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Macrame of which I approve

On Instructables: How to make a hanging potted plant rope holder: kinda.
Step one: Drink a beer.
Then tie some knots. Then another beer.

Seriously though, it’s plain and simple. And he made it for his wife! How cute.

Life these days

Rearranging furniture
Planning garden space
Tickling the children
Reading books on house plants
Babying some seedlings
Googling ‘garden center [name of my town]’
feeding the children outside
washing the children numerous times a day
loathing the sandbox
keeping my mouth shut about it
taking deep breaths of this gorgeous, beautiful spring air.

Boring but satisfying.

The only Coz worth dying for

Via Apartment Therapy Chicago: New Prints From Travis Pitts.
Zombies are fine and all but this made me chuckle audibly.

Harry Potter without Mary Grandpré?

From kottke.org:

Redesigning the Harry Potter covers to look like Penguin Classic books.
Now I can imagine what it would have been like to read those as a kid.

Portlanders sketch

Portlanders — a sketch by Chair on Flickr .
This is not a Chair but it’s still damn cool. I love her drawing style.

I want to go to there.

upstairs living room window by revolutionary girl on flickr.
The light, the chair, the plant: perfect.

“when classic monopolies meet disruptive technologies, it’s not pretty”

Editor explains why The Baltimore Sun is “no longer a newspaper company” - Baltimore Brew. Via @MisterBoh.
Oh MAN is this fascinating stuff. It’s reeeeally interesting to see where The Sun is (or thinks it is) going with things, especially right now as the industry is as delicate as a fluffy dandelion puff.

Bohemian Dowager in a Gay Disco with Julia Child

Apartment Therapy DC | How To: Define Your Style in Words.
The post title comes from a comment by Chris Toronto and earned my prestigious Favorite Phrase Of The Day Award.

Class Dismissed - The Atlantic (March 2009)

Class Dismissed - The Atlantic (March 2009) .
This economic catastrophe is teaching the Xers that their prized self- expression and their embrace of personal choice leads to … the collapse of capitalism. Time to inculcate not those self-satisfyingly hip and rebellious values—innovation! self-fulfillment!—cherished by the creative class (a class, after all, that includes in its […]

Supafine Etsy Shop Update!

Three new listings! It’s a Tax Day Miracle!

From the shop:
THE PETITE SET: 3 patchwork coasters in shades of red and brown, with a tiny sliver of aqua for fun times. Sewn from new and recycled cotton with a thin layer of batting and a linen-colored heavy cotton back. These are quilted tightly in long […]

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