My Helsinki: Xmas Garage for Christmas Gift Shopping

03 Dec 2018
Finland, gifts for girls, gifts for men, gifts for women, LIFESTYLE, Nordic Lifestyle, SKIMBACO LIFESTYLE
December 3, 2018 Katja Presnal

My Helsinki: Xmas Garage for Christmas Gift Shopping

My family and my close friends know that my dream is to open a Christmas market in a barn somewhere in the country side, maybe like the ones we saw in Sweden. My best friend from high school, Pauliina, has made a Christmas shop a reality, and it’s beyond dreamy! Instead of country side, Pauliina’s Christmas market is on the best shopping street of the entire country (Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki, Finland), and the gift selection is far from cutesy crafts.

Let me introduce you Xmas Garage.

Pauliina own’s Helsinki’s hottest fashion shop My o My where you get your Kenzo fix, and much needed color pop. For the last four years, Pauliina has also hosted Xmas Garage, the most stylish Holiday pop up shop in town, and last couple of summers also Summer Garage popped up to offer Scandinavian design, quirky gifts, locally produced souvenirs and more. This year’s Xmas Garage is my favorite of the ones I’ve seen. Still plenty of minimal Scandinavian design, high quality accessories, home goods and gifts, but also oh so much color, weird curiosities, fun Christmas ornaments, and galore of books. Come and see it yourself – and let Alex Alex be your host!
Xmas Garage in Helsinki
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Katja Presnal

Katja Presnal shows how to live Nordic inspired life to the fullest and plan your dream life. Katja owns Presnal5 strategic marketing intelligence agency and wants to help marketing professionals to combine a dream career and dream life via freelance work. Katja is an award-winning marketing strategist, and a well-known speaker. Katja has lived in five different countries, and seven states in the USA. Her three children were all born in different countries within three years. When not working or jet-setting the world, Katja is at home cooking big family dinners. She has been featured in NY Times, Glamour, Redbook, Fodor's, Forbes and Woman's Day magazines among many other national and international publications and written for MTV3 and Lifetime TV networks.