THIS POST IS FROM JULY 2010 - I started to write it, put it in draft and never published it - finally deciding to publish it.
The evening my mom came home from the hospital after being there for about three months, I made dinner and decorated the back porch and had us eat on the back porch to celebrate. It was just a few weeks ago, back in June, but the weather was really nice that night, not hot at all. I found flowers and pretty grass growing on the side of the road, on the right of way, so I picked some of them and put them in vases. I found some tea light candles and put them in vases and glass bowls. I made a Waldorf salad and other healthy stuff and put out a table cloth and place mats made of sparkly paper. Being and eating outside makes me think of how I was constantly building forts as a kid. I was kind of obsessed with the idea of creating spaces as a child, nowadays I am just interested in seeing unique architectural spaces. But sometimes still I think it would be so fun to build a space to live in - which is why I find this article I am linking to so interesting. I read this article by Joyce Wadler in the New York Times about a woman named Sandra Foster who turned a 14' x 9' hunting cottage into this. If you click on the article, make sure to see the slide show of the inside of the cottage.
Image by TREVOR TONDRO PHOTOGRAPHY. If you click on the article, make sure to see the slide show of more photos of the inside of the cottage.
