Never satisfied

I would like to have more cherries and less apples. The cherries were almost ripe last weekend and I am afraid that they'll ripen during the week and the birds eat all of them before we even get a taste. On the other hand it seems that there will be a lot of apples, which is not good news as our apples are small, hard and tart (and usually half eaten by worms).

Fields of (still green) gold

You gotta love autumn in the countryside- the fields are beautiful! This year it seemed that the crops were never going to grow but a week of sunshine did wonders.

Small but important

This pin is really small, about the size of a pinky nail. But as it is related to shops, we bought it for our museum collection (sounds grand, doesn't it?).

Colourful enough for you?

I started to collect red and orange glass vases from the 60's about half a year ago. The first one (the small orange vase) I found then and the next one took me the mentioned half a year. The green one completes the collection for now as I don't like things in pairs and haven't yet found a third one in right colour. There are of course a lot of red vases around but I don't want to pay more than about 20 euros per piece and the vase has to be old and monochrome. This means the collecting takes a little longer. Well, I have more time than money.

Just hanging there

I love floral prints and the good smell of lavender was a bonus, so of course I bought this small bag to hang on the door in our hall.

This is what I mean with a phone

This corner in our living room is a real mix of new and old. The lamp stand I got from my cousin Satu and my husband painted it in soft pink, the lamp shade is from Hemtex's summer collection. The old school board, the phone from the 60's, the vase from the 40's and the small table are from flea market. The green wall is the original from the 60's - we haven't yet decided what to choose for a new wall paper...The stack of books seen in the left corner are under the load speaker as the stool the speaker stands on is not high enough...

Five on a treasure island

Do you still remember Enid Blyton's Five books? As our ghosts at Vårkulla speak only Swedish, I bought a Swedish version of a Five book for them. The book was printed in 1954 so it's cover art is from my favourite era.