Yes Spring is here..albeit early, but here indeed. Our courtyard is in bloom. I adore the fact that we only need to walk out our front door to have a lovely stroll through a garden.
I also found this little yellow jem of a cactus at Ikea of all places. So I rescued it, re potted it and gave it a nice sunny home in on our front window sill.
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Portland’s very own ReBuilding Center made it onto Apartment Therapy. Check it out! I personally love this place, walking in gives me dreams of art projects and DIY home makeover glee.
Finally some snow in Portland.
Piet and I recently celebrated our 1 year anniversary of meeting each other during last years snow storm, and it just didn’t seem the same without the snow. Here are some pictures I took from our courtyard.
No…its not a child. It me and my very tall husband Piet. This picture is amazing, and i’m 5′3″ and he is 6′2″, so the picture is a bit exaggerated. To celebrate the end of the school term, we took a nice hike up on Mt. Hood following by amazing hamburgers at the famous Calamity Janes in Sandy.
Plywerk at the Holiday Artisan Market
Plywerk was featured on KGW local news yesterday morning. Its the last clip if you want to skip forward. Check out Kjell pimpin Plywerk!
Also the Plywerk 17% discount is available through the 15th with discount code “merry17″. And if you’re my friend or family, contact me because I can give you 25% off until the 14th. So hurry folks!
With Piet and I moving into a new place at the end of the month, I have been feeling homesick for our little neighborhood and our family already. But its always exciting to move into a new place, and we are looking forward to decorating and scouring Goodwill for funky cups and knick knacks.
Pieter and I embraced the ice cold Portland morning with an adventure to Albina Press on foot. Mornings have been brisk, and evenings long and dark…but we have a fireplace for now and kitties to cuddle up to. Also, i’m rekindling my past love of photography and brushing up on my skills with these new fandangled digital cameras.
If you haven’t checked out Ampersand located on 29th and Alberta in NE Portland, I urge you to stop in sometime, especially durring a Last Thursday event. The small shop specializes in books and retail committed to cultural preservation of historic and contemporary documents and collectables. You can purchase anything from vintage Playboy magazines, to hundred year old love letters written to long gone romantics.