Garage Hoarders: Part I

I am ashamed.

Well, maybe I'm more embarrassed about my parents' garage than anything else.  We should be on that TV show, Hoarders: Buried Alive.  I decide about a month ago that I would take on the task of cleaning, organizing and revamping my parents' garage.  This is the situation:

 

Of the 3 spaces available, only two parking spots are open.  The third spot has been swallowed up by tons of useless crap.

Don't ever let me cut your hair...

I don't actually know how to prune anything. But that doesn't stop me from pruning everything.

Tweets

Check out these cute doorknobs that are available at Anthropology!  Personalize any room in your house with small changes like this....

 

Planting and Puttering

I'm starting to pick up the pace in the garden lately because the weather's been unseasonably warm. I've been getting to do a few things I'd been thinking of for quite a while. For example, I planted the agave above in a converted bathtub planter. This was kind of a big deal for me, because this particular agave has been haunting me for months. I saw it at Sunset Nursery in October, but decided that I didn't really need it, even though I thought it was so so pretty. Well, I took a picture of it on my cel phone before I left. Since then I've decided that if you can't stop thinking about a freaking plant for months, then you actually do need it. But I haven't even told you the best part of this story yet....

Archival Framing Materials and Methods - Part I

Archival framing is a too much of a subject to cover in one post. But I did want to touch on one particular aspect today. Let's call this section one in the framing seminar:

I. Why Tape Is the Devil

Please allow me to elaborate...