Hello, we are glad to see you here!
I'm Laura. And the dogs in the picture above are the most important sources of inspiration for our company, our long-haired miniature dachshunds Mauri and Mikko. The company is also named after them. Mauri and Mikko participate in our work every day, mainly by taking care of our well-being and making sure that there are (play) breaks often enough. Studies show it too - a break spend with your dog in the middle of a working day helps you to relax and lower stress levels.
How did it all start?
Mauri arrived to our family in 2017 and since then the idea of starting my own company focused on dog products had been running through my mind. The business idea took a step forward in Summer of 2022. A Summer party was approaching and I got the idea to have fun dachshund earrings for the party. The bigger the better. But after browsing the Internet for a while I noticed that these kind of earrings weren't available anywhere. This gave me the idea to start designing different kind of products with illustrated dog and cat breeds. Our purpose is to expand our selection to cover all the most common breeds, and to design various plywood products, paper products and textiles.
Plywood products
All our plywood products are designed and illustrated with love in our home studio in Salo, Finland. After that they are printed in Helsinki by our partners on Finnish birch plywood. The metal used in the jewelry is allergy-friendly surgical steel. We use only high-quality and safe materials in our products.
Since wood is a living material, the colors in the plywood products may occasionally differ slightly from each other. The grain of the wood also affects how the imprint looks on the plywood. However, in our opinion, this gives each printed product its own personal appearance and makes it unique.
Responsibility
We want to act responsibly in everything we do.
Environmental values are important values for us and we want to respect them in every step of the manufacturing process of our products. As far as possible, the raw materials we use are domestic. Respecting local forests by investing in ecology and sustainability is one of our most important values, along with domesticity. Ecology and sustainability cuts through all we do: product ideas won't be fulfilled if they cannot be manufactured by respecting our company's values.
We aim to manufacture all our products as close to Finland as possible. All the products we design are manufactured in Europe. This reduces our company's carbon footprint considerably because products flown from e.g. China to Europe have massive environmental impact. We are very precise about our partners, and we want to make sure that they follow the same principles of responsibility as we do.