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.

Kitchen Love…

Can we talk?

seriously.

I love the simplicity…and the beauty of this kitchen…

I found it over at the Polished Pebble blog, Kelley did a re-do to the kitch just recently.

Check the whole blog out…full of talent!

Boy would I love me some sky lights in our kitchen...

Boy would I love me a

work horse of an Italian stallion range

Eat here….yes please!

Look at the bread board’s would’ja!

I have such a soft heart for any kind of cutting board…

love the storage idea!

Lovely…lovely…lovely

lovely.

Dayum chair-1…me-0.

Ok…I am sooooo sorry I didn’t put the chair in the chair upholstering

place.

Yep….kinda like military school. Sounds just about perfect

now. The beast.

Ripped off the cording. No prob. Massive amounts of glue. But no prob.

feeling strong

Carefully sorta pulled off very resistant material. No kinda sorta prob.

Wrote on overly resistant pieces

letting them know who is boss…

ha!

Down to the stuffin’

My crew…pathetic as they are

but skilled and trained…ready for battle. oh yeah!

WTH?!

I’m feeling dizzy...

C’mon…your kidding…right?

Oh dear God…Mother of mercy…

The chair is winning...

To be continued…..

arrrghhhhhhhhhh!