May All Your Plans Come True

Dreams too :) Happy New Year!

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From the archive originally posted here :)

Have a Wonderful Memorial Day

I have been thinking quite a lot lately of "building" a new home. I have also built my share of paper houses and have saved the flattened remains of one I made many years ago, recently discovered, under a bunch of books. If you want to get crafty this holiday, I would recommend a paper house, might be a nice way to remember what a friend or loved one's home looked like, or recall your childhood dream home and bring it to life now. Hope you are having a great holiday!


Building A Paper House, via My Submarine to the Future, thank you Ohdeedoh, Apartment Therapy

I have one more day until I am officially "moved" too! :)

Tiny House Dreams Come True

Tiny dreams can come true, wish on a snowflake not a star? :)

Upstate NY Earlier Today

We decided to take the Poodle on a long slow walk around an abandoned train track down through the cute little town. I am getting my tree and green things fix :)
These are just a few, I took 74 pix! :)







Edit...
I clipped one of my pictures to Polyvore and created a piece :)

Brooklyn Over the Weekend :)

Rick rode the bike around to cool areas of Brooklyn over the weekend, including me and Pippin's old haunt the Boathouse and the infamous green colored pools (seeming solid on top to doggy eyes..). My girly dog Pippin twice tried to walk out on 2 different pools, one was to try and chase some swans, and went into the water and came out a green soggy doggy. That is why these pools are "infamous!" Otherwise the Boathouse is a sweet serene spot in Prospect Park. Brooklyn still has funky old neighborhoods that even though they have crumbly edges are still vibrant.

I am working on a big art project in between all the many other things life throws so I apologize for a slow-down in HLD posts. I will be back! :)

Thanks Rick for the beautiful pix! (Click for bigger views)

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version

"Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do, in my sixth take on Dusto McNeato's "literal video" concept!"

No, I never wished for this, but sometimes you don't know what you want until you see it.. and yes I want this! :)

This video has it all, well, really depends on what you consider "all".. but a slo-mo dove, twirling ninjas, Fonzie clones and more.. that comes close to some sort of "all".
I bet you never knew this classic fave had so much going on.
Enjoy!
Thanks Guy!
This is the original song and video just in case you *ahem* aren't "old" enough to have seen it.. you young whippersnappers! :)

Film Looks Like Fact, Pixar's Up and Edith Macefield

The new animated Pixar film "Up" (opening Friday) starts as an echo of a real lady's life in Ballard Washington. Edith Macefield held her ground while her neighborhood was torn down and giant buildings went up around her. She even refused one million dollars to move and opted to live the rest of her life in her own home. The gentrifying construction was forced to leave her patch of old school neighborhood paradise intact.



Disney and Pixar honored her spirit and acknowledged her story's tie to the film.


The realities of high wind, concrete walls and balloon poppage kept the real life version from looking as dramatic as the film, but it was a nice thought. "Up" sounds like a fun new adventure, Edith would probably approve.

This story also reminds me of another character that refused to budge in the face of "progress"...

Robinson's Bird House

I knew it! Didn't you suspect that some of those bird houses were much bigger on the inside, and quite posh too? Well mystery solved. Adorable!

via Milk and Cookies

Have Your Cake and Eat it too, Little Houses, NYC

Do you dream of a cute cottage with gabled roof and a scenic view, in Manhattan?
Well your dream has come true.. now just to raise the rent $$.. :)

EIGHT stories above Broadway, on the southeast corner of 97th Street, construction is near completion on three little houses that sit atop a turn-of-the-century apartment building. Tan in color, they have jaunty oval windows and tiny gabled roofs. On a recent morning, workers in hard hats scurried about porches resembling those in a community of hillside tract houses.

“I’ve received calls from people asking about those units, especially since they started putting decks up there,” said Edward Balazs of A.A.G. Management, the building’s agent. “There are many different types of penthouses, but it’s rare that they have the gabled roofs.”

It is hard to keep such a secret. Those with the privileged vantage of elevation have been able to watch the little houses go up over the past year and a half, and have followed developments with curiosity, envy and contempt.
“I think they have adjustable central air,” he said of the houses. “And attics.”

“It’s the talk of the building,” said Melissa Gavilanes, “We just sit and stare,” she said. Ms. Gavilanes found the penthouses alluring. “I would get a car,” she said, “and put it out in the driveway. And then I’d add a white picket fence, and AstroTurf. Maybe have a golden retriever playing in the yard.” Read the entire article here
Thanks Rick!

A Rash of Roamin' Gnomes!

Remember reading about Murphy the Gnome who traveled to exotic places? Well looks like this Gnome got it into his head to take off too. He just had a fun night out but still.. watch your Gnomes people! If they get that wanderin' look in their ceramic eyes who knows where they'll end up :)

This gnome, who is normally content to rest in the garden of the Davis home on Vaughn Avenue, recently spent a night gallivanting around town. Michael Gorman photo

Area gnome tours town
By Michael Gorman, THE VANGUARD

A local gnome might be the first of his kind to take a tour of Yarmouth.
The lawn at Carol Davis's home on Vaughn Avenue is filled with garden gnomes and other small statues and figures. Recently, one went missing and was returned, all without Davis and her husband knowing.

"We were away camping," she said. "My daughter found (the gnome) on the front step."
The gnome, who usually enjoys a shaded piece of real estate along the side of the house under a fern and in the company of a troll, was sitting on top of a note when Davis's daughter discovered him.In the note was a series of pictures documenting the gnome's "get-away," as the author called it.

lake milo, next to our house
Originally uploaded by lee-ya.
The pictures show the gnome with no name driving a car and stopping to visit such well-known Yarmouth landmarks as town hall, the Milton horse, Lake Milo and the Trefry farm. Judging by the photographs, the gnome worked up quite an appetite during the trip. Photographic evidence shows he stopped at McDonald's, Subway, Tim Hortons, a grocery store and for a slice of pizza. It would also seem that he feels 49 cents for a pound of bananas is a good deal.

Davis said she and her husband, whom she credits as having the green thumb in the family, got a laugh from the photos and were pleased to see the gnome, which Davis made in a ceramics class 10 years ago, was unharmed.

"I thought it was kind of cute," she said. "It wasn't broken or anything. It was all in one piece and the note was neatly written and the pictures were neatly taken."
Davis and her husband have lived in their home for close to 20 years. In that time, she said, they've never had a problem with their lawn ornaments. She said neither she nor her husband takes the gnome or any of his lawn mates for drives.

"They usually stay in the garden."
Read the article here

Sunny Smile Sunday, Topsy Turvy Time

Click the pic to find out what is UP with the upside down house.
Check out a Flickr set here of an Upside Down House in Poland!

Frisky Fridge

Is your refrigerator running?





Maybe flying? :)

The Two Towers

I'm inclined to believe the scientific proof...:)



It's a Towering issue. Leaning toward one side or the other?


leaning
Originally uploaded by Sharell14.

"Ha Ha I'm leanin' more I'm leanin' more!"
"Hrumpf."