I know that white tiles with white grout can be hard to keep clean, but man does it look nice! Check out the diversity of these kitchens. Hard to believe they use the same type of tiles throughout.
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For sources, see Day 1 of the 2009 Week of Design.
I love taking an outdoor shower. With the sky above you and, preferably, river rocks or a smooth deck beneath you while wearing your birthday suit, one feels a strong connection to the natural world. I vividly recall the few outdoor showers I’ve taken with such fondness and incredible mental clarity. Indoor showers just don’t compete.
I love the idea that an outdoor shower can be as simple as a hose and bucket. Of course, the ones below are a little more exciting for me.
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For sources, see Day 1 of the 2009 Week of Design.
It’s hard to believe that our last Week of Design was back in 2007! I received so much positive feedback from you and had such fun working on it that I’ve been hoping to do another one ever since. Here we are, one toddler and two years later, and I’ve finally pulled another set of design inspiration photo collages together. We’re still renters with no plans to buy, but I continue to save photos on my hard drive for our Inspiration Files. I’m thrilled to share a small portion of these beautiful photos with you over the next seven days. Enjoy!
Thank you to the following sources for photos and inspiration: A Browner Brown, alex the girl, decor8, Design*Sponge, Eddie Ross, Flickr, How About Orange, inchmark, Nesting, Oh Happy Day, Ohdeedoh (and the other Apartment Therapy blogs), sfgirlbybay, Simple Lovely, Small Notebook, The Inspired Room, the seventy tree, Tiny Decor Blog, The Yvestown Blog, and the following magazines: Cookie, Dwell, Domino (miss you so much!), Natural Home, Real Simple, Sunset.
Love those sites!
Do you see a photo of yours and I missed you? Please let me know right away and I’ll add you to the list. SO sorry about that and thanks!
Here’s Little Miss Serious on a walk:
We love fall weather here in California: warm during the day (60-70s) and crisp (40s) at night! Perfect for snuggling with my loves.
Several times a year our local farms host open houses and we get to peep inside. This was one such weekend so this morning Miss Leyba got to make some special animal friends and we all got to sample delicious goat cheese and ice cream! (You know that was Mom and Dad’s favorite part. Local, organic, creamy goodness.)
Here is Miss Leyba excited about the chickens (above) and confussed that they won’t let her pet them or get any closer (shown below).
Eventually she got very grumpy about the whole thing and then cried when we wouldn’t let her pet a brooding chicken. Go figure that the only chicken in the pen that was sitting still enough for her to get close was a biter. (I comfort myself that she would have cried harder and longer had she actually pet the hen and had it bite her, as the farmer assured us it would have.)
We then moved on to see a mama goat and her kid:
He was fascinated with our daughter.
Doesn’t she smell so good?
Oh, wait, it was the hat that he was after! Evidently that was the delicious treat. (Reminds me of that beloved book Gregory, the Terrible Eater.)
Initially she was very surprised by his attention and then truly thrilled.
The Next farm activity? Riding the tractor, of course!
That lasted exactly five seconds.
(Yes, it was turned on and, therefore, noisy and vibrating. Not so much fun for the younger kids, evidently.)
All in all, she had a wonderful time and sobbed hysterically the entire way home cause she wasn’t ready to leave (when is she ever?).
Can you tell she’s working on four canine teeth, so she’s in a real pain, and possibily having a growth spurt all at once? Poor emotional babe.
Either that, or we are mean and horrible parents, who wanted to get out of the heat and head home for lunch. That’s a good reason to cry too, I suppose. Ahem.