tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646287002567485522024-03-05T17:16:28.780-08:00THE CABIN HOUSEShaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-51583071222702876782013-06-19T12:36:00.004-07:002013-06-19T12:42:50.742-07:00The Tank: One Year Later<img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM2osvG8Zfum5ldBFZUX4KE0hyYGDXnO_hOJghbzr4MaOaduZayBFCsLpAsUuCuYTjwIod9tx6Mf1z4FEBFt61dTad5TeWKoTVZcI4C4gNQIY9S7EYeidYhIh0emWdesL1TJRJz-rK7A1y/s640/photo.JPG" width="640" />And months and months go by with nothing on the blog...<br />
Like so many, the instantaneous satisfaction and ease of <a href="http://instagram.com/Shaynaroosevelt" target="_blank">Instagram</a> has replaced this space.<br />
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That said....time to check in on <a href="http://thecabinhouse.blogspot.com/2012/07/tank.html" target="_blank">the tank</a>, yes?<br />
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UcRuXadkmMBFfqn9eoV8TqhQYifNNPajZkT2Pl9he0ldQ1MWsRIYjfPat4-q4pcWRGESMyKNtAySKwd11c4ijw9_7qYrCQcSeeRYxrp2maHIyexOl8dbvlKUGe8cFbuen3xxu0J2zGoH/s640/photo+4.jpg" width="640" />Welcome to all of those who found their way yonder via <a href="http://thehomesteadsurvival.com/" target="_blank">The Homestead Survival</a>. Cool to be included on such an awesome site. So many of you have left comments about how to transform the tank into a heated tub for the cooler months; thank you. I'm stockpiling all of those suggestions for when we can fit that dream in to our budget.<img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGsOmHg-wrq8tFgXxIOVhrATAc_XlMqFun4OkLQyCamJZX3XZAamkEEhkUp1SZjgr746aj3H6tOnwxzogFv811rroHHjLn7qBOlK5-iCIt95V5K0uubADjWz-LkiYJLkmhVkdJgrF96MgP/s640/2012-10-31_1351710654.jpg" width="640" />We've now weathered a full year with our beloved tank. The poor tank spent a cool winter covered up and very neglected. For the most part, we didn't do anything with the tank. We collected the rain water, drained it occasionally and sometimes put the cover on. It was not a pretty site. We shamefully take responsibility for the deaths of 4 squirrels (now buried in our animal graveyard) and countless massive spiders.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhJ-wZiNErs515xoiNjV0j3hGNHk3tWhLS_-EqdfYa3GHLdolqRlQrSK9jkfeOWWtsjDsXgwkHGtJWxjHvIHnfjD7wht3BEWtVQHnbVzQ1OEhgeynMaMdbzfD5pNPuTA6nFIH0UUE4Vx_/s1600/2012-10-31_1351711828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhJ-wZiNErs515xoiNjV0j3hGNHk3tWhLS_-EqdfYa3GHLdolqRlQrSK9jkfeOWWtsjDsXgwkHGtJWxjHvIHnfjD7wht3BEWtVQHnbVzQ1OEhgeynMaMdbzfD5pNPuTA6nFIH0UUE4Vx_/s640/2012-10-31_1351711828.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGEhAD_JOyuTvijvlz2mNj1txCYU05p76aPTMbMuMa9rt9Z_VIhzlQGMfCdRP43NkDL2TrinvJ54jAqr-0DPmXz7vqVdM1R0-UD-LDAS7EfRIYEqxZRG1qTIcVjfDkwddefR5nB92_5bT/s1600/2012-11-04_1352053008.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGEhAD_JOyuTvijvlz2mNj1txCYU05p76aPTMbMuMa9rt9Z_VIhzlQGMfCdRP43NkDL2TrinvJ54jAqr-0DPmXz7vqVdM1R0-UD-LDAS7EfRIYEqxZRG1qTIcVjfDkwddefR5nB92_5bT/s640/2012-11-04_1352053008.jpg" width="640" /></span></a><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But enough of the sad fall and winter. Summer and warm weather is upon us again and after a good scrub-down, the tank is back in action.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">+ The peroxide solution (see the end of <a href="http://thecabinhouse.blogspot.com/2012/07/tank.html" target="_blank">this post</a> for details) is still how we sanitize and we're very happy with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">+ We had to replace to cover as it had been shredded to bits by the above squirrels and a variety of other animals trying to <strike>sneak in for drinks</strike> escape with their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">+ We upgraded to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CPZTEK/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">a pump</a>! We no longer shop-vac out the last few inches of water. The pump is small and takes a while but it's able to suck out the last dregs of water and it feeds directly in to the hose for watering our trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks again for all of the suggestions and comments. It's fun hearing that a few of you were even inspired to jump on the bandwagon and set up your own swimming tanks!</span></div>
<br />Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-29777981678654006142012-10-12T12:40:00.000-07:002012-10-12T12:40:09.486-07:00Home Studio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much progress has been made towards my goal of making art and feeling creative but I'm lacking some serious organization and focus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At my <a href="http://roomcreative.com/" target="_blank">day job</a>, we have an incredible space with walls and walls to spread out the hordes of inspiration we collect. At home...eh, not so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use <a href="http://pinterest.com/shaynaroosevelt/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> to collect images that I find exciting and inspiring but I'm having a hard time sorting through the virtual piles. The image above is the extent of my workspace at home plus <i>maybe</i> a teensy part of a wall. