The scent of old books

Awakened by a project the other day. The scent of dusty old books always gives me a fast lane ride into history, it’s like magic. Suddenly I’m surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of years, voices, meetings, letters, numbers, whispers, colors and poetry… A small project brought this on, I assure you that I’m neither drunk [...]

DIY project 2

I’ve gotten hooked on DIY projects! Project no 2 is somewhere in this picture. Stay curious and stay with me – will reveal the “mystery” soon. And this time I’ll keep my promise on “soon”
It’s a beautiful Friday morning right now and I wish your day will be filled with magic!
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DIY project 1 – step 2 + final result

I was reminded to show the steps and final result of my DIY project 1 by a visitor (Thank you, Renate!). Sorry for being forgetful! So here it is – my complete project:

I started out by finding a mandala pattern (unfortunately I have forgotten where I found it – sorry, but let me know if [...]

Painting must go on

Melody: Show must go on
Halfway there with my re-painting the dining area. Actually “half” was done on Thursday evening, then came Swedish Midsummer to worry about. Cooking, baking, lovely guests, hostessing. Day after hostessing. Sunday. Now it’s Monday and I went to the paint shop to buy some more masking tape (ran out), some other [...]

Paint junkie

I have a hard time being still, so I’ve decided to re-paint our dining area today! Yesterday me and Best Friend went shopping for paint and other necessary thing for this project. I thought I would do this next week, but I just can’t help myself. Buckets of paint, rollers, brushes… Like a junkie, I [...]

Planting for dummies

So easy that even I could do it! I’ve loved to see the flowers grow and turn to the Sun. I’ll keep them for a week or so and then the basket is going to get some new flowers. I’m into pink I think. Any suggestions?
Wish you all a magical weekend!

Busy

Sorry for slow posting but my students are priority no 1 at the moment. Yes, they behave and they are great!
My DIY project turned out fine and I’ll post some pics soon!

DIY project 1 – step 1

Don’t like throwing things away, much more prefer to remake them into something else and new. That’s why I’m into renewing my Bamboo Venetian blinds. One of them is supposed to end up as a nice eye-catcher above our bed, the other will keep its function (in our studio) but will get a new pattern.
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