Showing posts with label house and garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house and garden. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"Chintz, it could rightly be said, is the basic black dress of the English-style interior" - Suzanne Slesin

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As a testament to the fact that my craft projects are taking so long that I almost forget having started them, the seemingly simple task of ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

"The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows..." - William Cullen Bryant

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You know that you're a city girl...with a country background...when the sight of bunches of lavender for sale in your local grocery stor...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

"A few clowns short of a circus..." - unknown

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The next best thing to skull art...at least to my mind...is marginally disturbing clown art. At first, the mind is uncontrollably drawn tow...
Monday, June 20, 2011

"Let them eat cake..." - Marie Antoinette

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I never thought I'd side with Mrs. Louis XVI on this one but...who needs birthday cake...when homemade birthday fudgsicles are resting i...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts." - Louis Ferdinand Celine

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What, it has to be asked, would a week of nest-feathering posts be without the odd skull? The answer...a mere travesty (at least in my humb...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy" - Albert Einstein

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Anyone fortunate enough to have gone strawberry picking will have probably come away with three valuable lessons... A strawberry...straight...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Ask Alice...

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"There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!" Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. There was certainly ...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

"Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof." - Charles Kingsley

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The colder months, at least in my tiny little mind, are the time when one settles down for a little nest feathering...contemplating the deli...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics." - Bill Vaughn

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In the summer of my dreams™...a carefree place...where it's possible to cycle in a skirt without flashing the local populace...remain sw...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

"I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thoughts are minutes" - William Shakespeare

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At the tone, the time will be...serenely retro...and (pun alert) pretty as a picture... Polaroid Clock - Cherry Blossoms
Thursday, May 19, 2011

"Golden words he will pour in your ear..." - Shirley Bassey

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This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none. And th...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

"I've waffled before. I'll waffle again." - Howard Dean

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There are the necessary things in life...the whimsically unnecessary...and the complete and utter wastes of money that will be used once or ...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass." - Edgar R. Fiedler

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Finally...someone has realized that something needed to be done about the "klutz vs cut crystal vase" issue. Up until this point ...
Monday, May 02, 2011

"In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone." - Gertrude Jekyll

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Sometimes, it is better to admit defeat early on...to realize that you will never be a modern-day Gertrude Jekyll ...that the warning signs ...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Home is where the heart is...

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...it's also where the Scrabble set can be found in it's native habitat...of course, if you're like me...you now take your Scrab...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

"Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul." - unknown

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Oh etsy, how do I love thee? I visit looking for something perfectly sensible...and you tantalize me with shocking pink metallic horses .....
Friday, April 01, 2011

"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one" - Sam Rayburn

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It wasn't exactly a battle of the ages...but in the skirmish of Hebden versus step-stool I can happy report that Hebden won. It was a ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear." - Julia Child

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I have been tempted by other tchotchke-ish kitchen accessories before...naming no names...but I'm looking at you pig cooking lid ...and,...
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Sunday, March 06, 2011

"Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?" - Karen Brademeyer

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In celebration of lazy Sundays everywhere...the colored bunting says "retro church bazaar"...the text, say it all... Yawn bunting
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

"How happily extremes do meet in Jane and Ebenezer: She's no longer sour, but sweet, and he a lemon squeezer" - unknown

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Friends, you are looking at a woman who has had a little bit of an epiphany. For years, I've rarely been able to muster more than margi...