Dishtowels from Lisa Rupp
I love the illustrations printed on these cotton/linen dish towels by Lisa Rupp.
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Butterfly Bush (and photo geekery)
… or is it a butterfly bush? I’m not 100% sure. I’ve seen about 18434920 times more bees on it than I have butterflies. It seems to lure the big fat buzzy bumblebees like nothing else. Not that I’m complaining, bees are awesome. But if any of you other plant-lovers out there can set me [...]
House Tour Part 3: The After Photos!
Finally, I’m ready to show you our house! Check out part one for the before pictures, and part two for a few shots of the renovations in progress. These photos were taken just as we were moving in. The living room with its newly gleaming floors was painted in Benjamin Moore Whispering Spring. It’s a [...]
House Tour Part 2: The Renovations
I’ll just show you a few in progress photos before moving on to part three, the after shots! See part one for the before shots. As renovations go, I guess ours were pretty minor. There were two main things we wanted to do: Paint just about everything, and restore the floors to their natural wood [...]
House Tour Part 1: The Before Photos
I fell in love with this house the moment I saw it. We’d looked at a lot of houses at this point, and we’d even tried to buy two of them (both had severe structural issues that we couldn’t afford to fix right away). There are a lot of cute houses here in Portland, but [...]
A garden in progress
Our new house is awesome. I’m dying to show you all photos. We did so much work on it over the last six weeks or so, and it is truly transformed. I have some fun before and after photos, but unfortunately they are housed on a computer that is still packed away in a box [...]
Granny Chic
… might be my favorite Flickr group ever. images from the pool: (1) (2) (3) (4)
What home means to me
I’m delighted to be participating in a little project called Pin It Forward that you may have seen around blogland. 300 bloggers are creating pinboards on the subject of “What home means to me.” Here are a few things that mean home to me: eating outside, a cozy bed, fresh flowers, homegrown food, my beautiful [...]
Fall garden
Isn’t chard beautiful? This is my fall garden. It looks a little battered because it’s been raining, but it’s pretty hearty. I planted dragon carrots (they are small and deep red), parsnips, broccoli, chard, and kale. I am a big fan of winter greens, especially kale.
Making Fire
We have a wood-burning stove in our kitchen to help keep it heated. We are getting the hang of using it, making fire and keeping it burning slowly through the day. It’s incredibly cozy and smells wonderful. Kenn is very proud of his newly found caveman firemaking skills. We have a huge pile of wood [...]