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Elegant Georgian town house with wonderful walled garden.
Peckover House is a secret gem, an oasis hidden away in an urban environment. A classic Georgian merchant's town house, it was lived in by the Peckover family for 150 years.
The Peckovers were staunch Quakers, which meant they had a very simple lifestyle - yet at the same time they ran a successful private bank. Both facets of their life can be seen as you wander through the house and gardens.
The gardens themselves are outstanding - 0.8 hectares (2 acres) of sensory delight, complete with orangery, summer-houses, croquet lawn and rose garden with more than 60 species of rose.
She was in such good condition, it only took me a week to restore her :)
She had a good bath - alot of grime came off of her! I bathed her in a bubble bath of Johnsons Baby Spampoo and cleaned her down with a make-up sponge.
I washed her hair on 2 occassions; once with Johnsons Baby Shampoo and human conditioner, then a second time with Johnsons again and Comfort (fabric softner). I just dangled the ends of the hair in Comfort because the roots were pretty good.
I mended her pull string and replaced her pull ring with a flesh coloured one, more like the original.
And that's all that needed doing! She hasn't got any cracks, melt marks - she didn't smell - her eyes work and her knees bend. Her feet are a bit chewed but there's nothing I can do about that :)
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Here is a photo of the completed pigtail. The PC power supply will now plug into one end of the pigtail and the other end will plug into the Hurco computer.
More 2-page collage spreads for The Sketchbook Project. (http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject) The book is now complete.
My completed scorecard for the Hudson Valley Renegades in their game against the Auburn Doubledays at Dutchess Stadium
The Doubledays won, 4-3, in 13 innings.
Wappingers Falls, NY, 08/03/13
*SURLY*cross×check complete custom
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *SURLY*cross×check
PAINT by COOKPAINTWORKS
Headset:*CHRIS KING*
Wheels: *H PLUS SON*the box rim × *SHIMANO*105
Tire: *PANARACER*pasela plus
Crankset:*SUGINO*
Pedal: *MKS*mt-lite
Brake lever:*SHIMANO*
FD&RD:*SHIMANO*claris & altus
Brake:*TEKTRO*
Handle: *FAIRWEATHER*mod-174
Stem:*NITTO*ui-75
Seat post: *NITTO*s-65
Saddle:*BROOKS*b-17
parts gathered from here and there and assembled into a nice machine for summer fun, all for $2K and around 16lbs.
Potato soup, sauerkraut topped with pork hock, mashed potatoes, Polish beer
The ham hock came with an (unlimited) shot of vodka for better digestion. I had probably 5or 6 of those :)
I'm using 4x Uniross 2500 mAh Ni-Mh batteries to power the MintyBoost XL. My custom design is fully open source and available to download from Thingiverse.
The whole collection, finally sorted and hung up after only 8 years of the wall being partially done. The pictures with the window open had even more glare, so, yeah.
This programme is from a Bound Volume of a complete set of Home League and FA Cup programmes that was once the former property of the Manchester United manager Mr.A.Scott Duncan.
It was common when producing the seasons programmes in a book form that were only issued to the Directors, Management that the front covers were removed, many times these programme "Books" will appear with the covers on as well, it is the luck of the draw whatever turns up over the years.
Manchester United won this game 7-2 with the United goals coming from Manley-4[1 pen], Rowley-2 and George Mutch. 23,000 was around the estimated attendance.
Manchester United finished the season as 2nd Division Champions.
Los Angeles Firefighters fought swift-moving flames for more than hour when fire erupted at Hayvenhurst Studios in Van Nuys, California on May 1, 2010. © Photo by Mike Meadows
Finally I have finished the Eldar project. I tried to make a small collage of the entire army. I am sattisfied with the end result.
Now that Navaratri is complete, there is still one more night to sum it up. Dussehra is celebrated on the tenth night, and is a celebration of Goddess Durga’s victory over the tyranny of demons. It reminds us all of the Mother’s Love and Her power to vanquish all that stands between us and our ultimate goal: to gain salvation and attain the Divine.
paramahamsavishwananda.com
bhaktimarga.org
Working on placing the final few rocks on the beach.
