my own little corner

When I was a child, and ill, my mother made me a little "room" in her closet so she would hear me if I needed her during the night. I slept on a cot, tucked in safely with my blankets and pillows and stuffed animals. The louvered doors stayed open, but the slanted roof of the under-stairs nook made a place that I didn't want to give up even when I recovered.

I've never outgrown my love of small cozy spaces, and at this point in my life I think it's quite safe to say I never will!

myhomeideas.com, vi.sualize.us, theletteredcottage.net, homesandgardens.com,

flickr.com/photos/chasetheclouds, countryliving.com, robaroundbooks.com

In my own little corner in my own little chair
I can be whatever I want to be.
On the wings of my fancy I can fly anywhere
and the world will open its arms to me...

from Cinderella - Rodgers and Hammerstein

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the grace of the world

My grandmother's house had a sleeping porch, and when I was little it was one of my very favorite places to sleep. She lived in south Arkansas, just 1/2 hour north of the Louisiana border; summers were sweltering, nights filled with sticky breezes and the sound of cicadas. Winters were fairly temperate, but a pile of quilts was still a delicious necessity.

This time of year - my favorite by any measure - makes me want to sleep outside. Nighttime temperatures dip down to almost cold, but the crickets and cicadas are still singing their rowdy lullabies. It's the best of both worlds.

Will our next house have a sleeping porch? I hope so!

photos:1) apartmenttherapy.com, 2) myhomeideas.com, 3) renthawaiihome.com,

4) madeinmississippi.blogspot.com, 5) spicelines.com, 6) countryliving.com,

7) front-porch-ideas-and-more.com, 8) decorpad.com

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

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crimson splendor

Blood, scarlet. crimson, cherry, ruby, carmine...There's a red for everything.

We've decided to leave the foyer red (crimson), and use red accents throughout the house to tie it all together. These rooms all have pops of red, like punctuation marks (exclamation points!) amidst the other colors.

Photos: 1) LITC 2) pointclickhome.com 3) homesandgardens.com 4) countryliving.com

5 & 10) ashleylaurencheney.blogspot.com 6) gabyzimmermann.de

7) housetohome.co.uk 8) emmelines.blogspot.com decorpad.com 10) ashleylaurencheney.blogspot.com 11) via absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. " - Horace

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good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine...

A well-appointed bath must have the following: a comfortable tub for reclining, deep enough for submersion but not too deep; natural light, preferably a window with a view; places for books, and cups of tea close at hand; temperature control, and plenty of hot water; hooks for robes; thick, fluffy towels, and cakes of fragrant soap. All this, and nice to look at. Who wants to soak in a room they can't stand the sight of?

These bathrooms are all lovely:

1-3, 7) countryliving.com 4-5) housetohome.co.uk 6) diyideas.com 8- 10) apartmenttherapy.com

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." -Saint Thomas Aquinas

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trailing clouds of glory

Welcome, Olivia !

photos 1 & 2, proud parents; photo 3 mine

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
and not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home...

~William Wordsworth

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