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm feeling out of sorts and overwhelmed by the freedom of making my own work and not having space to spread out and make a mess only compounds the confusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any ideas for how to collect, organize and then actually display inspiration in a <span style="font-size: xx-small;">TINY</span> space?</span>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-52852953649105408642012-09-21T12:01:00.001-07:002012-09-21T12:01:07.944-07:00On Relaxation and Tradition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Schedules have changed recently so that home projects have fallen by the wayside. It's not that there's a lack of things to do, there will </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">never</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> be a lack of things to do around our house, but the weekends have become precious relaxation and family time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, we have a backyard filled with building materials. They're covered in rain-tarps waiting to be put to use. We have doors, windows, bricks, redwood boards, concrete screen blocks, concrete chunks, a custom-welded steel gate frame, industrial trusses...you name it, it's there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 5 1/2 years of constant work on the house, the addition of a baby and a new time-consuming/soul-sucking schedule, we're slowing down. Those materials will find a way to draw us back soon enough but for right now, watering the garden is all of the work we need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While down in LA to visit family and celebrate the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/16/rosh-hashanah-2012-the-je_n_1887610.html" target="_blank">New Year</a>, I had a conversation with my Grammy about what tradition and ritual means to me. My grandmother does not ask these questions lightly, she's an MFCC by training and a professional discusser by birth. When she asks a question, you had better have an answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She and my Papa were raised as Orthodox Jews to immigrant parents on the southside of Chicago. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It must have been quite a shock to her sense of tradition when they moved out to California during the war, away from both of their families, only to start their own. They did not raise their children as Orthodox and they watched as each generation became more mixed. First came the addition of Catholics, then Mexicans, Roosevelts and finally Germans. I can't imagine that in her wildest dreams, my Grandmother (now 92!) could have foreseen that she would one day be a great-grandmother to a German-American-Jewish little girl (with blonde hair and blue eyes!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going back to the question of tradition...she asked me what was important to me about the holiday and if I feel any sense of connection. I think it's hard for her to grasp that I do feel very connected to my Jewish heritage, despite my mixed-but-not-religious upbringing. I told her that for me, it's about being with family and reliving all of the traditions (bagels and lox on Sundays!) that we've created together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My family has a sort of chaotic irreverence when it comes to observing tradition, but we've always managed to gather the majority of our group to stumble through the blessings, tear the Challah and dip the apples. In the end, it doesn't matter that we never celebrate on the right evening or that we sometimes forget a proper discussion of the meaning of the event. It's the <i>zhum-zhum</i> (my Papa's word for chaos) that feels like home to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now in my little family, away from my big family, I'm trying to figure out an easy tradition that we can call our own. Dinners on Fridays, a sort of modern-day non-Shabbat for our non-religious and mixed home, seems like a feasible start. Tonight we'll sit together, for the first-time in a week, and break bread. It's not much but it feels important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so I ask, what traditions have you created for your families that work in the <i>zhum-zhum </i>of everyday life?</span></div>
Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-5258191822317279142012-09-06T14:21:00.000-07:002012-09-06T14:21:21.480-07:00Pt. Reyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago, my parents, my brothers, and our little Oakland gang met up in Pt. Reyes for a 5 day vacation. My parents rented an awesome party house that slept the entire crowd, plus my fantastic red-headed cousin (and her dad for one night).