Inspiration Files: random

I don't know about you, but I needed some inspiration for our home,
now that I finally have some energy again to work on it (thank you sun!).
I love all of these spaces. Put them together and you have something
like my dream home. Which one of these do you think is my favorite?
(There's two, actually, although I do love them all.) Which one is your's?
(Do you have one?)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Oh, and psssst: Tonight, while the husband is gone, I'm going to get the
chalkboard paint out of my secret storage and will paint a wall I've been meaning
to paint with it ever since we moved here.

To surprise him.

He just adores these kinds of surprises

(not).

He'll come around.

PS Per request, the comments now open in a pop-up window. :)

Mökki

Hello, hello, hello! I had a great weekend... I am still recovering... what, it's
Wednesday already, you say?

I am in a good mood today. It's warm outside (27 C, that's 80 F) and although we
can't go outside much, except for a quick dip into the backyard in the evening (flu),
I'm still so happy just knowing it's warm and sunny outside. I love summer!
I am a summer person through and through and I don't want it to end, ever!
(I'm always depressed in the autumn because it's over).

I had a lovely weekend with my girlfriends (you can see some pictures of our night here).
Sisie went to bed without problems, according to my husband; unfortunately she didn't stay
asleep without problems... so, at this point, she is still very much nursing the nighttime away,
and I still very much want it to end, but not enough to do something drastic about it, really.
And so the sleepless nights continue. For now.

But well, I wanted to show you some more pictures of the play shed I talked about earlier.
It's such a happy place. And girly. And pretty.








Isn't it lovely?

You can see more pictures of the play shed in this earlier post.

Of Rainbow Hair and Evil Witches

Everybody, and I mean, everybody, should wear a rainbow colored wig from time to time.
No really, try it.

I mean, come on woman, you are missing out:

Wear a clown wig! Put on some color! Stop frowning! 
Be a child again! Play! Enjoy life!

(And a thank-you to our neighbor friends for all the Friday fun!)

A happy, childish, colorful weekend to you all!

(I'm off to my girl's night. Woo. Maybe I'll take the wig.)

PS. In a poppyfield.

Sun Flower

The kids at Fé's club made this sunflower crown, with crepe paper, cardboard,
and staples. I love it. So simple and pretty!

PS.
... I really, really want my (non-)carpenter husband to build one for Fé, too!
... This blog makes me want to eat only vegetables and fruits, all day long.
... Oversize posters.
... Rebuilding buildings of childhood.
... Prague guide (via Fryd+Design)
... A family portrait.
... Buy a kite or make one.
... Security envelope raindrops.
... This mom and her 4 kids are so inspiring.
... Draw on your headboard.
... painting with flowers (via Megan L.'s board)

Have a happy, happy weekend!
(It's warm here now, finally!... we'll spend Saturday at the beach....
pics to follow... what are you all up to?)

Girlfriends

Aren't those two the cutest?

(I get to hang out with my girlfriends, too, on Saturday. The first night in over a year that
I won't be home to put Sisie to bed. Wish us luck!)

On Weaning and Teacher's Gifts

Hello all, I hope you are well! I've enjoyed reading your opinions as to where we should move.
London, huh? (Really? With kids??) Well, I'll let you know once we've figured it out (luckily we
still have some time until we need to make that decision... )

But on to other things. Fé had her last day of kerho (playschool/club) today. The kids had a little
performance, such cuteness!, and Fe got to be princess Rosebud (ah happiness!).
At the end of it, the kids had cookies and juice and were genereally happy and excited to be
soon sent off into summer vacation.

(The fun ended when one snotnose took away what Fe deemed her own toy, and well,
it all ended in somewhat of a meltdown and we ended up leaving early. Oh well.)


Anyway, Fé gave two of her signature cups to her teachers, based on drawings she had made
of them earlier. (I had asked her to draw her teachers, and she drew an elephant and a giraffe...)

But I wanted to talk about something else, too. Rememer snotnose from above? The one who
took away Fe's toys? Well, I was doing a pretty good job judging her parents, for being
completely incompetent at handling the situation,when it occurred to me that I am completely
incompetent myself when it comes to another parenting situation:

WEANING.

Weaning, I don't get it, I can't do it. I'm unable to. How do all the nursing moms on this planet
DO it? I didn't manage to wean Fe until she was almost two years old, and it was only after a long
and painful process for both of us, and after reading every available book written on the topic.
Moms keep telling me stories of how their babies just "stopped" nursing, all by themselves,
at one point or the other, and I look down on the little wolverine hanging on my breast, and know,
just KNOW, that that is never going to happen for us.

I am a life-size pacifier.

I'm frustrated. I'm tired of getting up 10 times at night. I want my body back to myself. I want  OUT!

HOW DO I DO IT?  HELP!

(And whoa, it's June... how did that happen! And why are we still wearing hats and coats?!)

PS We need one.