pre-workout breakfast...

wholewheat muffin topped with peanutbutter, banana and a little bit of apricot jam, cup strawberries, glass of multivitaminjuice mixed with water

another one of this breakfast, I just love it :)

old armoire found a new place to be...

Hello, I don't know how old this armoire is but I think it was from my grandpa or grand-grandpa!? 

Once, when I was a little girl this pretty old thing was my wardrobe but soon I needed a bigger one because I had to many clothes ;) Until last week it was standing for about 10 years in my parent's guestroom but now they got a new one and I got my old one back yeahh. Even it's not the newest furniture I really like it and it fits perfect in our new basement/laundry room. When I am finish with painting all the walls I will show you some more picture about the whole new remodel room.

I keep all the bed linen, bathtowels and fabrics in there. But as I see it's already full haha..and I totally have some more stuff uhmmmm

Right now I don't wanna paint it. The old original structure looks too nice to change it. 

*Maybe someday*

Thai homemade vegetable coconut soup...

if you wanna have some quick light healthy dinner try this recipe out:

Makes a whole pan about 600ml plus veggies

1 can coconutmilk

1/2 can water

splash applevinegar

some broccoli

1/2 bell pepper yellow

1/2 bell peper red

1/2 zucchini

pepper

chili

salt or sojasauce

lemongrass

On low cook the coconutmilk and water with the spice, salt, vinegar, pepper.

The vegetables I precooked in the steamer for 2minutes on 120degrees.

Put all together into the pan and let it cook for 2minutes, add some lemongrass and serve.

*Enjoy*

Before / After stool...

 

 

 

 

this ugly stool I found for some $$ in a thriftstore. With some ideas in head I bought it immediately.

Back home it tooked me about an hour to refresh that little thing.

From some old bed linen I cut out the pillow and tacked it to the pillowframe.

I sanded the wood, painted the stool in a mint green and fixed it with a paintfixer.

 

Voilà

 

 

pre-workout meal...

Muffin topped with peanutbutter & banana, some strawberries, cup of coffee

shabby chic rose clothes hangers...

Today I had time to tinker again. I always wanted to refresh my boring clothes hangers and this is something I have now succeeded. 

Your needs:

nice napkin

scissors

brush

decoupage glue

newspaper

fantasy

With the decoupage technique I decorated my white boring Ikea hangers into beautiful shabby chic hangers. The technique is very simple. With the decoupage glue, which you can get in any craft store, paint  the hanger with a small brush. That the surface doesn't dries out, I've always done it step by step. I have measured out about how big the napkin piece should be and put it carefully on the wet surface. Then paint again over with the decoupage glue and let it dry.

Each hanger is a handmade unique piece, because you place the napkin criss-cross. It always looks good. The whole thing takes a bit of patience, but the result is awesome. For now I leave it by 4 pieces, but when I have some free time again I might going to do some more hangers.

hello my new pantry...

Sunday work is done after 6 hours painting, cleaning, waiting, fixing it, decoration it and stock up with all the pantry goods from the basement. 

pantry stock

It turned out well, exactly like I want it to have. It still looks old and is the same color as before. 

First the glaze was really bright white but after the dry it turned into a clear light green grey...puhhh.

kitchen pantry...

Pantry

oh, how much I love a little organized pantry with a good stock of food, homemade marmalade and sun-dried tomatoes next to my kitchen? Soooo much I love it!!

Last few days we were cleaning out a house near us and I found a cute little empty about 100 years old armoire in the garage. My thoughts were already how good it would look like next to our kitchen as a pantry. It already has a very nice light green old touch. I asked the owner if I can have it and he said take it or it lands in the trash can. I don't let him say this twice...hehe this is too useful to ditch it.

All I wanna do with it, is just sand it a bit and make a fine light glaze on it. It should look like all the years before just a little bit fresher and cleaner. Oh yeah clean is the right word for it, because it was so dirty standing down there for ages not getting touched at all!

You can't see the frontdoor right now because I washed it down in the garden where it is now chilling in the warm wind to get dry.

As soon it's finsih I will come back and show you the before and after pictures. Can't wait do get it done...oh yeas tomorrow it's sunday and I have time all day long :)

*Pantry I love*

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