Month: June 2014

Jun

2014

One thing lead to another

White chair-cover, blue carpet. Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

One thing lead to another. Gustav, the neighbor cat, stepped all over the white cover of the chair with his really dirty feet…The cover can be washed in the washing-machine. The above one is the one that has shrunk in laundry and is almost impossible to get onto the chair after laundry.

Had to remove the cover and change to another one.

I’ve got four covers for this chair. Two white, one grey, and one dark-blue with flower-pattern. I also had two carpets, one blue and one multicolored. The shrunk, white one I might have to get rid of after washing it once more. Which one should I use this time?

Grey chair-cover, multi-colored carpet. Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

Didn’t really want to change to the grey cover. That is SO winter to me. Also didn’t want to change to the multicolored carpet. That is also SO winter to me. I could of course have changed to the other white cover (which so far has never been used). But I am saving that one a bit… I also have a white cover for the sofa. Maybe I will make both the chair and the sofa white for the winter and then use the multi-colored carpet?

Whit chair-cover, multi-covered carpet. Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

I wanted to use the blue cover with flower-pattern as I’ve used that one very little (because it clashes with the blue carpet…). When I put it onto the chair, I remembered why I have almost never used it, particularly not with the blue carpet which was on now.

The two blue colors of the chair-cover and the carpet simply do not function together. They clash. Neither does the multi-colored carpet go well with the blue chair-cover. So, I thought, why not get a new, off-white carpet? That will go with any chair-cover (except the white one). So I did. This is the result.

Blue cover, off-white carpet. Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

With the new off-white carpet the room changed character and became much calmer. And lighter. And more sophisticated? Carpet goes well both with the blue and the grey cover for the chair. Not with the white though I think… Then I have to change back to multi-colored or blue carpet. The color blue is difficult. Not all nuances go together. Because of Gustav’s dirty feet I changed both the chair-cover and the carpet. A bit of change is good sometimes. Also needed to change the pillow-cover in the chair to something neutral. White.

The carpet is fantastic to dig into with bare feet… Feet just need to be clean.

Below a close-up of the carpet which is 140 x 200 cms in size, called Aukland, bought at MIO. IKEA didn’t have any carpets I liked.

Off-white carpet. Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

Jun

2014

Decorative plant – Corokia Cotoneaster

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The other day when neighbor and I was in a plantshop we found this very decorative plant. We both bought one each. I’ve seen it before in various interior design blogs. It is an odd plant and it is very difficult to take a picture of it as I found out. It is presently placed in one of the kitchen windows, so I can see it when sitting at the kitchen-table.

The plant is called Corokia Cotoneaster (wire-netting brush). It comes from New Zealand where you grow it outside as a bush. It was difficult to find a good place for it where you can see the odd shaped leaves and branches. The small green leaves change appearance with how the light falls on it.

Just to get a better picture of it I temporarily placed some white styrofoam behind it outside when re-planting it in this pot. In Sweden it is called “zigzag”-plant.

Remains to be seen if it gets the tiny yellow flowers it is supposed to get in spring… First of all I need to keep it alive and make sure it is content with its environments.

(The pink bucket is an anti-mosquito candle, here just used as weight for the styrofoam to stay in place). ©nini.tjader.2014

Jun

2014

The Office-Chair, part VII

Skruvsta office-chair from Ikea. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

As I got an email that the ordered chair will not be delivered, I went ahead and bought the SKRUVSTA office chair from Ikea. In grey (which doesn’t seem to exist in the U.S). The temporary chair is nearby in the kitchen and can be used if/when yet another person will join me in front of the iMac. Now I sit comfortably. This corner is now even more grey than it used to be :).

On June 19th i got the following email from the company where I ordered my office-chair, confirming that there will be no delivery of the ordered chair:

—Quote—

Dear INFURN customer,

further to our last email to all INFURN customers, we regret to inform you that the website has now stopped trading. After numerous attempts to secure the required funds to keep the site running, it has been impossible for the new operator DSGN to continue the business. It has therefore been decided, with the advice of the appointed adviser to the Group, UHY Hacker Young LLP, that all operations are to be suspended.

