Things I did this weekend...

Hello everyone,

it is getting cold and all I wanna do is roll up in a little cave of leaves like a little hedgehog and not leaving anymore. Which reminds me that I actually saw wo hedgehogs last week. I get to see a lot of bunnies (every day) and ocassionally a squirell (at least every or every two week(s)) but a real life hedgehog is something new in this neighborhood and I hope to see more of those spiky cuties. They were not even afraid and I got to tickle the nose and take a photo of one of them.

Anyway.... This Saturday I got stuff done because John wasn´t home. Number one mission was to find a coat for Sweden. Right now I mostly wear capes because while it is cold it is not coat-cold yet. It was hard to find one because most coats seem to have dull colors only (grey and black or brown. bla. I need something that puts me into a better mood!) OR a terribly unflattering fit. Luckily I found that one by Manguun which has exactly the colour of my eyes (which you do not see on this picture though...)

Finally finding a coat in a nice color put me in such a fantastic mood that I was in the mood to get addional things done at home that I planned for a while but never got to do..... I re-aranged the heads on my wall (by the way: Note my beautifull new commode. I don´t know what to put in yet, but I love it! A work mate sole it to me for 20 €!) and put the (cheeky) metal signs I got myself over at least some of the holes in our kittchen wall (the one living in the apartmen before had shelves hanging there and as he removed them we have some holes in the wall that just don´t look pretty. I´ll need more signs to cover up all, but it´s a start ;-)

Hello heads

goodbye holes

Iam back online!!!

Hello everyone,

Iam back online! REALLY online I mean! I had the internet phone, however typing on it takes forever, I couldn´t read blogs and not really respond to messages either. So if you wrote, messaged, whatever - don´t take it personal that I did not reply. I just couldn´t!!! :-)

Slowly things are starting to look up. Every evening after work there is a lot of things to do. The laundry, that kept piling because we had no wasching maschine previously and either had to go to a wash salon or handwash, is fainally getting less, I sorted my private library by genre and I hope John will get out his driller to make the picture frames and the mirrow hang where they ought to... As the progress goes on here is a picture of my boudoirs current state...

The mirror is still laying on my kidney formed vanity, there are still boxes standing around, stuff on the wondow board that shouldn´t be there, but it starts to get fewer and fewer and the little shelf is still standing around (I consider putting it above my chippendale and store my lipsticks and perfumes in it. any thoughts bout that? More photos will follow when things are getting done! Still work in progress!

While I was gone I received this beautifull pictures from my shooting with Steffi and I hope you like them as much as I do.

That´s all for now!!!

The happy Home Makers!

Hello everyone,

our moving is in full preparation mood right now!

Last week I went to IKEA with a workmate and we bought a bed and a bureau (hope this is the right word, I had to bablefish it. In German it is kommode) and he was kind enough to give me two wardrobes he didn´t need, so me and John spend two afternoons setting things up! And I finally got around snapping some photos of what we have now... In the progress of moving in I will take some more photos and I hope to find a photographer that will do a shooting with me once it is completed...
The view from our balcony
The wardrobe I was gifted! I might put tapestry on it or white paint or I leave it as it is, as it´s the same color as our floor. Iam not sure yet. Oh well... I have time to decide :-) We set it up without a manual. Iam very proud of that :-)


We don´t have the dinner table and the chairs yet. I will order that just before my vacation in July so we are home to receive it. This years summer holiday will be on balconia. Meanwhile my balcony furniture will serve as our dinner-table. I saw it a month ago at Strauss for 59,90 € and I wanted it! I had to wait and hope it would be around once I have the place and indeed IT WAS! It was a pain to carry home, but it is so pretty it was worth it. I can´t wait to have breakfasts on the balcony on warm weekends!
My bed, my bureau and the fake sheep fur are from IKEA, so yes, you can buy cute retro-ish things on a budget.. Our bed is so HUGE! We had to unpack it to fit it into my workmates car and I got a little panic attack "This is too big!!! This is WAY too big!!!!!" I kept saying and we set it up and John said "Damn is that big! So so big!!!!!". But now we got used of the sight and as long and my vanity table and my chippendale bureau fit into the sleeping room we will be fine :-)

By the way: I checked and all my make up fits into the chippendale, which I dubbed Chippie. Even my oscene amount of fake lashes!!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!

Be patient, as I won´t have internet starting from next Saturday to the 8th of July and I will just be able to write stuff occassionally on twitter and Facebook over my internet phone, but there will be new posts when we are back and set ourselves up, including photos of how it looks once we moved in!!!

Today we also put out our old trashy furniture. No worries, not old in sese of Antique. Just old in sense of "I needed something for my first apartment on a limited budget and this is what I got". And Saturday we are finally MOVING IN!!!

Yay!

I found a kommode for my lingerie at IKEA for 39 Euro!!! It is actually prettier in person. I consider getting a second one if it turns out I have some more space, but tomorrow we´ll set up what we have: The bed, the kommode, Johns desk. We GOT THE KEYS TODAY!!! I put up my beautifull killhouettes bathroom sign in order to make this place mine.Maybe I take some photos tomorrow while we set it up!

50s Interieur anyone?

Hello everyone,

the date is set! n the 2nd of July Iam going to move into my new apartment. Ok, our new apartment, but I took over choosing the furnitures for the living room and the sleeping room.

Today I was looking through magazines and books figuring out which colour ways will work for my living room... The walls are orange, and as this is a dominating colour Iam naturally worried whether the furnitures I choose for it will match it or whether it will look a huge mess. I made photos from the articles and photos for reference and I figured I might as well share them :-)

I guess bringing in tons of different colours should be fine