Elevating curtain

Since we moved we haven't been able to sleep in our bedroom because of the sun shining trough the windows at 4 am in the morning... We figured that it would be impractical to use ordinary curtains since one of the windows belong to the veranda door. The solution was to get elevating curtains, and since there are two windows of different sizes, I decided to make them myself. To make elevating curtains, fabric, poles, metal rings and string is needed. The fabrik is Stockholm blad from IKEA. An excellent tutoral on how to make elevating curtains can be found here. Even thought the description is in Swedish, the picture of how to do it is really straight forward.

and napkins

My parallel project was a tea-bag box. I ordered it non painted, and used the left over paint from our tea cup cupboard. I then used tape to mark were to put the black lines for the frame. I printed TEA on a piece of paper and cut out the text. Not entierly easy to keep the edges sharp... When the paint had dried, I used decoupage finish to glue on a sun flower motif from a napkin.

Paint

When cleaning up our back yard, a much loved one found this large terracotta pot. I decided to cheer it up with some silver-ish stone paint found at the craft store. Right now it is acting as a nursery for herbs.

Want to knit a skirt?

It's time for the launch of Garnstudio's free patterns for fall and winter knits and crochet! For you who want to make a skirt out of yarn for the chillier times to come (I like this one to the right alot) check out the 4 skirt patterns. You can find those and other patterns for pullovers, socks, cushions and more here. (In Swedish, here)