Scarves

I went ahead and ordered two of those really cool scarves from florin I mentioned before. There made out of vintage fabrics. Check ‘em out!

DoreDoris on Dos Family

I really like the blog DoreDoris so I was very curious when I saw that Jenny from Dos Family had made a visit to the blog-owner’s home. Her house seems to be just as cool as I had imagined - filled with second hand/vintage furniture and details.

I really like the white kitchen with loads of bright red accents, especially the kitchen chairs. I love bright colors but would probably not go for red myself, but it really looks great here. A round table is on my wishlist for our new apartment by the way…

Having a big, old style pantry is also on my wishlist, although I’ll have to continue living without it I guess.

The children rooms are also very nice. And check out the outfit on the little girl! I was somewhat surprised to read that the girl behind DoreDoris, Carolina, is also responsible for another one of my favorite blogs, BRUNo.RANGE, about sewing. Check it out if you haven’t already, it’s really creative and inspiring (I love the way she re-uses old jeans for example).

I’ve been wanting to have a hat rack for Ester’s and Eowyn’s clothes, like in the picture below. In the new apartment I think we’ll make room for one.

I really like old style phone shelves like the one below, with space for the phone and the phone catalogue (and if you don’t have a phone catalogue it works just as well for shoes):

(all images Jenny Brandt via DosFamily)

Sewing inspiration

I’m a big fan of reusing old fabrics and making them into something new. When the  selling of the apartment is over I hope I’ll have some time over for sewing again. These kids-scarves seems easy enough for me to start with. They’re from one of my favorite sewing-blogs, Florin pysslar (in swedish).

(image Florin pysslar)

Shopping spree

Lately I’ve done quite a lot of shopping, mostly second hand and mostly online. I bought some really nice retro coffee-cups from my fellow blogger Sara (who’s blog is filled with cool stuff). This means that the vintage-coffee-cup-collection that we started a while ago is finally moving along (for some time we only had one Berså-cup - not much of a collection then):

Later on I want a better way to display the cups, but that’ll have to wait until the next apartment. Perhaps on a String-shelf or some other shelf, like this:

(image Hus & Hem)

Today at IKEA I got the two jars to the right:

They will soon be complemented with this nice old jar I “won” on the Swedish online auktion-site Tradera. I’m still awating delivery.

(seller’s image)

I also got a vintage bedsheet from the same place. I’m gonna sew something of it, don’t know what yet. Perhaps dresses for the girls or another patchwork blanket? Or both - a bedsheet is quite big. Although, if I know myself it’s probably gonna lay around forever before I a) get around to it and b) has the nerve to cut it up (in case I’m gonna regret it)…

(seller’s image)

Attempt number one

I really like patchwork bedspreads, especially with reused fabrics from the sixties and seventies. Since they’re quite expensive and hard to get by I decided to make one myself a while ago. It was quite timeconsuming, and I’m not 100% satisfied with the result but I guess it wasn’t too bad for a first attempt. Next time (if there will be a next time) I will use more colorfull fabrics. These are really a bit too lame for my taste and most of them aren’t second hand or ecological either (but from stoff & stil, which I really like, too bad their fabrics aren’t ecological). Also I would make a more symmetrical pattern.