Not feeling very inspired today, but this image from As-Found seriously made my day.  I love that blog.

My dear friend Kim made these for me as an early birthday present.  I love them!  They’re floursack towels that have been embroidered (by her) with the likenesses of my husband and me.  I hung them in my kitchen window as a sort of valance. Thanks again Kim.

I found these placemats the other day (a set of 100- still in plastic) at my favourite thrift store, but didn’t buy, as I was feeling cheap… I went back today and they were still there!  I took it as a sign. If anyone is interested in buying any, email me and I can list them on Etsy.  Otherwise they’ll be fun to wrap little presents with.   Even though I said I’m sick to death of woodland creatures, I was charmed by the faux crosstitch on these…

Yesterday, we took the train to Long Beach for a visit to the Aquarium of the Pacific.  Did you do anything fun on your Labour Day weekend?

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Just in case you hadn’t seen it already.

Also, on the “how to” tip, a little silly video of Miranda July “making buttons” at one of my favourite local restaurants… enjoy.

So not to bite Andy’s style, but I just had to post about an Ebay auction that I lost..

A beautiful vintage pin from Expo ‘67, the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal, where Buckminster Fuller erected a geodesic pavilion.  I’m so bummed about losing this one!  Paperat, you’re a lucky son-of-a-gun.

I’m quite enamoured of this tray I found today at a thrift store… (sorry, my camera is still broken so the photos aren’t so hot).

My husband had the fantastic idea to build a geodesic dome trellis and document the progress… this summer will be the summer of the Bucky garden! I was looking for things on Ebay and found this book… awesome!! Not cheap either. But certainly in the vein of what my husband is planning. Being the plant person, I’m in charge of what gets to go on the vine… at the moment I’m thinking a variegated creeping fig… it clings closely to whatever it’s climbing, so it will climb nicely, and the two-tone colours will be nice… my other idea is clematis.

Perhaps next we can build a greenhouse…

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