Wonderwoman and the curtains

I did mention the curtains last time, so after this big teaser it is good to show at least some parts of the progresses.
On the sides of the windows (the four from the tower part and the other window) in the living room, there should be curtains in form of a drapery, hold together on the sides.
The textile was chosen and delivered. After a lot of thinking, as it is hard to make jugend style curtains in that area, i think, we picked some William Morris pattern. It is not really jugend, but it is often seen in old environments and it will work fine even if in the future we will have a wallpaper on those walls and not just the red paint.

Curtains, rolled up

Curtains have been sewed up, but as I miss the "inner" curtains and, especially, the rings to hold them up, I haven't put them up as it is probably not going ot be the smoothest operation.

The living room got also some further update when I quit my job at Assa Abloy. One of the girls in my team is an illustrator as thanking for my effort during the year there she made a wonderful drawing of WonderWoman, definitely my favorite character from the DC comics world.

We thought that the portrait would fit close to the board games (as in the playful part of the room, I guess)

WonderWoman portrait

WonderWoman and the board games

Finally, I thought yesterday that we live with the best shop ever closed to us. 

Erikshjälpen. I checked online what they had the other day and I spotted a letter holder in Jugend style. 

I went there and in a leap of an impulsive purchase I brought it home.

Letter holder

   At least some reward as in this period I am "spring cleaning" (in winter time) the kitchen and that's not funny at all...

Ariadne and the raindeers

I have had the goal to be regular in updating the blog, but this autumn I just didn't manage to make that happen despite my attempts to have also a "diary" of what happens regularly in the house.
Anyway, after a quite uneventful autumn, where we have picked up just less than half a ton of apples, there has been Christmas and its histerism for then trying to come back to routines and our intense logistic daily puzzle with a lot of new years propositions, at least for me.

Not much really has happened on the house front except my occasional purchase of things on auctions or Tradera, the seasonal decorations and their removal, more plates, things to repair, etc. the only highlight is that we have big progresses on the curtains for the "red room" (the tv/piano room), but one set of curtains are still missing, rings for them and the curtain rod needs to be shortened. So there is still some to do before the final steps.

Among the items I have managed to get home there are few items that are a bit special.
First, a small figurin, a statue from Gustavsberg, copy of J H von Danecker, with a lovely "Canova" style. The figurin represents Ariadne on a panther.
I think Canova has a clean, incredible sculpturing style and something that resembles that is pure beauty. That that little status has my name on it (being Ariadne the greek original version of Arianna) was a no brainer.

Ariadne on the panther

I often try to look for random jugend on Tradera and sometimes I take the courage to bid on things if I can figure out a place for them.

One of the items I managed to secure is a small arras with nice, vivid colors and a lot of raindeers.

I don't know why I liked it, but I like this kind of items as it makes the house "warmer" and the sound level more acceptable.

The raindeers arras

By chance, both things ended up being closed to each other in a corner that is starting to get a bit of decent shape, but needs still some adjustment. After we have put the glass cupboard there we need to lift the big golden framed painting which seems suffocated there.

This corner of the dining room