I continue to decorate for Easter. Those who saw this picture (or a similar one) on Instagram: ….will observe after this post that I’m getting pretty close to the bottom of my giant pile of Easter decorating stuff. Today we deal with eggs, the natural follow up to bunnies, of course. See that funny white candle holder thing? I picked … Continue reading
Taking a break from Easter decorating while some paint dries to bring you the latest addition to Abe’s gallery wall. Remember how I said that Milo was the only brother who hadn’t contributed anything to it? We made quick work of remedying that situation. One of the kids got a Lego mosaic kit for Christmas a few years ago. It was … Continue reading
I think there’s some sort of ancient proverb that says something like, “She who starts 14 projects all at once at the beginning of the weekend will have trouble finishing even one of them by the end of the weekend.” Yeah. Back on Friday, I was very proud of my ambitious plans and all the stuff we were going to … Continue reading
Back when I talked about our plans for Ari’s room, I mentioned how much I loved this two toned dresser at Simply Klassic Home: Two toned dresser at Simply Klassic Home ….and how I planned to redo his desk in the same style. Fortunately, I also pinned it to my board of ideas for his room, so when I saw … Continue reading
This is my 100th post, so I tried to think of something really amazing to post about. Instead, I have a collection of small, random things for you. I did my best. Random Thing #1: As I reflect upon my plans to redo every piece of furniture in Ari’s room, make a new headboard for him, create some fabulousness for … Continue reading
My goal is to finish Ari’s tween room before he’s a teenager. Or, preferably, by the beginning of April, because we have a big project in mind for Dave’s spring break. We’ll see how things go, though, as always. But! There has been definite progress since I first posted about the current state of and future plans for Ari’s room. … Continue reading
Update 2/25: My post about where to find bird and botanical images online was surprisingly popular, so I thought I’d make my new discovery about where to find lots more public domain images to print a little more prominent in this post. If you’re just looking for the source for the images, scroll down until you see the fish print. … Continue reading
I guess combing the internet for digitized public domain scientific literature with lovely illustrations is my new hobby. But look what I found! The Biodiversity Heritage Library is: a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open … Continue reading
It was in the 60’s here Saturday while the northern half of the country was being buried under snow, so I decided to give up on coming up with a late winter theme for the banner in the dining room and just go ahead and accept the early arrival of spring (thus guaranteeing 6 inches of snow sometime in the … Continue reading
I’ve had a link to the Botanicus Digital Library bookmarked for quite awhile now. It’s a project from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library to digitize scientific literature and make it available on the internet. Some of the texts they’ve digitized have really pretty pictures in them. Probably they had loftier goals than beautifying people’s walls in mind when they started the … Continue reading