Blogging – the cure for procrastination!

I was checking my blogstats just to see if anyone new was linking to me, and I happened to find a link to this: Your Home is Lovely – an interview with Joanna Thornhill

Here’s an excerpt:

What was one of the most inspiring spaces you saw when writing the book?

There were so many, but I think the home of Finnish blogger NinetteBahne had to be the one that really stopped me in my tracks. What she lacks in funds she more than makes up for in creativity. She pretty much made, repurposed or upcycled everything in her home – from her kitchen worktops to her patio paving bricks.

There was an old dress lying in her fabric pile when we went to photograph her place, and I used it in one of the shots to throw over a bedside stool. She liked it and vowed to sew it into a proper fitted cover. She did it, like, the next day. I’d have years of I’ve-got-no-time procrastination, despite the fact it probably only took her an hour or so. When I got home, I genuinely felt inspired to rethink a few of my own projects and came up with some crafty workarounds rather than simply outright replacing things I wasn’t happy with. I still have little ”what would Ninette do?” moments now before I resort to buying new stuff for my home. (For the whole text, click here)

It made me smile so much! To think that it was only last year that Jo & co were here and spent two days photographing and laughing and talking, and just having fun- it was so inspiring to have them here, and I’m so happy to hear that Jo was inspired as well!

The bedside stool that she talks about is this one:

Jo wanted to move it to get a better shot, but then she saw what I had really been using it for – to cover the ugliness of the wall behind it.

Jo loved the dress that I had lying around, and used it to cover the ugly stool and that was just such a great idea so I just had to sew it into a proper cover immediately! That is really my M.O. nowadays, to make all the craft projects I love immediately. Otherwise they tend only to end up as dusty pictures in my Pinterest folders. I used to be like everyone else and procrastinate, or to wait for us to be able to afford to buy the things that needed replacing, but then the economy hit us starting in 2008 just after we bought our house, and I had to do some serious soul searching. I had to come to terms with our economy being what it was, and me still wanting a nice house, or rather – a house that would fit in a interior magazine (or book!). So I started changing my thinking.I started to think more about how to create all the projects I wanted to do, instead of just buying them, and using only found objects and material or materials from flea markets.

I started slow (looking back it seems slow! nowadays I just do projects, all the time and sometimes for weeks at a time) with just the living room walls, and painted my own wallpaper. I was a bit apprehensive before starting, and even during painting – the whole project took a whole week, which I thought was a very long time back then. Then I blogged about it.

I can’t tell you how helpful the whole blogging-bit has been for my level of procrastination! For me it is such an inspiring thing, and something that gives me so much energy to be able to share with other like-minded souls – it is an extra bit of motivation for me, and every time I have made something that has really taken lots of energy and time, I feel such joy when I get to share it here on my blog. One such MAJOR project to share tomorrow! Major in that respect that I have spent loads of time and energy on this project, more than on almost any other project. Hopefully it will lead to more fun projects, and maybe all this blogging and crafting and having fun eventually will lead to a career of a sorts. If nothing else, at least I have all my blog posts as a memento of all the things I have made for my house, myself, my family and friends. And I definitely don’t procrastinate any longer!

On this page you can find out about where Jo’s lovely book is on sale, and yay, it is finally selling also in a book store that delivers to Finland! (no Sweden as of yet, but if you live in Denmark you can find the book here). You can find Joanna Thornhill’s blog here and the book is just full of great ideas for anyone who wants to create a lovely home on a small budget. I absolutely recommend it, not only because the book is full of pictures from our home, but also because of all the other great projects and ideas in it. It’s a book I would have wanted.

Blogging – the cure for procrastination!

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