Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg, 1970 - Part 2.

Today I´ll show you the Lundgren´s bedroom & kitchen:

Greta & Konrad like to travel and have their own sailing yacht! You can see them on the photo on Greta´s nightstand. It was taken on the last journey to the Lake Garda.

I´m very happy with the bedroom, because everything is so cozy & light. I´m absolutely in love with the bedding - the roses are so cool! (If somebody knows if it´s original Lundby please let me know, because I´m not sure). I think they also need a blue carpet...

I also like the kitchen - it was not easy to fix the wall cupboard without leaving marks, but now it works! They still need a wall lamp and some curtains to to put the finishing touches to the room.

Greta doing the dishes...

Do you remember these kitchen calendars printed on towls?! My Mum used to hang them on the wall in the 70s and later we used them as towls until they were totally washed-out.

Credits: All furniture are Lundby, so are the most accessoires. The swan & the little lamp on the vanity are fom my childhood - I think the lamp was inside a grab bag or a bubblegum automate, the same with the clock on Konrad´s nightstand. The frame was a kinder surprise egg gift, but without the photo which is vintage and I don´t know the persons on it... The painting is unknown and shows a lovely montain scene - sorry, the lamp was in the way! The kitchen lamp is Lundby, but I´m not sure with the one in the bedroom - Info´s welcome! The calender is printed on paper and I found it on flickr :) The bottles and some pieces of the dishes are Hennig.

I wish you a nice weekend and a lovely mother´s day!! *Nicola

Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg, 1970 - Part 1.

Do you remember Greta & Konrad Lundgren, the owners of "Furniture & Antiques"? They moved into a Lundby Gothenburg I gave myself as a christmas present last year.

I bought the empty house just with two lamps & a mirror in it. It took a while until I got all the furniture I wanted, because i looked for those who would emphasize the nordic style of the blue floor and the light wallpaper. Fortunately Greta & Konrad run the shop :)...

Here you can see them enjoying the evening after work in their cozy livingroom.

They are talking about their new neighbours who bought the Gothenburg in their street, next to the Lundby´s house. Greta wonders if they will need some furniture and if they will come to the shop...

Konrad is a real music fan, he likes to play the piano and loves his new/old gramophone he bought yesterday from a costumer. So he listens kindly to Greta, but is also thinking about the gramophone and if he has some records for it...

To be continued...

I dated this house exactly to 1970, because of the wooden banister, the light wallpaper they used at the end 60s and the door to the entrance & bathroom. The earlier houses had no door - just a passage without a door and they changed it in 1970.

Credits: All furniture are Lundby, the most accessoires like lamps and the plant & telephone, too. The painting with the ship is the one I bought at "Tukadu", the little bird on the shelf is Wendt & Kühn and I have it since I am a little child. The gramophone is a fleamarket find, but it could be Lundby, they made some like these in the 80s. The cute felt pillows were a gift from carola from carolas-dollshouses.com. The bottle of sparkling wine is Hennig and maybe the glasses, too?!

And if you wonder why I´m still here writing posts... I decided not to be operated and to try some alternative therapies. I hope it´ll work!

I´m wishing you a wonderful "first of may weekend", yours Nicola

Sometimes...

you can´t say no when someone offers you a real good deal, (even if you promised to yourself not to buy another doll´s house in the next time) ;D But I thought this opportunity will not come a second time and so I gave myself a belated birthday present ... and I also pampered myself because I´m a bit nervous about my operation :(

It took me some deliberations where to put it in my small livingroom, but I found a (good?!) solution and now the Lundby´s have new neighbours living in a Lundby Gothenburg/Lundby Göteborg from 1975. The house came with some lovely furniture, tiny things like plants & dishes and... a SWIMMINGPOOL! It will need some more furniture and so today I just show you a small peek of my livingroom slowly transforming into a dollshouse museum...

*Nicola

Oh, boy...

i really do need a rest! (Maybe on one of these stylish miniture chairs MC, from my Realitty send to me?! Thank you again, my dear!!)

...but i´m not kidding! Some of you already noticed, i have problems with my left shoulder since weeks and now, after spending hours at different medical offices, i have a diagnosis - I need an operation :/. It´s nothing really bad but it will not get better by itself. I have a fixed date for the beginning of may and because i have to do some things for my little business and I also need time to prepare everything for the upcoming time with just one "good" arm, i have to make a little break...

