Monday, March 29, 2010

Fabric Basket, Bin, Bucket Tutorials (Sewing)

Tutorial: Fabric Basket

No-interfacing Storage Basket Tutorial

Square-bottomed canvas bucket with TUTORIAL

Collapsible Storage Baskets

I have often admired some of these crafts on Etsy but have wanted to make my own. Now I can and so can you. Thank me later. The first one would be good for Easter. It's not necessary do do the little pieces sewn together if you have a nice print you want to use instead. I'm excited, aren't you?

Original source for these tutorials found @ How About Orange but some were no longer available or missing pages.



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Great Office With Cubbies

I could work here and be so happy as long as I had a comfortable chair instead of this stool and an outside view to the left of the computer screen. I actually once converted a walk-in closet into an office and loved it.


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English Country In The Smoky Mountains

Toad Hall is composed of five log cabins set in the wooded foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee.

At one end of the great room, the open kitchen is a master chef’s kitchen. The pair of French still lifes are 18th century. The oak rack is 19th-century English.

The bedroom’s walls and ceiling inspired the high-contrast palette of the furnishings, including the cream bed hangings for the hickory-log four-poster.

The porch—“an extension of the great room”—looks out to Tadpole Cottage, left, and another outbuilding called The Writer’s Cottage. The wonderful porch is decorated in the casual vernacular that relates to the architecture of a log cabin.

Tadpole Cottage, a two-room pondside folly, is used exclusively by guests. The couple—the visionaries behind the nearby luxury hotel Blackberry Farm—built all the cabins from antique timbers. Read A Tale of Toad Hall.


10-photo slideshow photography by Jeff Herr for Architectural Digest

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Wonderful Playroom

Don't you love the hand prints decorating the walls? Such a nice happy basement space. Hope your day was filled with fun. See you tomorrow, Rosemary.



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Life's Little Instruction Book | Volume II | Page 6


I have always wondered how the son turned out with all of this sage advice from his wonderful father? Does anybody know? Isn't #535 the sweetest thing you've ever read? Swoon.



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Sunday Before Easter

I think I'm rested now for a full afternoon of real estate showings. This little rabbit is not sick, but trying to catch all the naps he can for next week. It will be the busiest time of the year for the Easter Bunny. I hope it's warmer than today. I was always so disappointed when I had to wear my winter coat over my new Easter dress when I was a child.



first photo: Twig Hutchinson, Stylist

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Winter Is Back


I had to locate my down jacket, my mittens, and Irish fisherman's knit hat this morning for a quick walk with Webster. It's freezing. Spring is on the back burner again. The warm weather we had for a while was just a preview of what's to come. I don't have snow but the ground is freezing again. Boo Hoo. Oh well, what can you do? Build a fire and drink hot drinks. Sounds good to me. Enjoy your Sunday. I'm having a lazy morning powering up for some real estate showings this afternoon. Later, Rosemary.


Images: Pixdaus ~ I love the snowy sunrise.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Sunday Morning Coffee In Bed

I hope I get to spend my Sunday morning like this. Goodnight for now. See you tomorrow.


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Wonderful Kitchen With A Great Sign

This kitchen would be wonderful without this sign but it is extra-special with it. Agreed? It is so much better than cabinets. Maybe not as practical but totally wonderful.


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Vintage Marmalade Jars Decorate Pantry

I have two of these old Dundee Marmalade jars on my desk to hold pencils. They have all but disappeared from the market place. I used to find them at garage sales and flea markets on a regular basis. They look nice along with the other transferware pots in this pantry cupboard, don't they? Have a great weekend.



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Beatrix Potter With The Real Peter Rabbit

This is a genuine photo of Beatrix Potter with a pet rabbit on a string leash.


I highly recommend the DVD on her life called MISS POTTER

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Star Bright ~ Goodnight

Goodnight. Sleep tight. Make a wish on a star before you turn off the lights. See you tomorrow. Rosemary


Scanned from one of my vintage illustrated book for Children.
Mother Goose Rhymes 1938


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1948 Buick Streamliner


Now that is one beautiful automobile. I have never seen one, have you?
1948 Buick Streamliner by Norman E. Timbs



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