tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83160182393964597862024-03-13T19:42:51.670-07:00thread by inspiring threadJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-65998724549092909932011-06-15T17:22:00.000-07:002011-06-15T17:22:09.937-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #727272; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px;">"Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh had gone through; I dream of what it may go through. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had Josh Rouse's song "quiet town" on my you tube playlist for a long time, I love the song and the video, and now he has TWENTY FIVE songs up on noisetrade! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as Noisetrade says so often "completely free, completely legal" but you can donate to the artist. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As taken from the noisetrade page, about Josh Rouse:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For more than a decade, Josh Rouse has been honing his skills as a songwriter; traveling the world, blending his various experiences and channeling them into his work. With songs like "Directions" (which appeared in the Cameron Crowe/Tom Cruise collaboration Vanilla Sky) and "Flight Attendant" (which Glee creator Ryan Murphy hand picked for his Julie Roberts inspired version of Eat Pray Love), not to mention numerous appearances on television staples such as Grey's Anatomy and Parenthood; Josh's music has quietly found its way into the world and todays culture, while remaining timeless and relevant. Summertime, a 25 song sampler covering his most recent albums and EPs, includes a song from his new project, Josh Rouse and The Long Vacations, out on September 27th. You'll also get a taste of his Bedroom Classics Closet Archives series, a digital-only collection which features unreleased singles, radio sessions and live performances, available exclusively at www.joshrouse.com</span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-37141309843625187442011-06-02T12:46:00.000-07:002011-06-02T12:46:03.573-07:00azure ray<iframe width="500" height="314" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NZrwUuYw2to?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-60670160717224785812011-05-23T08:51:00.000-07:002011-05-23T08:52:35.172-07:00<div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/24447856/" target="_blank"><img 560'="" border="0" src="http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/24447856_9NPgrOQo_c.jpg" width="500 height =" /></a></div><div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;">Source: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleyg/4009711651/in/faves-knitchick2/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">flickr.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/tomanguilla/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Julie</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div><div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I wish that I would pick up knitting, or just start crocheting again. It's getting cooler so maybe soon... maybe soon I will start working on that blanket I started last year. Or maybe I will buy some kneedles to work on that "knitting for dummies" book my mom sent me. Instead of just reading it... who sits around and reads a knitting book? (without even knowing how to knit ..or trying for that matter) Apparently this girl.</span></span></div></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-37772738750331253152011-05-19T15:57:00.001-07:002011-05-19T16:05:24.508-07:00<div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/25157619/" target="_blank"><img 311'="" border="0" src="http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/25157619_q0AIKn4R_c.jpg" width="500 height =" /></a></div><div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;">Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8316018239396459786" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">None</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/tomanguilla/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Julie</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm now officially set out to get a picture of Zanax (our cat) like this... I love it. And I usually hate cat/kitten photos. (Except of my own of course) But this is definitely not a... "oh how cute a kitten" kind of photo.. that cat is just cool... </span></span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this picture. And furthermore I would love to be the owner of a shop where this art decorated the wall. It reminds me of when I was very much younger and writing lots of poetry and using anything I could find to make something resembling some kind of art. And going to the governor's school for the arts and learning how to make a gigantic portrait of myself using only ink and my fingerprints. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where did that part of myself disappear to??</span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-79215258742590023122011-03-29T16:22:00.001-07:002011-03-29T16:22:48.823-07:00<div style='padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px'><a href='http://pinterest.com/pin/10538834/' target='_blank'><img src='http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/10538834_Fhc77CUf_c.jpg' border='0' width='475 height ='712'/></a></div><div style='float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;'><p style='font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;'>Source: <a style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;' href='http://aprilandmaystudio.