It takes time. It takes an awful lot of time. But slowly we are getting there. Life gets in the way, work gets in the way, and that's just the way it is sometimes. I can't wait until the day we can finally move into our little farmhouse, but that day most likely won't be here until sometime next summer.We are, however, pretty close to finishing the bedroom! Everything has turned out just the way I wanted it, and it will be fab once it's done. This is the wall we covered with new panelling, and here is also the door that we found in the barn, now with a fresh coat of paint and that distressed look I love so much. This door will eventually serve as a headboard in here.
There are a few things left to do - put up cornices, build in the new IKEA cupboards, put in a new door and fix a curtain rod (I'm thinking of maybe using one of the old rods we found in the barn, previously used for drying hay. I think that would look really cool.) Oh, and I think I am going to write something on the panel wall too- a poem or something. I just haven't figured out what yet. Maybe I'll cover a wall with old dictionary paper. I have tons of ideas, and I am so anxious to get started on all of this! But, like I said, it all takes time.
This is the second item I'm going to show you from my first DT kit from Scraplagret. I've altered this little chest with a gorgeous blue paper from G45 Renaissance Faire. I've always been a sucker for blue.
It's a fairly simple project - the chest was already white, so I just glued the paper on, and sanded the edges a little, and then I decorated a couple of bobbinettes and arranged them on top with a tag and a couple of flowers. Easy peasy, and my DD made me promise to make one for her too, because she fell madly in love with this one...Speaking of my DD, she put a little bead up her nose today, so I've spent the entire afternoon driving back and forth between here and the two hospitals in our region. At first I went to Karlshamn, just to find out that they didn't have an ENT doctor on duty, it is, after all, Saturday. Then I had to drive to Karlskrona where they had one, and when we finally got her nose examined thoroughly, the bead was nowhere to be seen. It's like in Madicken, only my DD wasn't in a fight where it could have flown out. The doctor guessed that it might have gone down her throat, and in that case she has swallowed it. Anyway, I'm really proud of my little one, because she was such a good girl and endured having a multitude of gadgets shoved up her nose without complaining. Of course, everyone treated her like a princess, so she was perfectly happy all the time.Some days are just like that... I hope you had a better one than I did :)//Jenny
I had these two layouts published in the March-April issue of Swedish magazine Scrapbooking-mm. The fist one is my little girlie, and the journaling is about my thoughts about her future - what's in it for her? Where will her life journey take her, and what will she become when she grows up? Just yesterday, I overheard a conversation between some kids in school, who are about to graduate in a few weeks, about their choices in future educations, and thoughts about carreers. I love listening to them, so undestroyed with their whole life ahead of them. So many opportunities to come and choices to make. At that age I wanted to be an author or a paleontologist, or a marine biologist, and if someone had told me back then that my path would lead me into teaching, I wouldn't have believed them. But life takes unexpected turns every now and then, and today I'm happy about the choices I made. I'm really excited to see what life has in store for my little ones some day.
The other layout is for a Book-of-Me challenge, what I would do if I got fifteen minutes on TV. I would, if I were any good at photographing, which I'm not, talk about the importance of documenting the everyday life in pictures and words, and not forgetting about the small things. It's so easy to save the photographing for special occasions, such as birthdays and holdays and stuff, but what about an ordinary day? Photos of the regular mess in the kitchen after dinner? The laundry hanging to dry? The way to school? You know, those ordinary days that life is made of. Today is such an ordinary day for us, I'm home from work because DD has a temperature. She's on the couch watching Playhouse Disney and we're soon about to go pick up DS from daycare where he's been for a couple of hours. And i'm definitely going to bring my camera today. :-)
I hope you're all having a wonderful day wherever you are and whatever you're up to on this ordinary day.
I've been busy painting for a couple of evenings. Yesterday, I painted all the clouds on the pink wall, and today I did the damask pattern and the words underneath. And it turned out just great! The electrician is coming to morrow, and then I have a floor to paint (black and white checked), and after that we're almost ready to let the princess move into her new room. And then Albin has requested a wall full of stars in his room, and of course, he's going to get it :D
There are a few things left to do - put up cornices, build in the new IKEA cupboards, put in a new door and fix a curtain rod (I'm thinking of maybe using one of the old rods we found in the barn, previously used for drying hay. I think that would look really cool.) Oh, and I think I am going to write something on the panel wall too- a poem or something. I just haven't figured out what yet. Maybe I'll cover a wall with old dictionary paper. I have tons of ideas, and I am so anxious to get started on all of this! But, like I said, it all takes time.
