National Holiday snaps

We went to the parade of course and then for coffee with the family!
For my Greek friends abroad and those who love parades.
The good thing this year was that there were no fences to obstract us from seeing the parade.

This little guy was so sweet!

 Barca watching the parade. She was  abit scared when the tanks shook the earth.

 Barca watching with interest!

 The F16 that made a show in the end was mazing!

 And then we went to the seafront to see the boats and submarine.

How to catch a cold or simply a redecoration story.

I am down with a flu. Although the almost 5 days off school looked an exciting time I ended up exhausted and with a cold.
Well the thing is I had certain things to do so I took advantage of the short holiday due to the National Holiday and ...cleaned up, changed the position of furniture (again), put the carpet, painted something, finished "Something with buttons" and blogged about it here, cooked, and got a new bookcase (they are never enough, are they?) Of course I also did school work (Halloween things), answered e-mails,read.....and more.
So here is what we did!
First we changed the position of the sofas!

We put those IKEA tables as one coffee table in the middle.

With Barca's leash and collar under one of them in a box for easy reach.

That bookcase came out of the kitchen into the hall.

We added the carpet and Barca felt at once at home. We didn't put the carpet last winter because she had peed on it but now she is old enough to know that's not the right thing to do.

Then this bookcase had to go. It stood in a narrow corridor and looked too cluttered.

I wanted a new bookcase to fit there and make a separation of the space. We were lucky that we found it ready assembled in the "bargains" space of IKEA and bought it 24 euros cheaper than the retail price. Luckily it could fit in our car.

But there was a problem that the second smaller bookcase of the same series we got didn't fit in. So we had to change our plans. Finally I got a lovely partition for the narrow corridor and my very own desk corner on the other side!

I love it!
Then it was time I changed the looks of this suitcase. It was a curb find and no matter how much I tried to clean it it didn't. So I decided to paint it.

 And now it looks better and all our DVDS fit in it.

 Of course I got exhausted and went down with a flu so we didn't go to attend the parade but watched it at home on TV.

 I cooked salmon soup (The Finnish recipe)

 and squash in the oven taken from here, a blog that I love reading, Posie gets cozy! Delicious!

Well at least I know I don't need to do any more redecorating for some time!