adopt me

just discovered this amazing artist paulina temmes via pinterest. She makes these amazing animals that have so much personality. She conveys so much emotion with their sweet little sad embroidered faces. It just makes you want to take one home. Her shop should reopen next month, but in the meantime here's her blog.

Millificent the Owl

So last week, I discovered that we had a baby owl in our shrubs right next to our screened in porch. Well she's been there everyday since! She leaves at night to hunt, but every morning she's back in her spot. At first we named her Godric but then discovered she was a girl, so we changed her name to Millificent.

How do we know she's girl? The males sit in higher trees and hoot all day. The females just screech every now and then. She is so freaking cute! The other I was looking for her after I got home from work and she was sitting right on the railing of our deck. She let me get about two inches from her face with my camera. I hope she stays for a long time!





btw- she's a great horned owl.

I guess it's an art week.

I am just really into art right now. I went through a period the last couple of years where I was all into furniture. We had just bought our house and I was trying to get it to a point where I felt each room was ours.

We just put new dark brown bamboo floors in our entire upstairs and painted the hallway a pale lavender. Before, I had the hallways completely covered with art work and now I'm slowly putting work back up. This time I'm being more selective in what I'm choosing to put up. I think I'll put up some empty frames to fill the space in the meantime.

I'd love to hang up this beautiful mixed media piece by Shanna Teague. I love the calming colors and the way the pages break up the space of the bridge so gracefully.


All day I've been admiring this beautifully unique necklace by Molly Proctor. I just love her simplistic words on those little antique spoons and the amber color of her photographs of them. Why can't I be rich?


Last night, my dog got stuck in my neighbor's yard. I don't know how she got over there (we're completely fenced in as are they). The only thing I can possibly think of is that she saw a squirrel that gave her enough motivation to jump the fence. May be I should consider these treats from The Chocolate Lab as an alternative.....