The tiny creative community of Seyðisfjörður, Iceland has about half a dozen little shops and local boutiques.

 

Quaint Little Seyðisfjörður in Eastern Iceland is Home to a Number of Locally Run Boutiques and Galleries
Quaint Little Seyðisfjörður in Eastern Iceland is Home to a Number of Locally Run Boutiques and Galleries

 

One of our favorite spots is tucked away from Seyðisfjörður’s main rainbow brick walk way away from the cute, and anything but blah, Bláa Kirkjan (Blue Church).

 

Not So Blah - The Bláa Kirkjan (Blue Church) in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Not So Blah – The Bláa Kirkjan (Blue Church) in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Blóðberg Icelandic Designs opened just about a year ago and is located inside the oldest house in Seyðisfjörður. Erna Lilju Helgadóttir opened the shop in the living room of the home she lives in just about a year ago.

 

Blóðberg Icelandic Designs' Owner, Erna Lilju Helgadóttir, Lives and Runs Her Shop Out of the Oldest Home in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Blóðberg Icelandic Designs’ Owner, Erna Lilju Helgadóttir, Lives and Runs Her Shop Out of the Oldest Home in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

The house was built in the 1860s and the creek of the original wood floorboards beneath your feet gives you a hint as to what life in Seyðisfjörður used to be like more than a century before the cruise ships arrived.

 

Shop From Her House - Blóðberg Icelandic Designs is Located Inside the Oldest Home in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Shop From Her House – Blóðberg Icelandic Designs is Located Inside the Oldest Home in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

To say it’s the oldest building would be a lie because apparently there’s an older structure still standing in the town, but it’s a shed rather than a habitable house.

 

Modern Icelandic Woman - Gorgeous Scarves at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Modern Icelandic Woman – Gorgeous Scarves at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Despite the age of the building, most of the products you’ll find for sale in the shop are from more modern Icelandic designers. There are scarfs with maps of Iceland…

 

Hook, Line and Charger - Cord Keepers by Guðrún Borghildur at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Hook, Line and Charger – Cord Keepers by Guðrún Borghildur at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

…and fun cord keepers in materials like fish skin and wool from Guðrún Borghildur.

 

Sport a Glacier - Icelandic Designer Ágústa Hera's Company Októ Under Its Föðurland Label at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Sport a Glacier

 

In addition to Blóðberg Icelandic Designs, here’s a list of other neat little local spots we love across Iceland.

 

Sport a Glacier - Icelandic Designer Ágústa Hera's Company Októ Under Its Föðurland Label at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Sport a Glacier – Icelandic Designer Ágústa Hera’s Company Októ Under Its Föðurland Label at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Leggings and tunics imprinted with glacier prints by local Icelandic designer Ágústa Hera‘s company Októ under its Föðurland label are also a fun find.

 

All Lit Up - Tulipop's Mr. Tree
All Lit Up – Tulipop’s Mr. Tree

 

Get ready to shop ’till you drop. Here’s a list of our favorite fashion finds, places where you can shop local and support small business around the globe.

 

Pop Culture - The Tulipop Display at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Pop Culture – The Tulipop Display at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Tulipop is all the rage in Iceland these days, so you’ll see kids products with characters like Mr. Tree and smelly Fred adorning everything from keychains to lamps.

 

Bubble Seaweed Earrings and Other Assorted Jewelry on Display at Blóðberg Icelandic Design in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Bubble Seaweed Earrings and Other Assorted Jewelry on Display at Blóðberg Icelandic Design in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

One of our favorite finds at Blóðberg are earrings that are made from bóluþang (bubble seaweed or fucus vesiculosus) that wash up on Iceland’s beaches. Typically these small greenish brown balls are found in remote regions of Iceland near the West Fjords. During our trip, the only other place that carried jewelry made from this rather unique ocean drift material were necklaces at Galleri Lundi in Stykkishólmur (Western Iceland).

 

Cold as Ice - Handmade Glacier Soap by Sapusmidjan at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður
Cold as Ice – Handmade Glacier Soap by Sapusmidjan at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður

 

Blóðberg Icelandic Designs also carries a fun line of handmade glacier soap made by Sapusmidjan that is created out of ice from Snæfellsjökull.

 

Takk Means Thanks in Icelandic - Gorgeous Cups at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Takk Means Thanks in Icelandic

 

One word you must learn if you’re traveling to Iceland is “takk.” Takk (pronounced like tock and rhymes with clock) in Icelandic means thank you. A lovely range of right handed and left handed glasses that have takk written on them are one of the sweetest buys we spotted at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs.

 

Pretty Cups at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Pretty Cups at Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Whether you’re on the hunt for the perfect wooly blanket that will remind you of your trip to Iceland or you just want to step back in time by wandering around one of the oldest homes in Seyðisfjörður, Blóðberg Icelandic Designs is sure to deliver.

 

Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Blóðberg Icelandic Designs in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

Blóðberg Icelandic Designs
Address: Bjólfsgata 4
710 Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Hours: Tuesday Through Friday Noon to 6:00pm, Saturday Noon to 4:00pm
Phone: +354 822-5258