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Thanksgiving Tablescape

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Before Christmas decorating begins, I wanted to share with our Thanksgiving tablescape with you.
Mr. DIY brought me a colorful Fall bouquet and I used those colors to inspire my table.

All the dishes, candlesticks, napkins and tablecloth were shopped from the house. The soup tureen that the flowers are in was my mother in laws.

The dishes are what we use every day...Mikasa Italian Countryside. The glasses are vintage

"Boopie". Placemats, napkins and tablecloth were purchased at HomeGoods. Flatware is by Wallace.

I found the chargers at Walmart a few years back.

The turkey was huge this year! I ordered an organic, free range turkey from Earth Fare this year that was supposed to come in between 16 and 20 pounds. It was 21 pounds! Thats quite a bit for only 4 people.

Now that weve had our Thanksgiving turkey, its on to Christmas decorating and festivities!
Hope you are doing something fun this "Black Friday". Would love to hear if you went shopping today and what great deals youve found!

Pam

Thanksgiving Tablescape

Green Home Remodeling in San Francisco

Open Space Concept House renovation with Beau Artificial Pond. This project location on the peninsula south of San Francisco. The concept of Open Space was adopted to get closer to nature. So we also categorize this concept as a concept into a green house.

It was built in the 1950s but recently renovated. A beautiful artificial pond was brought there to give a strong impression - Back To Nature. Family members brought on vacation retreat into everyday life.

The home is composed of four parts - the main room, read or study rooms, a swimming pool of your home garage. Everything is focused on parks, pools and ponds. There is also a terrace around the pool which is separated from the interior with glass sliding doors. Photovoltaic solar roof panels and hide the hot water. Houses are heated by shining on the stone floor system, and although the climate is not hot air, but passively cooled with a combination of overhangs, shades, and windows that can be opened. He also has many green building materials, including high fly-ash concrete, casework and formaldehyde-free insulation denim. [via]

Outside the home garden design.

Green Home Remodeling in San Francisco

SALVAGE as art decor some tiny house budget decor ideas

So this past weekend I had a chance to check out the new salvage/maker shop "Farnswood" in Worcester, MA, run by Craig Farnsworth and his wife Karyn. Farnswood really is a family affair as each weekend, with their kids in tow, the shop opens it doors to display its array of funky, one-of-a-kind, unusual, and repurposed wares, gifts, and furniture. I had a blast checking the place out, picked up a few items (the funky tool box lamp you see in the photo below), and a stool made from a model t axle, and immediately saw the potential in this cool industrial space for the possibility of a future workshop..... well see..... well see.....

Whatever the case, get yer keister down to Farnswood, tell em I sent you, and support this family, who are doing something very cool and creative!

Theyre at 100 Barber Ave- Worcester, MA

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

SALVAGE as art decor some tiny house budget decor ideas

This Woman Legally Parks Her Tiny House in Orlando Floridaâ€¦

Check out this great little video of Emily Lindahl from "Florida Tiny House Enthusiasts". She legally lives in a tiny, tiny house in Orlando, Florida. This house was once owned by Elaine Walker of www.Tinyhousecommunity.com

This video tour shows just about every nook and cranny of Emilys tiny home (a Tumbleweed "Lusby" model). It also has some great space saving ideas in it.

You can find out more from her at www.EmilysTinyAdvernture.com

This Woman Legally Parks Her Tiny House in Orlando Floridaâ€¦

Christmas In The Breakfast Room 2014

There is one room in our house that I love to decorate and change up all the time and that room is...

The Breakfast Room

The neutral paint (Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore), the three windows

and the inexpensive Ikea curtains make for a great backdrop.

This year for an easy centerpiece, I just put some vintage books with mini cloched Christmas tree ornaments inside a larger cloche and put it all on a clear glass cake stand.

I threw in a vintage doily hand crocheted by my grandmother.

I used some pretty napkins for placemats. The salad plates were my mother in laws. I think we originally gave them to her many years ago.They were from Restoration Hardware. They look great on top of some plain white china. Flatware is by Wallace.

I cant remember where I found those ruby glasses many years ago.

I found the red and green garland at Lowes a couple of weeks ago. The blingy snowflake ornaments were found at HomeGoods a few years back.

The wreaths were a closeout several years ago from Home Decorators.com. I use a Command Strip hook to hang them from the windows.

Now that youve seen my favorite room to decorate for Christmas, whats yours?

Would love to know!

Pam
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Savvy Southern Style

Christmas In The Breakfast Room 2014

Cabin Porn the book

Many readers will be familiar with the Cabin Porn site and now there is a book inspired by it called Cabin Porn: Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere which is published by Particular Books next week. The original site was the brainchild of Zack Klein, technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Vimeo, and friends who built a cabin in the woods and then invited other people to contribute their own shedlike structures to the site (the most visitors come from the UK). The book is extremely well illustrated with examples of rural microarchitecture from all over the world, focusing on 10 cabins in detail with photographs by Noah Kalina and words by Steven Leckart. Well worth a browse.

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Cabin Porn the book

Launching My New Sustainable Living Blog

Welcome to my new sustainable living blog.

I am a fairly regular reader of a number of blogs dealing with sustainable lifestyles and small or tiny homes. There are a number of good ones out there, but I feel it is time to add my voice somewhere other than in the comments on those. I have had a long-standing interest in topics such as:

tiny homes
sustainable living
renewable energy
nature
science
public policy
energy efficiency
architecture
climate change
conservation

and, well, you get the idea... pretty much everything that has anything to do with helping mankind live in harmony with our planet. I hope you will find this blog interesting, informative, and useful. As part of my inaugural post, I have included a video featuring some music I composed. Im sure youll see its in keeping with my general theme.

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Launching My New Sustainable Living Blog