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Happy New Year to you! Hope you have a celebratory evening and a restful weekend! I'm playing it low-key as I am still getting rid of a cough I picked up over Christmas. A couple friends are coming over to play games and watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with me.
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Apartment Therapy is doing a Top Posts of 2009 series and sent out photos from April, 2009. How did I miss these photos the first time around?!
I've been away from here again. Picked up a cold from a niece and nephew and was curled up in bed Sunday and Monday. Was worth it though to have spent the time with them over Christmas!
Here's what's been happening lately:
What a great idea to put game pieces into jars!
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What a great idea! And check out the couch and pillows below the portrait (if you can tear your eyes away from the brady bunch wall!) Jennie (of Focus Jennie) got the couch for fifty dollars on Craigslist (and fixed it up to her liking).
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Until I saw the first photo (Yvestown's sun room), I'd never wanted to buy a rug like that. However, I do now, and plan to visit IKEA sometime this weekend to look for one. Also soothing to my eyes are the orderly piles of magazines and the pretty arrangement on the table.
Along with a road trip to IKEA (two hours each way), I plan to relax at home and crochet some squares to make a garland.....which will give in to this urge I have to have many more handmade items in my home..made by me and by others.
Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
images: lolalina & dottie angel & natalie jost
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It hasn't felt Christmasy to me until this week..a few days before Christmas. This Christmas home post helped me get more in the spirit of Christmas!
images: house of bliss & fine little day
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Here's my kind of Christmas tree decorations: pink and red and lots of sparkle!
I have two days to spend at home. My car is doing an odd thing where I'll be driving along and suddenly I'll hear the locks click and then I know I've lost power in my car...the motor quits (but the radio, fan, lights, etc. still work). I'm able to drift to the side of the road, put my flashers on, and then wait a minute before starting my car. I continue on my way but drive with the knowledge that it'll stall.. again. It's baffling the mechanics who can't get the car to stall. I have to give them my Christmas money that's been given to me - to diagnose the problem, so I hope they find the cause! I love my little Sophie (my blue Honda sedan, age 11), but it may be time for a new-to-me car.
Meanwhile, I was given rides by friends to and from church today and now am settled in at home with no commitments and no car to get anywhere, and since I'm out in the country - cannot get to anything by walking. Soooo I have many possibilities facing me: closets to tidy, piles of items for the thrift shop to create, pictures to hang on the wall to personalize my cozy space even more, baking to do, episodes of Criminal Minds to watch (my latest guilty pleasure), plus a stack of library books to peruse. And yes, my "treasure" of a stack of Domino magazines found last week in a used bookstore. I have those to finish getting inspiration from.
Hope your weekend is well. Are you shopping? or cozying up at home?
~ s.
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If I were a teenager....I'd want this room.
Wait. I think I want this bedroom right now! The bedding, rug and window covering would lead to sweet dreams indeed!
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Photographer Leah Verwey has a website called Spaced which highlights creative spaces in the Portland, Oregon area. I'm smitten with her photos of Studio Olivine & Quince Flowers and Events (they share the space). I could barely narrow it down to a handful of photos to share with you.
images: spaced
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Amanda and her husband and her husband's brother turned a garage into an office. Look at this organized, bright, cheerful office. *RAISING MY HAND* I'd like to work there, please. Pretty please?! Wisconsin isn't all that far from Ohio, ya know.
I have been staring at this photo..trying to figure out a way to replicate the scissors (and other items) storage on my office desktop.
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This photo by photographer Lucinda Symons caught my eye in a post on Ill Seen, Ill Said. Had to look Lucinda up and found numerous photos on her website as well as books she's photographed for that my library amazingly has on hand.
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A glimpse of Jill's workspace. I love it all...the totes, the table, the pictures on display, the many magazines neatly stowed away in holders under the table. What a cozy place to work!
images: 36 Shea via Ill Seen, Ill Said
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While it may be snowing with a blizzard alert out there, inside there exists some organized goodness such as this photo from Shanna Murray. I use a bag made by Shanna to hold my digital camera, a small notebook and a pen...and when I received the package last year (two years ago?), I was delighted with the personal note Shanna included in with my order. Even the note was a work of art, but really, are you surprised?!
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It's been snowing in Wisconsin where we're all bracing ourselves for an onslaught of snow tonight. I stocked up on necessities at lunch. Well... necessities if that includes milk, eggs, steak, natural peanut butter, chicken and pasta. Tonight's dinner is steak (was on sale!) and baked potatoes. How's this for getting off track? I wanted to show you some pretty towels.
I only have one tea towel at home, but after seeing these Tikoli towels, I have this urge to stock up on colorful tea towels. I also ran across this home. Lovely!
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Last week was a whirlwind! Sharona was in town, and we always had something to do. Friday was a day in Milwaukee at the Art Museum and battling the cold, cold wind as we walked the downtown streets. Escaping into a chain bookstore then a local bookstore for warmth was quite comforting in itself plus the fact that browsing for books is fun!
Above photos by sunnygirlsf
I visited the third floor of a used bookstore - and found what I'm calling my "treasure": a stack of 16 issues of the out-of-print Domino magazine! There are some duplicates so I may be giving some away here if you'd be interested - or maybe a magazine swap?
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A homemade lunch, originally uploaded by sunnygirlwi.
Sharona (my guest this week) and my friend Anna made a beautiful, delicious lunch today and delivered it to my office. I had the prettiest lunch in the office kitchen! A salad with a side of creamy caesar dressing, a toasted cheese sandwich, and some chips. Plus a little friendly note tucked into the basket as well.
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Eco-Stylista is a great blog on which to find pretty interiors. Today she's posted about House Doctor (love how she clarified it has nothing to do with Hugh Laurie's character on House!)....and the site has a catalogue. You know this is how I'll be spending my day off tomorrow....drinking a hot beverage and perusing the catalog while daydreaming about transporting all the House Doctor items to my humble abode! (speaking of which, two friends help me style up my home a bit this week so I need to take photos to share here!)
UPDATE: House Doctor has a blog, and a pretty one at that!
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I cannot stay away from beautiful white homes! Before seeing the first photo, I had a similar idea. Last night a friend (Thanks, Anna!) spent an hour to complete a project I'd started for the living room wall: stretching pretty IKEA fabrics in gray and orange over some wooden frames of various sizes. It looks amazing! (Yes..I will take photos of it as soon as I install the art over the couch. Didn't want to bother the neighbors last night with pounding nails into walls at 9:30 PM!)
Here's something else for you: a new-to-me blog that is Norwegian - which is where these photos originated.
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A loft found via stylist abigail ahern.
loving the brick walls. my brother
and sister in law live in a town
where they want me to move...
and the town has these great
apartments in a renovated mill.
loads of exposed brick walls
and character. that's what I like.
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Today I'm gazing at this beautiful photo of yarn which is in the home of elsie of a beautiful mess.
alec vanderboom took the photos. more can be found here.
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