Rumar with Open Arms

Chocolate cake baked with jam from our own cherries, my mother's Kentucky cake, buns and the vege soup with archipelago bread, that was on the menu... A week ago we opened our doors and welcomed everyone to Café Cecilia and to learn about traditional way of renovating houses. The best were the visitors! Eager renovators, curious city-people, friends from the island, foreigners wondering if we really live like this.

August who built our house in early 1870s and his wife Cecilia

Our home is usually full of children, books, news papers, dogs on the floor but for this one day we wanted to show our shiny side...

We had gathered magazines, articles and books from our home library to study

The most lovely china

Paints and brushes we like to use

The main living-room, now a painter's work shop

Veranda waiting for the eager readers

In the new sauna-laundry cottage still log and some of the windows waiting

Linen, putty, old-fashioned nails...

Next year again.. This was fun!