A Recipe for Country Living

Since I've been daydreaming about becoming a country bumpkin, I'd love to order Lehman's Non Electric Catalog.

Lehman's is a 50-year-old company in Ohio's Amish country, with a unique bunch of well-made, carefully selected and useful tools for "sustainable" living," says Cool Tools. "Emphasis is on cooking, homesteading, farming, gardening, and doing things for yourself....Kitchen equipment, canning supplies, copper kettles, cheese-making supplies, grain grinders, toboggans, kerosene lanterns, axes, water pumps. The hard copy (172 pp. catalog) is way better than the electronic version. If you're into this stuff, and/or you live in the country, you'll end up reading it like a book.

Brooklyn Flea

This morning I enjoyed a delicious peach clafoutis that Laura made. I know, cla-WHO-tee, you may ask? It sounds funny but it's a delicious fresh fruit baked in a light batter. Yumm! Then I went to the fabulous Brooklyn Flea Market and bought these four antique tin ceiling tiles. I've been wanting to hang a tableau of old tiles for a long time now and couldn't resist these beauties from the booth of Olde Goode Things. This is how they're now hanging on the wall. What do you think?

Architectural Salvage

This place called Housewerks looks awesome. And it's in Baltimore!

Scholarly Storage

My latest obsession: Finding an antique library card catalog in which I can store odds and ends. They're so charming and can be quite beautiful. Not to mention all of the items you can store in them.

This blogger suggested that you can sometimes find them for sale on a neat site called GovDeals. Wow, who knows what else you could find here for neat decorating ideas from old school lockers to playground equipment. Of course I've already scoured craigslist and eBay and just might have to take a roadtrip to pick one up I saw in Pennsylvania. Nevermind that it's $750! I guess I'll keep looking.