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!

Summer 2013- redecoration

Apart from felting and decorating my stones in the mornings hubby and I dealt with some minor redecoration projects during summer.
First I moved the Sea Glass Festival Poster that I had framed last year from the staircase landing inside the bedroom.

 In its place at the staircase landing I put the print I had found at the open antique market with the two children mending fishing nets.

Then we added reasonably priced IKEA curtains at the bedroom.I loved the easy way you can put them up and shorten them too.

 We also added, at last, a mosquito net over our bed. We have lots of mosquitoes in summer and use repellents but I prefer a more natural way.

 We also added curtains at the living room.

A bigger project was to put some order in the small bedroom which had ended up into a storage room.
I took the colourful chest of drawers and put it in my bedroom where I now store my handicrafts.

The pegs that were at that place moved into the smaller room.

It was a mess in there and we put some order.

 We also moved a bench from the kitchen where hubby fixes and makes things.

This is what we put in the kitchen in the place of the bench, again a reasonably priced IKEA piece.

And we also installed a new cooker which was a gift from a very generous friend and I thank her very much!

I love cooking at this one.

I also tackled with this little shelf which I had found a year ago on the curb.

I painted it in white and it is going to be decorated with some sea glass jars.

More summer 2013 posts to follow. Sorry I cannot blog more often.