Pile of shirts

We've been going through A's closet. Just from two shelves we found this big pile of rag T-shirts. Crazy!

Projects are coming along

I introduced my to do list for the office redo on The grand plan - post I did some time ago. This is what I've done so far.

Floorplan

• Buy a Sesam wall bed mechanism and place the guest bed inside a closet (the grey rectangle in the floorplan)

The Sesam wall bed mechanism should be on it's way. We are not going to Stockholm after all, all the cruise ships were full when we started to book the trip, but I ordered the mechanism few days ago.

• Move the shelf on the small window wall closer to the small window (the yellow long rectangle)
• Move the table against the big window wall, or even get a new table

All moving is waiting for the painting of the shelves. I cannot move the shelves with all the books on them so when I remove the books then I will paint the shelves at the same go.

• Place a table board inside the shelf (the yellow rectangle on the top right corner) to create a computer station

The table board has been bought. 

• Get a nicer looking office chair for A

I've looked for some office chairs but haven't found anything nice and resonable priced.

Building, painting and sewing

• Remove wallpaper and paint the room white or light colour

I've removed wallpaper from one wall, but then the shelf came on the way. I was so excited to remove the

wall paper that I didn't realize that I have no place where I could now paint the shelves and move them out

of the way. I have to wait for spring before I can move the shelves to the terrace and then paint.

• Make a closet for the guest bed

This is waiting for the Sesam wall bed mechanism and spring.

• Paint the shelves white
• Sew a roman blind for the big window or get a roller blind
• Sew a slipcover for the chair

Started making the slip cover on sunday. It's going on nicely.

Baby booties

Made booties for my friends' soon to come baby. I used a pattern I found from a Finnish crafts book, but here is very similar pattern in English.

While I was looking for that pattern with google, I found baby socks that look like duck feet, they are hilarious. Check those out!

Finished cushion project

Hihhey! All of the dining table seat cushions are done. Last friday I had a post about the problems I had when making the cushions. But after I got over the corner pieces in the cushion it got whole lot easier and I'm proud to say those are all finished now.

Inside the covers are foamed plastic that were cut to the shape of the seat at the shop. I used velcro on the back egde so I can remove the foamed plastic from the covers before washing. Also I used velcro on the strips that will keep the cushion on it's place on the seat.

Whew... it took a while, way over a year to tell the truth, but now they are done.

Frosted windows and a lesson learned

We've had -20 C (-4 F) and all the windows in the conservatory have gotten beautifully frosted. We cannot see outside from the livingroom, but the light still comes in.

Also here is a lesson to be learned. Remember when I made the ice lanterns earlier? I've been making more of them. In one comment I warned not to leave the bucket with water to freeze for too long since it can break the bucket. So do as I say not as I do. Remember to remove the ice from the bucket when the lantern walls are thick enough. If all of the water frozes solid, it pushes the bottom of the bucket so hard that it eventually breaks. Like this:

Unfinished cushion project

I restarted making the dining chair cushions last weekend. I originally started the project.... umm... way over a year ago. And now I remember why I didn't finish. I had made two cushions, but we have six dining chairs. This time I thought I will make a production line and make each step on all the cushions at the same go, I thought that would make it easier.

I have no idea why but the threading of the serger did not go very well, one of the threads kept falling off from it's place and resulted in the serger just making holes on the fabric but not sewing anything together. I threaded and rethreaded the machine but it kept doing that. I was so furious with the machine that I cried.

When A came home and I had been strugling with the serger for hours I explained the problem to him, he didn't do anything to the serger, he just listened. Then I tried again and the serger suddenly started to work. What's the thing that when you want to show something and suddenly the thing does not work at all like it has done for hundreds of times before. This time it was for better but still it's so annoying.

First I sewed together the top and bottom and the side with the serger. After I had spent the whole weekend just making few straight seams with the serger I started to sew on the corner pieces where the back rest goes through. I sewed both corner pieces on to one cushion cover. The sewing of the corner pieces is a pain because of the corner obviously. I was going mental just with that piece, but then realised I made a mistake on the long seams I had made with the serger. I should have stopped the seam on the edge and not continue it to the end of the fabric. Now I cannot sew with the machine both the corner piece and the piece that goes round the back rest, if I sew on the other one it will be very difficult to sew the other piece. So I need to sew one of those by hand. That was monday when I realized that. I got so annoyed that I couldn't even touch the project for a few days.

Now I've desided I will do atleast one step a day and sooner or later those will be finished. I will continue over the weekend. Hope I get past the corners and then it will get easier. I'm amazed how such a simple looking cushion can turn out so tricky.

Breakfast

I guess I'm very stuck in my habits. Every work morning and on some weekend mornings too I eat a small cup of natural yogurt with nuts and either berries and honey or jam if I've forgotten to thaw berries from the freezer.

The grapefruit is not inculed in my standard breakfast, this picture was just taken on the weekend when I eat a bigger breakfast.

What do you eat for breakfast?