One thing done!

Finally I've cleaned and left the old apartment.. so happy to have it over and done with :) a bit sad too, I really liked the apartment and the area.. The apartment was just way too small, and no balcony. This new one is just over double the size and I'm soooo enjoying the space! :) I've managed to fill it quite well already, not really space for anything new. But that's good, I think I've invested enough for a lifetime in Ikea and such ;) not that I'll stop shopping, but maybe, just maybe, I'll manage to keep it down a little.
I've been quite active with my camera today, I'll upload a picture as soon as I've downloaded everything to my computer.I had to take some last pictures of the view *sigh*. That's the only draw-back with this apartment, it's too far from any water. (Too far in my opinion is if you can't see it from your window, it should be just a stone's throw away.)

Busy weekend

I've had quite a busy weekend, friends visiting, baking, shopping..
I've even had so much program that I haven't wanted any chocolate! That's something strange for me, a choc-o-holic! ;)
No time for interior decorating or take pics either.. but I got Ikea's new catalogue! That's got to count for something ;)

I'll try to write more tomorrow/next week :)
Soon it's September!

Finally some pics!

One corner of my living room, that's where I usually sit with my laptop on my lap :) The "curtain" (just a piece of fabric so far) is from Ikea, childish enough for me. The orchid-pillow is from H&M :) They've finally opened a home-store here too! Cheap stuff, but that's what I like because you can change it once every month and never get bored ;)

The colours aren't exactly as they are, had to use flash to get something less blurry. I've left the tripod for my camera at the cottage. It was a great idea to have it out of the way during the move, but now it would be an even greater idea to have it here!

More pictures will be coming as I slowly start getting everything into their right places :) Today I finally got a lot done, thanks to a couple of friends coming over! No, they didn't do anything, but the fact that they were coming here was enough to get me going. Especially as I had already earlier promised myself to vacuum today. And then I went like a whirlwind through the house (or like the rabbit from Alice in wonderland). I actually felt so much like the rabbit that I put on the music from the movie, Almost Alice, while I cleaned :) Worked wonders for my wonderland ;)

Head-jumble

Today my head has been even more of a jumble than usual. There is so much to think about! To dream, to plan, to fear, to avoid thinking of..

Anyway I had a very nice evening :) out to dinner with a very nice family :) It's strange how you just feel so good and relaxed with some people. And they have a son about my age, soon 3 years old ;) Oh it's so hard to write about stuff sometimes.. maybe it will be easier tomorrow when it's not so "new" anymore.


Another of the pieces of my jumble, interior decoration. A friend told me the other day of an acquaintance that had painted pictures around the lamps in the ceiling. What a great idea! A whole white roof waited to be filled! :) I knew instantly that the living room is going to have butterflies in a darker violet and in the same colour as the wall. The bedroom will have a fantasy-dragon, I'll have a friend to draw it for me, I never get it as I want it. I'm not sure about the kitchen or the hall. But the hall will have turquoise walls with huge green leaves. And in the kitchen there's going to be a shadow-tree on the wall. I'm still not sure what to do with the cupboards in the kitchen, hell of a lot of work to paint them..

I have the stickers shown in the picture so maybe I'll put them on the cupboards. They're in pieces so you can put them any way you like :)





I guess my head is such a jumble also because I (as every Thursday) started the day by going to see my therapist. I meet him once a week for 45min. It's really great, especially as it's at a clinic for eating disorders so I get help for all of my problems :) I also see a 'nutrition therapist' (is there a better word?) about once a month. She's also very good and really helpful! Being overweight I'm so used to getting help in the form of a lot of information about fat and sugar and how little to eat.. But my problem doesn't lie in lack of information, it's more like I have too much information, too much to think about!

Concrete walls from hell!

That's my walls! I'm trying to put up a shelf for cookbooks in the kitchen but so far I have 1,5 holes drilled.. The first one went ok but the second one has taken for ever and is only a couple mm deep.
And then I need a hell of a lot more for all the pictures I have. I loooooove nature pictures and I have most of Ikeas cheap nature posters ;)


This is one of my favorites, it looks a bit like a place I used to live.. or near it that is :)



I love flowers :) these look great in my green bedroom :)