Recently, along the shores of the Tseycum First Nation on Vancouver Island, we worked in partnership with the Tseycum people to prevent a portion of the Patricia Bay beach from eroding and washing out West Saanich Road.
tranbc.ca/2014/09/17/how-we-helped-protect-1000s-of-years...
There was about a 1.5foot by 4 foot section that had been under the vanity that was there. The patch work was well done.
August 6, 2019 - I decided my kitchen needed a facelift. This all started because my dishwasher detergent cup no longer locks it broke in late June. The dishwasher was in the house when I purchased it in 1995. It is probably 30 - 35 years old so it was time to replace it. I was just going to replace the dishwasher however the previous owners put a new tile floor in which blocks the dishwasher from being easily replaced. I was never content with my kitchen the only work I have done to it was to replace the original drop-in oven which didn't work when I bought the house and the matching harvest gold exhaust hood was replaced with a white exhaust hood. I painted the walls yellow in 1996. The oven I bought in 1995 died in March 2018 so the oven is only a year old. I also replaced the kitchen faucet last August. I thought about just maintaining the faucet but decided to upgrade to a faucet with a pullout sprayer.
I engaged KitchenSaver to replace the cabinet doors and drawer fronts, countertop and sink. I want the kitchen to look brand new so hired a contractor to strip nearly 100 years worth of paint off the pantry and basement doors, door frames, window, window frame and sill and repaint the woodwork and walls. The contractor will also be installing wood base since the base was removed by a previous owner. I am also installing a Subway tile white backsplash which will go up to the bottom of the wall cabinets and on either side of the window.
I am a retired architect and it was fun getting back into design. I knew exactly what I wanted and took me no time at all to select everything.
I am going with an Arts and Crafts oak cabinet and drawer fronts. The wood stain is nearly a perfect match to the house woodwork and my furniture. Door and drawer pulls are bronze/copper in the Arts and Crafts style.
I also bought new light fixtures for the kitchen and dining room both with a bronze finish. KitchenSaver will be installing five dimmable LED lights below the cabinets and above the sink.
I decided to add a recycling/trash cabinet and pantry cabinet to fill in the dead space between the refrigerator and wall this necessitated the removal of the existing quad outlet that the refrigerator is plugged into. (no outlet behind the refrigerator) In order to do any electrical work in my house I had to bring the existing electrical circuit breaker panel up to current codes. Which meant I needed to replace the existing electrical circuit breaker panel. I had a duplex outlet added behind the refrigerator. With the new circuit breaker panel I now can use the microwave oven and toaster oven at the same time. What a concept! I also replaced the old fashion knob and tube light switch which controls the basement light. The old switch scared me and wasn't safe.
New window treatments for the backdoor and window. I wasn't able to find a blind which matches the Sherwin Williams Indian White SW 1035 paint color so I am going with a Levelor Cordless Cellular blind that is an exact match to the Sherwin Williams Koi Pond SW 7727 wall color.
One last improvement the contractor got paint stripper on the existing oven exhaust hood so I replaced the hood with a new black hood which matches the oven.
By taking the project one step at a time, I was able to quickly and easily conquer an entire corning of the garage.
“Funky Toucan” - just completed!
15.5” x 12.5” - dinnerware, ceramic & hand-made tiles
This was so much fun to create...
& I can teach you how to make one too!
There are a few spots remaining in my live bird workshop coming up in Tijuana next month.
I also have an online workshop with all the steps from collecting dishes, cutting them up, through the entire process of creating a funky bird of your own .... & It’s currently on sale! with Code SPRING2022 through May 22 @mosaicartsonline.com
This is a design I conjured up for my neighbour, he asked me to design a bold and abstract design of an owl. I took his personality into account and this is what I came up with.
Illustrated with a 0.3mm and 0.8mm fine liner plus Gouache paint.
Yes. THIS. I think this is the first time anyone's done this Penrose variant in quilt form.
Now to ... sigh ... finish out the background. But this center medallion is definitely the star of the show.
Blog entry: domesticat.net/quilts/penmanship