We have brought our sofa in off the balcony and back into the apartment!
Tomorrow the kitchen will get its final coat of paint, it look’s lovely and white and the floors look great. What a massive improvement from before. I can’t wait to see it all come together. We might have most of the kitchen [...]

Posted on August 23rd, 2009 by emma
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     From ‘The Music Man’, as quoted by Monson.

We are totally feeling the benefits already from starting having our kitchen & floors done even tho we used holiday time to do it- not so many empty yesterdays these days!- but it has been waiting a long time to be done and now it is such [...]

Posted on August 19th, 2009 by emma
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Yes, we did go to see El Perro del Mar.
After work MrA and I jumped on the train to sweden to watch them perform at the malmö festival. The evening was magic from the beginning through. I forgot my camera so these pictures are from my phone!  Yes we went on the ferris wheel (it [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2009 by emma
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Posted on August 8th, 2009 by emma
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Last night was very restless and could not sleep I found El Perro del Mar’s blog and was talking to MrA about it, he replies- she’s playing in malmo next weekend- wanna go? Woo yeah!

We have some very similar ideas and inspirations. She states;
‘It can’t seem to make it’s mind up. The sky. And neither [...]

Posted on August 8th, 2009 by emma
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bicycle drive-in..
MrA and I hopped on our bikes and made to the park last night to see ‘Milk’ and back again tonight for the surprise showing.. which turned out to be ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ there were so many more people tonight- the park was completely filled. I guess that’s what happens when there are free movies [...]

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by emma
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Someday I will learn to drive
I’ll get big loads of shopping
be at all my appointments on time
not have to squeeze next to sweaty people on the bus
or find my bicycle with a flat.
I’ll help out (friendly looking) hitch hikers
but until then,
i will be here and there on my bicycle, metro or bus.
(enjoying them while I [...]

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by emma
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Bye bye cramped Kitchen
This week we have been getting our hands dirty tearing out our ol kitchen.. its come a long way
from this

to this..

The old meter is beautiful but we could really use that space..
How we did it..
removed 6 layers of wallpaper/paint, tore off those roof tiles instantly adding inches to the room called for [...]

Posted on August 1st, 2009 by emma
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