Clearance Sale

If you're a fan of beautifully designed, colorful, funky and happy home decorations then this sale is definitely for you. We have all our Rice stock reduced - up to half price! - and you really can get yourself a bargain here. 

Rice Dk is a Danish company with a heart - they strongly believe in work ethics and the phrase "No one can help everyone, but everyone can help someone". It is the first Scandinavian company to achieve a SA8000 certification, which in short means that they are deeply engaged in no child labour, fair wages and better working conditions. We absolutely love them and we know that you will love them too!

Click on any of the photos and you will be taken directly to our shop. Please note that we only have set shipping costs for European countries, but we do ship worldwide. Just e-mail us your shopping list and we will send you an estimated shipping costs. We know it's a little bit of a pain.. We are working on improving that but for now it just has to stay as it is (trust us, we hate that as much as you do). Happy shopping!!

P.S. For any questions just leave a comment below or e-mail us on admin@keekodesigns.com 

Photo taking practice

I was practicing taking photos this morning (as they say - practice makes perfect) and I think I'm making some progress. Well, at least I'm satisfied with them, especially when compared to the very first photos I took.

1. Paper lampshade that soon will be renewed.  2. The Chip' n 'Dale clock that we have no idea where we took it from plus our retro wedding invitation and a little heart Mr Hubby made for me.  3. My collection of cacti in mushroom candle holders from House Doctor. The little ones with our names were used as place cards (and favors) at our first wedding - yes, we had two. Cos we like celebrating.  4. The most beautiful wedding present we got from my godmother. Painted on glass specially for us!

Personal development, self-coaching and getting unstuck

I love planning. Planning is my obsession and probably the only thing I do on regular basis. In fact I plan pretty much everything, and by everything I really mean everything. I write all my plans down in my planner (one of the 6 that I have) and... yep, that's where it ends - on a piece of paper as I never follow up with my plans. Don't get me wrong, I really want to do everything that I planned but somehow I become overwhelmed by the amount of things/projects that I need or want to do and I end up doing none of them. I will start one then move to another one without finishing the first one, then realise that there is another thing I really should be doing right now and.. Well, you see where it goes. I would get frustrated and angry with myself, get into a panic mode, try to do everything at once which is never a good idea and end up crying and telling myself I'm worthless and I will never achieve anything. And then I'll start comparing myself to successful people, cry even more, then become passive and get even angrier with myself. Then I will force myself to stay positive, start planning from the beginning and the whole process repeats itself. And let me tell you, this is what I hate most about myself (I really love myself, I just hate some things I do).

Actually I should have written the above in the past tense as for the first time in my life I found the way to stay on track, have things done and move closer to the life I want. I honestly do not want to bore you with all the process how I manage to get everything under control (oh how amazing that feels!) but if you struggle with similar problem you really MUST read this article (or if you just want to improve some areas of your life)

Anyway, now that I learned how to follow up with my plans I honestly feel happier, more optimistic (hey, I can do anything!) and satisfied. And I no longer am angry with myself :) I will write more about self-coaching (yes, yes, I got into "improve myself" mode) and getting unstuck some other time - I didn't think this will be such a long post!

 

Oh, we went for a romantic weekend away with Mr Hubby and it was amazing! We went to the prettiest little town I've ever seen and I fell in love with that place! One day I will buy a tiny little house there. I'll show you the photos next time as they still need to be edited (if I actually find any worth showing) and tell you more about the place. These are some other photos form the trip which are sort of ok as they are (oh ok, I did edit them a little..) I was pretty happy about them  -taking into consideration I really don't know how to take good photos..  

Current obsessions

Recently I am a very busy girl. Today I got up at 5:30 (yeah, ok, I realise that for some of you this is a normal time to get up but for me it still is like a middle of the night) and got to work. And I still will be working and trying to get on top of everything until late evening. It's been a long time since I felt this motivated and eager to work. I blame winter for that and those extra short days. It must have been some mad person that came up with all this time change that makes winter days so short. My body is still not used to this and I've been around for some time now. I probably should emigrate for the winter season somewhere warm (you see, I don't really like hot weather either, warm would be just fine).

But enough of moaning. So yes, I'm having a very productive day. Made some progress with my new camera (I'm thinking of giving it a name actually, any ideas?): I read 53 pages of the manual, took about 50 "abstract art" photos, know how to set the time and date (yes, very useful), wiped it way too many times and found it a perfect place/bag/home. I must admit that I was very naive thinking that taking photos would be a piece of cake. No, it is not. But I'm making (some) progress.

Leon the Very Wise Dog

Lola the Cat That Can't Meow

Meet my pets: Leon and Lola. There are two more, Piri and Rafael, but they just run away when they see me slowly approaching them with my camera. So now it is filled with photos of random objects, running pets and Mr. Hubby. Mr. Hubby is the only one that sits still for me. Ish.

Happy evening everyone! Once I'm done here I'm going for a well-deserved, cold beer. With my camera obviously :) 

My New Best Friend

New Year should be in Spring. Honestly, nothing gives me more strength, hope and motivation than seeing the world around me bursting with new life. 

I have the feeling that I, too, am starting a new life. And this is a very good thing.

I received my camera a couple of days ago and it instantly became my best friend. Seriously, how could I have managed without it? I take it everywhere with me and take pictures of everything. But we don't know each other too good yet.. There is too many buttons/options/settings! I'm totally lost here.. Out of over 400 photos I've taken so far only few are reasonably good. The rest.. well, I like to call them "abstract art".

Anyway, now I can do all of my projects and share them with you. And share a little of my life too. Now I will be a blogger I always wanted to be. Yeeey! Happiness all around!

Oh, almost forgot. These are Posh Cats - this time on canvas. Just need to add some final touches and put them up for sale (hopefully by the time I will learn how to take good pictures and will snap the Posh Cats better).

Happy Spring!

PS. Don't forget about the sale at Keeko!! Hurry, you've got only week left! 

Spring Sale!

Sale is up at Keeko! Get 20% off your entire order - just use coupon code APRIL13 at the checkout!

For shipping cost check our shipping rates. Remember that we ship worldwide, but if you are outside of Europe you will need to contact as at admin@keekodesigns.com for shipping costs. We know it's a bit annoying.. but we are working to sort this out :)

Oh, and the more you spend on shopping, the less you spend on postage. Yep, we are nice.

If you have any question, just leave a comment. We promise to get back to you as soon as possible. 

Happy Spring and happy shopping everyone! 

Order in chaos

I've been reflecting on my life recently, trying to find answers to many questions, wondering where my life will take me and simply how I want to live.

I have a very clear idea of what I want to do with my life, but the time passes and I seem to be in the exactly same spot I was few years ago.

And then I realised that no, although I may be stuck in the same place, my mind is not. I undertook a very long and difficult journey, mostly feeling alone and scared, to become a person I will respect, love and cherish. And here I am now. And I am happy.

Now when I found the inner peace it is time for me to move on with my life and start organise the chaos around me. 

This post sounds a bit dark, but in fact it is a very happy post :)

P.S. I bought a camera and it should arrive very soon. So I will be a proper blogger now. Promise!