Under a blue moon

Friday's Favorites

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• I started subscribing to Martha's daily organizational tips (they come via email) and thought this was one of those "Brilliant!  Why didn't I think of that?" ideas for keeping track of your garden.
• DIY tufted ottoman.  I love to see a well executed DIY project like this.
• A slightly easier, lower cost DIY project:  Black lace candles (I'm thinking Halloween....)
• I love fonts and typeface (there is a difference between the two).  This looks like a fabulous book of elegant lettering:  Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age 
• I adored the 1985 Anne Of Green Gables mini series.  It has been spiffed up and re-released as a DVD.  Here is the trailer if you want a sneak peak.  

Well after today's work day I am officially on vacation!  Two whole weeks!  What will I do with myself?  Learn how to relax, hopefully.

Happy Friday Everyone!  Hope yours is spectacular!

8.3.11

Good grief.  Where did the Summer go?  Certainly it can't be August already?  

I am going to be taking two weeks off from work starting next Monday.  I am not going anywhere - I'm just going to putter around the house and sleep in and pretty much just do what ever I want to with each day.  Sounds pretty heavenly to me. 

Work has been taking up all my energy and attention and I really just need to decompress and not think about it for a while.

Yesterday afternoon I decided to take a break in the afternoon and headed over to the Antique Trove in Roseville.  I was looking for milk glass plates but was drawn to this old tobacco tin.  The seller had about two dozen of them in various sizes.  

I'm not a proponent of tobacco by any means but I did love the script and the elegance of black on white.  The lid came off, with a bit of coaxing, and there was a lovely aroma of tobacco still in the tin.  

Here's a funny tid bit of information for you - when I was pregnant with my first child I worked at a General Contractor's office.  Several of the engineers used to smoke pipes and while I was pregnant I LOVED the smell of it.  I would loiter outside their offices just breathing in the aroma.  Yikes!  No concern about second hand smoke or anything.  

Anyway - the tin makes a lovely holder for all my paintbrushes.