Like a moth to the flame....

More Inspiration pictures. I guess I am in love with white rooms right now.

These are from Domino Magazine (RIP) from Sept. 06. I wish I could give a linky, but they took all those away (bastards). Anyway, this is Michelle and Derek Saunders apt. She is the vp and fashion director for Juicy Couture at the time (maybe still- I don't know) I don't get how her decor is so calming and fantastic and Juicy is known for putting their name on womens butts.

Enjoy-
This is pretty much my table. Maybe that's why I love it so. I also really am liking the bookcases.

I really love the bookcases in this room. They would be easy to replicate. The chairs too- I have 2 already and if I throw a stick where I live ,odds are good it'll land in a similar danish modern chair.

The back deck

back deck
Originally uploaded by thefarmersdaughter

This year I repainted the picnic table and my Grandfathers table in red. It has had an amazing effect on the back deck-much more alive and inviting than ever before.
The farthest table was my Grandpas at his cottage. The table could be 60 to maybe 100 years old. It is pretty much held together with metal plates (I installed) and years of marine paint (he painted).
Every year he threw on a new coat of red marine paint (any color as long as it's red" was what he used to say) . When I got the table I couldn't find red marine paint- only blue. Not wanting a blue table, I painted the tops a light tan. It was horrid.

This year I found a gallon of this brick red exterior paint on the mis tint rack at lowes for 5 bucks for the gallon. I had intended on painting my front door with it- then thought better of that. I have painted these two tables and my bird feeders and poles with it though- and I just love it. Just not enough to paint the front door...

More obsession....

I love these too. They are from a design firm - Meyer Davis.

These are in the residential file- this is called Lake House. But, I have to say- every picture that I saw gave me a case of decor envy.

I am totally obsessed

I have found the perfect decor for me. After doing a touch of the windows shopping I found this

There is oh so much more at the above link. I love, love, love this house!

The basement is full of toxic dust

before- north side of basement. B4
Originally uploaded by thefarmersdaughter

The basement started this weekend looking like this ( well, with more crap strewn around-this is after we cleaned it up )Stage one of the basement re do is getting rid of the carpet and painting the floor.

We pulled up all the carpet and the pad (which was amazingly NOT disgusting-no water damage or pet damage and the pad was intact ) and we got to this-

Ok, it didn't look like this. We actually had a rather nice cement pad with no holes or major cracks but it had long strips of carpet adhesive on it. The section above had 3 long strips-each 8-12 inches wide that ran the length of the space. The Mr. used gallons of adhesive remover and scraped-then he sanded the entire floor. He killed the sander yesterday doing it and the entire room is covered in toxic dust. Tonight we clean it. Once it dries (a day or two) then we can paint this section.
Sadly, this is only half of the basement- we have another identical section to do next week....

lipstick on a ....

My baby lost his first tooth

I knew it was loose. The hygienist had told me a few months ago it was getting ready. Yes, he's a bit young , but apparently it's not how young you are that matters, it's the order the teeth fall out. He's right on target with that so no worries!
I was cooking in the kitchen when he walks in with the tooth in his hands and gives it to me telling me "it fell out" no crying, no freaking out, nothing like that at all.
So, we are now firmly telling the tooth fairy lie-the one I swore that I would never tell.

Why do all the great kid legends- Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy- all have to break into the house to give your kid something?

Kiddie meme- lets see what I can remember

Anything to avoid the wall to wall coverage of MJ's death today. I have to say, I am much more overcome with grief over Farrah's passing than Mj's though.

Kiddie Meme
.What were you afraid of as a child?
Rabbits. I saw some 50's horror movie as a child with large (car sized) evil bunnies. Maybe radiation? Anyway- I had horrid dreams about giant bunnies eating me for years. When I got older I was so scared of my back yard that I refused to be in it after dark. Which was a problem- since the only way to get the car in the garage was through the alley in-wait for it-the back yard. I was so scared that for a while I would hop the curb with my vw, drive across the front yard and park on the side of the garage. I knew my dad would be so mad and yell, but that was better than going in the back yard. I think (to this very day) that it was haunted.




