Since When am I domestic?
Those stickers on fruits and veggies tell you quite a bit! 4 numbers mean they were conventionally grown. 5 numbers starting with number 8 means they are genetically modified (GMO). And 5 numbers starting with 9 means they were organically grown.
I would love to be in this classroom! Love the quote!
It’s an honor to have you here. You are loved, celebrated, and believed in…
When I have a classroom or therapy room of my own, that’s going on my wall for sure
Umberto Eco, “Living in the New Middle Ages”, in Travels in Hyperreality (trans. William Weaver, 1986)
// I love this quote, because I feel like in face of the immense ecological and financial challenge, we’re resisting instead of going with the times. I think we need to challenge our conception of reusing and recylcing. It’s not about poverty. t’s not about hoarding. It’s not about messiness, or uncleanliness.
It’s about need, but not desperation. Rather need based on reality. Coming to terms with our reality, we could come to embrace the changes we need to make, and see the benefit in them. repurposing and upcycling can have to do with heritage, with spirituality, with relationship, with community.
(Source: books.google.com, via crystilogic)
Need a creative dessert? Turn a muffin tin upside down to create a cookie
ice-cream cup!
Stop clothes from sliding off - put rubber bands at the end of your hangers
Use extra lens cases as a travel pill box!
Make perfectly round pancakes! Make fun shapes!
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Bread tag wire labels!
Use a colander as an ice bucket, the ice lasts longer, as water drips away!
Is your little one bored with their old shoes - glue coins on the bottom, they’ll
become a favorite again!
Use old foil to scour away tough stains!
Use old container lids as a paint drip catcher!
Used disposable shower caps are perfect for storing your shoes away in your luggage.
Great for hotels!
image credit: Apartment Therapy, Ohdeedoh, Real Simple
(Source: ourlittlegreendot)
Shoe Organizer repurposed as herb garden. Beautiful.
If I don’t do this this summer, since I’ll be mostly abroad, I’ll definitely be doing this the following year. Or I could look into how well herbs would grow in our balcony over the fall/winter? It’s north-facing unfortunately.
Instructions for this are here
“Above our dining room table I created a display to document our first year of marriage. On this display we save little bits like movie tickets, memories from trips, love notes, photos and maps of all the places we’ve visited. I love the visual reminder of the happy memories we’re building. When the year is over I’ll probably take it down and turn it into a scrapbook.” (via Home Tour: Our Kitchen - A Beautiful Mess)