If you had an order with any of our companies, and it has not been delivered yet, partially or at all, you will be contacted by new insolvency administrators, which are to be announced soon, responsible for winding up of respective company with which you placed your order.

As all companies have stopped trading with immediate effect, we are unable to provide you with any service support.

We apologise for the disruption this may cause to you, and we are really sorry that we are unable to fulfil your order, as we would have liked.

Regretful,

Infurn.com

—Unquote—

There is still nobody to contact about refund of money paid. Have sent a request for that to my bank and am awaiting communication from them. Couldn’t keep on sitting on the uncomfortable temporary chair, so went ahead and bought one I CAN sit in.

Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

Jun

2014

New Toys

ipad, ipadcase, touchpen, iphone, iphonecase

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

Got myself some new toys… 😉 Having great fun with them.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

The case for the iPad Air (leather) is from ElGiganten and I got for no extra cost provided I bought a one year insurance for the iPad. So I did. The pen is from Telenor and cost SEK49 ! Works both on the iPad and the iPhone. The case for the iPhone (leather) is also from Telenor and costs SEK 249.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

This is how they look opened up. The outer iPhone case with the sling and space for credit cards is magnetically attached to the inner case and can easily be detached when needed. Really like them.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

This is the open case for the iPad. The support-lines for standing it up works really good. I’ve seen many iPad cases where this standing up doesn’t work very well.

Technically speaking: iPad Air 64GB Space Grey WiFi + Cellular and an iPhone 5S with 32 GB Silver.

I am still tweaking the apps and all settings on both. There are apps for the iPhone which do not make sense on the iPad and the other way around. The iPhone was faster to fix (except all the logins) as I had a backup of my old 4S on the Mac. With the iPad I started from scratch as I have never had an iPad before.

So far the only problem I’ve had is that I find the images from the iPhone 5S to have less information in and quality (smaller in size, fuzzy, resolution not as good) than the images from my old iPhone 4S. Hard to prove by looking at the phone. Can only be seen if you import to computer and open them in Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop. I’ve so far not tested the camera in the iPad. Who takes pictures with an iPad? Normally I don’t even take pictures with iPhone, I use my Canon G15. Taking pictures with the iPhone I only do when the camera is not with me.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

Jun

2014

I’ve been busy…

Tried to capture the list of all the Adobe applications installed on my iMac… Almost made it. My 24″ screen couldn’t cover them all… but you get the idea…

Most of the day before yesterday was occupied by installing the latest of all Adobe applications which were released then. For a long while I had problems with the Adobe Creative Cloud application which didn’t want to cooperate. But I solved that in the end and all is well again. I also had to remove all versions CS5 and CS5.5 applications to get enough space on my harddisk first. That also meant that I finally uninstalled Adobe GoLive which served me well for many years. Do I use all of the above? No, not really, but most of them on and off. My main applications are Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, Dreamweaver in no particular order. Bridge and Photoshop I use daily.

Now most of the new versions are in on my iMac. Remains to do the MacBookPro. The iPhone and the iPad have both got the new apps from Adobe.

The CC 2014 versions are what is new. Not an update to the CC versions, but new versions with great new features.

Check out the new features in the new versions here.

Jun

2014

Got myself a bedframe

My present bed has until recently not had a bedframe, nor a headboard. Just ugly metal legs, hidden by the bedspread. Because the bed is 120 cms wide it has been hard to find a bedframe and/or a headboard for it. I’ve always liked the MALM bed that Ikea has. I had one in oakveneer that was 180 cms wide when I moved here. That was too wide. Took up the entire room and made me crazy every time I made the bed or removed the bedspread (that is twice daily). So I sold that and got this one.

