Thrift Shopping | Coral and silver

Yesterday I promised to show you a few thrift finds, 

so voilá!

Four (pretty fake) silver bowls and a lovely coral sweater.

My parents are having their 25th anniversary in august, 

so the bowls will be used on some tables for snacks or candles.

Or something. 

And I absolutely love this coral sweater!

The weather isn't looking very summer-y,

so it looks like I'll be wearing this sweater a lot.

I'm actually wearing it right now!

Demonstration:

Yeah, trying to wear the bowls as well. 

How do you wear bowls as part of an outfit.

Well, duh..

Oh, and the green dots inside the bowls? Price tags from the thrift store.

Should probably have removed them before taking the pictures.

Nevermind.

/Lea Binta

This is my life | Potato chips and other important things

You know that feeling when you want to put in an earring, 

but you haven't used earrings in a while, 

and you have to force the earring through what feels like a newly 

developed layer of skin?

It hurts!

Yet, I go through that on a regular basis.

I have two piercings in each ear, but I only use one,

and so that second one kind of closes up on me.

Regularly. 

But I succeeded!

... - But only with one ear. I gave up on my right ear, 

because it was too painful.

Oh well.

Now, this whole ear-piercing thing may not seem very important to you,

but when you spend every day at home, 

with no real plans,

then the small things take up a lot of space.

I would love to tell you that I'm taking advantage of all this home-time,

and spend all my time cleaning, baking, reading, doing stuff I didn't

have time to do before.

But I would be lying.

Although I do try to make small plans and goals each day,

just to keep myself occupied.

Take today for instance. (And keep in mind that today has been

a really active day, believe it or not)

I woke up at 7.30. Then fell asleep again. And overslept. Like, majorly overslept!

Got up. Took Obelix peeing in the garden.

Ate breakfast, while watching an episode of 'Judge Amy'. 

Then I cleaned up the bedroom. Hooray! Very proud of that.

Took Obelix for a nice, long walk in the park, where he met

lovely female dogs that he wanted to make friends with.

You know what I mean.

THEN, I went thrift shopping, and I actually picked up some pretty neat stuff.

I'll show you some of it tomorrow. 

Then grocery shopping. 

Then lunch, which leaves me here. 

And even though I just had lunch I'm fighting the urge to finish off

the bag of potato chips we opened last night.

I always think that a bag that big can last for a whole week. Or longer!

I should know better.

If it lasts more than 2 days in this house, then there's something wrong.

Admit it, you know exactly what I mean, no?

So yeah, plans for tomorrow:

Don't oversleep. (Gonna be a tough one)

Don't watch too much tv. (Another tough one)

Finish reading my book.

Think of something nice for dinner.

Preparations for my meeting tomorrow night.

Start working on mommy's b-day present.

Clean living room. 

Finish doing the dishes.

Watch a couple of episodes of MASH.

Man, if I get through half that list I'll be proud.

We'll see.

Now, where did I put those potato chips?

/Lea Binta

Baking | Soccer Cupcakes

I am so proud of the way my Denmark vs Holland cupcakes turned out,

that I decided they deserved a post of their own!

Obviously, no baking happens without my favorite

(and well, only) apron.

A couple of days ago I bought this tip in order to make grass with my icing.

And it worked like a charm! 

At least for the first cupcake.

Then, after the first cupcake, things starting going badly. 

The tip I'd bought didn't fit my piping bag, and I thought I could fix it,

but it was really complicated.

It ended up requiring tools from hubby's toolbox and several hours

of hard work.

But in the end, we managed to make it cooperate,

and this is the result:

I made the flags from fondant yesterday, and let them dry overnight.

I cheated a bit and bought the soccer balls.

I think they turned out pretty neat, and it was such a great night.

And oh, Denmark won (YAY!) in case you didn't know.. 

Who are you rooting for in this year's Euro Cup?

/Lea Binta

Euro Cup 2012 | Prepping for the game

Okay, the Denmark-Holland game tonight!

