Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Interiors, Cottages, Sheds, Hideaways, and Barns


So simple and elegant. Nice family entrance.


Beautiful, warm, and cozy.


Rustic backyard shed decorated with real wood logs.


Wonderful garden shed.


Backyard spa.


Small cottage with wonderful landscaping.


Another small cottage with old-fashioned flowers and shrubs.


A beautiful barn in winter. via
This post has a little bit of everything, doesn't it? I've been weeding out my photos and these are some I've been saving. All of the backyard sheds and cottages are from Sunset. The first two interiors and the last barn in the snow are from blogs. If they are yours, let me know so I can put in a link.



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Vegan Vampire Vamp Alicia Silverstone

She's baaaack. Alicia Silverstone will be making a movie called Vamps with the director of Clueless. I love her. She's been getting a lot of well-deserved attention lately thanks to her new book The Kind Diet. Read more.



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Life's Little Instruction Book, page 154



This is the last page. Boo Hoo. It's been such fun posting this book page by page. Shall I start over?



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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Spring Bulbs Forced Indoors


Narcissus, grape hyacinth, and lily of the valley forced indoors in unfinished wooden flats that were sprinkled with fast-growing grass seed. How nice. Photographed from one of my books: Paradise Contained, Growing and Decorating with Flower Bulbs by Kathryn George and Mary Sears. Photography by William Stites.
Get started now and these spring-flowering bulbs will be ready in time for your Easter table. The lily of the valley sprig in the scallop shell is my photograph from last summer. I love the scent of these tiny flowers best of all.


"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few." Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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Words To Live By


My office isn't quite this neat yet but my project for today is to get rid of all the clutter. Love this work space, don't you? Great poster too. Wonderful advice.
"Work hard and be nice to people."

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12 Rules to Live By - Robert Louis Stevenson



12 RULES TO LIVE BY
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
  • Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
  • Make the best of circumstances. No one has everything and everyone has something of sorrow.
  • Don't take yourself too seriously.
  • Don't let criticism worry you. You can't please everybody.
  • Don't let your neighbors set your standards; be yourself.
  • Do things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
  • Don't borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than actual ones.
  • Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish enmities and grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
  • Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about places.
  • Don't hold post-mortems or spend time brooding over sorrows and mistakes.
  • Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
  • Keep busy at something. A very busy person never has time to be unhappy.


Good Rules For All
~ A great piece of needlework.


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Releasing The Bird

One day soon I hope I'll wake up to see a spring scene outside my window instead of the white stuff I'm looking at right now. We got more snow overnight, just enough to be annoying. I actually did have a bird in the house recently. It fell down the chimney and came out in the furnace room. I opened the door and he flew outside unharmed. That was a big surprise too. via



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Laptops + Fine Art = Perfect Together

I was reading blogs in my Google Reader and this cracked me up. More classical images like this are posted by a special someone celebrating her first blog anniversary. All of the women look right at home behind their laptops, don't they? Happy anniversary Sande.

Forever a blogger, Rosemary.



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