Medallions

SweetieS has gone on hicks with her grand-parents several times. And for kids who finish the hicks, medallions are rewarded. Needless too say, SweetieS has a few…eventhough she is “only” 3 years old…

Long have I had a project in mind….and now I finally sat down and composed this post.

Earlier this year I picked up this frame at a local flea market (in Oslo these are typically hosted at elementary schools)…If you are interested in attending a flea market – and contributing to the local youth activites, you can find an updated list here

With a few coats of paint and some fabric I had laying around, SweetieS now has a place to put her medallions. This DIY project was inspired by this post on Pintrest.

I know, they aren’t hung perfectly straight..

- how do you organize your medalions?

I love these

crib bumpers by Smallstuff! The traditional crib bumpers that you get in Noreay is no match for SweetieS weight. Before she moved to a bigger bed she would stand along the sides of the bumper and push together the bumper, leaving a pile of “stuff” along the crib sides. I came across Smallstuff crib lines about two years ago, at a storage sale. So I bought this nifty crib bumper for just 250kr! which is cheap for this type of bumper I now know – because I wanted to get one for BabyL, as the one for SweetieS has moved with her to her big bed. The cheapest one I found was at www.lekmer.no or www.cdon.no (portals to lekmer). And with a few gift certificates I had @cdon and lekmers Summersale, I only paid for S&H (shipping and handling).

Here is SweetieS bumper on a IKEA Hemnes Daybed. I don’t think this one is available anymore. But it is lavender colored with white stars on one side, and the reverse on the other side – the side that is pictured below.

And here is BabyLs bumper on her “inherited” IKEA Gulliver crib. It is almost the same design as SweetieS, just that the stars are multicolored.

What I love about these bumpers is that there is no need to tie them onto the crib. The bumper is 4cm thick and can stand on its own as it is filled with foam and not fabric. They are 30cm high and 360cm long, thus fitting perfect along three of three side in SweetieS bigger bed. Can’t recommend these enough. Just love them!

- What is your crib lined with?
- Did you know that Smallstuff also have other wonderful products?

Pimp my Expedit

Ages ago BabyS got a 5x5 Expedit shelving unit for her room. As she has gotten a few books that are taller than the 33x33cm cubes allowed, I wound up changing up the layout of the unit.

Normally a 5x5 unit looks like this:

picture borrowed from  www.ikea.no

To get the a cube bigger than the standard 33x33cm I choose to leave out one of the shelving plates in the corner cubes (top right corner). I put in a CD insert in the doubled up corner (unfortunately, this insert is no longer available from IKEA). The corner now looks like this:

I also bough a decal for measuring BabyS as she grows bigger, that I have attached to the side of the shelving unit. As you can see in the picture The decal is bought online, but can’t remember form where…I think it was from Tinydeal though…Here if you want one.

Enough from me tonight…

- Have you made any changes to your IKEA Expedit? Feel free to share

Murphys Law

Everybody knows Murphys Law, either by own experience or heard others talk about it. Just in case you really are that lucky and never had a case of Murphys Law happen around you, I wikipedia’ed it for you here.
Anyways…Right after Easter we went shopping for a new dresser to have in our bedroom, at the foot of our bed. It would double as storage and with a little help/creativity as a “bench”.

I had started with my mind set on a six drawer dresser from IKEA, until we started to look at the measurements. Realizing that the dresser would be too high, we started looking at other options. We would up with a dresser by danish Tvilum.

My husband was super nice and started the assembly while I rested on the couch. But assembly came to a full stop when he realized that we were missing two parts! Luckily the drawer could be assembled even with the parts missing as they are just for show and don’t affect the use of the dresser. And the missing parts have been ordered…hopefully it doesn’t take to long for us to receive them

the dresser used with the missing parts

Pimple free

Today we had electricians at our house to redo the floor heating system controls on the wall.

Early birds as handymen in Norway are…they showed up bright and early 7.30!

After a few hours of work..here’s the result

WAAAAYYYY better than I posted earlier. Now we just need to a dab of spackle and paint to fix the wall around…

Like a pimple on the wall…

Just before Easter we had an electrician here to install floor heating in one of the newly renovated bedrooms. Since there wasn’t any preexisting installment in the room (in the walls), the electrician installed the floor heating system controls and wiring on the outside of the walls.

“Darn it!” I thought when I saw the finished result, it looked like a a pimple on the wall. Hated that the switch was installed in a frame on top of the wall, instead of being set into the wall like we have in all the other rooms. Not to mention the plastic pipe from the switch down to the floor…

Luckily I have a super understanding husband, and he contacted the electrician about coming back to do the installment set into the wall.

The electrician will be back this coming Tuesday