Birthday boy

Last Friday my darling Vincent turned 8 years old. I can't believe this little furball has been in my life for almost that long and covered my clothes in cathair and given me angry looks and snorted at me :P But also been the biggest cuddlemonster ever, and almost never got himself into trouble by being a naughty cat and jumping on tables or sneaking into the bedroom ;)

best place to sleep is on mommys leg

the innocent look

grr, I want that bacon!

King Vincent ♚

I love you dearly my boy ❤

concrete tiles and concrete in the making

Last Monday I went to Oskarsström to buy and pick up 50 concrete tiles and loaded them up in my little trusted VW Polo :)

7 in the front seat and the rest in the back

And then I laid them out 

this gorgeous tulip is blooming now 

and the broom is in full bloom

cuddle time

my little concrete angel out by the giant lilac bush

lilac in the rain

and here I am making concrete flower pots to put on the frontdoor steps. Let's see if they turn out like I hope they will ;)

a pile of dirt and new heating in the house

4 tons of dirt was delivered to our house :)

the pallet rims were filled + the damaged parts to our lawn were repaired

Our house was heated by electricity and though it's effective it's not very economic so we searched and seached for a air heat pump that would fit above our front door where there was a very narrow space. We found a Fujitsu Lecan for a resonable price and had it installed. Not seen much of a change on the electricity bill yet but it will most likley pay itself off in just a few years :)

Not the nicest plastic rail to have on the wall but we've learnt to live with it :P

while the pump was being installed the cats were locked in the office room and they were not pleased ;)

Birthday girl

My beautiful kitty cat Embla turns 7 years old today! Feels like yesterday I went to see her and bring her home to me and Vincent. She's a cuddle monster and sounds like a speedboat when she purrs :) Happy birthday hunny!

Painting plans and tomato plants

Tomorrow our 40 year old water heater will be long gone and we'll have a new one that hopefully will last just as long (we're getting the same brand) and also lower our electricity bill! The isolation in this old one is probably not the best and a new one will also be so much more efficient.

A friend of mine told me about this amazing paint called Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan and after some head scratching to decide what colours to order I got Old White, Graphite and Provence + clear wax to apply after the paint has dried which is supposed to happen super quickly. I haven't had the time to try it out yet but hopefully very very soon! I got so many ideas :)

I'very planted five different kinds of tomato seeds and four of them have grown quite a bit in the past few days. Let's see where this will end :P

Vincent lyeing on my belly

I found these two benches on a flea market page on facebook and after much anxciety and abit poorer I could call them mine! I just haven't paid for them yet or picked them up but on Saturday they are moving to our yard! They will be painted with some Chalk Paint and maybe some black glazing paint, I'll know when i see them for real :)

I've printed out some of my instagram images and framed them in these special frames you use for old LP records. Turned out quite nice I think :)

New year, new hopes and dreams

2014 started with a bang, as always :P We tried to get some chinese lanters to rise but was without luck, it was too windy that night.

Me and Vincent cuddled abit

Embla want to get cuddled and gives me sour face until I give in :P

My friend Therese came to stay for a few days and we took a long walk on the beach here in Mellbystrand which resulted in some nice snapshots

One of the most succesful handball teams of all time was the Swedish players who played together in the 90's-00's and they were coached by a man called Bengt "Bengan" Johansson who is from Halmstad, so last weekend he put together some of his old players to play against a team with some of the best players from around the world and we went to see "Bengan Boys vs. TV4 World Team". It was all in good fun and an honour to see some of these great players play once more :)

Then the snow came after all...

and this huge blackbird is enjoying the food we've put out for the birdies

Embla

Vincent enjoying the pull-out bed/sofa Therese slept in

before the snow came it had been raining for weeks and weeks and the ground where we park our cars was quite muddy and I was just waiting for either one of us to get stuck, the boyfriend drew the shortest straw

and the wall was given no mercy :P

we had a visit from a very cute little theif who wanted some sunflower seeds

and this shot was taked just a few days before the snow came... you'd think it was April and not January!

And on January 2nd they opened a gym here in Mellbystrand in a building which is about 150 m from our house, so the boyfriend and I felt like we had no more excuses- time to start excersising and so far we've been there about three times a week :) I've never been a fan of gyms before but I can feel the change already and that it's doing me good and I hope to continiue to feel that way :)