Around the block

I was pretty quickly done at work today, and when we're done - we can leave. But we still get paid for the full time. It's a really great job.  So instead I decided to go for a workout, and on my way there I walked in to a store called "Inn & Fin" and found a lot of nice vintage looking things that I would love to have in my apartment. 

I Can't wait until this fall when I get my own apartment :)

Cute things

So walking around town today i found some reeeally cute stuff. I can't wait until i get my own apartment and can start furnishing my own cute den <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="">

I reeeeally want to buy something today. I've been having this urge to shop now for a while, so i think i might just fall for it today...

Professional portrait

I just wanted to show you guys the portrait of me and robert that he bought for me as a christmas gift (it did take a while for it to get done, that's why i get it now). It's a professional artist that has painted it named Ewa Phil. (I think she has a website, but i don't know it. I will go check it out and then put up a link if i find it)

What do you guys think? :) does it look like us?

Japanese souvenirs

When we were in japan last year robert decided that he wanted to have a shelf with only japanese stuff on it in his bedroom.
It has taken him some time to find a good shelf and actually get the time to put it up but today, we put it up!

And we unpacked the souvenirs and put them all up there. In the end it looked like this:

What do you think?

//Wayu

Sorting through and cleaning up

Sometimes it feels like I never have the time to do things around the house, like clean the apartment and sort though stuff that's been piling up. Today and tomorrow is a day off, so I'm trying to check a few things off my "to do" list. Unfortunately I also have a home-exam to do and I still have to study for friday's lesson and monday's seminar. So I'm trying to divide my time.

I found these cute binders at ÖB and bought two of them. I've been sorting through all the papers that's been piling up and realize I will need more of them, two just does not cut it. So next time I'm at ÖB I will buy a few more of them.

I'm also thinking of selling some books. I've only been studying psychology for two years (One year at Stockholms University loose courses and now one year on the Psychology program here in Örebro) yet it seems the books keep piling up. I know I'm not going to read most of them again, and they take up a lot of space in my bookcase, so it would make sense to sell them off now while they're still worth something.

I can't wait for the weekend.

//Wayu

How to put away your jewellry - with style

Or something.

Those of you who've been with me for a while might remember that i bought a mirror cabinet kind of thing.

Yep, and it's awesome. Its a full length mirror that you can open and tadaaaah!

So much space to put your earrings, bracelets, rings, pins, scrunchies, necklaces sunglaces and so forth!

The only thing i still haven't managed to fit into the cabinet is the diadems, but other than that, everything fits perfectly!

I wanted a full length mirror and someplace to put my jewellry, so when I found this full length mirror that could also fit my jewellries on Groupon i got real happy <3

//Wayu

Ponderings and yoga

So today, I've been thinking a lot about stuff, just random things. There is so much I want to start doing and also things I have to do. The mix of those two can sometimes become complicated. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to, you can't do everything. And so you have to prioritize.

I've been pondering about a trip, a huge trip that might be happening this summer, and how the hell to make it happen. Let's just say money might be a big frickin' issue.
I've also been thinking about these two paintings I bought a week back:

Now, the bottom one I love and I plan on keeping it, the top one on the other hand was more of an impulse buy, and well... I'm not too sure about it. So I'm pondering taking it all the way back to the store. It might just happen.

I've also noticed that I don't have enough warm sweaters, and I particularly like knitted ones. I once knew how to knit but don't really remember any more. But then I thought if I just relearn how to do it I can knit my own sweaters and maybe even add cute ribbons or hearts or cupcakes or whatever. The sweaters I have are after all kinda boring. Yes, it might be an idea, and so I've been pondering when and how to make that happen.

All of these thoughts and indecisiveness led to a complete disaster at yoga today. I couldn't concentrate, my balance was off and the ten minutes of meditation that was supposed to be total relaxation and bliss turned into itching and fidgeting. Let's just say that I was not in the zone today.

Irritated at the bad workout I went to the gym and ran 4km on the treadmill to try and get that wonderful effect of calm that being totally busted from a workout gives you. It helped - finally.

Then I went to buy milk in the store and walked past some interesting flavours of tea, two which caught my fancy. Fifteen minutes later I had chosen my tea flavour, starting to walk towards the register.

Then I changed my mind and went back.

This has not been a straight forward making-quick-and-swift-decisions-like-a-baws day.

Just saying.

//Wayu

IKEA

 

Tomorrow it's time to go back to the normal study days in Örebro, but first, today it was time to travel back, take a trip to IKEA, buy the paintings I've wanted now for a while but needed a car to safely take back home, and do the major grocery shopping. So, my mom and dad accompanied me. Why dad came along I still don't really understand, he doesn't even like to walk around in stores, yet he came along for a whole day of shopping - whining a lot in the process. He said he just wanted to check that my apartment was as in order as I say it is. And even though it wasn't really well cleaned as I didn't have time for that before christmas, he had to agree that it wasn't bad ;) (success!)
Either way I have decided to loose some weight for a while now, and decided to start for real in the new year, now a big problem at my place in Örebro is the plates. When I moved in me and mom went to IKEA, but they were rebuilding the plates section that time, so it didn't really have much to offer, so in protest I just bought black plates and bowls, not many though as I didn't particularly like them. Now except for the fact that I didn't like the plates they were also WAY too big! I noticed that my portions became much bigger in those plates and decided to buy smaller ones next time. So, this time, I did.