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had visions of us <a href="http://tomalesbayoysters.com/" target="_blank">shucking oysters</a>, touring <a href="http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/tours.asp#ptreyes" target="_blank">creameries</a>, walking out to see the elk at sunset and making our way down the 308 steps to the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/pore/historyculture/people_maritime_lighthouse.htm" target="_blank">light house</a>. We didn't do a single one of those things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, we took easy walks through the fields near the house to look for ladybugs, biked in to town for </span><a href="http://threetwinsicecream.com/icecream/flavors/lemon-cookie" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">ice cream</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> replenishment (multiple times), picked blackberries along the highway and neighborhood roads, ate too much <a href="http://pointreyescheese.com/" target="_blank">cheese</a>, played crazy ping-pong (called </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Chinesisch</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> if you're German or </span><a href="http://www.baycitizen.org/sports/interactive/german-style-ping-pong-mission/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">"Berlin-style"</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> if you're a Mission hipster), hosted the first annual Pt. Reyes Olympics in the pool, watched baby deer jumping, played "Sentence, Picture, Sentence" (aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse" target="_blank">Exquisite Corpse</a> if you're fancy) and baked the most perfect birthday cake for a certain golf-obsessed 30 year old brother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and I scored a beautiful birthday gift (thanks Ma and Pa!) from a <a href="http://www.pointreyes.com/" target="_blank">local jeweler</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a huge fan of <a href="http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel.html" target="_blank">Aesop's fables</a> when I was a kid. I remember reading the stories and then writing my own version of morality tales. These days, I'm not a big one for quotes or anecdotes, but someone told me a good one this week that resonates pretty strongly these days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive me while I get all hippy-dippy spiritual on all y'alls for a moment. I'm quoting loosely and not as poetically as it was told to me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Everyone has two wolves that live with them from the time they are born. One of them is the wolf that lives off of generosity, positive actions and love. The other is the wolf that survives from jealousy, negativity and anger. At a certain point, you will only have enough to keep one of the wolves alive. In the end, the wolf that survives is the one that you choose to feed. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's simple and obvious but it's a hard thing to remember sometimes. Negativity feeds negativity and it really all comes down to a change of attitude (thanks Ma!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The older I get, the more I realize that you never truly outgrow your insecurities and issues, you just become more okay with never outgrowing them. Maybe that's being more self-accepting or self-aware? Either way, I think it's a good change. To quote my favorite toddler, "I like it".</span>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-43682103406780967962012-08-01T15:16:00.002-07:002012-08-01T15:16:57.148-07:00Summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive the repeat of photos if you're checking in with me over at </span><a href="http://instagrid.me/shaynaroosevelt/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Instagram</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but I thought I'd share some photos for those of you who haven't yet succumbed to the "new blog".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the recent weeks/months we've had a lot going on. Nothing unusual but lots of "zhum zhum" to quote my grandfather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E has been sick for the last week and uncharacteristically clingy and weak. It's been a rough few days and it makes me thankful for her regular stellar personality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our yearly visitor </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">finally</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> arrived on Thursday, after </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">much</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> anticipation. Happily he doesn't seem the least bit fazed that his sister has taken over his bedroom and left him with the couch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've already hosted quite a few baby pool parties and I look forward to many, many more. L has been taking full advantage of the heat and is doing his best to splash out every last bit of water possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels really good to be playing with drawing and painting again. I'm not sure where this is going but for now I have a </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ShaynaRoosevelt" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">wee shop set up on Etsy</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as a sort of point of motivation...thinking about having some cushions and scarves made up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've had our fill of wildlife in the backyard: baby grasshoppers, feral kittens, big spiders, fruit-stealing squirrels, crow vs. hawk fights...it's fun to watch E take it all in. She now thinks that all cardboard boxes contain small kittens.