Old House Smell

Does anyone know what I mean when I say “old house smell?” With the weather warming up the last few days I’ve definitely been getting a lot of that in this old building (I still wanna find out when this sucker was built). Actually, I like it because it reminds me of my grandma’s house in Illinois, the smell my house has been producing is reminiscent of hers when my family would go visit during the summer. I like it.

I’m posting this from our new mac and the internet is s-l-o-w! If I’d been using my laptop I would be done by now and not feeling the time crunch (I need to run off to work)! Any mac users know a way to speed things up?

Yes, there’ll be a “real” post (with pictures) later today, if you were worried :)

One Bed, Three Ways

[First and foremost, a note about For Japan With Love (Blogger’s day of silence). The initial goal was to raise $5500, but at the time of writing this, they’ve raised $55,334. Ten times their goal–Incredible!]

Just because I was sick of looking at my bed the same way all winter long, and because while putting away some winter blankets I discovered this white one I’d never used before (wedding gift) I decided to do a little switcheroo on the ole bed.

My pebble comforter has a lighter and darker side to it, here’s a picture I’ve probably shown here before, with the light side of the comforter up:

I don’t think I ever snapped one with the dark side up, but you can see it folded down at the head of the bed in this “gradient” shot (darker at the top, lighter in the middle, white at the end):

Also, covering the whole bed in white looks fabulous! I’m worried about it getting dirty though… Shoes off the bed!

What do you think? Which is your favorite?

Also, for those of you who were wondering how my “make the bed every day” New Year’s resolution was going? (I’m sure you were all on the edge of your seats) Let’s just say my I’ve done it for 39% of the year so far. Yay math. Still, I have been making an effort! Is it sad to say 39% is an improvement? It’s more than 2 days of the week! Not bad?

Changing things up for spring? How are your New Year’s resolutions coming?
Any tips for photographing a bed and actually making it look good?

For Japan With Love

Japan. As nerdy as the fact is, Japanese culture and Japanese animation were important, formative parts of my jr high and high school life. It’s because of this I’m as good as I am with websites/computers. So, I guess you could say Japan is important to me.

Sneaking this blog in before midnight because tomorrow (Friday) is the “Bloggers day of silence” to raise awareness (well, people are pretty much aware) of the crisis in Japan, but more importantly to show readers a way they can help out. By donating to Shelter Box, much-needed supplies will be sent over there. (By the way, click the link and check out the goal and current money raised. Phenomenal.)

Even if the donation is $5, I think I have at least 20 regular readers–if they all donated $5, that would be $100. Impressed by my math there?

For Japan With Love was started by Ever Ours and Utterly Engaged. Check out their blogs for more info.