Milo and the Big Butt chair…

Big butt~ before

We’ve recently been bit by a bug…

Milo...

the world hopping millennium bug came to our casa via the post man

all the way from visiting Java Junie in Michigan

{Read about this little blog hopping bug

and his world adventureshere}

Right to work he went…The colorful little insect

finishing the Big Butt chair.

had to take off his handmade fur coat… it’s Florida for heaven’s sakes.

...little stuffed plumbers crack and all

Let me tell ya...

This little bug can haul hammer

Bigg Butt has two different fabrics

a linen{ish} on the outside and back…and

the tropical colored IKAT on the inside.

Thank Milo for the nail heads

Even bugs need 15 minute breaks

osha standards and all...

Whoa! maybe 15 second ones

adhd much, Milo man?

how much do you love that little handmade hat?

I am awaiting more nailheads…for the bottom the back…and then

the Bigg Butt will finally and happily be d o n e

wooooohoooo.

the D word.

{Pillow? You ask? had it made here}

Did you hear that Milo?

Milo?

Milo!?!

Not the big black dog cookies….

oooomph.

medic?!?

*Joining Susan for Metamorphis Monday...find some amazing before and after's Here*

So…Do you all…

Ever save images…and title them something like…

Living room inspiration…with no other credits?

Is it just me?

SO…as I wait for my nailheads and wax to come…to finish two other projects...

I peruse a bunch of LR inspiration pics

and I’m not sure what I loved

something in each of them, undoubtedly.

I recently found some Benjamin Moore Aura paint in Marscapone

yum...i am sooo distarcted by the name of paint...you?

that I plan to paint our LR and maybe foyer with...

just splotched it on...like?

Maybe that is why I saved this image...

Aha… no. This one is for the shelves…painted white. I plan on that.

watch me experiment…more splotching...

This one above is for the art…I am sure...We have an abundance of mismatched art

that I love in all of it's mismatched glory….that I want up. This one has been leaning behind the couch

tsk tsk

I think this one above was for the big art. maybe.

I’m getting confrused, scooby.

Do you all do this?

Do you all have any suggestions?

Do you all know whose images these are?…cause I would love to note them. Really.

I LOVE this guy’s work. You will too…

...I’m pretty sure.

No words even needed.

Photographer Jacob Termansen.

Just THAT good.

Really. Really.

Soft buttery citrusy crunch….Lime in the coconut bars

A little spring for your soul.

snow chasers

My mother made these…with a recipe from her sister waaaay up in Canada

They truly are lemon bars…but go ahead

use key limes…or plain limes

you have my complete permission.

But. Do. Not. Skip. The. Coconut.

thank you

Combine:

1 1/2 cups of flour

1/4 c. sugar

1/2 c. butter

Crumble with hands and press into a 9X9 pan

Bake at 350 20 minutes

Then……

Mix 2 slightly beaten eggs

3TBSP of lemon juice…or more if you like things tart

1 C. sugar

2Tbsp flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 Cup of coconut

1/4 tsp salt

pour over baked crust…pop back in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes….

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If ya wanna be all pretty and all…sprinkle it with icing sugar…kinda like a teensy icing sugar snowfall.

Oh Heavens to Betsy as my Canadian born Mom is known to say say

These are coconutty lemony heaven.

truly!

A little green…a little warm

Just because... you may need it

From my favorite landscape architect

Made Wijaya

Wrap yourself in it.

My friend Sal talked me into buying white tulips…

Recently our town had a Garden Fest in a park near the beach

Tons of tropical flora

always a great place to find

a rare bromeliad…or bamboo…or banana

But... I came home with some different sort of loot

A French baguette mold

you know…where the dough was once left to rise.

but it is made in Mexico. Whatever.

you can see I have not worked on the table yet…priorities people.

Spring has sprung.

‘cause I said so, that’s how.

I also found a carved wood piggy bowl

wait a minute…I found him at our local Marshalls.But he is hand carved and I oiled him with our butcher block oil.

he loved it.

He is currently tending the guac ingredients

Child #4 says:

"Ewwww...who wants to eat anything out of a pig?"

Um...Me.

Brought home two of the glass fishing floats from the fest…

why? Dunno. Maybe they’ll go outside in the garden

see the tulips Sal?

But my fave is the old German educational poster...loved it’s age…

Although I’m pretty sure I don’t know what a laubmoose is.

It hasn’t found a forever home yet...

so is borrowing some space in the messy family room

Garden fest and nary a garden flower.

s’ok…Sal’s hooked me up!

Have a beautiful day of chocolates and white tulips!

Happy V day…

Will you be my valentine?

And won't you go wish the talented, brutally honest and funny

Renee Finberg a truly Happy Birthday.

She has had a sucky week.She deserves far better!

And keeping with the turquoise and red theme….

I find these paintings by Samantha French

stunning.

The water

the movement…

sublime.

Me want

What art feeds your soul these days??

House snippets…

I dunno…no real rhyme or reason…stuff on my computer

But I found…as I was zooming through our house pictures…

that we have a most certain red and turquoise

thing going on in this casa….

.

Snuck this one in…Inspiration pic from a local shop…decorative arts

love the painting!

So…try it…

find the colors you gravitate to

by looking through pics of your house…

fast.

Now...I don't mean...drop everything and do it now... I mean whip through them

quickly...to get only a color sense.

far be it for me to tell you......nevermind

Carry on.