Adora BatBrat Crib - New floor

A new feature will be my living quaters.
How cosy is my couch, what chair is mine by the table, where did I fall and break my elbow, where do I hide the bodies etc.?


A while back I re-made the old dollhouse, and one of the rooms got to look like this:

I think all of us likes chequered floors, and I've always wanted it somewhere in my living quarters. 

But also I hate disturbing patterns so it can't be anywhere where I see it all day long.

Ta-daa! I have a mini, mini hallway right outside our bedroom door to the bathroom door with a butt ugly floor. And also there was a couple of blood stains needed to be covered up if the cops ever came knocking.

Bedroom to the left, walk in closet straight ahead, master bathroom to the right.

Ugly floor here seen with part of the draft paper over it.

So, I went to Bauhaus this summer and bought me a piece of their chequered plasic floor.

Of course I'm wearing the pants in my family...or the tulle skirt to be more exact.., well, you know what I mean, that I'm the handy-man but woman. 

Did a little draft paper to help with the cutting of the floor.

The view from the livingroom.
Kermit's green legs sticking out :)

The view from the bedroom.

A this is how lovely it turned out!

We almost have a full chess table so I'm just waiting until the day there will be two russian chess pro's sitting there playing a game.

I did according to what the man at the store told me; just cut it right and put double sided adhesive tape at the edges. I'm such a pro!

View from livingroom.

View from bedroom.

   

"A" is for Adora

You know when you sometimes to things you know you will be frowned upon doing but still you do?
I just did that.

Whenever I see somehing with a big "A" on it I want to own it. 
I have a couple of shirts and a jogging jacket (like I ever jogg) with my letter.
Now I found this:

Kuddfodral 40x40 - från H&M

http://www.hm.com/se/s/03P7K3

Ett kuddfodral i fröskalsbomull med tryckt motiv på framsidan. Dold dragkedja nedtill.

www.hm.com

Of course of no matter, but it's a big "A" on it, and I wanted it. So now it's on the way over here.
Bit too small, only 40x40 cm and not white-white, but it was so cuuuuuuute!
When my husband sees it it will be like "-More pillows?!" *blushing in shame*
A goth girl can't help it....

Crafting: To make a big poster yourself

The framed picture I made yesterday was made like this:

• big frame
• a pretty wallpaper
• printer paper (I used matte photo paper)
• scissors
• glue/scotch
• a lovely picture (pretty you perhaps?) in high resolution

 Photoshop your picture in a style you like (I wanted mine to look a bit like a cartoon and very smooth = surface blur, contrast and down on saturation).
Go to Blockposters.com and upload your picture. No registration, just upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed.
You can make it HUGE!
Once you're happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file (or print it) containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall.

  I made mine 2 A4 portrait wide.

I can make it as big as I want:

I printed my image on matte photo paper, cut out the images of us and glued it together to one big piece.
Put a piece of wallpaper in the frame, then the cut out picture of us and that's it really.

Make a big collage if you want - add text on stripes, glitter, hearts - go wild!

Poster of me

As ego as I am I still haven't done this before...

I am kind of allergic to having things on my walls and I just want the flat to be anonymous white and pure booring...mostly because colors disturbs my high functioning brain.

Ahh, how lovely!

 "-But hey", you say. "We have seen on pictures you have lots of pink and other colors in your flat!"
With my head bowed in shame I must confess that is true.
What else is true is I have a husband who nags about adding some color at home and wants canvases on EVERY wall!

"-Oh, this wall is white, clean and calming - we must add a canvas here to mess it up."

(and since he is such a doll to look at I try to be obliging)

Okay, I admit these two walls looks kind of cool - but not after a week!

So I change curtains, cushions, canvases and clutters every now and then: summer = soft pink, autumn = light green or grey, winter = well, Christmasy..., spring = light turquoise.
Every now and then I manage to have it all white...for a day or two before he complains.

I focus on being happy with the fact I do have white roofs and white walls in all 5 rooms, as the kitchen and the 2 toilets, and white floors in 3 of the rooms.

