Stuff we like
Christmas is home!
After having John and Sherry from This Young House help me convince Eric that we needed a tree, he obliged and we went shopping today. It’s our first Christmas living together so we had NOTHING! It’s a bit of an expense this year, but it won’t be too bad the next ones, since we got [...]
Alexander Technique
As you may or may not know, I am an interpreter. Well, I’m a translator and interpreter, but some day I would like to ditch that first part and work exclusively interpreting. Yeah, girl, keep dreaming. Anyway, when I saw that there was going to be an Alexander Technique course (6 sessions) for Interpreters at [...]
We decided on the entry wall!
This Apartment Therapy Cure has made us more conscious about all the unfinished projects around the house, and the entryhall was a tough one for us. After much thinking we decided not to paint for now. It’d be a waste (in our frugal opinion) to cover perfectly good, clean and nice paint so soon. Maybe [...]
The plants in our lives
We’re very happy to anounce that we got our curtains back. We had them cut to size, and it took two months for the nice lady to finish them (because of some misunderstandings…) but they’re back. We’re very happy to hear that, because we really need them! Our home is extremely sunny, and here we [...]
Planners and books
(It’s Talk About Tuesday over at Lazy Organizer’s… go check it out!)
Let’s see… since we moved in together, there have been changes in both areas. My dad got me a Blackberry Curve, which I love and use a lot to read emails. Since I’m a freelancer, it has proved to be extremely useful to check [...]
Good bye, wonder car!
We said goodbye to my car yesterday. It was sad, but right (and green! and frugal!).
My dad bought it second hand and used it as a taxi (my dad owns a taxi company) before giving it to me. I’ve had it for about 3 years now, and I’m not going to be its last owner, [...]
NSEOY - Day 15 (of 94!)
We’re doing an experiment we call “No-Spend End Of The Year (NSEOY) - The 500€ plan” where we’re planning on skipping all non-necessary purchases and limiting ourselves to a budget of 500€ for the last 94 days of the year. From there we’ll pay for gas, food, over the counter drugs, cleaning and beauty supplies [...]
We love the Swedish download
Well, yes we do. And for a good reason. They furnished our place.
With the wonderful surprise of being in Apartment Therapy, one of those websites that we check (100% sincere here) at least 3x/day, we’re launching our “We Love the Swedish” series. We’ll take you, step by stape, through the whole process of furnishing from [...]
Save a tree
The other day we went to Barcelona to get me a new passport and on the way back home we stopped at Ikea, the same one where we bought almost everything we call home. We picked some stuff we needed (wanted?) and as we passed through the plant section I decided to have a look [...]
All your favourite Bond villains on your wrist.
First of all, we are getting no money for promoting this, we just think it is a great idea.
Reading the newspaper today I found an article that made me curious. It was basically that a Swiss watch manufacturer, namely Swatch, has made a special edition portraying the Bond villains (the classical ones aswell as the [...]
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