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..