Me and hubby were invited to watch the match with a bunch of friends,

and of course we accepted.

The more, the merrier, right?

Then we realized - we don't own any soccer related clothing.

Nothing!

I looked through my closet to find something red and white, and found this skirt.

Old, old skirt, but it's red and white, and that's what important.

Then we went crazy with those silly sticker tattoos from when we were kids.

It was so much fun! 

These pictures don't do justice to the amount of laughs we had

when we were applying these. 

Hubby's tats:

My tats:

Aren't we hot!?

How'd you prep for the game?

/Lea Binta

Euro Cup 2012 | DK vs NL

A quick blogpost before we're out the door.

We're heading out to be with friends to watch 

Denmark vs Holland

in the European Cup tonight.

Exciting stuff!

Who do you think will win?

I spent most of the day chilling on the couch and then decorating

cupcakes for tonight's game.

They turned out pretty neat, if I say so myself.

Oh, and we also got silly tattoos, since neither me or hubs own a

soccer t-shirt of any kind.

Lots and lots of pictures to come tonight, or tomorrow, or maybe monday.

Depends on when I get around to it.

Happy game day!

/Lea Binta

TGIF | Struggling

This week has been a struggle. 

When I think about it, it's actually been a good week,

but every single day has been a struggle of some sort.

Every morning it's felt like monday morning.

And that is not a nice feeling!

Struggling is never fun.

I think maybe it's because I haven't really had anything to do.

Things are looking up though.

This weekend is going to be a blast, despite the rainy weather.

And the week ahead will be good. 

I don't really have any plans, but I have lots of loose ends

that are waiting to be tied together.

And they're fun things. 

Today is actually pretty busy too. Not that you'd know it, 

since I'm still on my couch from having breakfast. 

But when I finish this blogpost I'll get going.

I have to bake and decorate 30-40 cupcakes for tomorrow.

I'm really excited to try a new decorating method!

I'll let you know how it turns out.

I also have to do the dishes. No fun, but it has to be done.

If I don't do the dishes there's no room for baking -

that's how small our kitchen is. 

Also, I should really find time to do some more reading.

And I should start researching for the paintings I have to do.

Oh, and start writing the speech I have to perform for summer camp.

Phew!

Yes, thank God it's friday!

I might just need to start off with a nap.

/Lea Binta

Confession | Guilty pleasures aka unhealthy obsessions

Most of us have guilty pleasures, right?

Like watching Glee or Desperate Housewives.

Or eating cake for dinner.

Or checking facebook in the bathroom.

No? Just me then?

I have quite a few guilty pleasures, and sometimes they kind of take an unhealthy turn

 and become more of an obsession than a guilty pleasure. 

Most people know I like Bear Grylls.

Most people also know that the above sentence is the understatement

of the year. 

I don't like Bear Grylls, I love him! 

About a year ago, when we moved into this apartment,

we had the Discovery Channel for free.

I spent every night at 11 watching Born Survivor.

Every night!

At one point it got so bad that I couldn't sleep,

unless I had watched the show.

Then the cable guys cut the channel and I went cold turkey.

Boy, that was tough.

But probably pretty healthy. 

I still admire Bear Grylls a lot, 

but I'm not quite as obsessed anymore. 

I will still, however, most likely love anything he does

or is somehow involved in. 

Naturally I read his blog on his website (www.beargrylls.com).

Naturally I go through all the pictures on the website too,

every time I read the blog, 

just to make sure he didn't upload any new ones I haven't seen.

Obsessed? Noooo. Thorough, yes. 

I could go on and on about Bear Grylls, 

but all this ranting was actually just to tell you

that I got his new game app for my phone.

And I love it. 

It's a simple game. Not that exciting really.

The amazing part though?

Bear Grylls telling me "Nice job!", "Darn it!", and 

"That was pretty good, if I do say so myself!"

And yes, I am currently reading his biography "Mud, Sweat and Tears"for the second time within 4 months. Don't judge! 
/Lea Binta