Renovating again

When we bought this house we spent the whole summer before we moved in to renovate, new bathroom, guest toilet, new floors and new wallpaper and pain in almost every room, except for one... This passage/hallway was left coz the carpenters were moving a wall, drawing new water pipes, fixing the electrical cabinet and moving the water heater that was in this room for 40 years, and there's no drain here! Thank goodness that Nibe makes quality stuff :P
Well, now we finally have gotten around to fixing it and we started with tearing down the old wallpaper which was a horrible wood chip wallpaper and it revealed the horrible green wallpaper that also tore off in places.

A few weeks ago we did the floor with the boyfriend mixing the floor spackle and me pouring it out, and it's fab to finally have a  somewhat normal floor again after 1 1/2 years! 

And today we put up renovation wallpaper and the room looks 10 times bigger with all that white! But we are far from done... Still have to paint some walls, another wallpaper is going up on two walls, a pvc carpet is going on the floor, splines are going up and hopefully we'll find a really good wardrobe solution at ikea and then we'll hopefully be done!

To be continued...

A long weekend in gorgeous Prague works wonders for the soul ❤

Ibis Praha Old Town Hotel

Astronomical Clock

Tyn Church

Charles Bridge

walking up to the Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral thru the steep streets

St Vitus Cathedral

Prague Castle

Gorgeous views over Prague from the castle

The Jubilee Synagogue a.k.a Jerusalem Synagogue

The Powder Tower

Kutná Hora

Sedlec Ossuary Kostnice

Pinkas Synagogue

Old Jewish Cemetary

The Spanish Synagogue

faces on the main train/bus station

Prague by night

Old/new doors

The doors looked old and dreary when we moved in, typical 70's doors. 

But with some paint they just look soo much better!   

Love is a birdcage

In Falkenberg there is a shop called Fynda (Bargain) and there you can find lots and lots of pretty things for your home and garden. I saw this birdcage there and just fell in love with it! For winter I will put some pine twigs and pine cones in there but once spring comes there will be some climbing flowers in there. Photo to come in a few months ;)

Where did April go?

My Lady's mantle that I brought with me from my old flat is growing again :)

The old carpenterdesk moved out from the garage and became my plating table :)

Our little house in early April, before all the trees started getting leaves.

the ferns are peaking

the plants I had ordered from Horto Green arrived in a big box :)

and my long awaited red dogwood hedge was ready to be planted!!

All done :)

Easter came and I made a cake with inspiration from a baking group on facebook. My goodness, I just wanna bake every day from seeing what everyone else does, haha!

And to celebrate that the boyfriend and I had some days off together I made a smörgåstårta (sandwich layer cake)

I made some concrete stepping stones for the flower beds

a woodpecker came to visit :)

Good Friday was first spent celebrating my sisters birthday and after that we went to Hovs Hallar to have a walk down by the cliffs

the tulips bloomed

and what we think is a cherry tree was pretty

we finally got around to paint the panel the carpenters put up last year when we had the new windows put in

seeds have been sown

In the choir I sing in we have four parts, soprano 1 and 2 and alto 1 and 2, and I sing in alto 2 together with 10 very lovley ladies and every year we try to get together a few times outside of the choir practises to just spend some time together and talk and have fun. Just after easter we visited Inger in Skogaby and had a walk around the surroundings of her house. 

Skogabysjön

I made a bug hotel and am still looking forward to welcoming  some guests. I've tried to make it bumblebee friendly :)

Some of the hottest days of this year was measured and it was nice to sit outside for breakfast, lunch and dinner :)

The neighbours cherry tree is in full bloom

The ground elder had taken over the ferns as well and I couldn't bare to see it.

So I cleaned it up :P

Apple tree blossom :)

And we finally got around to booking a trip we've talked about for ages now :)