Ikea's picture on their website of the plates.

I bought a series of plates from IKEA called "Arv" (litterally heritage), in a lovely smudge pink colour. I didn't want them only in pink though, so I mixed up with the off white plates of the same series and personally I think It looks great together.

All the plates and bowls have this wavy edge that I love, it really looks cute and a little vintage at the same time. The plus side is also that the bowl and the small plates are a lot smaller than those I've been using up till now, so it's great for portion size I gotta say ;)

I bought some other stuff too, but I'll write about them tomorrow :)

//Wayu

Bargain shopping

Yesterday me and sarah were out shopping. Johanna was supposed to come with us but she bailed in the last minute.

We looked around for some good clothes, any nice clothes really, but it's so hard to find anything on sale! Usually only the wrong size or just the clothes you don't want are left. And just like that we didn't find any nice clothes on sale.

But we did go eat the sushi buffet, on my favouite place - nooshi. This time it was the lunch buffet so it only cost us 99kr - it's such a bargain!

Even though we didn't find any clothes we did find some fun stuff when we looked around :) for example these:

It's headphones that we found at accesorize, the earpieces are decorated with cute things like roses and cats - and even funnier things like pizza and coke ;)
I didn't buy a pair, but it was quite tempting! And a good idea :) maybe i should decorate my earpieces ;)

but i did find this beautiful mug on indiska! It was 50% off but my mug had a tiiiny chip in it on the inside, so i got another 50% off!! so a total of 75% off <3 Sometimes you find great things on sale - it just doesn't necessarily have to be clothes ;)
//Wayu

Wayu the carpenter

Today at school I was teacher for the class.
To explain this, let's begin by explaining that right now I'm reading a prevention course. In other words, how to prevent mental illness and promote mental well being. This is done for example by scientifically tried exercises for children and adolescents that teach them about empathy, self-awareness, morals and so on. It was one of those lessons that I today held together with one of my classmates. You see, next term we're going to practice this for real by going out to schools and teaching the classes from a prevention perspective. So, before going out to a real class, we try it out in a trial environment - the classroom. So, today my classmates were pretending to be a bunch of 14 year olds and I was supposed to lead them through a 20 minute exercise. A few of them decided to be real bitchy about it and went all rouge teenager on us haha! ;). I don't mind though, I handled it alright and it's actually really good practice. After all - there's usually at least one child in every class who's a bit of a trouble maker and when we hold an exercise for real we need to be able to handle the children who will make it hard for us. And it's usually the trouble makers who needs our presence there the most, so it's all good.

Thankfully, the exercise went well with only a few minor problems. I have stage fright so standing in front of the class is really scary, but I also know it's something I need to work on. After all, It's not nearly as bad as it used to be as I've practiced on it. :)

Right before I went to school I got a big package delivery weighing 17.5 kg according to the box ;) So, when I got home I decided to open it and start building! I have after all been waiting for this package!!

 So this is the package I received! If you read on it you might get a clue what it is ;) But when It's all fixed up and I've removed all the remaining packaging and placed it in it's right place I will take a few pictures and show this utter beauty that I got at such a bargain price! (I will tell you how much, where and what it is later)

Building instruction and a preview of what it is in the package ;)

Another sneak peek. A close view of the key and lock.

Now I will keep building and stop showing you sneak peeks! I can't wait until it's finally done and I can put it up! :)

For now I will let you guess what it is! I promise you that even with the sneak peeks and clues in the pictures it will be hard to guess exactly what it is! It might look normal at first, but there's a secret with it that made me buy it!

So what do you think it is? ;)

//Wayu

What pride feels like

FINALLY! I'M DONE!!

I have cleaned some yesterday (the rough stuff cleaning) and today I did the last details like dusting and vacuuming and putting all the little stuff where they belong. I even scrubbed the floor! :D

I gotta say the feeling after a complete cleaning is awesome ♥ I feel like I at least did something good haha. 

Well, now that I've got a clean room I've gotta eat some late dinner and then get to reading some articles for tomorrows group meeting. 

Work, work hard work, work! No rest in sight ;)

//Wayu

The dream of old fashioned romance...

I went around to different grocery stores today to get food and found some fun stuff at ÖB :)
I found a lot of pretty stuff with old fashioned romance theme <3 Cream white, pink, brown and roses - wonderful <3 When I move to my own apartment (right now I live in a shared apartment with two random people, sharing the kitchen and bathroom) I can finally (and will!) furnish my apartment the way I want to :) <3

Towel with roses, heartshaped pillows with roses and small balls on the side, an old fashioned "maison de florette" wall clock as well as a very pretty canvas painting with different romantic motives.

I wanted to buy them so much but I managed to restrain myself, I think I'm going to buy the painting though, I can put it up on my wall, but I got around on my bike so it will have to be another time - it's hard to cycle home with a gigantic canvas painting.

So instead, except for the food, I bought a cute little cookie jar for only a few kronor to put my newly baked cookies in :) <3

It had to do to get rid of my shopping need ;)

//Wayu