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Planting a Garden with Little Ones

Planting a Garden with Little Ones

It was super hot in LA this weekend.  Perfect weather for gardening and swimming.  Saturday morning we took a family trip to a local nursery and Gigi and Ev picked out plants and flowers.  We got oregano, cilantro, dill, lettuce and a purple flowering plant...
Spring Is In The Air – DIY Bird Mobile

Spring Is In The Air – DIY Bird Mobile

I love being a teacher.  I still get to have spring break!  One of my goals for vacation was to start and complete this bird mobile I’ve been wanting to do since Ev and I got married.  My friends and I had made almost 100 birds to hang from the trees at our...
I Heart Polished Concrete

I Heart Polished Concrete

Seriously, how nice are these pics?  I’d live in any one of these homes.  Polished concrete is so freakin gorgeous.  I can’t wait to buy a new house just so we can put in these floors. top left pic via wabi-sabi top right pic via forum  mid pic via...
Playhouse

Playhouse

I don’t think I ever shared our completed backyard playhouse.  Ev and Ted did an amazing job!  Gigi loves it and it’s like we’ve added a whole other room to our house.  Hard to believe it started like this.   I love the G’s in the yellow...
DIY Table to Desk Before and After

DIY Table to Desk Before and After

  We had DIY Day 5 this past Sunday.  While Ted and Ev put up the walls of the playhouse in the backyard, I painted this mid-century table that we transformed into a desk the night before.  It was all Ev’s idea.  He’s a genius. I love that guy. I...
Artist Richard Aldrich

Artist Richard Aldrich

Last time Ev and I went to San Francisco we went to MOMA and I fell in love with this Richard Aldrich painting.  I had taken a photo of it and planned to look him up, but never did.  We went back to MOMA this visit and once again, when I saw this painting I melted....