I have been lobbying for 3 years to get a white floor in my livingroom as well (instead of that horrendous wooden floor). But still no luck there. He says he don't wanna live in a hospital!
WHAT?! That's lovely I think. He's pretty, but a bit crazy ;)

And here comes the ego part in.
Finally I decided since I'm stuck watching canvases on every wall I might as well have me on them. I should have myself all over the walls! I like how I turn out on pictures and I am a bit of a fan to myself, but admiering my pictures instead of the reflection in the mirror.
And yes, you can be in love with yourself without being a snob about it. Love yourself and be humble. Noone in their right mind can say it's wrong to love yourself.
So today I made a pretty canvas of me and my darling from last years M'era Luna festival.
I love it <3

Darling and me

How it was made? Tell you tomorrow - it's sleeping time now.
 

Adoras BIGGEST secret!

I can't belive I just did this?! Crazy, I know...

Adora, the interior designer

I had a blast putting up new wallpaper and a new floor this week.
I had an accident with the old ones that included blood splatter by some reason.

The checker floor and the shocking pink wallpaper is a classic.
Actually my pretty sister Iva Insane 's teen room looked/looks exactly like this.

But this is not a room I'd like to live in - especially if you consider the hight of the roof!

I have put up wallpapers in the livingroom as well, but there is an ugly floor in there so far so it will take some time before I have decorated the whole house..

I'm shocked how fun this was! Gonna do a total remake of the house.

TeeBee baking

Friday TeeBee will have his Halloween Birthday party for our friends and their kids.

Today is TeeBee 's day at home so I made him work! He had to bake his own Birthday cake the poor child.
I'm such a evil Goth mum!
The cake turned out fab. Gonna make my kids work more often!

Friday Special: Iva Insane

Ingela

In March this year I got an email from a couple who had a sphynx- cat who they sadly needed to found a new home for.

I had looked after a cute, little, naked beauty for a while, and I got so happy when I finally found one (or.. they found me). I was determined that I didn't wanted a tortie or calico-coloured sphynx female, as one of my clients who work as a vet had told me they could be very special types of cats.

A sphynx-cat can have a lot of different skin colors

The day I went home to Ingelas (Who had a different name at that time) owner, and found out that it was a calico-female she had I just thought "oh nnnoooeees"
Ingela was a very charming, 2 years old little princess, so after seeing her (and given the calico-cat a chance) it just felt totally right to bring her to my place. I was in love <3
Ingelas owner thought I would be a perfect mum for the sweet little female-sphynx, so after two weeks I went back to them and brought the cute cat home to my place.

Since that evening I never sleep alone in my bed at night, reading magazines or sit at the computer without a cat cuddling my face. The fact is that It's really hard to take a shower alone or do the make up in the mornings and not have a cat at my shoulder, wounder what's going on?!

Sphynx-cats are real attention-whores and love to be with you all the time :)

Ingela like to visit new places, chewing at drinking straws, sit in the window and look at the birds outside, travel with me, cuddle with fleece-blankets and hiding at the most uncommon places. As she don't have any fur she love to sleep at spots that keep her naked little body warm. Her new favourite place are in a box full of panties! Don't ask me how she find out how to take off the flap of the box, but I guess that cats are very intelligent creatures :)

You need to bath a sphynx quite often because their skin get oily very fast. I need to force Ingela to the shower just about every fortnight, but it's different from cat to cat. Sadly she hate to take a bath, and I feel like I'm the evil mother of doom when it comes to that part.

Me and Ingela at a catshow this summer

If you want to get a sphynx cat, be sure you read a lot of the breed before you buy one. It's like having a five year old kid at your side 24/7 (Mom, what are you doing in there? Can we play now? Mommy, mommy, mommy!!?? Look at meeee!)
I'm not a big fan of kids, but I love Ingela anyway :)
And of course, you never get bored with a sphynx in your home.

Upper class cat?!

