Re-made drawer

I love this re-made drawer from Briggs Lekehus so much I might steal the idea:

Here’s the drawer before the makeover, pretty ordinary looking:

The dollhouse is equally great!

(images Briggs Lekehus)

Rearranging

We’ve bought some new illustrations lately, so today we’ve spent some time rearranging our walls again.

Pippi Longstocking-illustrations (from our trip to Astrid Lindgrens värld).

Mike Stimpson

Owls above Eowyn’s notice-board (we found the latter while thrifting).

Amelie now lives in our bedroom.

Two Madame Mos has moved into Ester’s room.

New stroller and a super hero show

The last couple of days have been good. Amongst other things we’ve found a really nice second hand stroller. And we’ve been to see two of Eowyn’s idols, two super heroes called Supersnällasilversara and Stålhenrik. They gave a superhjältekonsert (=super hero concert) up in Trollhättan. Here we are going home from the show. Today I’ve promised to sew a super hero cape for Eowyn.

Big enough for two

Souvenirs from Denmark

This week we’ve visited Denmark and Legoland. It was a very nice trip and we all enjoyed it.

Here are some of the souvenirs we took home:

Free postcards from a café in Aalborg

Toy story fridge magnets and lego-stylee salt and pepper dispensers

A pirate flag and lots of little lego bricks

Keychains with Yoda, R2-D2 and a classic lego spaceman

Tintin et Milou

I got Tintin and Milou as a gift from Johan the other day! I love both action figures, Tintin, and space/science fiction, so of course I adore these two in their little orange space suits. Eowyn commented on the oxygen tubes: “There are their drinking bottles.” She was quite pleased that even the dog had its own backpack and drinking bottle with him.

Even though they’re mine they now live on Ester’s shelf, next to the moon rocket she got for christmas. :-)

Glad midsommar!

This weekend we’ve celebrated midsommar (=midsummer), which is a big holiday here in Sweden. You it herring and strawberries, drink snaps, and, if you’re under the age of five at least, you dance silly dances around one of these (no I don’t mean Ester, but the big pole-thingie in the background):

Ester had a very cool clover-dress, that I got for Eowyn when she was little, made of vintage fabric. Eowyn was matching in her favorite hat from florin, also made out of vintage clover-fabric, and a brand new dress from Brita Sweden, made of organic cotton. I got it at the sale at Juniform (thanks for the tip, Ylva!). It was actually meant for Ester but it was too big, so it fitted Eowyn.

Both matched their outfits with a pair of cool jeans. :)

Retro playhouse

Family Living came out with a new issue yesterday, and it was as good as always. This little playhouse was really cool (they also seem to have launched a new website - check it out).

(image via Family Living)

Reuse

Now that we’ve gotten ourselves a new coffee table for our livingroom, we got the old table, which actually consisted of two small tables, over. Since they we’re quite perfect in size for a kids table one of them has moved into Ester’s room. I’m thinking that I might paint it or perhaps do some decoupage on the table top later on. 

Birthday party and a local flea market

This weekend will be pretty busy. Tomorrow we’ll be celebrating both Eowyn’s and Ester’s birthdays with a birthday party. They’re turning three and one next week. Eowyn is getting some stuff for her “kitchen”, i.e. the little Brio stove she got for christmas. Here’s a small shelf I bougth second hand, and pimped with some paper. It’ll be perfect storage for small tea cups, jars and stuff:

Here’s what it looked like before:

Apart from the birthday party we’ll also be attending a big flea market, which will take place in our part of town. Everyone is free to set up their own flea market stand and hopefully the whole area will be filled with people selling stuff they no longer need. We’ll see if we’re going to sell something (we do have some stuff up in the attic) or if we’re just going to go around and look and/or shop. A nice second hand stroller would be nice (although we’ve sort of given up on that idea)… Or a bike - I really could use a bike :)