Vacation!!!

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I have 3 weeks of vacation ahead of me! Yay! However for 2,5 weeks I won´t go anywere but the magic country of balconya. In case you don´t know that place of the world, it is situated right infront of my sleeping room! And one week of it I will be mostly by myself because John is working. So I make quick progress on home decorating right now!

I think Iam done with Chippie now.

Lavender and daisies on my window. I love the smell of lavender in the evening.

And I wait for the rest of furnitures for the living room to be delivered and set up. Today we got the dinnertable and chairs. However the table was so heavy I couldn´t carry it upstairs all by myself and the chairs came with no manual,but way too many strange things to use for setting them up. I can´t do it myself. I have to wait for John with it. However I know now that the chair-colors go with the wall-color (I chose brown, lemon yellow, turqoise and light blue for the chairs, but you will see photos soon!). I kept running up and down 3 floors the whole morning trying to get stuff upstairs. Phew. Is it ok if I skip hula hooping tonight?

Yesterday our stove was installed, too so I can pretend to be an domestic goddess right now. Phew.... I should go downstairs once more to buy vegetables to go with the dinner now.... Work never ends - even on vacation

The Tiki Room

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I don´t think I showed a picture of my living room in the making yet!!! Here it is! It is red, the former tennant painted it like that and we kept it. We got the red chaiselounge whose back you are seeing for free! The little bamboo shelf aka the Tiki-Shrine was a fleamarket find for 5 Euros. The seat on the ground was by IKEA and I found the pillow in some cheapo-store where I got it for 8 Euros. I promise better pics with better light and maybe even close ups once the tiger seats and the dinner essemble arrived.

My flea-market findthis Saturday. I got those 5 books for 4 Euro and I LOVE the covers so so much!!! I should display them somehow but I don´t know where/how yet!

When I saw this little kitten-vase I immediately knew it should be the keeper of my make up brushes. I was thinking "Please be 3 Euro, please be 3 Euro" while the stall holder took out his price list and checked forever. It was..... 3 Euro. Maybe I have special mind powers (or maybe not....)

And yay!!!! The mirror of my vanity table is finally hanging!!!! Now I can set my mind on how to decorate it!!!! I got the mirror for free from my grandpa, the vanity table off ebay and the chair for free from a neighbor that wanted to get rid of it. Sometimes Iam a fortune cookie. Here counts "More and better photos when Iam finished", too!

The happy Home Makers!

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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!

The non-stripping kind....

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a new addition to my future apartment.... A chippendale - it suits because just like me it´s the non-stripping kind *wordplay alert* ;-) searching ebay I found this beauty for whopping 59 €. Too great a catch to pass it up. Even shipping it is still only 70 €.... In it´s future it will hold my make up and replace the ugly plastic container that did this job before. My hair acessoires will be stored in the wooden boxes I bought yesterday and I could put my etagere with my jewelry on it, too!

can´t wait to get it!!!!

cute little things

cute little things I bought for my future apartment <3