Happy List: #351
Hey, hey! Welcome to today’s Happy List. I’m over-the-moon to have you here.
This week on the blog I shared the four old house construction techniques that were used to build our home. We discovered them during our recent project to put new siding on the house.
I also wrote about how our home insurance was affected by the changes we made to our siding. There are some mysteries in life we are not meant to understand. This is one of them.
Once again, thank you for being here today. It makes my day to share things with you that interested me, made me smile, or made me think this week. I hope it makes your day too. If you want to connect, and I hope you do, you can always comment on this blog post or email me here. You can also reach out on Instagram or Facebook.
Here’s the Happy List!
FUN STOOLS
Check out the stools in this kitchen designed by Avery Cox Design. It looks like they flip forward to clear the walking path. That’s cool.
(image: Design: Avery Cox Design | Builder: Richard Gift | Photos: Lindsay Brown | via Desire to Inspire)
EMBROIDERED BUNTING
How sweet would this embroidered flower bunting be in a nursery? This Etsy shop makes versions of this with mushrooms, frogs, and bees too. So sweet!
This is something you could use as baby shower decor and then gift to the parents-to-be.
(image: Four Seasons Kids via Etsy)
Maybe I should try making something like this?
I SEE YOU
This made me smile! Some of Boston’s trains now have googly eyes…as they should.
Read more about it here.
(image: MBTA via Boston Herald)
STAPLE ART
Do you think if I hand my kids a stapler this summer, they’ll create something like this?
(image: Baptiste Debombourg via My Modern Met)
Go check out more of Baptiste Debombourg’s staple art over at My Modern Met.
YOUR LIFE WILL BE COMPLETE NOW
Have you ever looked around your yard and thought to yourself, “You know what this yard is missing? A banana duck.”
If so, I’ve got you covered. A banana duck is a real thing. I don’t want one in my yard, but it would make me smile to see one in yours. Just saying.
(image: Amazon)
This is the type of White Elephant gift that would show up year after year at gift exchanges and become lore.
P.S. There’s also a banana dog. Hahahahaha!
CLIMATE IN 60 YEARS
The Future Urban Climates is an interesting and interactive map that predicts what the climate where you live will be like in 60 years and shows you the nearest city equivalent in today’s terms. It uses data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The closest town to us on the map is Allentown, Pennsylvania, and in 60 years it might feel like how Fountain Lake, Arkansas, feels today. Woah.
(image: The Future Urban Climates)
Handy Husband says to me, “We likely won’t be alive in 60 years.” I replied, “But our kids and their kids likely will be and those are some big changes!”
SHELL SHADOWBOX
Kate from Centsational Style recently shared her shell shadowbox creations and where she sources shells. It’s not always from beach walks!
I think shadowboxes are underrated and there are so many neat things you could do with them to display collections.
(image: Centsational Style)
One of my kids has a souvenir pin collection stored in a shadow box. I glued two layers of cork to the back of the frame to give the pins somewhere to stick.
POETRY MOMENT
For My Daughter by Grace Paley
I wanted to bring her a chalice
or maybe a cup of love
or cool water   I wanted to sit
beside her as she rested
after the long day   I wanted to adjure
commend   admonish   saying don’t
do that   of course   wonderful   try
I wanted to help her grow old   I wanted
to say last words   the words famous
for final enlightenment   I wanted
to say them now   in case I am in
calm sleep when the last sleep strikes
or aged into disorder   I wanted to
bring her a cup of cool water
I wanted to explain   tiredness is
expected   it is even appropriate
at the end of the day
Thank you for reading today’s Happy List.
Be good to yourself and others this weekend.
I’ll see you back here on Monday.
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