The cutest Valentine luminaries

(Found via Style-files on Creature Comforts with instructions) 

Another DIY lamp

This one, I might consider for the bedroom, which desperately needs a makeover before our little girl arrives.

(from Apartment Therapy)

Maps in the kids' room

I love vintage maps and what better place to hang them than in your kids' room? So beautiful and educational.

(From The Brooklyn Home Company)

Summer dreaming

Steven Alan's spring 2011 lookbook makes me dream of summer holidays in rural Italy and riding bikes...

Textures

Some wonderful textures...

(Darci Hether, New York)

(The Brooklyn Home Company)

(Boligmagasinet)

P.S. Isn't this a great idea to add more functionality to an old coffee table?

Something I might make

I've been looking for a lamp for the living room for the longest time, something cheap and gorgeous of course, and this might just be it!

(Found here)

And since I've started...

... why not keep going? With honeysuckle being Pantone's colour of 2011, it's a good year for all things girly.

(Apartment Therapy)

How cute are these chairs? Excitedly awaiting photos of lovely pink interiors. I must admit, it doesn't seem to be a very easy colour like last year's turquoise and I for one am not the biggest fan... but we'll see, maybe I'll be converted.

Thinking pink

I'm expecting a girl and all of a sudden I'm seeing pink everywhere!

Found in Milk magazine.

Was not expecting this!

Loving pink, and a dark floor! I was never the girly girl, and I spend way too much energy hating my dark wooden floors! It's never too late to love <3

(from Milk magazine via Ólöf Jakobína)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

(Photo by Ómar Óskarsson)

How cute and clever!

I came across this on Emma's blog, in her Stockholm guide. It's the counter in a kids' clothing store. Would be ideal in, lets say, a glassware store, so you could safely rummage through your bag for your wallet, without worrying about your child breaking half the items in the store!

A cute story

My next door neighbours are an older couple from Sri Lanka. They have a granddaughter my son's age and whenever she comes to visit them, they play together outside our house. Last summer, they (the granddaughter and my son) decided to be very helpful and picked all the rhubarbs from our garden. I spent the weekend making jam and as a thank you I walked over to my neighbours and gave them a jar to give to the little girl. The grandmother was so happy with this, that in a few moments, she came over to my house with a bag of home-made Sri Lankan sweets and this beautiful dress that she had just brought back with her from home. I was so thrilled!

Pitched roofs...

... in all shapes and sizes!

(click on the images for the source)

Winter wardrobe

Whenever the seasons change, I'm always too late to get out the appropriate kit. In the freezing cold I'll be out there with no mittens or a hat, and in the beautiful spring sun, I'll still be wearing my winter coat. To add on to that, I've found that having two children (and a third one on the way), I'm very lucky to get out of the house with just the bare necessities (such as phone, wallet, keys) when trying to get everyone ready for their daycare and myself for work. And with only a fraction of my wardrobe actually fitting me at the moment, all I can do is admire the stylish girls around the fashion blogs and look forward to a less hectic life, sometime in the far away future!

(Photo from The Sartorialist)

Well then...

... I guess I'm back! I feel like I owe you an explanation. The reason for my absence is just plain old tiredness from working full time, being a mother of two energetic little boys, and, oh yes, this little gal:

We're so excited! 

The perfect outfit!

I.love.this!

From Size too small, via a Cup of Jo.

I am grateful for my deskjob

Makes you think about how the fish you eat gets to your table, doesn't it?

home07 by i29

Have you seen this home by interior designers i29? I really like the use of stark white and warm wood together.

via Architizer

I'm still here...

... don't worry ;)
I'm just hibernating, taking a bit of a break and concentrating on work, private projects, family and myself. I'll be back :)

Sleeping bear by Eiko Ishizawa.

Feeling sorry...

...for the lack of posting
...for myself

I've been coughing my guts out for the last four weeks and I finally gave in and got an appointment at the doctor's. Been feeling soooo tired, sick, sweaty, sticky, ugly, awful... I've been going to sleep at the same time as my little boys, between 8 and 9 pm and sleeping through till 7 in the morning, still feeling I want some more sleep. Now I dream of the perfect bedroom, and guess what! Design*Sponge has a best of bedrooms roundup! Here's my favorite:

As a sign of my sickness, I would even let hubby roll the TV in there for me... oh no, did I just say that?!

PS I don't even know what day it is, so the weekly schedule is out the window for the time being.