Recently I asked Ikea via their webside why they didn’t have a Malm bed in 120 cms width and suggested that they should make one. There is none to be found on their websites. To my surprise I got a reply that they DO have it in 120 cms width, in white and in brownish-black. They just needed to know which warehouse I would like to buy it from and they could check availability there. Had the reply the next day, 16 white ones in stock at my regular Ikea. Went there as soon as I had time for it, bought the white 120 cms wide bedframe and got it delivered the next day.

With the help of my neighbor got it assembled. Took a couple of hours and some of it was a bit tricky. This is the result. I hope it will not fall apart…

(The zebra patterned bedsheets are old and I’ve had them since long before zebra patterns got really popular).

Have archived the ugly metal legs, and also had to take down one of the small wall shelves as it was in the way of the headboard. The decoration on the wall behind the head-board will be removed when I will paint the walls later on. I also need to find a solution for the bedspread. This does not look good… I am happy with the bedframe with headboard though.

Jun

2014

The Office-Chair, part VI

It was too good to be true… I know, it was a fake designer chair, but I could never be able to afford the genuine thing. I know you are not supposed to buy the copies… but if they don’t want us to, set the price for the originals to a more affordable level.

As it seems, I will not get the office-chair I ordered and paid for in March. Company has disappeared from the face of earth… and gone bankrupt. Got this email on May 27th:

—quote—

Dear Customer

We apologise for any inconvenience caused to you in the past, especially since the beginning of May 2014 regarding your outstanding order.

Unfortunately infurn.com has suffered financial difficulties due to the loss of several business partners from February 2014 onwards.

Please be advised that the group of companies behind the web shop infurn.com have instructed UHY Hacker Young LLP (Turnaround and Recovery Specialists) to review the financial position of the group of companies.

Due to UHY Hacker Young LLP’s review of the financial situation of the group and after discussions with them, it is apparent that the group of companies are insolvent and shall all be entering an insolvency process.

Due to the impending Liquidation of Infurn Limited, the service company of the group which ran the business of customer support, you were not informed of this situation. Infurn Limited ceased trading on 2 May 2014 as they were dependent on funding from the trading company of the group, Livingdesign SL.

We are in the process of instructing lawyers/insolvency experts in Spain with the assistance of UHY Hacker Young LLP to assist with the restructuring of Livingdesign SL.

However, in the meantime, it has been decided that a new operator, DSGN Sales and Support Facilities Limited will take over the web shop (Infurn.com) from 2 May 2014. The purpose of this company is to try to honour all existing customer orders, however at this stage we are unable to confirm our ability to do so.

This company shall not be taking over any of the liabilities of the Infurn.com group and cannot provide any guarantee on delivery times of orders.

We understand our customers? position but we kindly ask you to provide us with time in order to ascertain the level of outstanding orders and whether they can be fulfilled.

You shall be contacted soon with a further update.

Kind regards,

INFURN Group

— end of quote —

Since then, nothing. Website has closed and is no more (it was still up and selling at the time I got this email). No links in the email work. There is now nobody to contact. Googling for the company I came to this page https://kundo.se/org/konsument-europa/d/ar-infurn-ett-blufforetag/ (page is in swedish). So, this is a dead end and there will be no chair.

Chair was supposed to be delivered in mid July. I threw out the old one in mid May and got a temporary chair. That was OK for the short period from then to mid July when I was supposed to get the new office-chair. It costed just SEK 149… It is not comfortable …it doesn’t hurt my elbows though the way the old chair did as it it doesn’t have any armrests.

Temporary office-chair

Now I am left with the choice between these two Ikea office-chairs as I still need an office-chair…. Grey or wild pattern? Probably grey.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

It is NOT FUN to lose the money for the ordered chair though. Am trying to get it back via my bank. Sent in the complaint papers just yesterday.

To be continued.

