Finally, the moving is done. It took a lot of effort and some time to get everything look nice, but we actually got the place so ready already that I want to share some little snapshots with you today. I'm sure you'll see more during the Spring, but here are some of my current favorite things in the new place.

Hey there lovelies!

How has your weekend been so far? ♥

We had a date night today, and just had this super fun day just the two of us - me and my fiance. And then I realized it was past midnight and that I hadn't blogged in two days. So it's now later than 2 am and I'm typing this post before hitting the bed. I know, seems crazy, but I really want to get this done.

The exam on Friday was insanely hard and I have absolutely no idea if I have to go redo it, but next time I know how to prepare properly for it. But at least I got a good review on business English, so I'm not completely failing, right?

Anyway, today, we're going to have a tiny little house tour. It's been a while since I did a previous one, and even though too many things haven't changed since that, I thought you guys might like to see into our apartment.



In the kitchen, we have new curtains (thanks mom and dad) and the Ikea stickers, both of which bring the kind of green floral theme there. There's nothing that special in the kitchen, except for the food of course - but once we buy our own place, I will show you my dream kitchen.



My working corner/sewing desk, which is a well organized chaos. I do dream of a better organizational system, but first I seriously need to plan one. It isn't as bad as it used to be though.



I keep my studying stuff and blogging things there, although sometimes - like right now - I do move the laptop to the sofa and actually write there. Because bad writing position is just the best.



My favorite thing in this space right now are the curtains (again, thanks mom and dad), which totally make the room better than the plain green ones we had there before. Also notice the workout equipment that don't have a proper place. Whoops.



The place to read, write or whatever. This is a little corner where I can relax without any tech stuff and just do all old-fashioned stuff that don't require any connections whatsoever. And where I will probably spend more time pretty soon as I have a lamp shade to create (more on that project later).



Moving on to the living room side of the area, there are these cat-shaped wine bottles I collect. I don't know what it is about them, but I do love them a lot. And my man likes them too so luckily I can keep them for now.



My first wall clock since forever, our plants and another set of new curtains (seriously mom, you spoiled me with these). And call me crazy, but yes, we have two sets of curtains on our living room area. Because it works for us.



The super comfy and cozy couch I am sitting on as I type right now. And some NY themed decor. We should also have a London themed puzzle picture hanging there, but as our walls are a pain in the butt, we can't get hooks, nails or anything stick well enough to make the heavy picture stay. First world problems, right?



Bookshelf and such - and yes, I was watching SATC yet again. It's just so good!



On the bedroom, things are really just the same. I still have more or less unnecessary stuff on my nightstand...



...including my perfume collection I wanna grow by one or two withing the next couple of months or so.



The only things I could really call new are the fluffy blanket I bought from Pori a few weeks back, and the Samsung Tab I got as my mom got a better one. (I seriously have so much stuff that is someone else's old, but it's for the brighter future, right? I tend to use things until they get busted so old ones kinda work fine for me.) Our bedroom is the safe haven for me, no matter how bad day I've had, I can go there, relax with watching videos from the tablet or just go to sleep next to my love, and the world doesn't seem such a bad place after all.

So what I can say is that even though our home isn't like those super fancy ones you see on magazines and TV, it's still somewhat neat and more than that, cozy. I always love coming home and just relaxing after the day. There are a few things I want to make a bit different in the near future, but I'll talk about that once I have the time to actually do something about them.

But, what do you guys think about this post? And, please tell me something about your home decor in the comments below! I'd love to know what you love in interior decor ♥

If you haven't already, you can click these links and see the previous home decor posts:
Blogging space
Living room
Sneak peek house tour
Bedroom
Kitchen Makeover
How I organize my nail stuff

Have a lovely day!

Hey everyone!

Hope you've had a lovely start for your week ♥

I've been enjoying my free time as I don't have to work this week, so I can focus more on cooking and training and fun stuff, which is very nice. Also, as I will be spending more time in the kitchen, it should look nice. So, I finally did something to the plain white wall full of little holes and stuff, where our spice shelf is located. See more below!



