Get your bar cart ready for summer….

bar cart Ikea / book Megan Hess – New York amazon / book Megan Hess – The dress amazon / How to be parisienne wherever you are amazon / quote to download from Etsy / frame Ikea / champagne flutes Nanu Nana sold out but I love those / glas Nanu Nana sold out similar here / straws black DM / straws white gold pinkdotspartystore / ballons pinkdotspartystore / pompoms pinkdotspartystore / Village Candle – Frozen Margarita candledream / cocktailshaker amazon / bottle opener H&M / candle holder gold Douglas / candle holder pineapple H&M / bottle white lace Nanu Nana / napkins amazon / napkin holder H&M / cake doily pinkdotspartystore / coasters DM sold out similar and pretty cool ones here / bottle with plug Nanu Nana / bast basket Nanu Nana online not available similar here / candle holder for matches old similar here / bottle opener amazon
My outfit: Skirt orsay old similar here, here and here / top H&M old similar here, here and here / Earrings H&M last season similar here and here

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Hi guys,

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I have always admired people with a bar cart in their living room because this looks so fancy and cool. Earlier (where I lived) I did not have enough space where I could easily put a bar cart and where it would match perfectly but now that we are in the house there is plenty of space so everything I needed was a bar cart then.
Tricky – I had seen lots of really pretty ones but whether there wasn´t enough space to put on stuff (for me) or they were just so pricey and I don´t want to spend a few hundred Euros on that thing although I really want one. I found one I really liked (price point is great and the right amount of storage) but it is kind of a milky creamy white and I did not like it at all so I went to the home department store and got some spray color for metallic material (I remembered that one of the bloggers I constantly read their blogposts (Southern Curls and Pearls) also bought Ikea furniture where she did not like the color and then got some spray color to turn it into the color she wanted) in a matte golden tone and it turned out pretty great. You really can´t tell that it had another color before.
So now that we got this lets talk about what else you might need for your cart:
First of all – and maybe that is on what I start most of my home decor projects – is the decoration. I found this incredible cute flacon which looks like it is straight out of a victorian beauty room at Nanu Nana. They are super affordable (prices range from 2 – 6 Euros). I also got a bast basket for oranges and lemons. 
And also there have to be some coffee table books. I love them and I like to put them in every corner where I have some decoration. 
I got this, this and this.
I also got a print for the cart. I got it from Etsy as a printable download. It is a quote from the Great Gatsby movie so this is really matching the theme. Frame is from Ikea. I could go on like this but then it would be too long. All the items are linked below the picutres.

A wine or ice cooler would also be great but then you (or I) might need a bigger cart!

I just love how it turned out. I kept the color theme pretty simple with the gold, black and white. 

 I don´t have such a variety on liquors cause we usually drink wine or champagne with our food. In fact we don´t drink the hard things at all. Maybe a little shot for a summer bowl or a sangria but that´s it.


What are your bar cart necessities ? 


Thanks for stopping by. 


Take care. See you.
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Casual Saturday #6….


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I love the Summer months for so many things but first and foremost cause there are so many things to do and live is happening outside again.

We finally set up our patio last week – I also wrote a post about it here -so we are sitting outside most of the time. Making BBQ´s, chatting with the neighbours, Chloe loves her little “pool” and just enjoy the warmth and the sun. This adds so much more quality to our spar-time it is insane.

As you might know I took a week of last week and we got lots of things done like going to places nearby I wanted to see for a long time or spending some hours at Ikea to get shelves and storage systems for our pantry/laundry room. 
Food:
 I tried out three new recipes. Let´s start with the sweets. This strawberry buttercream cake is so so good. It tastes like ice-cream. I got this recipe from Monika Hibbs blog (a canadian lifestyle blogger) and it is amazing. 



Another thing I tried is this marinated asparagus. I saw this on an Instagram story and I had to try it cause I love green asparagus. The marinade is so easy. Just put some olive oil, salt, pepper, minced garlic and balsamic into a bowl and mix it and leave it there for about and hour. Then bake it in a pan for about 15 minutes until the consistency of the asparagus gets a little softer. 
 The third dish I made are these spinach – salmon – feta noodles. They may look a little strange cause of the green color but the taste is great. 


Home: 
We got two new shelves for our laundry room to at least create the illusion of looking tidy. Most of the time it is a mess in there. I just need this place to “housework”. 
 But now I set the focus onto the wall with the decoration so no one is looking on the floor anymore – hopefully.