Added 2014-06-19: Today I got the following email which confirms that there will be no delivery of the order. Still nobody to communicate with…

Dear INFURN customer,

As all companies have stopped trading with immediate effect, we are unable to provide you with any service support.

We apologise for the disruption this may cause to you, and we are really sorry that we are unable to fulfil your order, as we would have liked.

Regretful,

Infurn.com

Jun

2014

TBT My Old Hoods

Photo: ©nini.tjader

(TBT Throw Back Thursday) I grew up in this quarter, from when I was born and the thirty (30) first years of my life. Then I, like so many others who grew up in this area, moved to the suburbs. Population in these blocks has changed a lot. These were workers blocks. Not so today.

Photo: ©nini.tjader

This was the entrance to the house. I lived on the second floor towards the back of the house. All we saw from our windows was a wall without anything at all on it. The houses behind us, in the next block were higher up on the mountain than our house. To see what the weather was like outside you had to open the window and lean out… Which season we could not see, as there was no greenery at all in our backyards.

Photo: ©nini.tjader

The next block, east of us in the direction of Slussen, looks like this. Cobble stones. Old houses, regarded as picturesque today, but was far from it when I grew up. Today they are modernized, but when I was a kid they had no hot water indoors, only cold, no heating other than a wood-burner, no WC, only outhouses behind the houses. Very primitive. Our house was one of the most modern ones in these blocks.

Those cobblestones… my knees remember them. We ran there daily, me and the boys I played with, and sometimes fell.

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This is the beginning of my street, Brännkyrkagatan. Brännkyrkagatan once was the longest street in Stockholm. But that didn’t last. It was changed in the 60-ties when it was cut off and renamed at certain points. Very steep ascent. Cobblestones again. For a while they had them covered by asphalt, but they returned it to its initial state and removed the asphalt when it became interesting to keep old areas as they once were. I’ve passed here many times, particularly during my youth as to the right from here there was a passageway beside the railway-bridge that led to the center of town and the Old Town. This was the closest way to where things happened…

(Pictures are from 2004).

Below map of the area

Jun

2014

Things change…

Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

Like my wild poppies in the flowerbed, things change. Now the blog-challenge called Blogg 100, has come to its end. This is post number 100 out of 100 in just as many days in a row. And I made it all the way to the goal. Both in this blog and in my swedish blog. That makes 200 posts…

Of course I will keep on blogging after the challenge is now over, as I’ve done since…. when? I started 2001. Then in a sub-area to my own website, which came alive on September 11th, 2001. Exactly that day…it just happened that way. After one post in 2001 I paused until 2004, wrote some in 2005. 2006 I wrote nothing. Then I wrote some posts in 2007 and 2008. 2009 was a lost year again. 2010 I was back again. And I have been back ever since. My swedish blog started in 2011.

But one post a day? Only during this blog-challenge.

I will not be writing a post a day from now on, but probably more frequently than before the Blogg 100 challenge. Sometimes it might even be more than one post a day, but that would be an exception.

I hope you will still pop in and read. It would also be nice with some comments now and then… ;).

My poppies in the flowerbed were changed by nature, not by manipulation with Photoshop or so. The poppies have spread and in doing so wandered to another flowerbed. There they suddenly became red instead of orange. I like it. I guess it has to do with the quality of the soil influencing on the color of the flower. This flowerbed is also the one with most sun.

Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

Nbr 100/100

Jun

2014

Hungry birds

It is summer. The birds should be able to find food themselves, right? But, they all have little ones and they are hungry. So I give them special peanuts for birds. They love the peanuts. Both the woodpeckers (I have three of them regularly feeding here, they look slightly different when compared, and I’ve seen at least two of them at the same time), and the nuthatch couple which I saw also the entire winter. The nuthatch always eats upside-down.

These two kinds of birds make all the smaller birds stay in the nearby tree when they eat and the small ones, like the great tits, only get to eat when the other ones are away. Sometimes several at the same time. Feeding them the year around makes them stay in the garden. And they also eat all kinds of insects and bugs and larvae so you get less of those on the plants.

