Julie!

You may be interested in this article from SouthernLiving.com:

Streamline your nightly beauty routine with our expert's simple tips. - SouthernLiving.com
http://www.southernliving.com/healthy-living/mind-body/skin-care-routine-00417000068253/

Julie Hafer is a young friend of mine who has a lovely shop in Cameron Village in Raleigh.  She is all about natural skin care products.  She is also particularly interested and brows and how the proper shape can compliment your face.  She is above Cantina 18- check her out.

Back to the apartment..

So (haha again) I just had my first blogging lesson, though I don't know what I did wrong..  I lost a bunch of stuff as I was searching for photos, etc of stuff for the girls' apartment.  So, to abbreviate, the living room kicks off the day with a punch from a floor model "pleather" or something.. sectional sofa from Rooms to Go. The girls wanted something that would accommodate a lot of people and also overnight guests.. So the color scheme emanated from the red sofa and also some vibrant, lovely bowls purchased on sale from Anthropologie.  I could not find a photo of them, but will try to take one and post here later.. But the colors in the bowls are definitely Fiestaware colors, so it was on to Ebay to buy some Fiesta ware.  However, I have since discovered that you can buy it pretty cheaply at Kohls and other places.. by the set.  And also reasonable approximations at lots of other places like Pier One, etc... live and learn.  Anyway, here are the colors and then I am going to fold for the day.. more on A's bedroom later..

A little plug..

So.. (a Hillaryism, starts every other sentence, is intended to be a segue, I guess... )   Have been working for the past several months with the Wade Edwards Learning Lab and SBK, the director, has decided to offer more diversified programming for the students this summer and a summer unit on cuisine was one of his offerings.  Here is the little WRAL blurb on it! Go WELL staff- great job!

http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/8070061/

Summer workshop teaches teens healthy cooking :: WRAL.com

www.wral.com

The program, hosted by the Wade Edwards Learning Lab, allows high school students to learn from Raleigh chefs.

Just for fun....

I decided to give this a whirl.  What made me think of it is the piddling around I have been doing this summer getting stuff together for my daughter's first apartment.  The place is a plain jane little apartment, and A and her roommate want to make it a cozy nest.  My friend Mary in Holland would say it needs to be "gezellig". The only Dutch word she has taught me so far, which essentially means warm and welcoming.

But I also wanted to give voice to other issues of interest.  Stuff that is happening in politics and the world, stuff that is happening in my backyard, so to speak, stuff that is just fun.  I guess, like all of us, we seek community especially in places where fences are firmly in place.  

My first obstacle is to figure out how to upload (download?) photos. I thought it would be fun to start with a neutral topic, like this little gezellig-making project which unfortunately is happening in the absence of the apartment's occupant who is in NYC this summer and will be wheeling through town only long enough to join us for a little beach time and then its back to her first - hopefully cozy- apartment right on the edge of campus.  

Look for photos of some of my funky finds and the stuff I had made (not such a good sewer myself..) and then this weekend we head up and I will photograph plain jane..