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[thoreau]

Miss Kate smelling the flowers. I realized after taking this lovely picture that she was actually sniffing at the GIANT ASS BUMBLE BEE inside the rose. I went from "oh isn't that cute" to "OMG YOU ARE GOING TO GET YOURSELF STUNG!" and then back to "oh isn't that cute!".

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David took us to the New Guinea Sculpture Garden on Stanford's campus. They invited six carvers from New Guinea to spend six months on campus and craft these sculptures for a garden on campus. The story is amazing - the full picture set is here What struck me the most about these beautiful carvings was how similiar their thought pattern and spiritual practice matched how the Tlingit built their family totems. It's beautiful stuff!

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Yesterday - David and I made a trip to IKEA to look at dining room chairs and a nice reading chair for the new Muffin Penthouse. I think we found winners - but I need to get home and measure first - before purchasing. :)

first - the reading chair - its a wood and cushion chair that comes with a footstool that matches.

this is the chair in the fabric that I liked:



and this is the dining room chair Iliked - mostly because the seat pad comes off and is machine washable. I like the idea of a white cushion - but machine washability is a huge plus.



Now we're about to head off to see "The Fall" at the theater - - particularly after thornyc's write up (here).

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Is Miss Kate settling in better with the new Muffin Penthouse now that she's had a little time?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

well - we just spent a weekend away. :) but the crate helps TREMENDOUSLY :) and going home at lunch. I think she's getting the hang of it all.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

The Poång chair with the footstool is the one I was telling you that Curtis & Mike had. We think it's very comfortable. When I was last at Ikea, they didn't have them and I couldn't find the chair online, so I thought it had been discontinued.

arm chair

[greyguy-sf.livejournal.com]

That's the armchair I use in my office at home... different fabric. I also bought the ottoman, but it uses up more room than I want to give it, so now it lives in the basement, with so many cast off dishes and pairs of good boots not likely to be worn.

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

I have similar dining room chairs. They're a bit heavier, but still "Mission".

(I'm a major freak for "Mission" style furniture. Especially with Minkist Zelda prints.)

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[eireangus.livejournal.com]

That was a great post!

I have a poang chair and I love it! :)

On Papua New Guinea

[audrabaudra.livejournal.com]

I once worked with A.E. Markham, who has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. He writes other things than poetry, too:

Papua New Guinea Sojourn: More Pleasures in Exile

http://www.amazon.com/Papua-New-Guinea-Sojourn-Pleasures/dp/1857543289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212411158&sr=8-1

And for fictional fare, try Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Jones is a New Zealand writer; this book made it along the trek toward a Booker Prize last year.

http://www.amazon.com/Mister-Pip-Lloyd-Jones/dp/0385341075/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212411292&sr=1-1

Papua New Guinea comes up in my life periodically, and I don't know why. I don't really want to visit there, but maybe I should for some reason that would become clear only by going...