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ UPDATE: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to mention our amazing pool cover! we bought the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Splash-Pools-Round-Solar-15-Feet/dp/B0001DLLU4/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1344540277&sr=1-1" target="_blank">12' round solar cover</a> and cut it down to size. it looks like blue plastic bubble wrap but it does a most excellent job of heating the water. it heats up the top 4-5" of water and you just give it all a big stir 'fore jumping in. though some (*ahem*, <i>Germans)</i> don't mind the cold, it's a lifesaver for those with more <i>delicate </i>sensibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been quiet around here. I seem to be doing that over the last, oh...3 years or so. Sometimes it's nice to blog and connect to this internet/blog world and sometimes I have to take a step back. These days I haven't felt compelled to blog but I have been living it up over on <a href="http://instagrid.me/shaynaroosevelt/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In house news, the big "game changer" this summer is the addition of an 8ft. diameter tank. We've been swimming (rather, floating) for the past 3 weeks and it is <i>fantastic</i>. I'll share some details of the tank and how we're cleaning and filtering in case anyone needs some guidance.</span>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-88207063223282156142012-03-22T14:48:00.000-07:002012-03-22T14:48:52.249-07:00spring time and planting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C put about 20 rosemary plants in the ground, 3 gorgeous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_candicans" target="_blank">Pride of Madeiras</a> (aka Alien Plants), some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockrose" target="_blank">rockrose</a>, sage, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callistemon_citrinus" target="_blank">Bottlebrush shrub</a> and maybe 10 or 15 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_creeper" target="_blank">Carmel Creepers</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is all part of the backyard revamp project. We're working towards creating a more child-friendly area so that E can entertain over the summer. We're using the rosemary bushes as a natural wall instead of a fence and planting big cushy shrubby areas to prevent little ones from tumbling down hills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C also planted another orange tree (Roberts Navel), a yellow peach and has a Gobi berry ready and waiting. The Gobi Berry is an experiment...it was on sale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up: leveling out the play area, reworking a vegetable box into a sandbox, figuring out some durable ground-cover and planning where to hang the shade-sails we found at Ikea.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps- in other news...we have a walker! </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Thanks to J for the photo)</i></span><br />
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<br />Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-57380702466164828292012-03-16T15:35:00.002-07:002012-03-22T16:07:08.826-07:00oranges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ J visiting from LA! she's the maker of <a href="http://thecabinhouse.blogspot.com/2011/11/mobile.html" target="_blank">this mobile</a> and a bff from high school</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ and we now have a true toddler to chase around the house...</span></div>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-65800669907418421952012-02-22T11:37:00.000-08:002012-02-22T11:37:04.245-08:00Kalt<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">first snow</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm working on a fourth of the same pattern but think it's time to branch out. I'd like to make her a pullover for the spring. My biggest pet peeve in knitting is seaming (I know, I should get over it) but so far I've been able to keep the seaming to a minimum by using top down raglan patterns. </span></div>
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Christmas, C's mom bought us new comforters for our bed. I can't believe it took us so long to replace our old blankets. We were so cold for so long!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inspired by </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/68961438013799197/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this photo</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> of </span><a href="http://athomeathome.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laure's</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> bed, I bought us clean white covers and some throw pillows. Now we need new sheets. We've had Ikea sheets in the past and they're rather scratchy. I like the sheets below but am not sure about the quality. Anyone familiar with bedding from these companies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>small projects for the winter:</u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ finish E's night-lamp</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ build two frames and hang pictures in E's room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ close back area ceiling hole/attic access (it's been open for 4+ years, blowing down col)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">+ backyard revamp version #1028 (to create a more child-friendly play area) which includes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">+ creating "natural barrier" along retaining wall with large rosemary plants</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222;">+ moving vegetable boxes</span><span style="color: magenta;">**</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Any winter gardeners out there? What edibles can we still plant?