I recently discovered All the luck in the world (via the great finish blog Varpunen). A webshop filled with beautiful re-cycled things. You can buy them or get inspired to start doing something similar yourself. Via the blog I found these pics of the owner’s home:
(images All the luck in the world)
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?
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)
Sometimes I just hate shopping second hand. When you know exactly what you want and everybody else wants the exact same thing (no, I’m not pretending that my taste is the least bit original). Like a nice vintage sofa for example. Just lost the bidding on this one on Lauritz:
And late last night I found two other sofas on Blocket. Perfect, really close by and not too cheap so that they would be gone straight away I thought. Since I’m polite I didn’t want to call at that hour so I just e-mailed and then phoned this morning. Too late, of course. I should have known.
Some people might think that the chase is half the fun but I just hate it. When I know what I want I want to have it right away. I have very limited patience. :-(
(image Lauritz)
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, Eowyn and I are visiting Erikshjälpens second hand store here in Gothenburg. Via their blog Retro living I found Andreas and Carolines’ home, where most things are second hand:
(images retro living)
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
I found itsallvintage quite recently and I just love it. It’s filled with lots of retro and vintage inspiration (I especially like the visits) and, on top of that, the writers, Annika & Lovisa seem to share most of my opinions and my view of life in general.
Check out this DIY hook strip they did:
The second hand hangers are also really great.
(images itsallvintage)
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)
Our latest second hand-buy - a gigantic Nintendo-sign. We love it!
We also love our new venetian blinds, that we had put in today. They’re much neater that the old ones.