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Adora here!

I agree with my sister, Ingela is just sooo pretty, but I can tell you she makes more chitchat than ALL of my kids together! And I have 3 of those!

We do love our cats, me too is a cat lady. I've always had cats in my home since I was a baby BatBrat.

(Well ,I do like most animals, but cats just have a very special place in my heart).

Right now I have 2 cats; Prince Vinyl and Porsche.

"Princen" was a gift from me to my husband when he turned 30, since we just lost one of our other cat-babies.

He was a 10 months old outplacement cat and his mum was a siamese and his dad was a birman. He turned out beautiful, lovely tempered and so, so soft fur to snuggle.

Picture of Armani, borrowed from Iphofes Birman and Idun S*Saddharma Pamina from Siames i Focus. This is NOT Prince Vinyl's real parents.

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Our other cat is the full breed International Champion seal point siamese Porsche (EC S*Bergbackens Manga Poseidon).

He too was an outplacement cat from the lovely breeder Inga-Lill at Marilljos as his fatherhood days was over ;)

I got my loooovely seal point Signhild (Marilljos Jennifer Lopez) from her to and when I called her to let her know Signhild had to be put to sleep because of her long time renal failure she told me one of her most famous breeder cat, Porsche was about to become a castrat in 2 weeks and said he might like to get a new home at yours if you'd like to have him?

Would I?! I just couldn't believe my ears!!! Porsche!! <3

I knew ALL about him and was SO happy to be offered this super siamese.

Marilljos are known for their super typed and gorgeaous seal point siamese cats.

When we went to bring Signhild home a few years back (oh, how I miss her), we met Porsche, who was just about ½-1 year old at the moment - and I have been in love with him since then!

To be offered him helped a lot after the sadness of loosing my princess Signhild. He and Signhild were friends as well.

Signhild, and Porsche as a baby. Two of my favorite cats <3

Thank you ever so much Inga-Lill to trust me with your precious babies!

Porsche was 4 years old when he moved in last November. And although he's not been with the family even a year I feel like I've always known him.

We are all so in love with this high legged, sweet tempered and cuddly kitten. Mummy loves!

I had him at a cat show and he won Best In Show!

Porsche won Best In Show!

Or as Synthia said "-Mummy, even if I love Porsche so much I wanna squeeze him to death, I won't do it."

Hahaha, I sure hope not!

Nature Goth

Today in pictures:

My ordinary Saturday routine is to wash and re-color my hair (I add a bit of Directions semi color to my conditioner) and then I cut the bangs.

Sweden had the most beautiful fall in store for us today, so we gathered the little ones and prepared to do a "Hanzel und Gretyl", but without the evil ending ;) We acctually love our kids <3

We packed some cookies and drinks in my 50's inspired picnic basket and headed for the forest.



I had a blast today! It was so much fun playing about and the weather made it feel like a fairytale.

We found the same place as we visited this spring to have our cookie break on and stuffed us with freshly baked cupcakes. Super nice <3 Pure pleasure.

We struck gold as well, and found a place with lots of blueberries so we plucked enough to make some blueberry cupcake tomorrow.

Made me an apron

All of the little BatBrat's were invited to a birthday party today so all of a sudden I had 3 hours ALL to myself.

What to do with all this unexpected time?
Sleep/planning horrible deeds/bake a bunch of cupcakes and have them all to myself/spy on the old lady living next doors/try out all of my cool shoes and have a catwalk/clean the flat/play Bubble-Bobble or grow a bit taller.
After some serious thinking I decided on sorting out my new crafting slash cocktail cabinet (often a very good combination) to put everything in the right place.

I had that area re-made. This is the messy area before:

And here's my new, improved crafting/drinking area:

Inside:

When I was done I wanted to do something fun, something to ease my mind. And sewing is what my brain likes the most so I simply jumped to my Zwart Chateau (the sewing area) and made me a lovely heart apron. It happened to be about 5-7 cm too long (according to me) but I still think it looks pretty.