Meg

 Hei!

Our new postcards are in! Send some to your friends and make them smile.

Enjoy the snow (we have it here in the UP) and do not forget to bake some Finnish apple pie for Kiitospäivä / Thanksgiving!

Terveisin,

Anna and Meg

 November is here and our new products will be here soon too!

We are getting three new postcards. One reads ONNEA (congratulations) and features a 50's daycare from Finland. The other one reads TALVITERVEISET! (winter greetings) and features a winter scene with kids and kick sledges. This image is also from Finland around the 50's. The third card has an image of a Finnish coffee table out in the evening sun and lists some items in Finnish. Kakkua, anyone?

Do not forget to check out our Chirstmas cards. It is time to stock up! And time for some glögi and prunte tarts...

Parhaat terveiset Upper Peninsulasta!

Anna ja Meg

 Fall's beautiful colors!

Hei again Finnsight friends! We have been in our laboratory working on new ideas. New postcards, possibly a rieska recipe magnet... But while those ideas need time to cook, find us and our products at:

Rainbow Kids Fundraiser, Arts / Crafts and Nicknacks Fair

Location, paikka: Barkell Elementary School Gym

Date, päivä: Saturday October 15, 2011

Hours, kellonaika: 9am - 2pm

Nauttikaa syksyn väreistä! Enjoy the fall colors!

Anna ja Meg

 Hei taas!

Kesän lämmin sää hellii meitä vielä, mutta syksyä on jo ilmassa...

Summer's warm weather is still caressing us, but there is fall in the air already...

Thanks for all who came to Old Victoria! What a great day. Lots of people and a nice weather.

If you want to see us again, we will be at the Dee Stadium right after (and before) the Parade of Nations on Saturday September 17th, 2011. Nähdään siellä! See you there!

Anna & Meg

 Tervehdys Hancockista! / Greeting from Hancock!

The next event where we will be exhibiting:

Mikä? What? : Old Victoria Craft Fair

Missä? Where? : Victoria Dam Road, Rockland, MI

Milloin? When? : Sunday, August 21, 2011

Moneltako? At what time? : 10am - 5pm

Jos haluat lisää tietoja tapahtumasta, if you want more information about the event: info@oldvictoria.net tai/or 906-886-2617

Nähdään siellä! See you there!

Terveisin,

Anna ja Meg

 Hei!

Pullapitko / nisu magnet was sold out for a while but is now available again!

It is never too hot to bake,

Anna and Meg

P.S viili magnets are in our hands too, we just need to take pictures of them and post them here. E-mail us if you need them immediately! :)

Summer greetings from Finland!

It might be hard to imagine but the weather in Finland was actually kuuma, hot. Without the humidity that is. It is so kuuma in the UP too, with the humidity! We are grateful Lake Superior stays cool in the summer too.

Our magnets are being printed as I write this and should be in our hands soon. It took a bit longer than we expected, so we apologize for that. Viili will be our new addition to the magnet collection. Not sure what viili is? That tasty stringy stuff with all the good bacteria that keeps your system in balance :=) Herkullista! Delicious!

If you want to see us face to face, we invite you to visit Late July Artist Market where we will have a table.
 
Milloin? Time, Saturday, July 30th · 10:00am - 5:00pm

Missä? Location, Algomah Acres Honey House
                            611 Plank Rd.
                            Greenland, MI

For more information about the event, please email: algomahacres@live.com

Kiitos ja nähdään pian!

Thanks and see you soon!

Anna ja Meg

... the Keweenaw Krafts and Gifts at the Copper Country Mall in Houghton, MI.

Re-Treat Design in Houghton, MI and North Wind Books in Hancock, MI also have our items for sale. (Prices may vary from the website.)

Nauttikaa kesästä, enjoy the summer!

Anna ja Meg

There is a link to a fun article about Finland and the wonderful food and tango there:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Doing+tango+Finland/4927487/story.html

It made me smile. 

I hope you are enjoying the summer and all the beautiful flowers. Tulppaani, pioni and lemmikki are some of the flowers growing in my garden. You might have guessed the first two ones (tulip and peony) but perhaps not the third one? is is forget-me-not.

Meg and I are getting more magnets soon...

Kesäterveisin,

Anna

 Happy Mothers' day!

 Hei!

Spring is coming little by little... I can see tulips in my back yard already!

Between being sick several times this past winter, traveling spouses and kitchen renovation and so on we thought that we will come up with a new magnet... this time it would be VIILI. Every single Finnish-American we talk to say they love viili and would like to know how to make it, since no everyone has a starter. We assure you, it will be as simple and as delicious as the previous recipes!

Let us know if YOU like the idea!

Best regards,

parhain terveisin,

Anna & Meg

 Hei!

We just wanted to let you know that our postcards are also available at North Wind Books (northwindbooks.com) and Re-Treat Design (re-treatdesign.com).

Send a card, make a friend happy!

Anna & Meg

 Hei taas, hi again!

We have our new cards in... and we hope you like them!

Anteeksi, sorry it took a bit longer than we anticipated.

Stay warm,

Anna & Meg

 Hi Finnsight friends,

We have been busy preparing for Hancock's 2011 Heikinpäivä Tori, which will be held on Saturday, January 29, 2011 (Hancock is located in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula). We will be launching four new postcards: Birthday, Thank You, Mother's Day and of course Valentine's Day. We will post them shortly to our website, but visit us at the Tori to see them in person. 

Our table will be located in the Methodist Church Tori (the Tori is also in the Finnish American Heritage Center). So stop on by after the parade and see us! Did I mention that we have been baking too? 

We are also excited because we launched Finnsight exactly one year ago at the 2010 Heikinpäivä and we are so thankful to continue our business into year two.  We still have a few more wrinkles to iron out, but we continue to grow and appreciate all of the support we have received.

For more information on the Heikinpäivä celebrations and schedule check out the following site: http://www.pasty.com/heikki/sched.html

Hope to see you soon!

Hei hei,

Anna & Meg

 Happy New Year 2011!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We enjoyed ours with glögi and prune tarts and kinkku (ham) and lanttulaatikko (rutabaga casserole) and rosolli (beet salad) among other things... Now we need to get rid of those calories somehow...

Finnsight laboratory did not rest during the last day of 2010 but designed four new cool postcards to add to our collection: "Kiitos", "Hyvää äitienpäivää", "Hyvää syntymäpäivää" and "Hyvää ystävänpäivää". The designs were sent to the printer and we hope to get them in a few weeks. So keep checking our website!

Once again, hyvää uutta vuotta!

Anna & Meg