morning tour

it is a lovely sunny breezy day, after an extended period of grey rain. tashi arose this morning with glassy eyes and a sore throat, so after getting dressed, she tore her socks off and crawled back into bed. she is bored, and through that boredom, reading voraciously and creating incredibly detailed drawings.



for lack of anything interesting to share, how about some snippets from around the house.

this is tashi's new bean bag chair and rug. the rug is from pottery barn kids, via ebay.



yia yia gave this fairy mobile to tashi a few years ago. it's always needed a window to hang in. in the other window is a moon, star, fairy sun catcher tashi's aunt barb gave her. unfortunately (or fortunately?) every window in this house has blinds. they are blinds that sit between two glass panes (or a screen and a pane, depending on the season), so they can't be lifted, just opened and closed. when they are wide open, they don't impede the view that much, but i always feel their presence, separating us from the great wilderness beyond. if i owned this house, i would probably get rid of the blinds, at least in some of the windows.



i don't think i've ever shared this lovely dolphin wall hanging tashi's aunt laurie made for her last christmas. tashi's old room was tiny and had slanty ceilings, so there was very little wall space for display. but now, the wall hanging has found a home. isn't it awesome?



this is a shelving unit in our foyer. there is actually a small desk there, which needs the perfect chair. it is a zone that begs to be cluttered. there is a glass display shelf, where many small and/or precious items have found a spot, like the shell of a horseshoe crab, a real horseshoe that we found in our old yard, odd small books, a few vintage tea cups, and many fragile items tashi has made over the years.



i turned the shelf below the glass display into our seasonal spot.









and another shelf, full of stuff. since i'm currently going through a sea green phase, i am attempting to make this a spot for blues & greens. sometimes i call this foyer zone the hall of tashi, because so many of her school photos have found a place here (there are more on a neighboring shelf).



this is a little fawn tashi found in her advent box on christmas eve.



and this, my glider chair i snapped up from freecycle a year or two ago. what a relief! this will probably be a favorite nursing spot, below a painting of tashi being nursed, gifted to me by the very talented laura paulini.



and the cats? loki is lounging next to tashi. and luna, she's hanging out on the top bunk, next to my old teddy bear.





and thus ends our small morning tour. have a warm day!