Try going slowly to make the process smoother. And watch that coat.
* This article was originally published here
Saturday, February 29, 2020
The low-key, high-style approach to crafting gardens for the stars
The English designer Jo Thompson deconstructs her work before an eager audience.
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* This article was originally published here
L.A. Affairs: I never told her how much I loved her
Although she is gone now, she still reminds me that we can find love in the most unlikely of places. I wonder if she knew the many lives she touched.
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Q&A: Jane Francisco editor of Good Housekeeping on organizing
The Washington Post hosts a live chat on home and design every week.
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* This article was originally published here
Back in the Kitchen
Hello everyone,
We are enjoying a little promise of
spring here the past few days but
I am sure we will some winter
days left too.
On our trip over to Halifax a couple
of weeks ago I bought a new tray
and the faux bouquet at Ikea.
A faux bouquet works good on this
table because the heat pump near by
is too hard on a real bouquet and I
have to say it looks pretty real to me.
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Friday, February 28, 2020
My DIY Finished Floors - Part 1 - Can you sand your floors with a hand sander?
I am finally ready to share my DIY finished floors with you!!
Truthfully, my floors have been finished for a while now but I've been procrastinating writing this blog post because I knew it would be a super long one. I’ve taken tons of pictures and I have a lot of information to share and so that is why I just decided to break this post up into 3 parts. Today in Part 1 I wanted to share more
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* This article was originally published here
Thursday, February 27, 2020
‘Alexa, turn on the shower’: Smart devices are transforming the bathroom
From the toilet to the mirror to your toothbrush, innovation invades the throne room.
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* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
‘Alexa, turn on the shower’: Smart devices are transforming the bathroom
From the toilet to the mirror to your toothbrush, innovation invades the throne room.
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* This article was originally published here
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Black grit on the faucet is not necessarily a problem
If they’re manganese deposits, bleach will take them off and they won’t do any harm.
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* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Monday, February 24, 2020
Black grit on the faucet is not necessarily a problem
If they’re manganese deposits, bleach will take them off and they won’t do any harm.
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Sunday, February 23, 2020
UPDATE ON A PROJECT WITH LADISIC FINE HOMES
Boy did I feel all of your love and support after my post. You know.....sometimes it is hard to know what to share...or how much to share but if I can help someone who is having the same feelings I am then it's worth it....
You know how social media is....we try to make it seem like we are "all that" and life is perfect....but really it's just smoke and mirrors because we know that life
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* This article was originally published here
Monday, February 17, 2020
Erskine: In this common house, we raised four uncommon kids
We raised four kids in this old house. There were birthdays and proms, bloody knees and Scout meetings. We changed a million diapers here. We matched a lot of socks.
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THOUGHTS ON MY LIFE RIGHT NOW
Y'all I hate to be this way....I don't have much to share right now as I try to dig myself out of this black hole I have been in for the last week. Some of the things that have been thrown at me have brought me to my knees....with these thoughts running through my mind ......what the heck did I do to deserve what feels like hatred from someone I was with for 30 years? A need to punish....
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Use warming mats to heat your seeds | Alys Fowler
Rubberised pads are a cheap, compact alternative to a greenhouse
All my current fantasies are about greenhouses. I am tortured by emails from fancy manufacturers seducing me with modern glass cubes and cute-as-a-button wooden structures. Imagine standing in a greenhouse, I think, as I play Tetris with seedling trays on countertops at home. What starts off on windowsills quickly sprawls on to any flat surface.
So, for a fraction of the price of a greenhouse, I’ve been trying out BioGreen’s rubberised warming pads as a new solution. You sit the seed trays on flat plastic mats that heat the soil to 5-10 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature. If you stick a bit of recycled polystyrene underneath, and add in some cheap LED grow lights with a timer, you’ve got a pretty good propagation unit.
Continue reading...* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Use warming mats to heat your seeds | Alys Fowler
Rubberised pads are a cheap, compact alternative to a greenhouse
All my current fantasies are about greenhouses. I am tortured by emails from fancy manufacturers seducing me with modern glass cubes and cute-as-a-button wooden structures. Imagine standing in a greenhouse, I think, as I play Tetris with seedling trays on countertops at home. What starts off on windowsills quickly sprawls on to any flat surface.
So, for a fraction of the price of a greenhouse, I’ve been trying out BioGreen’s rubberised warming pads as a new solution. You sit the seed trays on flat plastic mats that heat the soil to 5-10 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature. If you stick a bit of recycled polystyrene underneath, and add in some cheap LED grow lights with a timer, you’ve got a pretty good propagation unit.
Continue reading...* This article was originally published here
THOUGHTS ON MY LIFE RIGHT NOW
Y'all I hate to be this way....I don't have much to share right now as I try to dig myself out of this black hole I have been in for the last week. Some of the things that have been thrown at me have brought me to my knees....with these thoughts running through my mind ......what the heck did I do to deserve what feels like hatred from someone I was with for 30 years? A need to punish....