What were your favorite books as a child? Do you ever reread any of them? If so, how do they hold up? Were there ever any that gave you nightmares, but you had to finish them anyway?
As a small child I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I have never re read them . When I was older I read grown up books- Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz books.


As a child, how did you feel about other children? Were your friends mostly your age, mostly older, or mostly non-existent?
I had friends. I went to a small, church school so there were about 15 girls in my class and 5 boys. When we got into 4 or 5 th grade there was quite a war to see who would get to dance with a boy during dance classes for gym. It was rough on the friendships. I am still in contact with the 3 girls I was closest to growing up though.


.What was your favorite toy? Do you wish that you still had it? Do you still have it or have you bought another off eBay?
I had a ton of toys. I had every barbie doll , car, plane, house, van, camper- you name it. I loved the 3 story barbie town house. It seemed so cosmopolitan to me at the time. Then, I would take barbie out to the back yard and have her play with GI Joe and the planet of the Apes figures in the yard. I never ever liked baby dolls. Or any other doll than Barbie now that I think of it. I did have a favorite plaything when I was small- a Mrs. Beasley doll. I still have that.

well, that's it. I got hi speed today and new cable so I am off to play!

Spring Vs. Summer.

I can finally say summer, because it's finally warm. Not hot- but at least I'm not wearing a coat. The first pics were taken in April of this year, the bottom two were taken this week. The homestead changes a lot once the plantings come in.

April-

Now-

early summer pictures

The weather has been pretty horrid here. Cold, dreary. We had frost not long ago. But here is my front garden beds. If you remember I re did the second door beds last year. They were like this - the door that had no way to get to it-

The mr. removing the rotten wooden step and me tearing out all of the grass-
trying my hand at being a mason....

Well, this year this is what it looks like---

I added the triangle of plantings at the foreground and added more plantings. I also pulled some grasses and placed them in the yard with an old root the Mr. pulled out of the river.

Here is the front beds....

next up- pics of the new yard and back beds...

garage sale 2009

garage sale 2009
Originally uploaded by thefarmersdaughter

This is what I have been working on for the last week or so. There are two tents out of this picture to the left. One 10x10 ft canopy, the other canopy was 10x20 ft. There was a ton of stuff out, I sold a ton of stuff, but there still is too much left, so I guess we are going to have another one in July.
yippee......

my son talked to God.

at least, that what he tells me. Here is the semi cliff notes version.
First, we are not religious. I went to Lutheran church school, and I believe in God, just not religion or churches much. SO, I have spoken to Max about God before, but it's not an overwhelming topic in our house. He doesn't go to a religious daycare. Our parents are not religious either.

He and I were talking one night about rules. Specifically how when I am not around, another adult is in charge. (it's been an issue, not a big one, but still....) So he looks at me and tells me that God told him that adults think they are in charge, but really God is in charge. I asked where he heard this. He told me when he was a baby in daycare. I told him he didn't GO to daycare as a baby- just this year. He looked at me like I was an idiot and told me-" not this daycare- GODS DAYCARE. " When he was a baby "before God gave me to you" . Those exact words came out of his mouth.

I have always wondered (in my head, not out loud) if babies remember things from before they were born. I still don't have the answer for that of course. But this gave me something to ponder.

I'm baaack! I love vacations!

well, I've been gone. I took a trip with the boy to Pennsylvania, Lancaster to be exact. Just to chill out, slow down, see the sights. It was fantastic- here are some pictures-

This is Renninger's antique market- but it's the farmers market side that this picture is from- I loved the hex sign painted on the barn

These are swear are crop circles- but I couldn't get high enough to make sure!


It was foggy there every morning!

I just thought this was pretty

Then when I came home my apple tree has blossomed-

There will be more soon- I have been working on the landscaping and doing some wonderful garage sale shopping (3 dollar Herman Miller chair anyone?)

gas mask pancake.

gas mask pancake.
Originally uploaded by thefarmersdaughter

or maybe a skull. What ever it is, I made it. No, it's not going on ebay- it went into my stomach.