So… This is the truth; I’m a messy person, and chaos is my middle name. So when I cook… I usually open a new bag of rice or pasta and forget all about it till it falls from my overcrowded kitchen shelves.
B did the laundry today and we finally used up a large bottle of laundry detergent, so I grabbed a knife and cut it up. I know people recycle them using glitter and glue guns, but I don’t have any of those, and… This is a frugal home, right? I also kinda like the white and simple looks of it. Maybe I’ll write “look here for open bags first” on it eventually, but right now I just like how it freed a lot of space.
It’s the white thing on the right. This holds 2 open bags of open pasta, 1 macaroni, 1 spaghetti 2 bags of rice and one with breadcrumbs.
This is my kitchen from yesterday – it still looks like this btw. We´re not perfect people in this house at all, and I refuse to pretend that I am in this blog too. Actually people pretending to be perfect in blogs and on youtube and other platforms scares me. I can´t stop thinking what´s hiding beneath the surface, and having a crazy imagination like me does not make pretty stories just because people are pretty and lead pretty cute lives. So when thinking about starting this blog, we had conversations about how honest to be here on the blog, we agreed to go “all in” – but ofcourse with respect to the people around us and each other and our wish to stay together for the rest of our lives.
As you can see in the above picture, my kitchen window is right next to the street in our little cul de sac, and it wouldn´t be a problem if the people around us were about the same age and had lives, so they would not be so busy. But appearantly mostly “elderly” people lives here, and some how they have time for “strolling” while looking through windows all day long, so I have to smile and pretend, that I´m proud of my mess…which I´m not.
We’ve been wanting to put up curtains for a while, but money are an issue so we were quite hesitant because we remembered the drama and the expenses about the livingroom curtains that we felt the need to buy after only living here for a week.
Luckily I went to the goodwill shop last week, and I stumbled across a sheet with broderie anglaise all around the edges, and since it was cheep (15dkr), and I also found a curtain rod for less than that, I had no more excuses than to make those curtains and keep a nice facade…
Here´s a “how to”
I decided to show the pictures in a gallery, so you can just press the picture, if you want to see the details. * First there´s the very refined and extremely detailed plan I made on my phone. * I made one for those of you who don´t have fabric with cute bottom edges, so where you might have to stitch along the red lines, I didn´t do that at the bottom. * I also stiched -very close to the edge where the orange line is to make a nice fold, * Then I folded the orange edge to the purple to make a tube, that fit my curtain rod, sewed it together and pushed the rod through it. * After about an hour and more than a few unmentionable sentences, I eventually wrote B and asked if he knew how to make the %#””! rod long enough to fit the window, and waited 5 hours for him to come home and hang it up. *
Loooook how pwetty this is. And please ignore the coffee stain that neither of us saw before it was too late and we were too lazy to wash it.
I´m pretty satisifed with the curtains. to be honest. I decided to (have B) hang them a bit above the counter, because I know I´m a mess at the sink, so I have to be able to wipe it off without thinking about moving the curtain to avoid the cloth.
