Bits and pieces of the weekend

For some time now I have been edgy in my home. There is just too much stuff in there at the moment.
Too many cute things, too many crafted things, to many colors.

I am craving the clarity of Scandinavian or Japanese houses, white with some earthy colors or some pastel,
different soft textures, light and space.

So this weekend was spent with a big clean-out. All the cute things went into boxes in the storeroom, and
now I can breathe again.

Unfortunately now I can also see much clearer the cracks on the walls and the smudges on the paint.
This house needs some serious TLC...

I started by re-painting my kitchen shelves. They used to be yellow, and I painted grey over it when we moved in.
Now I gave it another layer of grey. It looked really beautiful until I decided that the paint was try and
put the things back onto the shelves. Unfortunately the paint was not quite dry yet.

So sometimes this week I will do some more kitchen shelf painting...


Here some pictures of our weekend:


On Friday I discovered that the local stationary shop now sells 'Mollie Makes'!  This made me very happy :-).
Unfortunately, with all the cleaning, I haven't looked at it yet. But I know it is there, waiting for me:

 

Another book I am very keen on reading but haven't started yet:

These beauties escaped the big clean-out:

Painting my formerly dark brown mirror frame:

Done:

 

The very first rain! Eva went to dance in it, but I wasn't allowed to take a picture of that :-):

Sunday morning breakfast :

 
Frida, nearly caught in the act. Why is it that the chickens eat the dog food, the dogs eat the cat food, and the cats
make a run for the human food when nobody is looking?:

What counts as fun when you are a dachshund:

The beautiful orchids my friend Malaika left in my care when she moved to Germany:

The pantry cupboard, after the clean-out (couldn't bring myself to photograph the before :-) ):

Flowers don't last in our current heatwave. But I quite like these eucalyptus branches:

 

Parts of sunday's dinner:

 Wishing you a wonderful start to a happy week!




Lots of love,

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