waiting...

Image from IKEA

SO looking forward to the 2012 IKEA catalogue!!! :) Within the next few days-weeks it should arrive at my door! :) Wohoo! Supposedly a lot about storage - thank God!

That present

So here's what I gave to 2-month-old Alicia, daughter of a fav couple of mine and J's. I designed and made it myself (pretty basic stuff) and I'm really happy with the outcome! So glad I went to have it done at a proper print shop! I'm starting to think graphic design really is for me :) Imagine working with something one really loves and maybe even turn it into a business... :)

text says: most beautiful

names

birth info

loved♥

new, new & new

So we went to IKEA the other day and now we've got a new pendant for the kitchen table (unsprayed as of yet and maybe we'll keep it this way? Kind of looks light (light) grey with all the white-white around...) and a big chest of drawers in the wardrobe. The drawers take a lot of space but then they give a lot of it too! So definitely worth it. And it's white :) of course.

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And now I have somewhere to put all our cute baby clothes! Perfect! Ahh, can't W A I T! :) And here's how the wardrobe looked before.

i'm going to do this

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Heaps of pretty postcards, cutouts, photos and what not! Love it! Perfect for any white doorway with white walls around = just about any doorway in our apartment :) And oh-so-easy! Note to self: do this!

for the kitchen table

I'm so definitely doing this! But I want my kitchen table pendant to be a light, soft, matte grey colour :) Well done IKEA!

For all my list-making needs

A board painted with magnetic paint and chalkboard paint. And then maybe a nice frame around. White of course. Just perfect and precisely what I need! :) Oh, and: note to self!

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Btw, I wouldn't mind the Kitchen Aid either... :)

Thoughts of a dream

Definitely something I'd consider for our bedroom wall. With the fairy lights, obviously. But not black letters, probably.

Picture from we♥it.

This is me tonight.

On the couch, glued to the latest issue of (one of) my fav home+decorating magazines, Swedish Allt i Hemmet. Nothing quite beats it. A new magazine that is.

It is a christmas special. Needless to say, I loooong for Christmas by now. Ha! My head is full of inspiration and ideas and plans. Traditionally non-traditional. At least it makes sense in my head. More about that... when we get a little bit closer. Let's now enjoy A U T U M N, yes? :)

L O V E

Something I threw together in PS... :) Maybe something for our empty white walls. What do you think? Love colours!

Concrete

Hello again :) Pause over? Play pressed? Maybe, and maybe not. Anyways, I just really wanted to show you a recent project of ours. As well as save it for myself. A concrete top for our tv bench. I love the way it turned out so great! :)

More of this definitely coming up in the future! I've been browsing google image search for a while [read: hours] and now I'm bursting with new inspiration!

.in my kitchen cabinet

Well, here's the cabinet in my kitchen that I open the most. I love the colour scale! From clear blue to deep + bright turquoise, to cream and white, to clear glass, and, naturally, pink. :) Click to enlarge!

Items are (from top to bottom, left to right):

Vintage tea cups by Finish Arabia | deep turquoise Collection Mugs by Höganäs.

White side plates, Dinera by IKEA + second hand bowls | Mugs M by Cult Design | cream + bright turquoise Club Mugs by Höganäs

White plates, Dinera by IKEA + pink bowl/pitcher by IB Laursen | White bowls, Dinera by IKEA | deep turquoise bowls by Höganäs | clear glasses + pitcher by Eva Solo.

Oh and by the way, I love Höganäs' new spring/summer shade Syren (Lilac)! Will have to get myself a bunch of lilac bowls + a few white ones. Sometime... :) Did you know that the tiles that cover the shells of the Sydney Opera House were made by Swedish Höganäs? :)

Love it all! ♥

IKEA goes French Romanticism

Pictures: IKEA

And I, I absolutely love it! Well done, IKEA. :)

My 24th Birthday, Present #01

I've had a serious photo shoot here at home, trying to shoot good pictures of all my lovely presents. Now I think I've got them all right. Anyways. :) Here's the first birthday present that I want to show you :) A new pair of Cult Design Changetta candle rings (squares). Glossy silver - so nice, and it goes together with everything!

Picture: Me

Candle holders are Changetta's from Cult Design. Here you can see my other set of square candle rings.

Spring Explosion

Martha Stewart

Look at this. Stunning. This is something I will be doing sometime in the future. For sure. It's just flat out gorgeous! :)

And today is the 1st of May. How crazy is that?

Wood Anemone

I picked this year's first wood anemones yesterday! :) (Sounds like such a fancy flower in English... like it!) Right now they are decorating our kitchen table (and fridge at night, to make them last longer, haha!)

Pictures: Me

I found them while being on a picnic with J. We know the most lovely spot with water, a beach and sunshine all day. So we went there, and I, taking my previous note to self very seriously, suggested we bring a picnic as well. Unfortunately, the camera died before I even got one photo so there's no pictures of this fantastic afternoon. But no worries, this will happen again! :)

Amazing amazing amazing colours! :)

I totally am amazed (in case you missed the title...) at the gorgeousness of this table runner. It really is a funny thing to be amazed by... None the less. Table runner is now on my most wanted list. Not that I really have a piece of furniture to put it on... But that's a small problem, right? :)

Runner is from Danish Green Gate and picture from a Swedish webshop (here).

More spring flowers

Source: Unknown

This is a reminder from about a year ago, last spring. It's still gorgeous though :) And definitely still in the back of my head. I'm constantly on the look out for suitable cups. Ha!

Spring flowers I like

Source: Unknown

These spring flower arrangements are be-a-utiful! I'm thinking about somethings similar. Just more pink! :) Lovely!

First of March + new addition

Here is the latest addition to my collection of "night light holders". :)

Tray tables

These too, are nice. :)

Pictures from Spiti.se in collage by me.

But then as I sit here, creating this blog post, I see pictures of square trays on stands, and I kind of like them even better. It's a whole different thing though. More like New England-ish (which I love.) and I'll probably blog about that sometime in the future.