Showing posts with label Collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Collecting. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2011

What Makes A Home?

Home

It's different for everyone

Unique

Depending on the people that live there.

Here is a peek at what home means to me...





The cats have taken a liking to my library. I took some laundry baskets and made HIS and HERS beds. Nikki (the calico, HER) loves her bed. Joe (the black and white HIM) lays in front of his bed. Go figure.



This is my inspiration board I keep at my desk. Yes, I saved the big block Hershey's bar, paper. I'm inspired by chocolate...what can I say? I love the house decorated for Christmas and the iced tea recipes on the right. I have eclectic interests:)



"D" is for Dawn. Also Daring. Delirious and Dorky. No comment.





I collect Boyd's.  I love the nostalgia of teddy bears.



I also collect antique pictures...the bottom one is of cotton pickers from the early 1900's. (no relation) The top picture is of my great grandmother. People never smiled back then. I have no idea where I get my "camera ham" genes.



This is a picture my son created when he was six, in first grade art class. I have always loved this picture. It is a water color of wild flowers. I framed it and hung it in my library. It makes me happy.



Yes, okay...I collect antique books too. I know I have a running theme of all things old. I really do think I have an old soul. I'm not kidding.



I have a quirky thing going on for architectural salvage as art. My husband totally does not get this about me. He thinks I'm weird...I'm not here to debate that fact. I hung this piece on the wall over the fireplace mantle. Maybe I should say, my husband hung it....I "helped" him by telling him to move it a little to the left, um....now down a little....no, up on the right corner....tilt it..... Okay. Put it there. Are you sure? Yes. I'm going to put a hole in the wall. Are you positive. Yes. Sure? No. Let's start over.



These are fake. I love sunflowers. I can't grow them. The wind at our house beats them all down. At least fake ones don't die. They just get dusty.



Enamel bowl. Cute, huh? Perfect for snacks.



This is what my laundry room looks like most of the time. Seriously, do we need clean bath towels? Can't we all just air dry?





This is the view from my front porch this morning. Our neighbor is working very hard to plant, since we've had a string of days without rain.

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What things "make home" for you?

What Makes A Home?

Home

It's different for everyone

Unique

Depending on the people that live there.

Here is a peek at what home means to me...





The cats have taken a liking to my library. I took some laundry baskets and made HIS and HERS beds. Nikki (the calico, HER) loves her bed. Joe (the black and white HIM) lays in front of his bed. Go figure.



This is my inspiration board I keep at my desk. Yes, I saved the big block Hershey's bar, paper. I'm inspired by chocolate...what can I say? I love the house decorated for Christmas and the iced tea recipes on the right. I have eclectic interests:)



"D" is for Dawn. Also Daring. Delirious and Dorky. No comment.





I collect Boyd's.  I love the nostalgia of teddy bears.



I also collect antique pictures...the bottom one is of cotton pickers from the early 1900's. (no relation) The top picture is of my great grandmother. People never smiled back then. I have no idea where I get my "camera ham" genes.



This is a picture my son created when he was six, in first grade art class. I have always loved this picture. It is a water color of wild flowers. I framed it and hung it in my library. It makes me happy.



Yes, okay...I collect antique books too. I know I have a running theme of all things old. I really do think I have an old soul. I'm not kidding.



I have a quirky thing going on for architectural salvage as art. My husband totally does not get this about me. He thinks I'm weird...I'm not here to debate that fact. I hung this piece on the wall over the fireplace mantle. Maybe I should say, my husband hung it....I "helped" him by telling him to move it a little to the left, um....now down a little....no, up on the right corner....tilt it..... Okay. Put it there. Are you sure? Yes. I'm going to put a hole in the wall. Are you positive. Yes. Sure? No. Let's start over.



These are fake. I love sunflowers. I can't grow them. The wind at our house beats them all down. At least fake ones don't die. They just get dusty.



Enamel bowl. Cute, huh? Perfect for snacks.



This is what my laundry room looks like most of the time. Seriously, do we need clean bath towels? Can't we all just air dry?





This is the view from my front porch this morning. Our neighbor is working very hard to plant, since we've had a string of days without rain.

***************

What things "make home" for you?

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Food Stamps



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New York officials are trying to say that if one uses food stamps he/she shouldn't be able to buy sodas or sugary foods. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Statistics tell us that 41.8 people in this country are on food stamps. That's a lot of people. Is the government going to tell all of them, what they can or cannot eat?

1. Do most people really WANT to be on food stamps?

2. Probably not, for the most part.

3. There are those who are " takers" who don't really mind to sponge off others....but, I think most people would rather not be dependent on the government for hand outs.

4. On the one hand...if a person accepts food stamps, should they have to adhere to what the gov't tells them to eat or drink?

5. Or is that too controlling?

6. Who believes that the gov't should become the food police?

7. Today it is soda, next month might it be cookie mix? or anything that has food dye in it?

8. When does it stop?

9. Shouldn't people be able to make their own decisions?

10. Some people will make poor decisions and spend it on junk. They will have to live with the consequences.

11. Some people will choose wisely, and their health will benefit.

12. But the decision is theirs to make.

13. I mean don't we all have to make decisions that are best for us individually?

14. I'm going to be watching this story...

15. To see who wins this battle...personal freedom? or government control?