decorating home + challenge

Even though I have a lot of school stuff going on, I've still found some time to think about my apartment. After I got the red sofa I told about in my previous post, I've been a bit obsessed with getting my apartment into a nice condition. On Tuesday we went to Ikea with J (I've been wanting to go there for sooo long!) and today I went to Anttila as I got their advertisement leaflet and I found so many interesting little things from there. From Ikea I didn't buy anything big but many many small things instead. Mainly red and white. Candles candles candles! The ambiance in Ikea was so good, not too many people and you could tell that Christmas is coming. I may need to go there again, still before Christmas... From Anttila I just bought one hanging candle holder, i love it :-) I haven't been such a Christmas person before, but this year I feel like buying all kinds of Christmas stuff already! And I love scented candles, especially vanilla and ginger bread scented!

on my door already!

Toffee tea I bought today, it was quite good :-)

i think it's pretty :-) I may have to buy another one of those..
 

And by the way; because I'm afraid I'm just gonna write some stress posts about all the projects and stuff OR I'm not gonna write at all, I decided to accept a challenge that I found from a few blogs. It goes like this:

Day 01 – A picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

Day 03 – What you think about your friends

Day 04 – Your idea of the perfect first date 

Day 05 – A picture + 5 facts about a special person in your life

Day 06 – Who are you? 

Day 07 – Post a photo from the past

Day 08 – What’s inside of your bag?

Day 09 – Where would you like to travel?

Day 10 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to

Day 11 – What kind of person attracts you?

Day 12 – Something you’re scared of

Day 13 – Why do you write a blog?

Day 14 – A song to match your mood

Day 15 – A picture of something you want to do before you die and why

Day 16 – A photo of the item you last purchased

Day 17 – Something that you miss

Day 18 – One moment

Day 19 – Something you’re proud of in the past few days

Day 20 – Something you’re currently worrying about

Day 21 – Five ways to win your heart

Day 22 – Things you like and dislike about yourself

Day 23 – One thing that means a lot to you

Day 24 – 5 things in your room you value the most.

Day 25 – Your opinion about your body and how comfortable you are with it

Day 26 – One thing you’re excited of

Day 27 – Five weird things that you like

Day 28 – Something you don’t leave the house without

Day 29 – How have you changed in the past 2 years? 

Day 30 – Your highs and lows of this month 

my camera cable is here again!

J brought my camera cable from his home yesterday, so I can add pictures again, yay!

So it's been a week since I got my apartment back and it already feels like home again. Actually it feels a bit like I hadn't even been away at all!

Last weekend I spent my time fixing my home and decoration and so on. On Saturday we visited my friend's boyfriend's housewarming party and we had planned to go on to a bar afterwards but then our plans got messy and the night turned out to be quite calm after all. On Sunday it was time for the exciting EURO'12-final; Spain - Italy, and about that I've already written in my previous posts :-)

But as i promised, here are some pictures from my home. My home is small, so there aren't many options for organizing the big furniture, but little details make it always more personal! As you can see, I love putting cards on the walls. I would love to put even more of them but I think it would look a bit messy then... I also had to hang my flags on the wall, of course!

Barcelona cards above my writing table

NYC-wall! I've never been there but I love the poster, and the cards I've got from my friend:-)

more cards.. that's the black&white-cards' wall

 flags and a few more cards above my bed. I kind of prefer sleeping with my head on the other side, but in this way I can watch the TV from my bed...

Spanish flag and the cards from Valencia, Andalucia and Ibiza

haha I had to put the picture of me with FCB-trophy there with my nail polishes... that's the shelf above my TV.

On Monday I got a call from my job interviewer, she offered me some shifts for the next three weeks in a nice cafeteria. I accepted the offer and now I'm back at work!

On Tuesday we went to do some shopping with J. After that J went home (he had a night shift once again) and I went to sauna in the evening, sooo relaxing :-)

The view from my building's front door

On Wednesday I had my first training shift in the café. I had to wake up at 5.30am and I was exhausted after the shift. But I liked the place and I hope that everything goes well there.

On Thursday J came here almost straight from his night shift and we just hung around. The weather was good so we went to buy some ice cream (liquorice ice cream <3) and after that we went to a nearby meadow to enjoy the sun and the summer.

On Friday morning I got a call from work; they needed me to do the evening shift because some people had got sick. I had planned to go to the stable with my friend (to see ponies!!) but I had to cancel that.. I felt so bad about that because I really would have wanted to go there! But some other day then. The evening at work seemed very long, I don't know why. It wasn't even a long shift.

On Saturday I had my second training shift and the day went much faster than the previous evening. In the evening I just took it easy as my back hurt again.

Yesterday I had a day off and I spent it doing the laundry, doing the dishes and hoovering... what's wrong with me?! But in the evening we went to the movies with J to see the Dictator. It was, well... okay :D haha.

Today I have no special plans. J is still sleeping but I couldn't let myself sleep too much because otherwise I couldn't go to bed early tonight and I have to do that because tomorrow I have to wake up at 5.30 again, for work.

Kamppi