gone to pot

true to my promise to myself to jazz up our plant life i have made a few trips to potted. convenient: as we are also doing a school re-greening project only a couple of blocks away. inspiring: potted has a wonderful collection of pots, plant material, garden accessories, and installation ideas. and there is a great indian restaurant next door. (which included a moby siting.) win. win. win.

i've picked up two beautiful pots - and my dream birdbath - which k has further jazzed with the addition of a porcelain pigeon i thought i had hidden away. anyway, speaking of pigeons...



i love this pot. and finally ordered it. so much loveliness at pigeon toe ceramics.

so funny to learn that my dear friend received the same pot at almost the same time. this staghorn fern would be oh so much happier hanging out in portland rather than here. to up the humidity ante, it is currently living in our shower. rain in the forecast will hopefully allow it a foray outside over the weekend. and i think eventually - a move north is in its future. i will work to keep it alive until then.

a succulent would - and will - be a much better way to go. (i am working on two macrame hangers for potted succulents. i'm on a bit of a macrame kick. ambitious plans. i will share soon.)

From the Archive - Corners of Our Home 2

this is the corner with the window we just replaced - blogged over 5 (!) years ago over at jumilla stories. quite a bit has changed here. but I thought it would be a fun way to see what it looked like before "before"...

"after" post soon!

first posted at jumilla bugs 2/9/06 10:41 a.m.



This is normally the quiet corner of our house. It is the seat my mom seems to prefer when she comes to visit. Lots of stories read here. Trying to get lots of knitting done here - though a story on a lap takes precedent. This house is so much about light. Again, it is the light of this corner, especially in the morning, that I love.

And the chair. I love this chair. It came to us from my in-laws. As did so much of our furniture and furnishings. D's parents had taste. It is a Milo Baughman design. The matching ottoman is long gone. Victim to too much rough-housing on the part of my husband and his brothers. We reupholstered it after rescuing it, the original vinyl torn, with this wonderful fabric. So soft - in color and touch. It is a comfortable spot.

There is a bird's nest just outside this window. In the tight space between the roof and the chimney. Every year since we moved in, a family of birds have called this home. Every year there are new babies. Every year we watch to see them exit the nest and take their first careful sojourns around our backyard. I was worried that recent roofing and painting would disturb them, but they are still there. And spring is around the corner...

getting there

coming home to a 7 x 5 ft hole in our livingroom wall was never such a thrill.

homework this weekend

the poppies really swung into bloom. did some weeding.


attended tomatomania with j. purchased chika; red pear heirlooms; and yellow brandywine varieties. thought about clearing the garden beds - but so loving all the greens gone to seed. the ground is too wet still anyway. should be perfect to plant this weekend.


last of the new windows and doors arrived. did a happy dance! (this has been a labour of love. started by d with the kitchen redo in 2006. we are half-way through five years later with custom mulled aluminium windows on the front-side of the house. the original windows were wood framed bottoms with aluminium tops. cheap and easy off-the-shelf circa 1955. we said no-way to vinyl. so glad. these are beautiful. so excited to be finishing this project up.)

bed time.

planning for our new bed.

walnut.

d will build it.

and i will make sure that there is nothing stored beneath it!

inspiration on our bookshelf.

Artists' Studios by M.J. Long



Vera by Susan Seid, Jen Renzi and The Vera Company


Undecorate by Christiane Lemieux

we live here.

we've been looking for quite some time for a work to hang in the kitchen. i had originally planned to enlarge a photograph - but this is a very sunny corner - and the cost of an enlargement coupled with the inevitable fading that would take place, put that idea to rest. when i saw this poster (also available as a screenprint) i knew we had found a perfect fit. (and the price couldn't be beat!) d put together a frame, and we sprung for UV plexi. we will see how it lasts.

the girls love finding home on it. i love that it includes all these neighborhoods that i have recently discovered (after living here 12 years!).

ork posters has a whole series around this concept. fun stuff.

my plan to paint the kitchen myself has also been waylaid. april.

hanging this on our puttied and unpainted wall might be putting the cart before the horse, but we couldn't resist.