Shopping:

I had been searching for a “blog bag” a long time. By “blog bag” I mean a big shopper which stands by itself and carries my blogging stuff like my calendar, notebook, camera, external hard drive and so on. I got this one from LYDC. I really like their bags and I am glad I found this one. The size is perfect for all my things and isn´t the pattern just cool. 
I also like this and this one. 



I also got a new leather jacket  Mangoon collection in a kind of a used sand color. I have been eying with this one since two months and on Friday the price was finally reduced in stores so I went for it. It is such a soft and thin leather and I love the smell of a new leather jacket. They also have it in a blush tone. So now I am hoping for cooler temps to wear it – no just kidding 🙂



I have been looking for a new foundation and after using this little sample from the Dior Forever foundation I am totally into it. Definitely going to order this one. Another thing I found and I couldn´t be more happy is this hairspray from Living proof which provides frizz. Since it started to have kind of a tropical climate here (this didn´t exist a few years ago) I am started to look for products like these and I found the perfect one through coincidence on Gal meets Glam. You can read the full post here.



TV:
 I didn´t watch anything new. Since the temeratures are so high we are outside the whole evening. Taking blog pics, dining outside, playing with Chloe, enjoying the sun. 
Florian started Better call Saul… yet another laywer series but I think he really likes it.
I also updated my pages on the blog. I have a trend section for a little while now so head over if you are interested into the latest trends.
I hope you had a nice week and having a great weekend. 
Thanks for stopping by.
Take care. See you.
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Fashion trend: straw bags….

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straw bags have been a huge trend since last year but this year they seem to be everywhere. Every brand has different ones in different shapes and with different patterns and there are so many styles. You can get them as clutches as totes and as beach bags. In fact you can wear and use them throughout the whole summer. I am definitely going with this trend cause I like it so much. It creates this beachy and holiday vibe which I am craving for the whole Summer. Not planning on visiting a beach this year so this is my Summer vacation thing. 
Here are some which are available online at the moment but hurry they sell out pretty fast. 
                 

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Bedroom tour – decoration and furniture….

 

Night stand Ikea / Pineapple candle H&M / Candle holder Galeria Home old similar here / Books Cashmere and Cupcakes at HomeElements of Style / Village Candle Lilly of the Valley old similar here / Lamp trio via otto / Cactus sold out similar here / Wodden chest nanu nana / Clock Ikea / Rug Impression via Otto / Bed linen Ikea / Blanket orange bonprix / blanket beige old / orange pillows Ikea sold out similar here  / patterned pillow sold out similar here Ikea / lantern big bonprix / lantern little Ikea / dried flowers nanu nana sold out similar here / Vase big nanu nana sold out similar here / vase little Ikea / big picture Ikea sold out also love this one / little shelf Ikea / storage boxes Ikea / green vases nanu nana sold out similar here / mirror Ikea / candle Ikea / silver lantern Ikea / Books Coco ChanelChanel Collections and CreationsLove Style Life / big closet with brown doors Ikea / Cup sold out also got this one nanu nana / pom pom garland bonprix / wall flowers otto / glass garland otto
My outfit: Jeans Desigual old similar here / T-Shirt H&M / belt Pieces  
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today I can finally show you our bedroom. I had planned this for months but it just didn´t happen to get to an end. Whether I didn´t have the time or I didn´t find the right pieces to decorate/furnish. This took the most time cause I had significant pieces on my mind I wanted so I first had to find them. 

The room doesn´t have a strict color theme but I went with creme/white/orange. These three fit nicely together and you can easily combine it with a fourth or fifth color. 

 The main piece you are focusing when you go into the room might be the colorful rug. It is a new one but from a vintage brand (they make new rugs appear older) and I couldn´t be happier with it. It has different color sprinkles all over which made it easy to decorate the rest on the room.

For the walls (and there weren´t so much left cause there are a few of our closets) I went with a gallery wall with picutres of us (from vacations or parties), a huge black and white print from the old New York and a mirror. 

 The bed is huge (for me). It is 1,8 x 2,2 meters. When I am alone at night I always have Chloe in the bed with me so I am feeling less lost. But although it is really pretty. It reminds me of a bed which could be found in a cabin or a blockhouse.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Take care. See you.

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