Waiting for inspiration

We have almost everything we need for a glass gazebo. All we need is inspiration and some plans: where, how big, what kind of form etc. And I also need to strip the paint from the doors. Something little to do, once again.

Grey matter

I found a small table from the flea market. My husband wasn't so keen on it as it was painted gold. I told him not to worry, the table would look great after I paint it. I chose a matt grey-brown colour and think the result is good enough (I used Jeanne d'Arc Living's mat grey and brown paint - mixed a bit of brown with the grey). I might still wax it to get a bit of a shine but I am not quite sure yet.

Just saying hello

We have several old globes and decided to paint one of them with black chalkboard paint. My husband first soaked off the paper (map) and after the globe had dried he painted the globe without priming it first. This globe is plastic and the finnish was perfect with only one coat of paint.  Thanks to google we found several translations for the word hello - and my husband wrote the words on the globe roughly where the language is spoken. Neat, eh?

Higher and higher

I wanted to have a cabinet for glasses but there just wasn't room for one. I started to search for a smaller glass cabinet that could be put on the top of the already existing one. On Friday I happened to find (=searched and searched for weeks) a good candidate in tori.fi. My husband took out the legs and voilá, we have a perfect high cabinet and lots of room for our glasses.

There is still a slight problem with the stuff that was on top of the old cabinet. Some I'll put on the top of the new one but as the top area is smaller than before, I am bound to have some leftovers. Let's see what I'll come up with (maybe I'll have to store some stuff in the cupboard for the time being).

Warming up

It hasn't been very cold this winter but in an old house your feet are always freezing. My mother-in-law knitted these amazing socks for us for Christmas - of course we started using them right away, we just couldn't wait till Christmas. Thank you Marjatta!

Tins and stuff

Our cigarette tin collection grows a little every month. Maybe I'll put some of the tins on the show to our museum when it opens :) (read more about the museum here, link)

The tins are on a flower pillar that we bought in the beginning of the summer. We got it cheap as the pillar was missing a top. We bought a metal cake stand from Ikea and it's top fitted the pillar perfectly. We just need to paint it black but as we have worked a lot in the garden, we haven't yet have the energy to do the smaller renovations...and once again, when I say we I mean my husband...

In mint condition

I have raved about the matt Jeanne D'arc Living paints before and here comes more praise. Our kitchen pendant was of a boring silver-grey colour and after just a few minutes it got a fifties style minty green colour. It is handy to have a husband with a steady hand as he can paint almost anything perfectly. I would have ruined the lamp, I am sure of it.