So what I had to deal with was this white wall here. It's no entirely unpleasant, but I don't like plain white walls that much. Especially ones with little holes and stuff in them. So, on Sunday we headed to IKEA and I picked up some decoration items to spruce this up for the Spring.

I decided to use stickers, because we don't own the apartment and can't do major renovations on our own, but these can be ripped off when we eventually move.



So, when we got home, it was time for little planning. I have no vision whatsoever if I can't plan things visually, so I took out some tape and gently attached the cut out sticker things (with the paper in the back, of course) the way I wanted the layout to be.

After that came the hardest part - attaching the stickers. Okay, so it wasn't that difficult as the stickers weren't huge, but still. And the end result? See for yourselves:



Simple and fresh in my opinion, and totally changes the look of the kitchen.



Of course, whenever the light hits them in the right angle, you will see clearly they're stickers, but personally I don't really mind that. And these are also the type of plants I cannot manage to kill with the lack of watering, so that's just perfect.



All in all, I love our little renewed kitchen wall, and the best thing about this renovation is that it only cost 13 Euros. ;) Goes to show that a little bit can go a long way with just a bit of creativity. This Spring I will enjoy cooking even more because the environment is so pretty.

Have you guys done any Spring makeovers of any sorts? Let me know below! And also, tell me what you think about this little DIY project I manage to pull off. ♥

Once again it's time for me to go catch some sleep, and tomorrow, I will be having quite the day with workout, homecooking and Spring cleaning. Yeah, I know, my life is so exciting (not). But I'll get back to you as soon as I can, because I have loads to post for you!

Have a fabulous day ♥

Hello lovelies!

How has your week started? ♥

I'm sort of tired after the weekend, and also because of the grey weather, but hopefully it gets better with exercise, vitamins, and focusing on the good stuff. Also, with the help of my blogger friend Sacramento and her super helpful new post, I was able to finally add a little button on the right side of the blog that takes you back to the top of the page (see the little pink arrow button? That's it.)

Today, I thought it would be fun to show you our bedroom (finally, as we've lived in this apartment over 6 months now) because only last week I got it looking like I want it to look. Before that it felt a little pointless to take photos, even if that could've make it into a cool before/after post. :D

So, here we go, our bedroom:



On our windowsill, there's boxes full of my jewelry. I have a ridiculous amount of accessories, which you probably know already if you have seen my outfit posts, haha.



On our bedroom, you can definitely see the passion for motor sports. I'm still hoping to find a better place for the flag there, but then again it matches our Ferrari pillow, so... It's all good. The Moomin blanket is a graduation gift of mine, and it used to be in the living room, but since I found a perfect grey one there, I moved the Moomin into the bedroom.



My side of the bed; dream catcher, pink stuff, sequined footwear with bows...



I like to keep my everyday perfumes, glass of water, music and a book always in hand. Otherwise, this could be even more neat.



Next to our bedroom door, there's a shelf full of shoes, bags and a couple of hats.



If you have been reading my blog for a while now, I bet most of this looks familiar to you.







I usually stay up longer than my fiance - due to having an evening shift, whereas he needs to get up early in the morning, and because we both hate going sleep alone, I usually end up watching TV on almost mute while he sleeps. That way, my sleeping schedule stays at least somewhat in control.



And, as you might know, I love my boxes. They're such a lovely way of keeping things organized. Here you can also see my new makeup bag (more about that later, though).



On the bed, you saw the pile of pillows. I love the furry ones, which are something I found whilst shopping with my mom last week. And even though four pillows is nice...



...six is even more nice. Before, we had pillows in very weird, different colors (we kind of didn't care, but I reached my limit now, as I do like to hang out in the bedroom) but now, they're more neutral and earthy. Except of course for the Ferrari one, but that's such a different thing.



