Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. I celebrated it with my wonderful family by making homemade pizza, watching a Pixar-movie and building lego-houses and cars (my 2,5-year-old daughter can focus on the TV for about 20 minutes before she wants to do something else - which probably is a good thing).

And I got some really nice presents:

A new sewing machine - yay! Even though I sort of fixed the old one by myself (the sewing machine repair shops seemed to think it wasn’t really worth fixing), it’s probably only a matter of time before it breaks down completely. I’m really excited about this new one, it seems to have a lot of nice features that the old one didn’t have. Hopefully it will come to much use!

I also got this book with loads of tips and inspiration on how to reuse and re-make things for your home. I often think these kind of books has tips that are either too far-fetched (like things made out of paperclips and such) or too complex to make yourself. At a first glance this book seems to have a little bit of everything though, some over-the-top things made by designers that serves more as inspiration and some easy tips you can do yourself.

The christmas candlesticks I got for myself at a fleamarket the day before. Very nice and retro, huh?