Update on online dating

I decided against creating a profile right now. I read through a lot of profiles and they all seemed so serious! I'm serious too, but it's more like if I happen to meet somebody now it would be nice, otherwise I have such a lot to clear with myself first.
Just a little to-do list:
- get a job
- clean my old apartment and get the new one sorted out
- get rid of depression, anxiety and eating disorder

ok, that last one probably isn't going to be that easy to do ;) but it's under work, and will need more work.. more more more more work..
Anyway, putting a profile on a dating page would feel like promising too much, even if I said something like "taking it slow" or so.. I don't want to move together with anyone soon, neither leaving my colour-dream nor having someone messing it all up with his stuff ;) Been living on my own for too long? Definitely ;)

Gosh I feel tired.. I always do when I start thinking too much.. But this is not going to be about depression and so on, I just want you to know all of me.
I hate not being able to tell ppl that I suffer from depression as the reactions vary from heaven to hell.. sort of. It's just like any other long-time sickness, sometimes it takes all my energy and sometimes I hardly see it's there.
Time to go to bed, should've gone some time ago really, but I got stuck.. started twittering too :) And no, I'm not going to connect them. I want to keep this blog more anonymous than I keep fb and twitter. So friends, if you comment, please leave my real name out of it :)

Nighty night!

Baking

.. is yet another passion :) With me it's either passion or nothing...
I'm baking some bread now, but while they're rising I'll look for my camera so that you'd finally get some pictures! :)

Later:
found the camera, took some pics but now the battery is empty and the card is full. So where is the charger?
Copying pics to my desktop comp, bread in the oven, trying to find that charger. I'm a woman, I can do more than one thing at a time! Not necessarily well though... ;)

Sorry, no pics yet, my camera takes crappy pictures in lamplight.. but I'll try my hardest tomorrow, promise! :)

I forgot..

On my way home I planned what I was going to write today, but now I've forgotten my thoughts! Maybe it will come back later :)

Online dating?

Anyone got experiences of online dating? I heard today from a friend who has found a girlfriend through one of those. Why should it feel any different to make a profile there than it is to make a profile on e.g. facebook? It feels weird, like taking all your clothes off in a shopping window ;) but it's got to be better than being alone :) I checked out the one he said he had used, seemed quite ok.. and, oh my, there were quite a lot single guys :) The problem is to make a profile that tells all the important stuff, without telling too much.. who'd want to date a colour-crazy girl with two cats and one depression in the luggage? ;)
Anyway, no painting done today. I've been sleeping and meeting people too much today :) Tomorrow I'll give the chest of drawers it's last coat and try to get some pics posted :)

Lazy Sunday

I don't know when I've last been this tired, and I didn't do anything that much yesterday.. But I didn't get out f bed until 3pm! I just fell asleep again and again. Now I'm probably tired because I've slept a bit too much ;)
I'll use this Sunday for another passion, reading :) I've been reading through the books about the Swallows and the Amazons :) right now I'm at The Big Six. They're more kids books but I love them :) by Arthur Ransome, definitely worth reading if you want to read about kids camping and sailing and generally having fun :)

Music

This is new and interesting so I'm writing whenever I start thinking about something :)
I've been listening to Mesh for a couple of hours. And I started wondering why some singers voices make you feel so much! This one goes straight to my spine. It also makes me feel nostalgic.. and sometimes a bit melancholic. How many tears haven't I cried listening to songs like "You didn't want me" and "My defender".

Petrol blue

Today's project has been to get a chest of drawers painted, and so I did! Only to realize that it wasn't water-based as I had thought.. so how to get my hands clean? I don't know how I came to think of olive oil, but it worked wonders! Especially on the small smudges off the wall and the floor. So now I have a petrol blue chest of drawers! It looks so gorgeous :) pics are coming when I've dug out my camera, at the moment I'm not sure where I've organized it too. So much stuff to take care of during a move, without all my painting projects.

Let's get this started!

Perhaps a little bit about my colour-scheme.. My bedroom is green, green and green. The kitchen is orange, so far only one wall but it feels like too little so I'm planning to paint the cupboards too. The living room is purple, raspberry-red, violet.. you probably get the point :)
The hall is no colour as yet, but I'm thinking some kind of turquoise with perhaps a monstera-pattern in a greener shade.
Oooh, I forgot! I'm planning to paint a dragon on the ceiling in the bedroom, and butterflies on the living room ceiling. Perhaps a pattern of branches on the kitchen wall..
Another big passion is flowers and greenery :)
Then there's the bathroom, so far I haven't decided on anything there. Not so much walls to paint anything on either. And the work/hobby-room, I've decided to leave it white and let my imagination and brush go wild with flowers and stuff! I can practice there before painting in the other rooms..