Living in another country gave us a second home, a second family, a place where we have been growing up and appreciating to meet every single person. We enjoy not only the big things but from the small things also. This part names “Những niềm vui bình dị” – “Ordinary joys”. If we named the first collection with Vietnamese – our mother tongue, this part we are pleased to call the new things by Hungarian, our second home language.
“Egy, kettő, három, négy
pontyka pontyka hová megy?”
“A család az első.”
When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you. In this house, we have the biggest fish as a big brother – “báty” who protects his family, the second biggest fish as an older sister – “nővér” – who takes care of everyone, the small fish as a younger sister – “húg” – who loves being around her beloved ones and the smallest fish as a little brother – “öcs” – who is innocent and loves learning new things every day.
Báty hal – Big brother: 16.300 forint
Nővér hal – Older sister: 6.500 forint
Húg hal – Younger sister: 2.800 forint
Öcs hal – Little brother: 1.500 forint
“A felhők fölött mindig kék az ég.”
The sky is always blue above the clouds. We keep a positive mind for whatever comes to us. We name these birds with the names of nice kids we were lucky to meet who gave us their smiles.
Anita madár ( Anikó nővére) – Anita is an older sister: 8.500 forint
Anikó madár ( Anita húga) – Anikó is Anita’s younger sister: 4.400 forint
“Nagyon örülök” – “Nice to meet you” is one of the simplest and nicest ways to start a conversation. When we were kids, we loved making friends with every animal from the ducks in our neighbour’s pond to the snails in the yard.
Dáni csiga – Daniel little snail: 5.000 forint
Donald kacsa – Donald duck: 10.800 forint
“Répa retek mogyoró korán reggel ritkán rikkant a rigó. “We guess every Hungarian kid know this fun tongue twister. When one of us started learning Hungarian, her teacher – Katalin – taught this sentence and since there, she never forgets and it helped her understand deeper the culture.
Levi rigó – Levi (Levente) thrush bird: 3.800 forint
Swallow for us is the symbol of spring. When we hear their song and we see the blooming flowers, we know that our heart flutter again into a sweet season.
Erika fecske – Erika swallow: 6.500 forint
“A boldogság olyan pillangó, melyet ha kergetünk, soha nem érhetünk el, de ha leülünk csendben, leereszkedik ránk.” – Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Luca pillángo – Luca butterfly: 6.600 forint
“Virágoznak an fák.”
We plant trees, we plant life, love and hope. During walking and looking at the blooming flowers, we got the idea to name these babies with the familiar things around us that we can see from the fields to the markets and inside our kitchen. You can hang them on your wall, feed them the plants and you will see green grow up from their mouths.
Körte hal – Pear fish: 14.000 forint
Cseresznye rák – Cherry shrimp: 11.000 forint
Personally, for me – the person who have taken the photos and written down things, turtles/tortoises are precious creatures. They connect to me with a sentimental love (of course I love other animals either, we have cat and dog home, just a bit bias of mine for turtle/tortoise). Sometimes you may see them visit me in our store. If you don’t meet them, don’t be upset, you can meet “Alma” and “Mandula” instead.
Alma teknős – Apple the big tortoise: 14.000 forint
Mandula teknős – Almond the small tortoise: 10.500 forint
Our frog may be a prince who is waiting for you or he is simply a roadie who says “let’s hit the road” and wanders around.
Az utazó béka – The travelling frog: 11.100 forint
Our frog has some favorite items which he often carries with him. One of them is a leaf that was made from bamboo, which he uses to place fruits or whatever he wants
Az utazó béka levele – The travelling frog’s leaf: 1.500 forint
Do you wonder where our frog keeps his stuff for the journey? Here is his mini suitcase.
Az utazó béka bőröndje – The travelling frog’s suitcase: 4.800 forint
We remember that during our childhood, we didn’t become friends with the swimming ducks or the small snails, we were happy to get a wooden fish and called them with any names we could think about, carried them around and showed them to the other kids. We still love them like the first time, now they remind us “Don’t forget to drink water, stay hydrated” – “Hidratálja magát” whenever we look at them. Fishes love water.
Fa hal – Wooden fish: 1.900 forint
For our childhood time, the floating cloud looked so fantasy, lovely and mysterious. We lay our dreams up there for our adult time, and we work hard to make them become true day by day. “Every cloud has a silver lining.” – the cloud stands for our hope and effort.
Felhő tálca – Wooden cloud tray: 7.600 forint
When we lived with our parents, we often stayed around our mother in the kitchen. She didn’t let us cook because we were too small, but she always gave us some chances to help her by washing the vegetable or preparing a trivet on the table so she could bring the hot rice pot and place directly there.
Kacsa edényalátét – Duck trivet: 4.400 forint
Hal edényalátét – Fish trivet: 3.100 forint
“Neked énekelünk” – “We sing for you”. The potter, who makes this cute ashtray, told me that he learnt everything about pottery from his grandfather, and this birdie was among his favorite lessons. Fun fact, he shared a small story to me that since his daughter was born, he has smoked only one cigarette per day after a long working day.
Madár hamutartó – Birdie ashtray: 4.000 forint
The color of this tea set evoked memories and nostalgia inside us. Inside a corner of our heart, there was our father drinking tea with his friends while our dogs were playing around.
Sütőtök teáskanna – Pumpkin teapot: 7.600 forint
Sütőtök csésze – Pumpkin tea cup: 1.200 forint
A simple unfussy design and a sentimental feeling for the old things was our first impression of this small bowl. Sometimes we have a hard day, then we are home again and have dinner with our family, it’s everything.
Sütőtök tál – Pumpkin bowl: 2.500 forint
There were sleeping days on the hammock with ambient nature sound from the backyard chickens. We were wakened up by the smell from the dining table (and our mother’s voice).
Pipi kis tányér – Chicken small dish: 3.100 forint
Pipi nagy tál – Chicken big bowl: 9.600 forint
The potters used the chicken as the main theme for this holder to show their intense connection to ordinary things close to them. We can use it as a utensil holder or a creative vase, whatever you can think about.
Pipi tartó – Chicken holder: 13.000 forint
We let a seed enter our heart and it becomes a flower. We choose to bloom, we bloom for you.
Piros virág téglalap alakú tányér – Red flower rectangular plate: 16.000 forint
Live life in full bloom and water your own flower.
Piros virág nagy tál – Red flower big bowl: 12.000 forint
Piros virág kis tál – Red flower small bowl: 5.500 forint
Back to the basic with our “Lam” – Our “Lam” means blue, our “Lam” mean mountain air.
Lam kis tál – Lam small bowl: 2.500 forint
Lam nagy tál – Lam big bowl: 3.300 forint
Lam tányér – Lam dish: 3.000 forint
Flowers have a language of their own. The artists spend many hours, many days to listen their sound, they place their wholehearted love and emotion within their work with a simple wish of bringing gentle beauty into life.
Virágok doboz – Flowers box: 10.500 forint
There are days when you just need a cozy corner. May peace be found in your heart, the flowers still blossom.
Lam Sơn 