Today in the advents calendar on my Instagram, you can get the chance to win a beautiful Hurricane Boule from Skogsberg & Smart. I can’t tell you how long the Boule hurricane lamp has been on top of my wishlist and let me tell you, now that it’s here, it looks even more amazing than in the pictures! The Hurricane Boule is handmade with a unique optic pattern that creates a luxurious weight and a shimmering light. I love the way the light of the candle shimmers through in such a subtle yet magical way. Head over to this Instagram post to win a Hurricane Boule in the color of your choice (open to people living in Europe).

Hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday? I just wanted to pop in and share today’s giveaway which is happening on my Instagram with Danish design brand Gejst design. Today, you can win the beautiful Arkis bookends. The 3 marble objects designed by Kasper Friis Egelund are designed to function as a bookend or just as sculptural pieces, which is the way I use them on my shelf for now. The design is inspired by the many arches in the beautiful Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome and it’s a lovely wink to historic architecture in your interior. Head over to this post in my Instagram Feed to participate in the giveaway (open to people living in Europe).

Since yesterday on my Instagram you can win a wonderful advents price from Lind DNA: One of their modular Curve candle holders in bright chrome or 24k plated gold. The beautiful design by Preben Lind lets you be creative yourself and can be arranged in so many ways. I love the difference in sizes of candles it can hold and the 24k gold plated metal looks absolutely amazing. It’s now decorating my sideboard and adding a beautiful golden glow, but I plan to make it the centerpiece of the Christmas table soon. One lucky winner will be able to decorate their home with a modular Curve candle holder in bright chrome or 24k gold plated consisting out of a Lind Curve Base, Lind Curve Double, and Lind Curve Single. ⁠You can enter the giveaway in this post (open to people living in Europe).

Check out my post on 11 of the best metal candle holders here.

Such an exciting giveaway on my Instagram today ! I’ve teamed up with the lovely people from New Works to give away a Kizu table lamp to one lucky winner. It really feels like the Kizu lamp in Gris du Marais marble was made for this table in my office. The design by Lars Tornøe is a wonderful combination of the shimmering marble foot, and the soft acrylic shade, which casts the softest light in the room. The Kizu Table lamp is available in Gris du Marais marble, white marble or black marble, and one lucky winner will be able to place this beautiful design in their home in the material of their choice!⁠ You can join the giveaway in this post (everyone from Europe can join).

As you might know by now, I’m hosting an Advents calendar giveaway on my Instagram. Yesterday, I teamed up with Danish design firm Stelton, to give away one of their Slow brew coffee makers combined with two lovely Theo cups. Some of you might know that I love cozy coffee moments and everything that surrounds it. I love taking time to make a cup and even though I like a good espresso every once in a while, at home I prefer to make filter coffee. The Stelton Slow brew coffee maker has been part of my kitchen since years and it’s still in mint condition. I love the rough surface on the outside and the glossy finish on the inside of these pieces and they are just so pretty to look at as well aren’t they ? You can participate in the giveaway in this post (giveaway is open for everyone living in Europe).

Ever since I saw these Drift vases designed by Anders Pfeffer Gjengedal for Cooee design they had a prominent place on my wishlist. Their organic shape combined with their rough and sandy surface is stunning and the ideal companion for dry branches or fresh flowers in spring. You can win a set of Drift vases in the color of your choice on my Instagram since yesterday, enter in this post.  The vases come in vanilla (the one you can see on my table), Pepper or Walnut.

After being wiped out by a cold over the weekend and not being able to organise the giveaways of the last two days, I’m happy to be healthy again to announce the giveaway no.6. Today, on my Instagram, you can win a beautiful Panthella Portable Metal from Louis Poulsen in the color of your choice. 

Those of you who follow me for a while, know I adore my Panthella lamp in black, which has been coming with me whenever I move and is now adorning my kitchen window sill. Well, recently this favorite has gotten a little sibling: the Panthella Portable lamp in metal. This beautiful lamp was introduced in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Panthella range designed by Verner Panton and it’s exclusively available on the Louispoulsen website in 4 striking colors. With the code ‘Sarah10’ you get 10% discount on the Panthella Portable metal and you can also get the chance to win one in a color of your choice, more info in my feed post on Instagram.

