The kids decided to switch rooms.
Well thank you very much for the extra work.
It was actually a very good idea and it works really great with the larger room for Lupina and the very small and cave-like-room for Calvin.
I even ended up making a quilt while at it, for Calvin, that has been waiting since 2007, where I also got the Garfield wallpaper, which was never put up.
Talk about procrastinating.
Bed sheets from Rikki Tikki by Ferm Living.(I've blogged about them before)
The letter box has been with us for years: In our old apartment, in 2006 and in 2007. And I can tell that I call it various names! Type case, shadow box and now letter box....
And yes...he's still very much into dino's. He has a huge collection...
A little owl back pack that my girl got for Christmas. Feeling very inspirred to make one like it. Just larger. For myself.
Decole mushrooms and vintage deer from a shelve in my girls room.
Jackie just sent me a hoooooge stack of prints and I just looooove them! I already have two of her owl prints and I highly recommend them - go check out her etsy shop. Some of my faves I got are the wise owl, made it! and the 70's bird!
Then Mette sent me another of her gorgeous Babushka dolls for my collection in my daughters room. It's the green checkered one. I just love her new Artista collection. (Oh, check out the hexagon bag she made - isn't it fab?)
Come on in.....if you dare.....
I've finished up some corners for him. Adding some new pillows and shelves. He really likes it.
Today my daughter went home with a friend after Kindergarten, so I picked up my son early and we had a fun day. Just the 2 of us.
Exactly what he needed.
We've been playing and hanging out in his room. Listening to music. Him saying a lot of: "Mommy, you're crazy!" Lots of laughs.
Exactly what I needed.
I have a thing for little plastic characters. This is from the shelves in my daughters room. Barbapapas, an M&M's girl from a pack of M&M's, a thrifted Power Puff girl and Sesame Street lunch box and thermos, bought on ebay!
Snoopy is from McDonald's. He came in 3 Happy Meals 3 or 4 years ago. As you can see, he used to stand alone on my son's desk. No bird. But just the other day, we found the bird at the local indoor flea market. I was ECSTATIC! Oh and my son was pretty thrilled too ;o) See, I think mostly the "gifts" at McDonald's are crap (luckily we don't go there often - I really don't appreciate all the clutter of tiny crap toys), but once in a while I really love it. Like these Moomin cards......I say cool!
The lion poster is from MY room. It's from a play I went to see with my son, when he was all most 3. Lovely illustration.
This is a corner of my sons room. I love the furniture: The old dog-hair-cutting-table (yes we have 2 of them), the old chair that came along with the tables, the IKEA PS cabinet and the thrifted toys.This I found on the desk. The very white wall will (eventually) be covered, with the Garfield wallpaper I've had laying around since March!
For even longer, I've had this floral wallpaper laying around for my daughter. It won't go on this - very white - wall above, but in the opposite end of the room. She had Barbapapa above her headboard for a day, but since our walls are very rough, it wouldn't stick! I'll put it back up, when I get around to wallpapering. The bed used to be our sons and after a few coats of pink: It's super girly! At the end of her bed, she has a Pippi doll house. Gotta love Pippi.
Yvonne sent me the fabulous ariadne at Home kinderen, which is full of inspiring images - don't speak the language - of interior design for kids rooms. I also found a great deal of softie inspiration: Check out the dog (top right), the robot softie on the bed (top right) and those super soft looking kittens (bottom)! I'm not working on any softies right now. Well I made a cat out of some Moomin fabric (more on that in another post), for my 10::10 project to show you Sunday, but nothing else. See I'm making pillows. A LOT of pillows. I just bought 12 pillows, that I have to dress! We made a veeery long bed for our son, that I want to make 5 large pillows for. We also got ourselves a tiny alcove, where we could just barely squeeze our bed into. I thrifted me a wonderful quilt for it, but I need some pillows to lean up against, while I read. That's 3 more. Then I got 3 for my daughters newly painted, very pink bed. It used to be her big brothers bed. She sleeps in his bed though, it's long enough for both of them. That was 11 pillows. The last one is for a wooden toy box with a lid, in my sons room. We have some left over foam mattress and I never made the box seat that comfortable, so I'll be upholstering that as well. Then there is the wallpaper I never did in there. Why is that so intimidating? Geez the To-Do list is long. I did finish 2 pillows. Two. Luckily when my daughter starts Kindergarten June 1, I'll have a few hours a day to get things DONE.
All washed and ironed. Ready to sew.
Top 3 are for bedroom/alcove.
Flowers for the girl.
Solids for the boy.
Linen for the back of all of them.
Last Sundays paper had an interesting article on Wall Stickers. I must say I love this idea, as they come of easily. And we ARE in the middle of rearranging our house, so the kids gets their own separate rooms....
The article featured 2 Danish company's - Ferm Living and Boligtrend - which both has some amazing stickers. I've only been familiar with Blik, Barbapapa, maybe a few others and of course wallpaper by Inke.
(These 4 are by Boligtrend)
Go check out Ferm Livings more natural stickers, like branches and flies. Of course my son wants the Water World ones. He thinks they will go quite nice with his Garfield Wallpaper. I dunno. I was going for a more ME, retro, seventies kinda feel to his new room, but he gets the last word. It's his room. Now my daughters room, that's a whole other story. She gets the Barbapapa sticker and of course the flowery wallpaper I got for her last year......
My Sweetie Pie's kitchen, for Corners of My Home in our kitchen/dining room. She makes a lot of coffee for her dog Maya here! I love having all those colors - it's really fresh - and she's so close to everything, when she "cooks" as it is in the center of our house. The kitchen, dining room, living room and hall meets here.
The top shelve from the left:
Bottom shelve:
And of course my Flensted Prize Hen.
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