Chez Larsson

Mini's Gym

I saw this magazine carrier on Yvonne's blog a few months ago and loved it. I even loved it a little bit more when I realized that it's a Swedish design and bought one. Who knew that the green of tennis courts (it's made of remnant tennis court bits) is the perfect green?!

Um, Mini did! She loooves the Old News. When my mom stayed over the holidays we went to the pet store and mom insisted on us getting a cat toy. I said neither Mini nor Bonus are usually interested in them but got a green furry thing on a stick anyway to please my mom.

 

Mom played the game with Mini where she'd sit in the armchair and wave the stick around. The Old News happened to be right there and got incorpoprated into the game.

 

Now Mini can't get enough of it. We don't even have to wave the stick in front of her. I insert the stick at the top where the handle is so it hangs over the "entrance". Then Mini does her thing all on her own. She looks so funny, usually on her back and pounding and tearing at the green furry end and clawing at the inside.

We've had to re-name Old News. It's now Mini's Gym.  

Ps. Sorry, no more clues on this week's mystery but I'll give you an update next week!

Doing the Shuffle

Last weekend I did the shuffle. Bonus did not approve. He doesn't like change and I could tell he got antsy.

 

When you start shuffling stuff around in one space it sort of avalanches and often turns into this major thing where you need to address several areas. I don't mind, I really enjoy it.

 

It always looks worse before it gets better, you just have to accept that. As I was shuffling stuff around I kept thinking that I felt so happy doing it. It's my best. I love change and I love organizing so this was the perfect weekend. 

 

Empty. 

The Unfinished Project

This old wash stand is one of my very first really great finds. When I lived in Älmhult (the birth place of IKEA) back in the mid 80's I found it in an abandoned house along with some other stuff that I've since gotten rid of. It's served me well for over two decades as a bedside table, an entry hall catch-all and as a place to put down the laundry basket at our old house.

 

At the new place it's been moved around in the basement and hadn't really found it's place so I got an idea. I started by removing the top bit.




Then I measured to find the middle and used the straight edge of the saw to draw the line.

 

Then I used the same saw to - yes - saw it down the middle.

 

Yup, two pieces now. What on earth was I up to?

 

Tada! It used to serve as a bedside table in one of our old apartments and now I figured I'd use it as TWO bedside tables.

 

The plan was to re-paint them and attach them to the walls with L-brackets but then another thought entered my mind which kind of made them redundant...

So now I have two halves of an old wash stand and still no bedside tables. What entered my mind? I'll tell you more later!

Ps. Please ignore the cables mess, I was just trying the tables out here. You didn't think I was going to leave it as is did you?!