Did you get into the Monday all right? Mondays are usually the hardest to get up in the morning for me, especially when it’s still dark outside. I guess I’m not the only one with this problem though right? However, just recently getting up in the morning got a thousand times lighter. Why is this you’re wondering? Well, last week I got the WiZ connected lighting and it’s one of those items that I now don’t understand how I was living without it for all those years.

I was always a little reluctant to try out Smart lighting. I’m not the biggest tech fan, and setting up my printer was more than enough to get through this month. But, I have always been curious, and I have to tell you, the installation was super straightforward. The Wiz lamps* work with the WiZ app, where you create rooms, add lamps and connect them with your Wifi network (Bluetooth is also possible). So, just 15 minutes after I took the lamps out of the box, I was playing with all the different light modes, because the possibilities are endless.

I set up WiZ lights in both my bedroom and my office, the two rooms where I spend most of my time and where I can get the most benefits from them. In my bedroom, I placed a full color spectrum LED bulb* in my rice-paper-shade and the Wiz table lamp* on the bedside table. You can set a multitude of scenes and rhythms for your lamps, but in the bedroom, I mostly use the wake-up and bedtime routines.

Wiz wake up mode

The wake-up routine turns the light on slowly over a period of 30 minutes, just like the sun would and the experience of waking up compared to the alarm clock is infinitely better. At the beginning of the 30 minutes, the light is more magenta, while towards the end, it’s brighter and more yellow like at sunrise. I usually wake up about 20 minutes in and let my eyes get used to the light. By the time the 30 minutes end, I’m ready to wake up. So much better than waking up with a dreadful alarm.

Wiz bedtime routine

While the Wiz connected smart lights help me the most when waking up in the morning, I use them to go to bed at night as well. Once I’m in bed, I turn on the bedtime routine, which allows me to read my book, yet the light gets more dim after a while, which makes me ready to put away my book and fall asleep.

Circadian Rhythm

In my office, I’m using the same combination of the full color spectrum smart bulbs and the Squire table lamp and I have them set to the Circadian Rhythm, which is aimed at replicating the natural changes of the sunlight throughout the day.

The light will gradually brighten in the morning, using cool white light, then it becomes more neutral and brighter during the day and dim and warmer in the evening (you can define when your day starts and ends in the WiZ app). As I have been working at my desk from dusk till down many days in the last weeks, it really helps to keep a sense of time. I usually have a feeling that it’s evening at 16h when the sun goes down here in Munich, and really get a dip in productivity, but the lights prevent this. And when I’m sitting at my desk when it’s dark out in the morning it gives the feeling the sun is already out. Such a game-changer.

Connectivity

Shortly said, I’m super happy with the WiZ connected lighting in both my bedroom and home office and can’t wait to get more lights in the other rooms of my apartment as well. I always tend to leave the light on in the hallway when I leave the house, so next, I will install the Wiz Motion sensor* by the door, so that the light can be on only when motion is detected. It will save energy and I don’t have to worry about switching off the lights when I’m leaving. It’s also possible to control the lights with voice control and I plan to try out using Google assistant with it.

This post was written in paid collaboration with WiZ connected lighting, but all opinions are my own of course. If you would like to know more about the products or have a look at more ideas on how to integrate them, have a look on their website. And don’t worry, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to be able to set up some pretty amazing scenes with the WiZ lighting. If I could do it, anyone can.

As I mentioned to you yesterday, it’s an exciting time on my Instagram this December, as I’m teaming up with a brand I love every day to give away an amazing price, advents calendar style. Today I have the honor of giving away a beautiful Aarke carbonator .

As you might know, over the summer I said goodbye to bottled water and introduced the Aarke carbonator to my kitchen. Not only does this mean sparkling water in the blink of an eye without carrying heavy bottles from the grocery store, but the design of the carbonator is a perfect addition to my kitchen as well. It’s available in a beautiful range of colors and materials and I’m so happy to announce one lucky winner will soon be carbonating their water with an Aarke carbonator in the color of their choice.⁠ Everything you need to know about entering the give-away is in this Instagram post.