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November 21st, 2007

Hot press

Heavy Petal is Canadian Gardening
magazine’s “hot link” of their Winter 2007 issue. This makes me feel
all proud and glowy. Welcome CG readers, and thanks, CG for the mention!

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Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 5:37 pm | Permalink | Comments (8)

 

November 20th, 2007

Plant lock

The most brilliant ideas are always the simplest, no? Take the PlantLock, for instance.It’s a bike rack and planter in one. No more unsightly bike racks, plus added space for urban greenery.

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Imagine if these were used in cities nationwide…

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Via NotCot.

Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 2:01 pm | Permalink | Comments (2)

 

November 15th, 2007

Raw Studio hanging chairs

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These hanging chairs by Nick Rawcliffe of Raw Studio, reminiscent of those 70s hanging wicker chairs (updated, of course, for the modern esthetic) are sleek and functional - they stack flat for easy storage. But are they comfortable?

Via MocoLoco.

Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 1:29 pm | Permalink | Comments (1)

 

November 13th, 2007

Announcing the Lentil

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I’m pregnant. There, I said it. I’ve been looking for a way to tell you, but it doesn’t normally come up in topics relating to gardening.

You might have noticed a lack of regular posting – and for that I apologize. Somehow having a little alien growing in your belly distracts you from things you’re normally quite into. I don’t know if it’ll get any better, either. Somehow I suspect that this alien, whom we call the Lentil, will come to dominate most of my spare time. I’m due in April, just as the garden is really starting to wake up and need my attention. But there are lots of blogging mommies out there. And I know there are garden blogging moms, too. So it can be done. It just seems very… tiring.

Any advice from experienced moms? How did having a baby change the way you garden? Or blog? Or both?

Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 6:18 pm | Permalink | Comments (18)

 

November 7th, 2007

Serve it up

 Simrin-trays-nature.jpgSaw these botanical-print serving trays by Simrin, and knew Heavy Petal readers would adore them. You do, don’t you? No? What if I told you they are made by laminating hand-printed fabric between ridged vinyl sheets, so that each tray has a linen-like texture? And that they’re made in New York by a family-run company that’s been in business for over 40 years? And that they start at just $30.00?

See. I knew you’d love them. Buy them here.

Via PointClickHome.

Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 10:35 am | Permalink | Comments (0)

 

November 5th, 2007

Maple leaf love

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What I’m loving this week:

“Leaf walks”: long walks in search of the best, driest, most-kickable leaves. Something comes over me when I spy a nice thick stretch of colourful leaves. I am compelled to run through them, doing a series of low, straight-legged kicks that send the leaves flying and which cannot fail to make me feel happy. Try it. You’ll see.

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Flaming red Acer rubrum, the Red Maple, and, more specifically, the sight of its fallen leaves. They look like scraps of red and white paper to me, all scattered around in perfect disarray.
 

red_maple_leaves.jpgThe arrival of daylight savings time, which brings sunrises that are late enough to catch the end of, and dusks that bring the incredible, spooky sight of the nightly migration of Metro Vancouver’s huge murder of crows.

 

Posted by Andrea Bellamy at 7:00 pm | Permalink | Comments (4)