Does this chair look too tame? The others have colourful legs. I wonder if I should give this one multi-coloured stockings. What do you think?
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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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2009
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June
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- When life was full of promise
- Dawn after the rainstorm
- Some Thoughts on Creativity
- The View from my Deck Chair
- Life is good ...
- Seriously beautiful ... love this camera
- Kenya: big and black and beautiful
- The first two DVD holders
- The Sprout loving my Oma bear
- WHOOSH! Now you see him; now you don't!
- Whoosh! Updated
- Scattered
- Another week is almost over ...
- The Stresses of Life
- The Post Intended for Yesterday
- On Chairs and Peonies ...
- Mud Pies Tiling has started
- A Leggy Question
- Chair-in-Progress
- Muffins and Procrastination
- And a new week begins ...
- June is Busting Out All Over ...
- Does this cat need whiskers?I am trying black thre...
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June
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
5 comments:
I'm thinking that your funky legs would be fun...
Loving the house!
How about green vines growing up the legs? Vines could be stylized like smoke out of chimney.
Striped legs might detract from the house.
But the chair seen from the front seems complete to me.
I am of two minds. I think it needs something but am not sure about stripes ... think Barbara might be right. I am going to wait and see if anyone else comments ... and in the meantime I am going to start a funky female chair ... beginning with colourful stripey legs.
I haven't responded to this one because I keep changing my mind. I love the house, especially the balcony out front. And I agree stripes might take away from the house. I'm kinda liking the vines idea. I'm not much help this time...
I think Mud Mama might have been right when she said that this chair is very different from the others. The cat is sitting on a chair seat. The first one is a chair seat. This one is a field of grazing sheep ... not at all related to seats or sitting ... so maybe the problems I am having with it have more to do with the original idea than with the legs.
The other difference is that on all the other furniture I chose a limited palette and then proceeded. This one I just thought about sky and grass.
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