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-i-love-most.html'>aprilandmaystudio.blogspot.com</a> via <a style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;' href='http://pinterest.com/nunips/' target='_blank'>Núria</a> on <a style='text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;' href='http://pinterest.com' target='_blank'>Pinterest</a></p></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-71035936098607412372011-03-19T16:14:00.000-07:002011-03-19T16:14:34.149-07:00felt and crochet yourself and apartment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't lie, when I first saw this picture, I was looking more specifically at the benches and trying to figure out if we could easily do that ourselves in our own apartment, if it would be easier than this long journey of getting ahold of some <a href="http://threadbyinspiringthread.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-sofa.html">palettes</a> (which by the way a student of mine offered to give us some from his business... just before he went on vacation (the week before i'm going on vacation... so thats been put on hold). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so as i was looking at the benches in the picture and looking around our own apartment as I looked at the picture again I noticed the awesome and how could you have missed it the first time bright rug in the center of the photo. it turns out that it is braided and felted wool, and it's just one piece made by fashion designer Dana Barnes, who began making them solely based on the need to soundproof her warehouse studio apartment for her young children. through pinterest I found <a href="http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=194">this blog post</a> and through that blog <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/garden/13rugloft.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2">this post</a> on the new york times site.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend of mine posted this on facebook, and I loved it so much I had to share it here. I love this site <a href="http://www.ted.com/">TED</a>. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I would love to be able to make my own toothpaste <a href="http://weewaldorf.blogspot.com/2010/05/tuesday-tutorial-homemade-toothpaste.html">like this lady has</a>, and actually... she uses it as deoderant too... i'm a little unsure about that part. But I'm no chemist and I have no idea what goes into what so maybe it is all the same thing what we put in our mouth to clean our teeth and under our armpits to keep us from being stinky. so well... i wish i could try it. but these ingredients arent the easiest, maybe not completely impossible, but not so available and probably not at a pretty price, around here. it shall go on the to do list. besides it's only baking soda, essential oil, and coconut oil. we have coconuts... it shouldn't be so hard to find the oil... right?</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-82367156948281806172011-03-12T19:40:00.000-08:002011-03-12T19:40:18.338-08:00a home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://c1.greenbuildingelements.com/files/2008/12/simondalehome500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="390" src="http://c1.greenbuildingelements.com/files/2008/12/simondalehome500.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to share about </span><a href="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this house.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This couple in Whales built it themselves for their small family of four! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://c1.greenbuildingelements.com/files/2008/12/simondalewindow498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://c1.greenbuildingelements.com/files/2008/12/simondalewindow498.jpg" width="306" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the article, about the house:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">well... let the unabandoning begin.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i have been going through lots and lots of thinking and rethinking and studying and trying to figure out a direction for this life that i am living. ... but let me make a clarification there. i'm quite content with the life that i'm living, what i mean by that would be an addition such as... what would life look like if i'm not per say... teaching english forever? i love my students and my classes, but something has been stirring inside to figure out what i'm doing and where i'm going... and that has actually recently led me to the discovery that i want to pursue graduate school! marriage and family counseling masters program here i come... but.. in the meantime and even then i can still gather things that catch my eye right? i am officially declaring i'm not sure what direction this blog is going to go in... so expect the unexpected (because I am too).</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-56910558756682369002010-11-20T20:46:00.000-08:002010-11-20T20:46:31.259-08:00knit or crochet for others<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i am so very incredibly excited about a little discovery i made today! (tonight). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was skimming some photos and projects I ran across a tutorial about crochet. I thought it would be interesting to see (since I myself, although technically i do know how to do it i often just fudge together stuff and i'm not so technical, so i figured a technical 5 minute how to video would do me some good). what i stumbled onto though... was much more than a crochet tutorial! (which i did in fact say ohhh that's how you do that part!). landsend.com was donating their yarn to knitters and crocheters, using a few select patterns they then knitted or crocheted blocks, mailed those blocks off, and there were other groups that put the blocks together into blankets that they are going to donate to families that need some more warmth! through the foundation warm up america. i'm so excited and wish that i could be a part of it!! it sounds like such a great idea. plus: they also shared another tutorial.. on how to knit! i'm excited about that since i'm trying to teach myself.. mind you... im reading a book and haven't bought the needles yet.. but im getting there. this tutorial showed me just how easy it can be! although.. from the looks of it, still harder than crochet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today i ran across this:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a headband that she didn't even sew or crochet. It's braided from a cut up t-shirt! She based the design off a headband from anthropology. i find myself liking it very much, and would love to try to make it... maybe it will get me back into wearing headbands more often... to see her tutorial and visit her site (which i am about to go back and do again:) ) her site is <a href="http://sewhomegrown.blogspot.com/2010/10/diy-braided-t-shirt-yarn-headwrap.html#comment-form">Sew Homegrown</a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i recently posted about our "artesianal sofa" and even though we use/love it... we are still on the look out for a sofa sofa. