Chez Larsson

Project 52: Week 17

On Tuesday of week 17 Martin and I were invited to Wille’s class dinner. The food pretty much sucked, that place must have made a fortune on having us there, but the great thing about the dinner was meeting Wille’s classmates. Some I’d met before but some I’d only heard of extensively and I can now totally understand why Wille’s enjoyed the camaraderie part of these three years at school so much. Man, those guys are awesome. Funny, smart, polite AND cute. Wille was nominated “Klassens 60-talist” which is difficult to translate but basically means “the class’ guy from the 60’s” because of how his interest in that era in terms of music and fashion reflects who he is as a person. I loved that!

Also this week, my book order from Amazon arrived early which was a nice surprise. I was inspired by an article in Martha Stewart Living about Bea Johnson and her book Zero Waste Home. I’ve only read the introduction so far but it seems interesting. A bit disappointed that the book has no images of Bea’s beautiful home though.

Also this week I cleaned out the shoe locker, took inventory of my sneakers and scrubbed the dirt off and washed the laces.

Oh, and of course you already know that Mini and Bonus were 8 on Thursday!

Have a good week! I’m off to see my mom on Wednesday but I have one more post before I leave coming up tomorrow.

Washing Windows

Two weekends ago I washed our windows. Yes, you read that right. Those of you who have read this blog for a while and those of you who actually know me IRL know that I don’t do windows. It’s not laziness, it’s inability. I’ve tried all methods but I kept getting them streaky or otherwise unsatisfactory. So these past years I’ve hired a window washer guy to come over and do them for me.

Then I saw the Kärcher window cleaner at my favorite store and my dreams were answered! And lo and behold it works! All you do is spray your window pane with the sprayer, loosen the dirt with the microfiber attchment on the sprayer and then use the squeegee thing (which is chargeable) to suck the dirt and water off.

 

I’ve never cleaned my windows this efficiently and as happily. It’s still not my most favorite of chores but I don’t dread doing them again. Imagine that!

This is NOT a sponsored post, I bought and paid for this baby myself and I love it!

Happy weekend!

8

Today Mini and Bonus are eight! It’s hard to believe that they’ve been with us for almost eight years and I can’t imagine life without them. After all the leave muddy foot prints on my white sofas, hair everywhere, have fishy breath from their dinner AND  stomp all over us when we try to sleep. What’s not to love?

Happy birthday Mini & Bonus,  we love you so much!

Vitriini

I’ve grown up with Iittala, having lived in Finland the first four years of my life and that brand being heavily present in my childhood home in the form of stemware and vases. So when my new pals at Iittala’s Swedish PR company wanted to send over a gift I was more than happy to accept.

 

Especially happy  since the gift was a couple of the new styles for 2013 of Vitriini, those cute square glass boxes that came out a few years ago. They’ve been on my wish list for quite a while but I couldn’t really justify the need for yet another container of any kind. SO happy to accept these though. The colors were quite the surprise though. I didn’t know what I’d be getting and while the white/clear one was a given favorite the salmon one came as a bit of a shock (I must be easily shocked). My first instinct was that I would have nowhere to put it but within an hour or so it had grown on me and now I love it.

 

Where to put them into use though? I went around the house and found the perfect spot for them both. They now collect our spare change in the entry hall. 10 kronor coins in the small salmon one and the rest in the larger clear/white Durat one.

Thank you Maria and Iittala!

New Broom

I needed a new broom. The reason? I used the old one to hack away at a large chunk of snow and ice that hung perilously over the entrance door as it thawed. It broke.

 

One of the reasons it broke was probably the fact that I hadn’t done a good enough job the last time around to attach the broom stick to the head. This time I made sure to get a good fit by sharpening the end of the stick further up…

 

… and pre drilling all the way through the head and stick and then driving a 5 cm/2” screw right through the whole thing. Now it’s solid. Trust me.

 

This time I wanted to do something different so instead of staining it I varnished. I used what I had around which might not be perfect for outdoor conditions but better than nothing.

 

Just varnishing was a bit boring though so I used masking tape to add some random stripes along the stick and painted them white.

 

Here’s my new broom all ready for some sweeping action at the front of the house.

 

Kinda croquet-esque don’t you think?