Laowai

Bea and Brian went out for a long walk in Rapperswil today. I’ve been playing around at decorating the house a bit more. In my ongoing effort to add some color without painting or putting too many holes in the wall I put up a big paper poster. I made it from this photo that I took back in the beginning of March:

 

I used this free program that tiles the photo onto a bunch of letter size pages – you just choose the size you want. It’s not perfectly put together, but I like to look at it and it makes our room a little less stark. So here are some photos of the poster in our bedroom:

 

 

 

It’s still pretty sparse and white in our room but I like the open space and it’s feeling like home. Next I need to figure out how to hang all those precious photos that are sitting on our dressers. I’m not about to put that many holes in the wall  so I need to come up with some system. I have hung lots of stuff with 3-M Command Strips – those were the smartest things I packed. The adhesive is strong and it comes off the wall without leaving a hole or a mess. Unfortunately I’m almost out of the 3-M strips.

I also want to find some sort of bedside table or basket for my side to the bed. I might head to the thrift store today and see what I can find. I love having an excuse to go to the thrift store. 

You can see the bassinet over by the window – just like before – I feel full of emotion every time glance at it. It’s hard to believe that someone will be in there soon. Actually there was someone in there the other day. I came into my room to find Bea sitting in it when she was supposed to be napping. She looked very cute and I should have taken a photo but instead I rushed her out because I thought it might break under the weight of a toddler.

Here’s a photo of one of the pillowcases that Jennifer embroidered for me. Aren’t they charming and they go with my quilt.

 

One more little project I finished last night. It’s a silly little project and I think Brian was laughing at my enthusiasm. It’s a little box to hold toilet paper in the guest bathroom. We just have a pedestal sink in there with no storage at all. You’ve got to have a place to stash stuff like towels and toilet paper so I put the towels in a basket on the floor and this little box sits on the ledge above the toilet. It’s made out of some plastic table cloth fabric. 

 

OK – enough rambling on about boring things. Bea and Daddy will be home soon so I should stop playing and do some dishes or something like that…