Our house is old for this part of the world…1849. It’s been moved twice, and the current fir floors probably date from the first move in 1893. Aaron and Boyd from Bear Ridge Designs didn’t think they’d ever been refinished. They were not worn to a lovely patina, they were just worn. It was time, […]
Did you ever see an idea that you just wish YOU had had…in fact that almost makes you swoon with sadness that you DIDN’T have it? Well, occasionally I do…and usually it’s an idea so good but so unrepeatable, you can’t even steal it. My stress relief is reading (well okay, “looking at”…) World of […]
I’ve written a lot about Jon Colburn and visited his studio many times, since his partner is my long-time friend and garden mentor Irene Longaker. The other day R and I were in the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artist Archive) and archivist Mary McRobinson had a nice painting of Jon’s over her desk, on loan from […]
And we’re ready around here…I got three small trees and thought I’d decorate them with the left over bits and pieces that pile up when you’re making quilts…and two of them look pretty festive… I never got around to number 3… but the gifts are all wrapped… and now there is time to sit by […]
Katy is just back from an adventure in Japan and she brought us each a present yesterday… We got to choose so there was a mad dash… and I got this one… and low and behold, tied in a hankie (which is brilliant as I actually USE cloth hankies…) with cherry blossom chopsticks was… …a […]
What a week…I narrowly survived the festivities! It’s been foggy…R got this amazing picture the other day…down by the river… I got a tour of the new Children’s Room remodel at the Salem Public Library… was on a panel for city club talking about interesting places in Salem, places of community…(with stellar panelists Sarah Evans, […]
Annually, in the fall when the geese start south, we start thinking of doing something “new” in the house. “The Fall Fix-up” we call it. This year the project is growing like topsy…it began with just painting the trim around the upstairs windows after they were repaired, and then we decided to switch rooms on […]
I took a bunch of my art work over to Monmouth last week for Eric Olsen’s Edward’s Addition open house, and the next day R and I went to see how it came out. The house is very nice, all on one floor, and it was total fun to see my work looking rather nice […]
Well last week we nipped into the AIC’s new modern-wing store because I wanted a catalog for the Zarina show we saw in the museum…when we saw this lamp… It was made by coiling an extension cord around a clear plastic frame, but cost way too much… And then I saw that right NEXT to […]
Yesterday Scott packed up and left…after almost the whole summer at our house (yep..we’ll miss him, his chirpy “Good morning”‘s and his texts to announce imminent arrival at hours like 7:30 a.m…eek). Bathroom number two upstairs is complete… Yay! To review, as R would say, the first part of the summer produced bathroom #1: which […]
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