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You will be missed

Sometimes I feel like writing. It's almost like therapy, I get stuff out of my head and down onto paper. Makes things a little bit better.

When I got to work on Wednesday, I got to know that one of our patients had died five days earlier. Working in a nursing home you do know that these things will happen, but I wasn't prepared for her to leave yet. I've been working at this nursing home for almost two years, and over these months we have lost ten patients. We have 16 single rooms, which means we always have 16 patients to take care of. These patients live and die there, it's their home for the last months and years of their lives. It makes me sad to think that they can't stay at home where they have their loved ones and sorrundings they love, but it also makes me grateful that we have a place that the elders get the help they need. Working in a nursing home your heart will always be filled with memories, but some patiens really holds a piece of your heart. Some of them you will truly never forget.

This woman had lived in the nursing home for over ten years. She had been there longer than any of us employees. She was the sweetest lady, and if you met her you wouldn't know she suffered from dementia. If you sat on her walker, she would push you around. When you walked past her in the hall she would pretend like she wasn't gonna let you pass. When her son came to visit and had to leave, she would stand there waiving until she couldn't see him anymore. She always wore the most beautiful dresses, and nice necklaces and bracelets. She always had to put on lip stick at the beginning of the day. And fix her eyebrows. Whenever I helped her she would tell me she was jealous of my height. She was petite and I am tall. We would always agree that we could split our combined height. That way we could both wear heels.  

The last time I worked before she died I actually told my co-workers that when the day would come and she would be gone, the nursing home was gonna miss something. She was our mascot. Always happy and sweet. Sometimes she would be confused and didn't know why she was at the nursing home, but never angry. She was always ready to talk, and I remember her stories about the apartment building she grew up in, how her mother took care of her, the cabin she had by the lake, and the sad story about her husbands early death.

All of her stuff is gone, and someone else has her room now. Whenever I open up the door I always expect to see all of her stuff. Her pretty rose curtains, her rose bed covers and all of her pictures of near and dear ones. It's all gone. She's gone. I find it weird how fragile human life is. One moment you're there and then the next you're gone. That's the part I hate the most about working in a nursing home. You never know if someone will be gone the next time you get to work.

93 years of love, loss and happiness. I hope I can be as you were when I get older. You will be missed, little lady.

A sky on fire

Saying good night with a picture from October 1st. Can you believe it's December 1st tomorrow?! I'm almost done with first semester of interior design school, we're leaving for Utah in less than 22 days and it's almost Christmas time! Be prepared, I'm gonna show you some of our Christmas Decorations soon.

Happy Sunday

Happy 3 year anniversary!

Happy almost weekend!

It's almost weekend, hang in there! Can't wait for friday to come! First school and then homemade pizza date with my love. Then saturday we leave for a 2 day cruise to Copenhagen with my parents, my aunt and my uncle! Lots of fun.

Reupholstering our dining room chairs

We bought our dining room table and chairs in May with the intetntion to paint and reupholster all of the chairs. I asked my mom and dad to help me out, because I wasn't 100 % sure how to do it, and we don't have to right tools do it either.

My mom and dad came over on Tuesday this week, and we got to work. First we went down to Lillestrøm Systue to pick out the fabric and foam rubber. We had decieded that we wanted blue fabric, and I went with this dark blue one. When we got back to our apartment we had to cut out foam rubber and fabric to match the chairs. We have seven chairs, and only two are exactly the same. Some of them had old covers that we had to remove, some didn't have anything.

Four hours down to road we had finished all of the chairs, and it looked so much better! I love the fabric and I think it looks great with everything else we have in our apartment. Now I just want some blue curtains to match the chairs. Here's some pictures from the process:

Some of the chairs before

Another before picture

Things are happening!

Starting to look good!

Voila! We're done with the first one, only six more to go!

Four of the chairs are done!

One big happy family! Doesn't it look so good?

Monday morning

Life is crazy these days. We're both so busy with school, and then comes work, family and all the other stuff too. It's all good though, we're both doing something we really like and love! This thursday I have my second presentation this fall, and I'm ready! I love giving presentations at school. Don't know why, just do.

Last week I had major problems with my computer, and had no other choice than to get a new 2T hard drive. Luckily we got to save all my documents and pictures before the old hard drive said goodbye. Let me tell you, I was so nerous I was gonna loose everything (again..)! 

It's no secret I love flowers, and I've had these pictures of some beautiful red roses just sitting in an album waiting to be published on my blog. The pictures are from earlier this summer, but roses are just as beautiful during the fall as the summer.

Happy monday!

Good Night

Happy Sunday!

Enjoying a couple of hours here before I'm headed to work. Can't remember the last time I had a whole weekend off work. Oh well. Enjoy your Sunday!

Sunset from this summer

Happy almost weekend!

Pink roses

The one thing I change more than any other is how our coffee table looks. It's so easy so move some stuff around and suddenly you have a whole new living room(kind of)! 

I found this beautiful tray at a flea market where my parents live in June. The brand is Scandiaguld.

The marble candle holders are from the swedish store Dollarstore

I love this candle holder! I bought it this spring at one of the biggest flea markets in our area

This cute little jar and the blue flower vase is from the local flea market

Livingroom Look

You have to agree these flowers are beautiful, right? This is how our livingroom looked earlier this summer when we had tons of fresh flowers here in our apartment. As I've told you before.. I love fresh flowers! Nothing can brighten up a room like a bouquet of flowers!

This bouquet reminds me of summer. All the different flowers with their own unique color arranged together so beautifully. And let's not forget to talk about the gold details! I really like the combo of gold details and beautiful colored flowers.

The whole month of July and the first ten days of August was such a crappy month weather like, but this week the sun was finally out shining again! Sun, please stay a little longer. I'm not ready for fall just yet. 

The two tall candle holders in the back are from Skeidar

The vase that holds the beautiful bouquet is from a flea marked

The golden tray is from H&M

These two candle holders are from Åhlens

 The glass bowl with a stem was a christmas present from my grandparents

This book is called "14 000 things to be happy about", and it's literally a list of 14 000 things that can make you happy

The cute vases are from H&M