Cool rain soaked days here in the gleaming metropolis. I’m thinking this weather is about 25 times more awesome than warm & sunny. Maybe 50 times.
I’m still crushing on orange…
For 8 years I’ve been driving by a hardwood floor place in Lincoln Heights on my way to school. I even took photos of the shop front’s handpainted sign. Dreaming, imagining, wanting to rip up this carpet and have glossy warm wood under my feet. Well. It’s happening. Soon the demolition will begin. The carpet will get ripped up by the root. Lovely warm natural oak planks wedged into place. I sort of can’t believe it’s actually going to happen. I can feel Moss Cottage smiling all around me. And tonight I’m going to wrap this old house around me like a warm blanket, tuck in, and read while the raindrops fall on the tin awning over the porch. Then maybe I’ll pad around and imagine all that beautiful wood shining up at me.
Shhhhhh don’t tell the cat posse.
c’mon.. show us the floors!
You are just so inspirationally awesome with everything you do……to me anyway. I thank the “higher being” above every day for allowing me to find your blog…
Love the orange color (very Mexican and warm), love the rain also!!! Un abrazo,
Hurrah for wood floors! I can’t say as I’m an orange person, but I love your photos. I do have a cheese pumpkin (sort of muted orange), white and pink cat that I’d be happy to donate to your posse. For more orange splendor, go to nationalgeographic.com, go into photography and then galleries and look for or type in Life in Color: Orange. Delicious!
I’m so happy for you! It is too bad the original could not be salvaged, but you can make your floor LOOK like the original. When we refinished our 100 year old maple floors, the guy told us it was the last time they could be sanded before we were down to the subflooring! Enjoy this wonderful rain…
alas, paulette the original 1925 wood was in too poor a state to salvage 🙁
It is always a pleasure to pop over here and enjoy your story telling and creative talents and adventures.
I am curious, after reading this post, just what is under the existing carpet at Moss Cottage ?
I had the impression it was a charming older home that would have been built originally with wonderful thick oak floors.
Either way, here is to shining warm wood creating smiles !
Bless every hand that harvested and turned the wood and every hand that works on your floors, and every foot that crosses them. Bless you for your uplifiting observations and attention to things that matter. Learning, in gratitude …
I am crushing on your orange crush and look forward to the stories you might share about the home transformation. We just got new carpet a few years back and I love it…in MN it’s just too cold, too long to not love that extra layer under my toes however I’ve been in a few homes with heated floors, tiles and or wood…now that is truly yummy…I’ve pulled out the heating blankets, turn em on a few hours before crashing and there is nothting sweeter than cozying up in a bed already warm and inviting. LOVE that. Enjoy the pitty patty of the rain.
I love orange and the pictures you are posting are awesome…..It has been raining here in Henderson, NV for two days and it is a treat. The smell of the rain is so rare and yet so pleasant in this part of the desert.
Orange has been my fave color for a year or so…before that it was a dusky eggplant shade….wonder what that means…..
I too love a good rainy day, but the best part is when you wake up the next morning and the sun is shining. You are going to love your wood floors, we did the same thing years ago. My husband had picked a cream colored carpet for our house and then covered it with old sheets for years so it wouldn’t get dirty…go figure. After three boys, the only part of the carpet that was still cream colored was in the closets. Have a very orangey day!
I agree with Shelley, you have a divine way with words! I am warmed by all of your orange images, too.
Thanks Mary Ann– lovely prose and lovely images. You have a way – a way with words, a way with images…..I am about to sign up for the ROD class and can’t wait!
I think it’s actually kinda cool that you like the rain… where I live (the Netherlands) it’s raining quite often (like yesterday and today – ALL day long accompanied by strong wind) so I prefer the calmer, sunny days…
Love your orange photos… thanks for the inspiration!
(PS I did your online class ROTD and I LOVED it! Be prepared to see my first journal on flickr soon!)
Thanks for sharing the orange inspirations… quite lovely. We just had laminate floors installed and our dogs don’t like it… they slip all over on it. It’s sort of funny to watch as they run from rug to rug.
Emie
…and then you need to go back to Istanbul and get some beautiful rugs or kilims xx
there is something absolutely glowing about the orange hue of oak wood floors…i’ve never regretted eliminating carpet in my house in exchange for that warm & fuzzy orange tinted oak hardwood floors…AND that orange rose is crazy gorgeous…thank you much for sharing!! 😉
I can just see the cat posse chasing each other sliding on the floor now… krazy antics….
Made me laugh. We are re-doing our hall bathroom. It is for guests, but also where the dog likes to sleep. The cat has no use for this room, and ignores it. Last weekend we removed the tub, and all the walls down to the studs. Sunday we found the cat just inside the doorway, staring in what looked like disbelief at the space where the tub used to be. He turned, looked up at us, uttered one word: “Meh” It did not appear to mean “Hey, great job you guys!”
Don’t expect the posse to be too impressed. I’m just sayin’.
“…wrap this old house around me like a warm blanket, tuck in, and read while the raindrops fall on the tin awning over the porch.”
L’sigh. Sublime.
I am thrilled for you and all the gifts that have come to your life. As I have said before, yours is a fine testament to the outcome of living with integrity.
I think as go as you for Halloween.
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Congratulations on the impending wood floor! And yes, this rain is lovely, isn’t it?
I recently discovered your blog through Ali Edwards, and I’m wondering if you can give some advice about a class of yours that I can buy. I don’t know if you teach in person, but I need to do an online class anyway. So here it is. I want to make two journals. One for my sister who is having a new baby in February, her first son. And the other for my best friend, who is a nature lover, specifically the color green, ferns, trees and the like. Do you have a class that would teach me how to construct these journals similar to the absolutely lovely, can’t-stop-looking-at-them ones that you make?