It's starting to look like a proper home!

This will not be a scrappy post. Last weekend I finally put together the couches for the living room, and finally, it turned out just as cosy as I wanted it. So I wanted to show you a couple of pictures of it.

 Here are the sofas - two Ektorp from Ikea. The table was already in the house when we bought it. I just painted it white. The curtain rods are quite funny. They were used for drying hay back in the old days, and I have a barn full of them. So far, I've made these curtain rods, a ladder for hanging blankets and a tepee for the kids from them.

 I managed to squeeze in a little writing corner next to one of the couches, too. The window is standing there waiting for a fresh coat of paint, and then to be put back where it belongs - in the skylight in one of the rooms upstairs.

I have to show you a photo of my little girl from earlier today too. We took a walk along the Blekinge hiking trail, which passes just a few meters from our place.We went all the way to Järnavik, which is about three kilometers from here, had a picknick on the cliffs high above the sea, and then we went back home to the farm again.

Can you imagine - this little one didn't complain once during the walk. She was too busy exploring different kinds of trees, ants and butterflies. We think we saw a buzzard too, which flew up from some trees just as we passed, but we didn't see it all that clearly through all the branches, so we're not sure. It might have been a kite too, because we've been seeing a few of those around lately.

Have a nice Saturday!

TGIF!

This has been a very short week, and now it's Friday.Yay! However, it's not the happiest of Fridays so far. The weather has been absolutely fabulous for the past couple of days, but today it's pouring, and it feels kind of good to be indoors right now. Still, they say it will clear up by the evening, and the weekend will be OK. I sure hope the forecast is right this time, because Albin has an outing with the Scouts tomorrow, and it would be a bummer if it rained.

I have one little card to show you today, with supplies from Scraplagret.

Have a nice weekend!

A bunch of cards

Isn't it kind of strange when you are sure it's Monday, but in fact it's Wednesday? That's the consequence of having too many days off from work! Normally, this time of the week, you can start looking forward to Friday, and you're already halfway there, but when it's also the first day you are working after having time off, it surely gets weird.

Today I have a bunch of cards to show you. They are all made for Scraplagret, with fabulous papers and embellishments from Prima's En Francais line.

Have a nice Wednesday, everyone!

Homesick

We've spent the larger part of this extended weekend at the farm. We have continued exploring the grounds, assembled couches for the living room (it turned out great!) and planted flowers, among other things. The weather today was lovely, so I took an extra long walk this morning, and just enjoyed it all - the green leaves, the blue sky and the sea. Now we're back at the other house again, and frankly, when I'm here, this is how i feel. Homesick.

Luckily, there's only three days to go, and on Friday, we'll be back out there again!

Blogpost #2

Yes, another post today... crazy, I know, but I have to show you what I got in my hands a few days ago - the brand new collection Huntington Garden from Riddersholm Design.

It's just lovely, and I especially like this blackboard paper, which is perfect to use for a background.

The Walpurgis Night celebration went well. Albin and his little scout friends lit the bonfire, and nobody got burned. Well, not for real, anyway. Full of excitement after hitting the perfect spot with his torch (a tinder-dry juniper which was just about the only thing in that huge pile of wood that actually did catch fire), Albin ran towards his dad, stumbled, fell and shoved both hands into a nettle... Poor thing.

Happy Monday

Imagine waking up on the farm, with the sun shining, and the kids bringing breakfast in bed. Well, that was my morning today. There's nothing better than having a Monday off! Well, it could have been even better if I could just put my trainers on and get out in the woods, but there's far to much to do this morning, and noone to look after the kids if I go, so I'll just have to stick around and start cleaning the kitchen or something... :)

Anyway, here's a card for you today. I made it a couple of months ago, but just now realized that I haven't put it up on the blog yet.

Have a fabulous Monday, everyone!

A great day for a picknick

I have a short post for you today with a layout I made based on a sketch from Lillblomman skissar. I've been digging out some old, but still amazing, Echo Park papers.

The photo is from last spring, when Agnes and I went for a picknick on the meadow up in the woods behind our house. We love going for picknicks like that, and right now, we are discovering so many new places around the farm, perfect for that. Yesterday, we got the boat into the creek, so soon we can start discovering all the little islands out by the sea. I love this time of the year, and I love spending it here, on the farm and in its surroundings.

Tomorrow we will celebrate Walpurgis Night with a big bonfire, where our Albin and the rest of his scout friends will be the ones setting it on fire, and on Tuesday, we will be attending Agnes' dance show. So, there's a lot of things coming up.

Have a great week, everyone!