Chickabug absolutely beautiful things 7 Secrets of the Super Organized A few years ago, my life was a mess. So was my house, my desk, my mind. Then I learned, one by one, a few habits that got me completely organized. Am I perfect? Of course not, and I don’t aim to be. So what’s the secret? Are these obvious principles? If your life is a mess, like mine was, I don’t recommend trying to get organized all in one shot. So here are the 7 habits: Reduce before organizing. If you take your closet full of 100 things and throw out all but the 10 things you love and use, now you don’t need a fancy closet organizer. How to reduce: take everything out of a closet or drawer or other container (including your schedule), clean it out, and only put back those items you truly love and really use on a regular basis. Write it down now, always.
February Featured Space: Kitchen - Snack Attack! At first I thought this post would be all about the kids again, but really, who am I kidding? We as adults snack as much as youngsters do, so I am not gonna profile here, this post is for everyone! Snacking is actually considered healthy, when done in moderation. I found myself guilty of this, and my kids as well. This week, when I returned home from my weekly grocery shopping trip, I did something a little bit different when I was putting away the goods. Once they were all packaged up, I tossed them into a big green plastic basket, the same kind I use for recycling: So inside their new home, it looked like this: Totally a snacker's paradise! Then, referring back to the exact same process I used here to create my suitcase tag, I created a label for the front of the SNACK basket: And here it is all printed out, matted and laminated: Then, I just used a Velcro square to attach it to the front of the basket: Like so: And then into the pantry went the basket:
driftwood interiors Can we change the future? A scientific view... I was reading this article from 1998 about quantum theory – I know it’s pretty old…, but there was something about it that struck me! It’s maybe also because I’m reading this book that contains a lot of prescience characteristics or just my open mind. So, I decided to put together all this scientific evidence with one scope – Can we change the future? Do we have an influence on our future? An extract from the article on ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 1998) “demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. To demonstrate this, the researchers built a tiny device measuring less than one micron in size, which had a barrier with two openings. Alain Aspect, a French physicist, in 1982 discovered that subatomic particles such as elections are able to automatically - instantaneously - simultaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. And then, come all the questions: Is our future written?
φροντιζοντας τον κηπο και τα φυτα μας το Γεναρη Ο Γενάρης γενικώς θεωρείται πολύ κρύος μήνας (άλλο που φέτος μας έχει ξεγελάσει εντελώς!), γεγονός που μπορεί να προκαλέσει αρκετά προβλήματα στα φυτά και τα λουλούδια μας. Σημαντικοί παράγοντες προβλημάτων είναι το βαρύ κρύο και η παγωνιά, οι πολλές βροχές και οι δυνατοί άνεμοι. Η παγωνιά μπορεί να σκοτώσει τα φυτά, επειδή παγώνει το χώμα και συνεπώς σαπίζουν οι ρίζες. -προστατεύσουμε τις γλάστρες μας περιμετρικά με πλαστικό με φυσαλίδες (αυτό που χρησιμοποιούμε για να μην σπάσουν αντικείμενα…), γιατί δρα σα μονωτικό. -τοποθετήσουμε τις γλάστρες μας σε σημεία που προσφέρουν στέγαση, σε περιόδους βροχών, ώστε να μην ξεραθεί το χώμα. - βάζουμε τις γλάστρες πάνω σε τοιχάκια, τούβλα ή ειδικές βάσεις ώστε να μην πατάνε στο χώμα για να μην απορροφούν νερό από το έδαφος. Το πότισμα, επίσης πρέπει να είναι ελεγχόμενο. Τέλος, η λίπανση του εδάφους δεν είναι απαραίτητη αυτή την περίοδο. Συνοπτικά, οι εργασίες στον κήπο το Γενάρη είναι: -Να δώσετε σχήμα στα όρια του γκαζόν. Καλό σας βράδυ!
Home Sanctuary Oil rig hotel I’ve been aching to write about hotels for a while now because after all, a good hotel should serve as your “home away from home.” For those of you who have fantasized about spending the night on an oil rig — there must be someone out there — this post’s for you. Renderings of an oceanic destination resort that makes use of one of the thousands of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have been making the rounds in the green blogosphere for the last couple days. The design concept, Oil Rig Resort, Spa, and Aquatic Adventure, by Houston-based Morris Architects won the grand prize ($10,000 smackers) at the second annual Radical Innovations in Hospitality design competition. I think the vision is quite stunning even though I gather you’d need a series pair of sea legs to survive a visit. I also can't help but think of one of cinema's all-time great stinkers, Waterworld, going the Vegas (or Dubai) route. Not only does the resort make use of an abandoned oil rig (talk about creative reuse!)
Centsational Girl Three Boys, One Room « the bumper crop It took a while, but we finally got the boys’ room done! I was inspired once again by Ana White. When the time came for August to switch to a big boy bed, we decided to put all three boys in the same room. We looked for some time for bunk beds, triple beds, and all different combination of beds to accommodate all three of them in a small space, and we really didn’t find anything that we liked and could afford. So, although what we hoped to be a weekend project took a little longer, we are happy with the results! We used the plans for the hanging daybed and modified them just a bit. This is Sam’s bed. The bed linens are from Ikea, including this embroidered map of the world pillow. August sleeps on the bottom and Jeremiah sleeps on top. Jeremiah has a ladder and a rope that he can climb to get in bed. Jeremiah takes art as his elective at school and I framed one of the stamp prints that he made. This is the artwork by August’s bed. Update: Thanks for your kind comments! Like this:
Futuristic Vertical City Holds Plug-In Hexagonal Housing Units Share on Tumblr Email Malaysian architect Tay Yee Wei recently unveiled a towering vertical city populated with hexagonal housing units that offer a solution to urban population growth problems in Asian cities. The tower itself serves as a scaffolding — as the population of urban areas fluctuates, modular units can be “plugged in” to the structure to accommodate an expanding population. Wei’s Plug-in Dwelling Development was inspired by Le Corbusier’s theory — “a house is a machine for living.” The Plug-in Dwelling project assumes that the development will have a longer lifespan than the city that surrounds it. Via eVolo
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