Archive for November, 2009
Winter blooms
Look what we found on our Sunday walk yesterday:
Gorgeous, no?
Beer advent calendar
Richard’s family gets the same advent calendar from us every year: a beer advent calendar. It is always appreciated, requires little work and can be done last minute. This year’s version looked like this:
Here’s what you need to do to make your own:
Get a crate of beer, some brown paper, white ribbon, alphabet stickers, felt [...]
Christmas Village Advent Calendar
This morning I set up the advent calendar I made for Richard this year. It is a whole Christmas village made out of paper.
There are houses,
a town hall,
a church,
shops and eateries,
an inn,
a cinema,
a barn,
a Christmas tree,
and some details.
Underneath every house a little present is hiding. It was a lot of work cutting, painting, glueing, etc., [...]
DIY Advent Calendars
I don’t know how common advent calendars are in other parts of the world, but over here you can find one in almost every house. The traditional versions are simple with pictures hiding behind 24 doors. Lately, however, chocolate versions have become more and more popular, and all the major chocolate brands now sell different [...]
Thanksgiving decorations
We do not celebrate Thanksgiving in Austria. Nevertheless we have collected some cute inspiration for a well dressed Thanksgiving, or general fall, table.
Easy but impressive pumpkin centerpiece:
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Cute felted leaf garland:
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Cute place settings:
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Tutorials for the garland and the place settings can be found when you click on the “Source” links.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Autumn-Inspired
Autumn is here and it’s hard to find any blooming flowers, so here are some alternatives to flowering arrangements:
http://emmas.blogg.se/
Dotted wall
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I want a wall with black dots on it, like, now!
How to refurbish an old chair
The chair we refurbished was part of the old interior left behind in the flat.
Here it is right in the middle of the old living room, looking all sad and gloomy with the dark brown wood and grey fabric.
When we started renovating the flat we didn’t notice the potential of this chair and used it [...]
