This table has moved from the cottage to Vårkulla and at Vårkulla it has moved from room to room and within the room from place to place. I think it has now found the right place...
tiistai 31. joulukuuta 2013
maanantai 30. joulukuuta 2013
It is still Christmas
There is still time to enjoy Christmas decorations. It is always sad to take them off. I guess I have to buy more non-Christmassy decorations...
sunnuntai 29. joulukuuta 2013
The older you get
It must be true, the older you get, the more colour you need. Just to think that our home is black-white-grey...must do some changes there, too.
lauantai 28. joulukuuta 2013
perjantai 27. joulukuuta 2013
torstai 26. joulukuuta 2013
keskiviikko 25. joulukuuta 2013
More room at the table
Now that almost the whole living room is in use, we can have the long table in place all the time. There is plenty of place for two...
tiistai 24. joulukuuta 2013
maanantai 23. joulukuuta 2013
Our new best friends
It would be lovely to get a dog (read: labrador retriever). For now we have to settle for these two.
sunnuntai 22. joulukuuta 2013
lauantai 21. joulukuuta 2013
Visiting Africa
Ok, we did not really visit Africa but we have a brown paper wall in Vårkulla's living room and it looks kind of like African desert. At least it will, when we hang this ostrich poster on the wall.
perjantai 20. joulukuuta 2013
Starlight
As I said before, I just love stars. These hang in Vårkulla's living room.
Have a nice before-Christmas-weekend!
torstai 19. joulukuuta 2013
Borrowed view
This is a term normally used in garden design but it says everything about this view, too. The Christmas tree is on the yard next to us and it can be seen from our living room window.
keskiviikko 18. joulukuuta 2013
Kitchen coloured by Christmas lights
Our kitchen looks even more red than in daylight...we try to do something useful during daylight and so the photos are mostly taken in the evening.
tiistai 17. joulukuuta 2013
maanantai 16. joulukuuta 2013
Old things in new places
The old sofa table is as perfect I thought it would be. And the sinister "black death" educational poster looks good, too.
sunnuntai 15. joulukuuta 2013
Movie corner
We love movies and now we have dedicated a wall to them. My brother bought a bunch of old movie posters and of course we had to get some for Vårkulla. And here they are, at last on the "new" side of the living room.
lauantai 14. joulukuuta 2013
For a while
As Vårkulla has been totally Swedish before we bought it, everything with Swedish text catches my eye. I bought two pots for red Christmas flowers, I think red will go lovely with the black material of the pots (they are ceramic, not iron by the way). I don't want to buy the flowers yet, I'll wait for the last advent to be sure they'll make it through Christmas. The cinnamon sticks will have to do till then.
perjantai 13. joulukuuta 2013
Christmas in the garden
This is the first year ever that I got to decorate the garden for Christmas. The gravel yard in the front of the house looks good with a little snow and the decorations come to their own. I need to find more metal decorations that are weather proof but this is a good start.
torstai 12. joulukuuta 2013
No more, please
So far there is just enough snow for the garden to look pretty. I so hope that this would be it and there won't be those awful snow blizzards we got for the last three years. I could live with a winter like this.
keskiviikko 11. joulukuuta 2013
Decorate the decorations
Hmm...these garden lights are pretty as they are but I decorated them for Christmas. It wasn't so easy to find decorations that can take wind, rain and snow but at last I found these small metal hearts.
tiistai 10. joulukuuta 2013
Sofa's new clothes
I changed some of the pillow covers and added a red blanket and the sofa bed is ready for Christmas. Last year I took off the greenish blanket but now I wanted to have more colour as the white bed cover under the blankets looked too dull.
maanantai 9. joulukuuta 2013
sunnuntai 8. joulukuuta 2013
Twinkle,twinkle
I love stars! I save just the most twinkliest for Christmas but otherwise one can decorate with them year around.
lauantai 7. joulukuuta 2013
Wish I could make them myself
I'd love to learn to make straw decorations but I am just not patient enough. This one is from a flea market and cost 2 euros...I guess the material would cost me the same if I had decided to try to make one myself...
perjantai 6. joulukuuta 2013
Just the right red
This red chair was found from our attic - as I already told you, the attic really is a treasure trowe! The chair is covered with paint stains but the pillow covers the worst of it and the red colour is perfect for Christmas.
torstai 5. joulukuuta 2013
If you want to read
Tunnisteet:
Books,
Collecting,
Decoration,
Kitchen,
Vårkulla
keskiviikko 4. joulukuuta 2013
First advent
It was first advent last Sunday and of course I decorated the whole house for Christmas - only the Christmas tree and flowers are still missing.
I bought pretty number tags from Ikea and I am going to hang a new number every Sunday till Christmas.
The Christmas calendar tells you which day it is (this is from Sunday, I know it is already the 4th)
tiistai 3. joulukuuta 2013
Judge the book by its covers
The Finnish cover from 1958 is also great. Especially as I happen to be a green eyed sister myself :)
maanantai 2. joulukuuta 2013
What else
First we got the type writer, then the globe. There is still room on the dresser for more...maybe some nice old pens or eyeglasses.
Tunnisteet:
Bedroom,
Decoration,
Globes,
Vintage,
Vårkulla
sunnuntai 1. joulukuuta 2013
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