Found this beautiful fabric in a second hand store the other day. I love it’s pixelated feeling. Don’t know yet what to do with it; use it as a table cloth as above, a bed spread for one of the kids beds or perhaps sew pillow cases of it?
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.
Yesterday morning it was raining so Eo and I decided to go thrifting. We went to two different stores. Here are some of our findings.
A turquoise tray
The mirror in the middle (note: the turquoise shelf to the left is also new - got it during our Denmark-trip and then re-painted it)
A “lotto”-game
The only thing I don’t like about thrift stores is that most of them, at least the ones where you can find the real bargains, are situated so that you “have to” take the car. And, since you never know what you might find, having a car with you is an advantage.
But, in general, I really dislike using the car. For those of you that really love your cars and think that I’m a real Goody Two-Shoes/environmental freak for saying that, I must confess that it’s as much about my own disliking of driving and cars as it’s about the sustainable lifestyle thing. I’ve never liked driving much and I don’t like it any better now that we have kids. The whole ordeal of getting Eowyn and Ester in and out of the car just seem like a big hassle to me. Plus, Eowyn shares my dislike of cars so she keeps complaining the whole time, which doesn’t help much. Whereas she loves going by bus or tram. So, for us it’s been an easy choice to use the car as little as possible.
Today it’s been raining a lot here in Gothenburg, so we’ve been playing inside most of the day. We’ve been playing hide and seek, football, doing jigsaw puzzles and, currently, I’m playing with a new camera app (Fx Camera) for my android phone:
I’ve also finished painting Ester’s table:
Here’s what the bedspread looks like on the other side. I don’t really know which side I like better. Kind of like them both.
Started off my vacation today, by going swiming in a lake near by. Or actually, compared to the great summer house I just found for sale, the lake wasn’t near by at all. :-) The summer house had it’s own beach just outside the front door. Wouldn’t that be something?!
Today I’m also dreaming of a vintage 60ies leather/wood sofa, much like the one in the apartment below. A dream that’s a little more feasable.
I said before that we shouldn’t have another leather sofa, because of the cat, but perhaps if we found a cheap one, we could give it another try. Leather’s great with the kids and I’m not sure a sofa made of another fabric would be any better with the cat.
(images Alvhem via I love Peggy)
I’ve framed some more old photos today. The plan is to create a wall filled with pictures of our relatives. We just don’t know where to put it yet, since we’re running out of walls, sort of. Perhaps we should spread them out?
The big wedding pictures are of my mum and dad and the pretty girl in the white hat is also my mum, from her high school graduation.
We finally made an order for some of Mike Stimpson’s star wars-photos. I’ve been wanting them for some time now, so I’m very pleased. They’re totally awesome (btw, we went to a children’s play the other day, starring Mr Totally Awesome, superhero. Do I need to say it was brilliant?…)!
Our new bedspread has arrived.
Instead of the Tolix-drawer we found this nice (and cheap!) cabinet from Ellos.
I instantly filled it with fabrics and other sewing stuff. I just hope that Ester won’t find it right away… She’s quite a little menace right now. :-)