I´ll sure follow your posts and everything around here, but I guess it´ll take some time until I´ll write comments or posts.

*Nicola

Happy Birthday...

...to... me :)

Today is my 44th Birthday and because it´s impossible to celebrate it with you here in my real life, i would like to have a virtual party with you:

So, come over and grap what ever you want ;D jelly roll with strawberries, fruit cake, cookies, marble cake, sweets, tea or juice... You are welcome here at dolly´s little birthday party!

Credits: Dolls - E.S. from the 70s, Cat - Bully, Dachshund vintage from my granny (ment to be a holiday souvenir, because on his side is noted "Bad Schandau"), Furniture vintage, some from my childhood and all unknown, carpet (real a doily) embroidered by me when i was a child, buntings made byme right now, marble cake and teapot with sugar bowl & creamer are from my mum´s doll´s house, some of the dishes are Bodo Hennig and Vero (all vintage), some are also from my childhood, jelly roll - yogurette (german chocolat), fruit cakes - Haribo fruity bussi, sweets - fimo & chocolate crumbles...

*Nicola - who had a wonderful birthday breakfast with a friend at "Das Puppenmuseums Café" in real life :) (Please klick the button "Rundgang" the museum is awesome!)

"Tukadu" - Prenzlauer Berg

If you ever plan a visit at Berlin you have to visit the "Tukadu" at Prenzlauer Berg!

Here you can see Cosima and Mara in front of this very cute shop. It´s specialized on miniatures and toys and it´s an absolute must to take a look at all the tiny cute things they are selling.

The little Shopwindows were decorated amazing and with many, many lovely details like this easter breakfast...

and a little fair! (I guess some of these miniatures are musical boxes) I bought a cute little painting for one of my Lundby houses, i´ll show you later.

I hope you all had wonderful easter holidays?! We had a wonderful time and as always if you are on holidays the time passed to fast!! Thanks a lot for all your nice comments you wrote the last week - I read and appreciated them all :)

*Nicola

Furniture & Antiques

This week Christine & Hans-Herman finally went shopping at "Möbel & Antikes"/ "Furniture & Antiques". It was a very nice but also eye opening trip for both...

Hans-Herman came with his fast car and here you can see them discussing about "Piff & Paff"... Christine wanted to take them with her but Hans-Herman said: "Sorry, but not in my car".
She learnt: He loves fast cars & no dogs in the car. He learnt: She loves her dogs more than he thought.

Christine loved the shop and also the very kind & friendly owners Mr. and Mrs. Lundgren, who recently moved to Lundby Village and opened the shop. They had a very good range of used furniture and also some lovely lamps, carpets and accessoires. Hans-Herman was very delighted with the black sofa & armchairs!

He also found a modern art print from the austrian artist "Friedensreich Hundertwasser", he really admires. He decided to take the yellow ceiling lamp you can see in the background and a tv set. And Christine learnt: He likes modern furniture, lamps and weird modern art...

In the area with the kitchen furniture Christine spotted two very adorable dachshund sculptures on a table - a wooden one and one made from murano glass. She wanted to buy one for her livingroom, but she wasn´t able to make a choice and it took a very loooong dialog before she chose the wooden one! He learnt: Yes, she really loves dachshunds and she needs hours to make a dicision...

Hans-Herman also needed a bed and his choice was the colourful modern one. After all Christine did not wonder about that, but she was wondering about the fact he carried the "Hundertwasser" around the whole store. She learnt: He is afraid someone could take his things...

In the bedroom area they had also some pictures of Royals and two brass sculptures of a king and queen. Christine loved the pictures and the sculptures but Hans-Herman tried to reason her out of these things, because he thought they are awful, but he didn´t succeed - she took the queen! And he learnt: She is stubborn and has a very bad taste sometimes...

But anyway they had a very nice afternoon together :) Today Mr. Lundgren delivered all the things and furniture at Christine´s house and Hans-Herman will move in tomorrow. But that´s another story...

I wish you all a very happy easter weekend! I´m going to Berlin to visit friends & family, so the next post will take a bit longer.

*Nicola