One more thing to mention about our bedroom is this red heart I created with iron wire and pack of red Christmas lights. It looks kinda cute on the window, and I guess it kind of sends the message of love to everyone who sees it. At least, one can always hope so.

Other little things

I had a long time thinking whether to put these into their own posts, but what the heck. Here are other little details from around our home (and more to come once I can get my hands on a drill).



Set of lights I found for my sewing corner/guest space.



Look at how cute it is, even by the day!



...and this is how it looks by the night.



Luv it.



New set of wine glasses (needing another round of wash here, hehe) - finally we have a matching set of 6 of them!



Starry lights above our living room door.



Cute lantern for the balcony, something I've been dying to find for months now.



...and how it looks with the rest of the candles outside.



Roses & candles, absolutely the best way to make the room look finished. ♥



So clearly I have been into decorating lately. Had I a bigger budget, you'd sure see more posts about decorating. So be patient, some day I really will have a full-time job.

Anyone else out there having a need to redecorate? ♥

Now, I must start cooking something nice for us before I get to work (only two days, and my weekend starts, yay for short week!). But I'll be back as soon as I can. ;)

Have a lovely day!

Blog ya later,

xoxo

Johanna

Hey guys!

I hope your week has started off well ♥

Mine sure has, I've been doing preparations for future blog posts, caught up with last week's TV shows, and just chilled out. And of course, there was a work shift, which is why I'm writing this post so late at night.

But what I wanted to share with you my Sunday night activity, which this time was:



Yep, that's right. I reorganized my polish stash and the tools into this pretty little thing. This Helmer drawer is by IKEA, and it is pretty popular for storing nail polish and stuff. It would hold few hundred bottles - depending on the shape and size of the bottles. I don't have quite that many yet, but I thought I'd get all my nail-related stuff neatly in it.



....though, I guess anything is neat compared to this. The shoe boxes worked for a long while, but as they are overflowing and in heavy use, it was time to move on.



And so, as I had seen some of my favorite nail artists do, I decided to mark my bottles so that I can see what they are, looking at them straight above. For marking, I used clear reinforcement stickers - though I think white, simple round ones would've been better - as they were the best ones I had in hand at the time.



I took as many stickers as I have nail polishes, and started painting the stickers. Then, I let them dry completely.



After the stickers were dry, I added them on top of the caps of my polishes. Then, they were ready to move to their new home.



And, this morning, I finally could label the drawers, and next, I will now show you what they contain.



The drawer found it's place on my sewing corner, where it also serves as a stand for our little black radio.

Let's take a look inside, shall we?



First drawer from up: special polishes (top coats, base coats, etc.), Essie, China Glaze and my only O.P.I.



Second drawer: Rest of my polishes, Ciaté, Mavala, IsaDora etc.



Third drawer: Stamping and painting equipment. This means, dotting tools, brushes, stamping plates and so on.





Fourth drawer: Tools, swatches, removers. Here are the basic stuff I need for taking care of my nails - even if I wouldn't paint my nails. So here are my files, buffers, and other that kind of stuff.



Fifth drawer: Tapes and stickers. If it has glue added already, it sure can be found here. Now, you see that colorful tape holder? Here's why I have it:



If you, like me, like to use striping tape for your manicures, I recommend this tip warmly. It keeps things organized, neat, and easy to use. No more digging for the end of the tape with freshly painted nails! ;)

Last but not least:



Sixth drawer, glitter and glam. Here's where I can find all my shiny little things that I use to top off the manicures.

So, what do you guys think about my new drawer? And, would you maybe like to see an updated (detailed) post about all the nail art stuff? Let me know in the comments!

Now, this girl needs some sleep - and maybe a warm beverage before that. But later this week, I'll be posting about a visit to an old military scene, another outfit post, and of course, more nail art. And, something new is coming up on Saturday. ;) Stay tuned!

Have a fabulous week ♥

Blog ya later,

xoxo

Johanna