Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Vintage Tin Noisemaker to Ring In 2010
This vintage tin noisemaker is amazingly loud. I'll use it to ring in the New Year.
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Mourning Picture Circa 1811
American painted silk with watercolor and ink. Executed by Sally Miller at the Litchfield Female Academy, Circa 1811, Litchfield County, Conneticut. A fine example of schoolgirl art, one of eight known examples from this Academy. From the American Decorative Arts collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Poligny Virgin and Child
Metropolitan Museum of Art ~ more details ~ limestone carving with paint and gilding. This French antiquity is so very beautiful.
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50 Best Interior Design Blogs Worldwide
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Puppy Love
Age 4 Weeks [Christmas and New Year card depicting portrait of dog with stick and brick wall].
Don't you just want to pick him up and kiss his belly? He couldn't even sit up by himself for his first portrait.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Moss Chair Tutorial
Step by step instructions for making a Moss Chair. This is so beautiful. Be on the lookout for a good sturdy chair somebody put out at the curb so you can make one of these for your garden in the spring. I have an old adirondack chair that has seen better days. I think I'll repair it and make one of these in about 5 months. Those of you that are already in the "gardening zone" can make one right away. Isn't this a wonderful thing?
Grass chair outside the Hotel de Ville in Paris. I would imagine the same instructions would work for a grass chair too. Just push some dirt in the chicken wire and sprinkle grass seed.
Let me know if you make one! You could use a bench too.
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Beautiful Photo with Book
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Life's Little Instruction Book page 149
It's Monday and this is going to be one mixed up week with another holiday weekend at the end. The last week of 2009 - didn't the year seem to fly by now that it's almost over? I'm not much of a shopper but I might check out some office supply stores to see if anything is on sale that would make me more efficient in my home office. This is the last week to buy something I might be able to write off as a business expense. I must write tip #496 from Life's Little Instruction Book on my hand with a Sharpie or Ball Point Pen to remind me not to buy something just because it is on sale!!! I can't think of anything I really need except a dumpster..HaHa. Whenever I run across something downstairs that I don't know what to do with, I always take it to my third floor studio and it is packed right now. I hope it will look a little better when I put all the Christmas decorations away. That's something I want to do this week. I usually wait until after the New Year but I am going to do it sooner rather than later this week.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Eleanor Roosevelt | A Woman Is Like A Teabag
Jessica, The Pet Hippo Video
This is the cutest thing I have ever seen!
Have You Written A Letter Lately?
"If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter."
This graphic design/photo by Avi Abrams says it all, doesn't it? Look around and see if you can find your old fountain pen and write a New Year's greeting to someone. I still have the real ink pen I got as a high school graduation gift. Send people handwritten notes if you didn't get around to sending out Christmas cards. Just do it! Snail mail is a good thing.
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Top Ten End-of-Year Home Office Upgrades
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Dog People Are Lucky People
Life's Little Instruction Book page 148
This evergreen bough is to remind you to keep watering your tree if it is a real one. It must be getting very dry by now if you put it up before Christmas. My holiday was wonderful and I hope yours was too. Webster loves his new polar fleece blanket so much he won't get out of his bed this morning. That's a first! He usually rushes back to my bedroom to jump in my bed while it's still warm when I get up to make coffee. Have a great weekend. Be back later, Rosemary
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Reflecting on Christmas
"When the (Christmas) celebration is over may you turn in your memory the love, the giving and the receiving." An illustrated quote from the book, A Christmas Blessing.
I have to say my Christmas was absolutely wonderful. Hope yours was too. Rosemary
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