Here is our new re-made door. Unfortunately the second hand wallpaper we had wasn’t enough to cover it, so instead I went out and bought a roll of Eldblomma by Josef Frank. (I have some other ideas on how to use that retro wallpaper, so it will hopefully come to use soon anyway.)
Here is another great way to redecorate an old door, by Hanna:
(image via dos family)
We needed somewhere to sit and put on our shoes. Johan went ahead and made this from an old ikea stool and some wallpaper:
Here’s how he made it:
The end result:
Yesterday we put up some shelves on the walls in our youngest daughter Ester’s room. Below is a list with hooks and a small shelf on top that we made for the hallway in our old apartment. It fits perfectly above the Ikea PS-cabinet:
We also put up this shelf, that was a Christmas present for her:
The books, except Pek-Elvis, are from my own and Johan’s childhoods.
As I think I’ve mentioned before, a few of our doors in the apartment are quite dull, so we’ve decided buying new ones. But now we’ve started thinking that maybe we could do something with them instead. To be specifik we’re gonna try putting some vintage wallpaper on them. Something along the lines of this:
I also absolutely love the Q. P. Store-photo that Jenny from Sammy Rose put on her door:
I wouldn’t mind something like that. But since we already have some vintage wallpaper laying around we’re gonna try using that. I’ll keep you posted on the result. :)
(image Vintage Victoria, Jenny Brandt via Dos Family)
Note to self: Next time you invite your 2,5-year-old daugther to paint with you, make sure you cover a BIG area with newspapers…
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?
Just when I had decided against us having this kind of christmas calendar (I just wasn’t ready to sign up for finding and wrapping 24 smalI presents, well since we have two kids better make that 48, every year for the coming 18 years or so…), I found this neat little DIY-project, from the same source as the lamp cover. And I really love this christmas calendar:
I’m gonna have to down prioritize all other things on my current todo-list, in order to finish this before the first of December. Hm, maybe next year?
(image pickles)
Even though I like rice lamps just the way they are, I find this crocheted rice lamp cover by Pickles amazing:
Found it via DIY OR DIE at Elle Interiör.
(image Pickles)
Yesterday I bought two very cute crocheted pot-holders:
Today I visited my friend Annica and her son Elmer, 2,5 weeks old (very cute!). She had made a very nice chocheted baby-blanket, so now I feel inspired to start crocheting.
She also had a awesome patchwork blanket from the seventies, so now I’m a bit jealous. :-) (Unfortunately I didn’t bring my camera.)
