Wednesday

Picture credits: 1.charlie3engineer 2. Sew Mama Sew 3.skinnylaminx

4-5. Derek Henderson 6. Desire to Inspire via Flickr 7.The Danish Collector

8. Lillian Day 9. ivy style33Schaufenster 11. Desire to Inspire via Flickr

12. blancucha 13. withwill Pictures are clickable.

Tuesday

Picture credits: 1-2 Strange closets

3. Desire to Inspire through Flickr

4.A different perspective Pics are clickable

I hope that 2010 will be the year - the end of my old bathroom. It's a disaster. The woman who lived here before us was obsessed with repainting. Our apartment doors, cabinets and windows have been pink, dark green, bright yellow, bright green. You name it. She repainted the bathroom between the times we looked at the apartment before we bought it. Every time it had a new color. Including the bathtub itself that was transformed from being dark blue to antique white, while the ceiling went from being dark blue to white with bright pink sponging. I might have been more forgiving if she would have been good at painting but the paint looks more like it has been splashed on the walls with big drops everywhere.
Do not repaint your bathtub whatever people might tell you about paint! Since a bathroom makeover is an expensive thing we've now had paint falling off the sides of the tub for many years. The bathroom also was organized poorly in the first place. It has a sloping ceiling since our house has a steep roof. Which would be very charming unless the bathtub had been placed where the ceiling is approximately the height of a two year old making it impossible to take a shower. We also have tiles missing in the floor, pipes and electricity that have been added afterwards across the walls and ceiling. The bathroom could be so nice. It's quiet big for being in a small apartment since a wall have been knocked down at some point. It has a high ceiling over 3 meters except where they put the tub. Do I need to say looking at inspiring bathrooms is something I love doing.

Monday

I found Greg Hatton though My black book. Pictures are clickable.

Friday

I promised Johanna to do a how to make a star post. If you're not her you might still find yourself bored or stuck on an inhabited Island one day with a bunch of post it notes. This is really easy and great fun. I just made all these steps to try to make it clearer...

1. Start with a square shaped piece of paper.
2. Fold it once creating a rectangle. I used a paper with different colored sides. The patterned side is the one that will show.
3. Make sure you have the fold from the last step closest to you (it's fold in the bottom of my picture). Imagine a line trough your rectangle that would create two smaller squares. You want to find the point that's in the very center of your left imagined square shape.
4. & 6. By making two loose folds like this you figure out the where the mid point is. Do not make these sharp folds. Their purpose is just to leave a small mark.
7. You now make a sharp fold from the right to the center of the square . The right bottom corner of the rectangle should end up in the point you marked through steps 4 & 6.
8. *After making the sharp fold you fold the right corner back again creating a kind of triangle shape.
* You then fold the other (left) corner towards the triangle creating what you can see in 9.
10. Fold back creating the triangle shape seen in 11.
11. Turn your triangle over.
13. You now make a cut like this. You can start cutting in the corner of the smaller triangle or a little below. Make sure the different layers of paper doesn't slide when you cut.
14. The smaller piece you cut off becomes your 5 point star.
15. & 16. You now just have to adjust the folds of the arms of the star making them mountain folds to create a star that's standing out. (Some of the folds are inwards and needs to be adjusted.)

Hints: The angle you cut in in the last step determines the result. If you want to create a Swedish decorative advent star with a light in it to hang in a window you have to make two stars and put them together. You then have to cut at the exact same angle both times so it's s good idea to make small marks before you make the cut. You have to cut at a different angle than I did taking the pictures. My star is to pointy to be put together with another star. Cutting off a bigger piece of paper in the last step would create a star that would be more suitable. It's a good idea to use post it notes to practice on before you go full scale. Or stick with the smaller stars and put them on your Christmas presents or hang them in your tree.

Wednesday

Photo credits: 1. Lucy Player 2.Sweet Sweet Life 3. Hyggelig Happy 4-9. Erin Hanson

Here are some of my Flickr favourites. One of them is photographer Erin Hanson. The last reminder is available as a print from her Etsy store. All photos are clickable.