Working hard

I have been working non-stop since yesterday morning so therefore nothing exciting is happening. Well, I did get a virus on my computer and thought my life was over.. $63 later plus some help from a very nice Indian man who took over my computer from, well probably India, for 20 minutes and my life was saved.

Other than that, I'm supervising two children who are starting to get so old that they really only need me for driving, cooking dinner and reminders to do certain things, a.k.a bed time please, no more chatting and Instant Messaging with people you'll see at school in a few hours. Ah, the wonders of preteens.

I spend Sunday at the pool, all day, with my Swedish friend Maria. We agreed that we had not seen each other since the St Lucia celebration in mid-December. What!? Life just passes by..

TANT-varning! (old lady alert!) There is nothing better than crosswords from "Allers". Thanks mamma and mormor!

Hope all is well with YOU.

new footstool

Last weekend, I think it was Friday, I spent some time on ebay.com to see if I could find some good steals. I ended up "impulse buying" a vintage footstool for $31 ( 193 kr). I had just bought a magazine called "Flea Market Style" and was totally set on making my house into a flea-market-style-kind-of-house. When it arrived at my door step, my itch for the flea market style was somewhat over... Yes, that is me in a nut-shell. Anyways, the footstool was not too bad, although since it is a vintage piece, the cushion on it was pretty dingy and dirty. So today, trying to keep my mind off of my long gone husband, I started making a new cover for it. I used fabric that I had laying around, a.k.a the ironing board fabric for $1 a yard. I'm so so pleased with how it came out! I have no clue on how to make these things, so I totally made it up as I went. This is the process:

this is the before picture, not too bad, but a little worn..

sewing what is to become the ruffles

then I added the ruffles onto the rectangular piece that I first had fitted to the stool.

Voila'! Looks very cute. I love it.

Does anyone want to come over for a movie night?

 

 

 I'm very excited about this project. It is fun when something comes out the way you hoped it would.

Now, I'm about to head out to the grocery store, I have nothing in the fridge. Maybe a bottle of wine to reward myself for the hard work.

I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday afternoon.

new ironing board

My lovely husband (who's out traveling again. Dammit!) used our ironing board a few weeks ago and somehow managed to break it. So yesterday I went to Goodwill and bought a used one for about 8 dollars, or 50 Swedish kronor. The cover on it though was not that great, so I went to the local fabric store and bought some $1 yard fabric and covered it up. It turned out cute. And cheap.

this is the old one, with a dark green cover

the new one!

this is the fabric, not so bad for $1 a yard, or 6.20 kr per meter

I'm doing nothing today, just dropped my hubby off at the airport. He'll be gone for 8 days. 8 days! I can't stand it..

Basil pot

Last week, or maybe it was two weeks ago, I'm not sure when time seem to just fly by; I put down some basil seeds in a pot that some of you may recognize. Last Christmas we bought a tin can with Anna's gingerbread cookies at IKEA and I've kept it  not really knowing what to do with it. It is a really pretty tin can so I wanted to use it somehow. So I made a few holes in the bottom of it and then filled it with soil and then, of course, the basil seeds. Yesterday I noticed they have started to sprout. So excited! We have herbs at the garden at the in-laws but I like to have basil and parsley at home by the front door because I feel like they are the herbs we use the most.

cookie tin or pot? Hmmm.. 

find three basil leaves..

I see one!!

It is a really pretty day here with about 20 degrees Celsius and blue skies.. So wonderful. I think I'm going to go out on the front steps and enjoy the sight of my sprouting basil and maybe some coffee.

Dressing recipe!

Here is the dressing recipe I made last night. I got it from allrecipes.com. Yum!

• 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon stone-ground mustard
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons smoked paprika
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tablespoons chopped onion
• 1/4 teaspoon oregano
• 1 pinch white sugar (optional)
• 1/2 cup olive oil

I used white wine vinegar instead of red and used lemon instead of lime. Just mix up everything but the olive oil and when it's all mixed well, slowly pour the olive oil while whisking. I made a salad with penne pasta, chopped tomatoes, fresh parsley and cubed swedish cheese (found at the Dekalb farmers market, heaven!). Sooo good!

it was so delicious and we ate it so fast that we remembered only at the last minute to take a picture of it.

 

Stormy night + organized purse

Yes, last night we had to cut our TV-watching short due to a power outage and when we woke up our TV was not cooperating. Time for a new one I guess. Or maybe a new used one from the in-laws, we'll see. Anyways, this means I can't watch TV on my day off... Catastrophe! Not really, but it makes me realize that I do like to have one on when it's good company on a lonely day. After talking to my family back home for a while, I had to do something about my day and not let it slip away. I decided to switch out my purse (yay, fun!) to a purse I got a while back from my mother-in-law that I have never used. Maybe because of the lack of pockets inside of it. I'm one of those with a ton of things lying around in my purse; girl-stuff, herb essence, mascara etc.. So, I decided to make myself a little pouch/mini-bag for my miscellaneous "crap"...
 

my purse before my oh-so-great-mini-bag..

my bag after my girly little mini-bag.. Sooo organized! 

Here it is. 

Maybe not the most creative little thing I've made, but it makes me feel a little bit more organized..

I made a delicious dinner last night for my hubby. Very simple, a pasta salad with chicken and tzatziki sauce. Like I said nothing special and very simple but I wanted to share the recipe for the pasta salad dressing because it was amazing! I'm about to head to the doctor's office now so I'll do it later today.

Hope you are doing great!

Easter craft?

I have not had that must time to create anything lately when my work schedule has been busy. But yesterday I felt an itch to make something so I decided to make some mini-Easter-eggs. I used some scrap fabric I had lying around and stitched together something that kind of reminds me of Easter eggs. Here in the USA Easter is all about pastel colors, light pink, light blue, light green etc.. So this is how it all turned out:

It looks kind of cute. Now, I'm going to enjoy the last bit of this gorgeous day here in the ATL.

{Take care}