modern macrame

finally got around to pulling together a plant hanger a la stephanie...



grow little plant grow.

another view here.

steve mcqueen's alexander

at home in palm springs...







a few of our neighbors still have original mosaic fireplaces. gorgeous. and we had the pegboard cabinets when we moved in here. unfortunately they couldn't be restored due to years of neglect.

found at life via making it lovely

this is it

the home of borge mogensen



spotted on pinterest



found here



pretty much my dream home. what we have tried to create.



our blue.



we had a curator from germany over this week. i was madly running around in preparation wanting everything to be just so for his arrival.

he walked in the door and immediately said "ahhhh. scandinavian!" we are doing something right.

spring-like

(i need to post something so that horrific photo of the girls' bed top of the last post isn't the first thing you see.)

we spent the morning working in the yard. it's a gorgeous spring-like so-cal day.



trellis for the peas

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The girls sleep in the bed D and his brother shared as children. It is amazingly well-made, solid wood, and with a coat of white paint and some new knobs for the attached dresser it is perfect. But given its age, it was without the standard guardrail now found on bunkbeds. We had been improvising with a portable bedrail but were not at all happy with the aesthetics.



D quickly whipped up a permanent solution this weekend.

And I am at ease that no one will be rolling out of bed. (I totally remember that happening as a kid! As a result, I never wanted to sleep on the top bunk.)

(Please excuse the crappy photo up top. I should know better than to shoot at night!)

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the light in the house was perfect this week.



 especially in the kitchen. and especially in the mornings.

 oh socal winters. (rain in the forecast!) happy friday!

something handmade

we followed the

something you want
something you need
something handmade
and something to read

gift-giving rule of thumb for the girlies again this year.



the something handmade were beautiful tangram sets d put together based on this pattern from elsie marley.



{a great gift alongside this book.}