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Why Jerusalem artichokes pack a real punch
Neither an artichoke, nor from Jerusalem, these bulbous tubers are easy to grow and offer pretty flowers and a delicious vegetable
As an ethnobotanist, I am forever fascinated by how we have come to eat the crops we do. Despite there being an estimated 50,000 edible plant species on Earth, most of us exist on the harvests from fewer than 100 species, meaning we are missing out on 99.8% of the options available. In fact, 60% of the calories that fuel humanity come from the seeds of just three grass species: wheat, rice and corn. Having grown and tasted hundreds of these alternative edibles, I can confirm that there are sometimes very good reasons why some just haven’t been popularised. “Edible”and “tasty” are often different things. However, once in a while there is an example of a crop that ticks all the boxes, yet remains totally undervalued. The Jerusalem artichoke is probably the easiest and most rewarding vegetable crop around – and now is a great time to get ordering them.
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* This article was originally published here
First look: Van Cleef & Arpels unveils renovated jewelry boutique with Champagne bar and dining room
The renovations at Van Cleef & Arpels' Beverly Hills jewelry boutique include a second-floor 18-seat dining room, a Champagne and juice bar and a special exhibition space.
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
First look: Van Cleef & Arpels unveils renovated jewelry boutique with Champagne bar and dining room
The renovations at Van Cleef & Arpels' Beverly Hills jewelry boutique include a second-floor 18-seat dining room, a Champagne and juice bar and a special exhibition space.
* This article was originally published here
Why Jerusalem artichokes pack a real punch
Neither an artichoke, nor from Jerusalem, these bulbous tubers are easy to grow and offer pretty flowers and a delicious vegetable
As an ethnobotanist, I am forever fascinated by how we have come to eat the crops we do. Despite there being an estimated 50,000 edible plant species on Earth, most of us exist on the harvests from fewer than 100 species, meaning we are missing out on 99.8% of the options available. In fact, 60% of the calories that fuel humanity come from the seeds of just three grass species: wheat, rice and corn. Having grown and tasted hundreds of these alternative edibles, I can confirm that there are sometimes very good reasons why some just haven’t been popularised. “Edible”and “tasty” are often different things. However, once in a while there is an example of a crop that ticks all the boxes, yet remains totally undervalued. The Jerusalem artichoke is probably the easiest and most rewarding vegetable crop around – and now is a great time to get ordering them.
Continue reading...* This article was originally published here
DIY Rustic Lamp Hack
Giving an old lamp new life is a super easy project that will completely overhaul the look and feel of the room! To make your own DIY rustic lamp you just need an old lamp, some fabric glue, rope, paint and around 1 hour of your time. A great hack for making something old new again. You can see the full tutorial here.
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Browsing: What are the bestselling sofas in L.A. right now?
New color shades and flexibility in use are among the selling points of these popular sofas.
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Saturday, February 15, 2020
Missing Plot 29’s healing powers | Allan Jenkins
After enforced rest for garden and gardener, it’s time to (slowly) start spring
I have been exiled from the allotment for a few weeks now in a smaller world of pain. The plot is at the top of a hill and walking steep slopes has been beyond me. The meditation medication it brings me has been unavailable. This weekend I think all that will change. Though it may involve taxis.
A garden, I think, responds to constancy and attention. Fidelity, regularity and care are what works, as in any relationship. It doesn’t do so well when these are withdrawn, no matter the sound reason or intention.
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A Touch of Romance
Happy weekend!
I hope you all had a lovely Valentine's
Day yesterday.
My husband and I decided to take a
little trip to Nova Scotia for a few
days so I am a little behind here
on my blog.....again!
Anyway, it was nice to get away
but nice also to be back home.
I love this romantic tea set with
dainty rosebuds on it.
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
An L.A. home where homoerotic artist Tom of Finland lived is a shrine to his legacy
The famed homoerotic artist Tom of Finland spent the last decade of his life in a 1911 Craftsman house in Echo Park. Now, the home is command central for all things Tom of Finland — a lived-in museum for both devoted fans and the simply curious.
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Flaws and effect: Jenna Lyons’s ‘imperfect’ New York loft
Jenna Lyons, the former creative director of J Crew, uses her refurbished New York apartment to show off her love of objects with a past
Jenna Lyons, style titan and former executive creative director of J Crew, admits to a lifelong appreciation for the timeworn, which underpins her vibrant sense of design. “I love a sense of history in something. I love a patina, I love seeing someone else’s touch, or seeing a stain, or seeing a nick or a chip. Materials get soft and they get round and they change colour,” she says. This passionate embrace of imperfection can be seen throughout her three-bedroom loft in New York’s SoHo neighbourhood, which she spent two years renovating.
When she was looking for a new home, a long stint living in a Brooklyn brownstone informed her list of prerequisites – she wanted it to be all on one floor and large enough to accommodate the “main parts of life”, like cooking, eating and hanging out. “I rent the apartment downstairs as my office, but when I bought the loft above it was all open plan and hadn’t been touched in about 40 years,” recalls Lyons, who is currently working on a top-secret beauty project, designing a hotel in the Bahamas and gearing up to launch a lifestyle television series and e-commerce site in the summer.
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Seven beauty treatments for your future Oscars moment
Stars aren't the only ones who should look great, right? Here are fresh beauty and skin-care options around L.A. worth trying.
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He broke up with me by text. But I wish he had just ghosted me
Ghosting gets a worse rep than it deserves, in my opinion. As both a former ghoster and a ghostee, I find it way more merciful than a text with stupid excuses.
* This article was originally published here
Chris Erskine: In this common house, we raised four uncommon kids
We raised four kids in this old house. There were birthdays and proms, bloody knees and Scout meetings. We changed a million diapers here. We matched a lot of socks.
* This article was originally published here
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