</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">**the <a href="http://thecabinhouse.blogspot.com/search/label/vegetable%20garden">vegetable garden</a> was woefully neglected during the summer and fall. we're scaling back from the 2 small and 1 large box system we had going and trying to plant more realistically and efficiently. any tips?</span></div>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-38780850415158584202012-01-11T15:14:00.000-08:002012-01-11T15:17:48.575-08:00Spring in Winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent the week down in LA with my family. The weather was amazing...fall in LA is something to be seen.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent a lot of time outside. My parents' backyard is stunning; it's not huge, but the flowers are always in bloom and the Meyer lemon tree is never empty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E decided to try walking (with a little help from Papa and Uncle D).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obligatory pumpkin pie, with an improvised walnut crumb crust. It was so good.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E with Grammy, my grandmother and her great-grandmother. Words can't express how much it means to me that they get to spend time together. </span></div>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-60353421101519903982011-11-22T16:36:00.001-08:002011-11-22T16:38:25.542-08:00bed head<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">new shoes from grandma for her tiny feets</span>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-25784903514532350832011-11-10T21:39:00.001-08:002011-11-10T21:44:14.303-08:00lampe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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E took an unusual 2 hour nap last Sunday and I got to play with the jigsaw. I haven't used a power tool since the early days of pregnancy, before my belly was a hazard. I forgot and then suddenly remembered how satisfying it is to cut through wood.<br />
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This project is just a mini one for fun, using all recycled materials and pure German innovation. I plan to paint the lampe this weekend and then C will wire it for E's room.Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-69858732692017422852011-11-07T11:30:00.000-08:002011-11-07T11:30:57.900-08:00mobile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend made this mobile for E. She painted every little animal and cut out a variety of sizes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each side of each animal is a different bright color. Every time E points to it I tell her, "Pferde" (horse in german). The animals are more of a vague horse/zebra/dog but I like them non-specific.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mobile hangs above the changing area because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E is now squirmy as a slippery fish when it comes to diaper changes. Sometimes the mobile helps keep her distracted, other times a song or having her "help" me by holding the clean diaper. Wriggly babies are amazingly hard to manage.</span></div>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164628700256748552.post-5463439821073667722011-11-02T14:11:00.000-07:002011-11-02T14:11:09.259-07:00fall happenings<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't particularly house related but it's certainly part of my current everyday life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm having some style/clothing issues. It's been nearly a year's time but I can't seem to get a hold on clothing or a style that fits my new life. I'm still going in to an office a few days a week but it's a casual place so I'm looking for clothes that can mostly do double duty. I suppose more specifically, I'm having a hard time not just throwing on jeans and t-shirts every day. I'd like to look and feel a bit more pulled together and sophisticated. With a teensy-tiny clothing budget (and a post-baby body), it's a struggle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The internets is fantastic for beautiful inspiration, but I find it can often be a bit daunting for those of us with $$ taste and small budgets. I completely understand and respect the high prices for independent designers. And as much as I'd love to support them, it's simply not in my budget.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any words of wisdom from stylish time-crunched and budget-conscious ladies out there (preferably ones who, like me, can't sew their own clothes)? Favorite non-soul-sucking places to shop? East bay thrift stores?</span>Shaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10205298480910844972noreply@blogger.com7