06.15.09
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Download the templates for this DIY birdhouse via This Old House.
Here’s a great project, courtesy of none other than This Old House, for bonding with Dad this Father’s Day:
build your own eco-friendly bird feeder.
For anyone who has a some one-liter bottles of tonic water floating around, a jigsaw or a man who’s been wanting a jigsaw, this is a great way to get connect with your kids, give them practice in problem solving, following step-by-step instructions, spatial reasoning, practical construction skills, self-efficacy and ecology.
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06.09.09
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I don’t know about perching on this adorable bench eating curds and whey, but I think it will do the trick for those of us who like to have some place special to sit when we slip on our garden clogs or pry off our boots.
I’d love to put Anthropologie’s Jacoby Bench in our entranceway or down at the foot of the bed. It feels Anglo-Indian to me, the perfect mix of earthy and formal. Which I think is a really nice change in trends from all the 50s modern stuff that is sometimes rather austere and officially overdone. Yet, it’s also a more sophisticated alternative or evolution from the Kashmiri-Moroccan Boho-hippee crap that’s been polluting storefronts and home decór catalogs for awhile. Ahem.
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05.22.09
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Nasturtiums - David Thurston (via the Telegraph)
Been catching up on the garden blogs and news this morning (so far behind, again) and found myself most enchanted by the the Telegraph’s story on the International Garden Photographer of the Year nominees. The photo, above, Nasturtiums, is my favorite in the mix. You can learn more about the photographer, David Thurston, here.
Click here to see all 17 photographs nominated for the Garden Photographer of the Year 2009.
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