Monthly Archives: September 2010

So much space

I didn’t move any furniture, painted walls or bought new things. I did browse all my favourite online shops at least once a day, filled the basket but never went to the checkout. Instead I went through all our drawers and filled box after box with things that we just don’t need. And these things either went straight to the trash can or I sold them on eBay. I sold or gave away half the clothes I had. And although I nearly only made space in our drawers and inside our closets, it feels as if there was so much more space in our living room.

There’s definitely so much more to do. Like this cable on the floor you can see in the picture above. It’s the cable for the TV in our bedroom and we wanted to fix this for nearly one year now, but there was always something that had been more important or more urgent. If I can keep it up with the cleaning and “curing” of our home, I don’t think we’ll have many excuses left to still postpone it. :)

Something I hadn’t done for quite a while as well: Just watching TV, drinking tea and lightning some candles, just because I couldn’t enjoy sitting in our living room. I really missed it.

(Do you actually sometimes click through my Flickr photostream? I sometimes feel a bit strange to always post the same pictures here and over there at flickr, so this time I uploaded another two pictures of our living room. Visit me there. :))

Last pieces of summer

I didn’t expect to still get currants and strawberries this year, but I found both last weekend in the supermarket around the corner and was all excited.

Biscuit, a mixture of sugar, cream, cream cheese and curd and on top the berries. Unfortunately it only last two days.

At the moment it looks as if the project “new kitchen” will gain momentum in the next few weeks. We already have a new kitchen table and there is this kitchen cabinet on eBay I’m watching, that looks really promissing. And I’ve saved some money and made space for new things. Let’s see what will happen. Enjoy the last few summery days!

pink II

Whenever I end a post with a spoiler like “And what I’ll do with this and that, I’m going to tell you next week” it never takes a week but a month or more. I promised to show what I wanted to do with one of our walls in our hallway more than two months ago and it took me until yesterday to get it done. But here it is: Another art wall.

Some of these prints waited to be hung up for months now and they just waited for the right place. But when I finally had decided where to put them up our walls, it took me like forever to arrange them. I tried so many layouts, cut out little models out of paper and arranged them on a sheet of paper because there were already so many holes in our wall (of all the nails I had put in and then out again). And when I thought I had found a layout that looks good, I started putting it up to the wall just to find out that it looks different on the wall. I was really frustrated. So yesterday I said I’d try it for the last time and if it wouldn’t work out this time, this wall would stay blank. I didn’t make a model this time and just gave it a try. I put up the two bigger ones in the middle and just hang all others around them quite intuitively and this time I really liked it.

The pink door already added some colour to our hallway, but for me, it wasn’t enough.  But now with the prints up the walls, I really like it.

Okay, here are some links to where I bought the prints:

The two viking melamine plates are by herzensart (viking in the rain and viking wood). Three of the mid-sized photographies are from one of my all time favourite etsy shops Wren & Chickadee (The Colors of SummerSquirrel Love and The Memory of Flight). Then there are two smaller drawings from ChildlikeWisdom (Life in the stories – A little canary and a very similar drawing that isn’t available at the moment, it was called Deer face) and one small photography by Roadside, called Accordion Music. The upper bigger print is called When will it stop… and is by Laura Amiss. The tree print on the right is by Annette Mangseth, who sends her prints in the most lovely envelopes you have ever received! And the two bigger photographies are called Seagulls and I stand each day on the shore (which is my favourite from all mentioned prints and photographies) from etsy shop honeytree. All Frames are IKEA Ribba frames.

That’s it! Hope you could find some inspiration. :)

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