Archive for August 2nd, 2007
I Heart Breakfast
Today, I stumbled upon a blog called Simply Breakfast. It’s similar to 3191: A Year of Mornings, visual blogging, however this blog focuses exclusively on breakfast. I never thoughtthat looking at what someone eats for breakfast could be so interesting. I’m not a big fan on those mornings when I’ve forgotten to eat breakfast (which is most days). Then it’s just torture!!
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I’ve Got Mail!!
Since my husband has been travelling so much for work, I have been crafting up a storm. You can only watch so much TV before you brain starts turning to mush. I really love Shim and Sons display boards, so I thought I would try and construct my own. Voile!! Now I just have to decide what to put in them. Maybe my husband will leave me a love note when he comes back. Hint, hint!!!
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Big Dog in a Little Chair
It is very hard being Dottie, so many beds and couches to choose from. I find it funny that with all of her options she constantly chooses this one, our Poang chair from Ikea. She looks so uncomfortable and worried when she sits in this chair. Sometimes she watches me in the kitchen, perched in her chair, and I can’t help but laugh. Poor Dottie!!
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Amazing!!!
WOW!!! This is amazing!!! It is a hotel in Nairobi called The Giraffe Manor, via Apartment Therapy SF.
“Built in 1932 by David Duncan of the ‘Macintosh Toffee’ family, The Giraffe Manor is modelled on a Scottish hunting lodge with views of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the south and the Ngong Hills to the west. In 1974, the grandson of a Scots Earl, Jock Leslie Melville and his American wife Betty bought the Manor as their home.
The Rothschild giraffe lost much of their natural habitat in western Kenya and faced extinction. In 1974, two highly endangered Rothschild giraffe were moved onto the estate where their future generations have thrived and live today. Jock and Betty founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW). The Giraffe Centre (AFEW Kenya) was built on the property so that Kenyan school children could learn conservation/ecology and feed giraffe eyeball to eyeball! Visitors touring Nairobi have a chance to visit and pay an entrance to the Giraffe Centre. Profits go to various projects in Kenya. Betty’s son Rick has led AFEW USA and AFEW Kenya since 1983.
When Jock died in 1984, and Betty returned to the USA she opened her house – now The Giraffe Manor – to visitors. The Giraffe Manor has been run by Rick and his wife Bryony over the years, initially as a fund raiser for AFEW.”
It sounds amazing!!! I’m totally onboard.
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