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The great addition to the bed/sofa at Under The Sycamore is that she added wheels, with stoppers. Which would be nice, because it's not just wood lying on the floor, its moveable - which would come in quite handy since we are constantly cleaning the floor which always looks dirty since it's white and I can't figure out where on earth all the dirt comes from in one day. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are going to undertake this task.. I'm just not sure when yet, hopefully sooner than later... but for now, I am sufficiently content with the excitement to even begin the project at all!</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-4264237621956319912010-11-09T14:57:00.000-08:002010-11-09T15:11:45.392-08:00a jackson pollack<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Julton and I are slowly... and I mean slowly decorating/filling up our apartment. Its okay too that we are going slowly... that way later if we are moving we don't have to give away/get rid of a lot of stuff.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently found this post on <a href="http://alittlebitweird.com/2010/10/27/we-made-a-jackson-pollock-and-a-cool-video/">A Little Bit Weird.com</a> where they made their own Jackson Pollack painting! And to my surprise as we were watching the video Julton responded with, hey let's do that!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So... very soon I will share our new piece of art with you!</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-17711604810877531602010-10-27T15:41:00.000-07:002010-10-27T17:02:05.854-07:00Erin Cole-Baker<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">i fell in love with this song/video when i first saw it. i was watching one of her other videos and trying to decide if i loved it... i wasn't quite committed, and then i saw this and was completely won over. she plays a dulcimer! i saw one of those.... in the cultural center when i was a girl scout (jiji) and was taught a few strums. just like the piano and flute... i couldn't play anything that anyone would like to hear. but... this lady can.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.erincolebaker.com/Erins_website/Welcome.html">Erin Cole-Baker</a></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-31002887267176210052010-10-25T07:33:00.000-07:002010-10-25T07:33:22.394-07:00lemon curd<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">note to self: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">apparently anyone who is anyone that is anyone makes lemon curd. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i see lemon curd being made on almost all of the blogs that i follow. is this a coincidence? maybe. maybe not. it keeps springingup and making me want to make it to figure out why it is so popular. I think its like a pastry filling... but i've also seen it used as a jam... its made from lemons.. which we dont have here. well, we have small limes and big limes, and a fruit that looks like a lemon but its actually sweet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh the puzzle. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be continued....</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-36842223402873803272010-10-23T21:12:00.000-07:002010-10-23T21:12:17.564-07:00crochet it.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a man with a crochet hook. and hes not using it to gauge someone. i like it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i stumbled upon the <a href="http://crochetbloke.blogspot.com/">crochet bloke</a> blog today, and i find it very interesting... it reminds me of a little memory from high school when we photographed a friend of mine to put him in the yearbook because he knits. i cant imagine julton knitting or crocheting something. although he did help me put a few stitches into the scarf i made him last fall...</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8316018239396459786.post-8193600750228301982010-10-23T20:56:00.000-07:002010-10-23T20:56:13.153-07:00tapestries.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i love tapestries. i still have each one ive ever bought. my favorite being one i bought from a roadside (make that - highly advertised highway side) antique shop. when i traveled between south carolina and home i would always stop at them. actually once when my friend karrie went for a visit with me, we mapped out all goodwills within a ten mile distance of the interstates we were taking, to stop at along the way. that was a blast. it definitely took us a while to get home that trip. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that tapestry, my favorite, made it onto our wall today. im pretty excited about it. it makes the whole room feel different. ( I wrote more about this over at my other blog, with more stories... if you would like to see: <a href="http://perandom.blogspot.com/2010/10/tapestry-that-wall.html">perandom</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">also a fun find: this tapestry bound journal which i found in a shop called <a href="http://www.artfire.com/users/HelicopterLeaf">helicopter leaf </a>over at Artfire.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607901793830455503noreply@blogger.com0