These were the ones I managed to take pictures of today. I also have blue tits and several other kinds of birds coming. Only problem is that it is hard to find the peanuts for birds during the summer. Ordered more today from a place I’ve never ordered from before and hope it will come fast as I’m almost out of peanuts by now.

It is fun watching the interaction between the birds at the feeders. The woodpeckers always announce when they are nearby and on inflight. You cannot miss that they are coming. They even keep on making noise when eating.

Nbr 99/100

Jun

2014

Hallway chair

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

I have this chair just inside the door when you enter my flat. It is used to sit on to put shoes on or off. You can of course also sit on the bench to the left, but the chair is more comfortable. Also, there is often other stuff on the bench… I’ve had this chair for quite some time and have been thinking of exchanging it for something that suits this corner better. Maybe this one?

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

Ikea has this nice, small, light, and surprisingly comfortable chair (called Holmsel). And it is black and would suit this corner very well both in size and color.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

I like it. Should I buy it?
(Question is, what do I do with the old chair? Give it away for free? Sell it?).

Nbr 98/100

Jun

2014

TBT My former flat

Bäckgårdsvägen 31, Vårby Gård

(TBT Throw Back Thursday) From November 30th 1992 until November 30th 2009 I lived in a suburb to Stockholm called Vårby Gård. There I had a three room flat (2 bedrooms, 1 livingroom, kitchen, bathroom and hallways) that was 78 square meters large + a long narrow balcony with sun until around 11:30 AM. After that the sun went around the house and was on the other side, where the entrance was from an exterior corridor. We used that too as an extra balcony.

During those 17 years there, the items and the interior of the flat changed over time. Furniture and things came and went. I will now give you a glimpse of how it looked in my previous flat. It was really quite different to how my present flat looks.

Click on an image to see a larger version and to switch to slideshow-mode.

Livingroom

Bedroom

Balcony

The outside corridor.

Bedroom

Livingroom

Outside corridor. Green door was my entrance.

Hallway

Kitchen

Entrance

Hallway

Livingroom

Bedroom

Kitcehn

Monicas, my neighbour, space on the outside corridor.

Livingroom

My office

Livingroom

Kitchen

Balcony

Livingroom

My office

Livingroom

Bedroom

Nbr 97/100

Jun

2014

A doodle

©nini.tjader

A doodle, done on two occasions, long ago. I always did those when sitting somewhere, listening. It was my trick to concentrate and really hear what was said. I still do if I am in a situation where I have to listen and not to participate and say something. Provided there is paper and pen available of course. Do people do doodles on their iPads or smartphones I wonder? Do they?

What is a doodle? This is how wikipedia explains it:

“A doodle is an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures. “

I call this doodle “people”.

Nbr 96/100

Jun

2014

Ridiculous pricing

IF I had an iPhone 5S (which I don’t at the moment, but will when I get around to exchange my 4S for a 5S), I might be tempted to buy this cover. I like the wide black and white stripes. But the price, SEK 309 at Apple Store in Sweden (approximately USD 47), makes me NOT wanting to buy it.

Again, overpriced design items… But I will need a cover of some sort.

Nbr 95/100

Jun

2014

Things again

Most of the things above you have already seen in other posts. Including the two old bibles. You have not seen the two candelabras though. Material is tin. Inherited from my parents. There are pictures when I was little where they are on the table for Xmas. They are older than me…

I do use them on and off when the situation requires a candelabra on the dinner table.

This is how they look close up.

Nbr 94/100

Month: June 2014

One thing lead to another

Decorative plant – Corokia Cotoneaster

The Office-Chair, part VII

New Toys

I’ve been busy…

Got myself a bedframe

The Office-Chair, part VI

TBT My Old Hoods

Things change…

Hungry birds

Hallway chair

TBT My former flat

A doodle

Ridiculous pricing

Things again

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