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Amy Bradstreet

Amy Bradstreet

www.onbradstreetfarm.com

midcoast Maine / Restoring ancestral Bradstreet Farm with Alex. Mother to two always-unschooled adults. Keeper of ducks and chickens. Lover of making home and ritual.

Amy Bradstreet

Maine Aesthetic

Maine Aesthetic / Maine: a way of life, connected to nature, the seasons, the land and sea. We dress for the weather and we choose the durable, practical and classic over trendy. We see beauty in things crafted with our own hands. We paint light, unique to our latitude and our geography. Our homes must be warm, easy to care for and must have a place for boots, baskets, fishing poles and a stack of wood. We celebrate our communities and history. Maine is where we live.

Blog :: On Bradstreet Farm

Blog :: On Bradstreet Farm / On Bradstreet.com is about us: a Maine (USA), autodidact, whole-life unschooling family, our Mermaid House & Garden by the sea, and most recently, Bradstreet Farm, and our quest to live mindfully, creatively and sustainably.

Our home is always evolving. We like creative, welcoming spaces and we like to change it up, a lot. We lived in a 120+ year old Italianate near the ocean for twelve years, until we moved to the ancestral farm. We still have our Mermaid House.

Farmstead / Dreaming, planning, doing. We are working to preserve and restore our 125-acre, ancestral homestead in midcoast Maine. 1799-2016. www.onbradstreetfarm.com

Back To The Garden

Back To The Garden / We are stardust.
We are golden.
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Barnyard / Thinking about farm animals.

The Flock / For the farm we're getting a small flock of laying hens and maybe two geese in the spring of 2014. This is where we'll be posting breeds we like, coop ideas, and poultry care. We're also interested in ducks, but they will probably be a later addition.

We're looking to order about fifteen laying hens that we will be using for egg production, and they have to be good for cold weather. We are also looking into getting two female geese to be watch animals, weeders, and all around pets.

Maine Locavores

Maine Locavores / Maine Locavores has been celebrating and supporting food grown, produced and harvested in our local foodshed since September 2007.

Radical Homemaking

Radical Homemaking / "The simplest and most sensible start for Radical Homemakers departing the extractive economy and building the life serving economy were the elemental practices of thrift, frugality and debt avoidance....The defining principles: are including everyone in the economic picture; capitalizing on available resources; minimizing waste; becoming net producers of goods rather than net consumers; bartering; spending money where it matters most; and understanding the concepts of "enough".
"In order to revive our culture and create a vibrant society that does not depend on a consumer driven and ecologically rapacious economy, more of us need to look homeward to create a life-nurturing alternative." - Shannon Hayes, Radical Homemaker

Wrathful Earth Mother

Wrathful Earth Mother / wrathful - /ˈraTHfəl : Adjective
Full of or characterized by intense anger.
Synonyms
angry - irate - furious - wroth - ireful
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” – Cree Indian Proverb
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” — Rachel Carson

Dismantling Kyriarchy

Dismantling Kyriarchy / Kyriarchy – a neologism coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and derived from the Greek words for “lord” or “master” (kyrios) and “to rule or dominate” (archein) which seeks to redefine the analytic category of patriarchy in terms of multiplicative intersecting structures of domination…Kyriarchy is best theorized as a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression.

Patriarchy – Literally means the rule of the father and is generally understood within feminist discourses in a dualistic sense as asserting the domination of all men over all women in equal terms. The theoretical adequacy of patriarchy has been challenged because, for instance, black men do not have control over white wo/men and some women (slave/mistresses) have power over subaltern women and men (slaves).

- Glossary, Wisdom Ways, Orbis Books New York 2001

Unschooling / I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or repair anything sold, bought or processed as a career. I don’t want to do that. ~Lloyd Dobler- Say Anything

To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. - Wendy Priesnitz

Connected : Attached : Interdependent

Connected : Attached : Interdependent / "Securing and maintaining a strong bond with our children is our primary work as parents. A secure bond or connection with at least one other human being is the greatest emotional need of every child. It is also the biological key to optimal human development. Parenting advice is relevant only to the extent that it honors our human biology and promotes parenting practices that support secure bonding." - Pam Leo, Connection Parenting

Childism / Childism: "when adults rely upon a societal prejudice against children to justify themselves and legitimate their behavior.” - Elizabeth Young-Bruehler - Systematic prejudice against children. Institutional support for adult privilege. The view that children are property, to be controlled, coerced, managed and derided.

Body Acceptance, Body Activism

Body Acceptance, Body Activism / All bodies are good bodies. Fat is a descriptive word. Loving our bodies is not the goal, but a journey. Health is not owed to anyone. Health can be attained by every size and health means different things to every person. Learning to be in our bodies in wellness, mindful of nourishment, exploring joyful movement, is a process.

A Deeper Understanding

A Deeper Understanding / “Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time”--Stephen Wright
"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding."

I turn to my computer like a friend.
I need deeper understanding.
Give me deeper understanding. ~Kate Bush, A Deeper Understanding

I Was Born In 1971

I Was Born In 1971 / “I like to reminisce with people I don't know.” - Stephen Wright
"In 1971, a US stamp costs 8 cents. Gas is 40 cents a gallon, the average new house is $25,000 and most people made around $10,000 a year. John Lennon and Janis Joplin were on the radio and Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub. Mary Tyler Moore, The Partridge Family and the Odd Couple were on the tv. Apollo 14 landed on the moon, the first microprocessor is invented and the first email is sent. Richard Nixon is the US president and we're still at war in Vietnam.

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1971.html

Raising Generation Z

Raising Generation Z / My babies were born in 1997 and 1999. They are Generation Z and this is their childhood.

Mermaid I Have Been

Mermaid I Have Been / “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ~ Anaïs Nin

I'm A Special Snowflake

I'm A Special Snowflake / My dislikes are better than your dislikes.

Mulder, What's Your Point?

Mulder, What's Your Point? / Mulder: [Investigating a body] Have you noticed that this man's shoes are untied?
Scully: Mulder, what's your point?
Mulder: This means something.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Alternatively titled: I, Geek.

I Slit A Sheet...

I Slit A Sheet... / "I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit." There. I've never been relaxed enough around anyone to say that." ~Navin R. Johnson, The Jerk
“I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.”--Stephen Wright

Political Animal

Political Animal / "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you." – Pericles (430 BC)
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." ~John Stuard Mill
"I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others." --Maria Bamford

Clarification / 1. To make clear or easier to understand; elucidate: clarified her intentions.
2. To clear of confusion or uncertainty: clarify the mind.
The more you know and such.

Oh Bugger Off / Things that royally piss me off.

Love Meme Tender...

Love Meme Tender... / "The term Internet meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet.[2] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information." -Wikipedia, Internet Meme

Cross Country Skiing

Cross Country Skiing

Secret Survivalist

Secret Survivalist / "Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters." -- Burt Gummer, Tremors

Library Trip / I belong to four libraries. My mother worked in libraries, then I worked in a library. Libraries are our best Third Places. Also, books I need to check-out on my many return trips to The Library.

Books, Films, TV

Books, Films, TV / Books I've read, films I've seen and TV I watch. Sometimes I see the films of books I've read, or I have read books while watching TV. I never read or see out of order, some of the best writing is in the young adult genre and I detest spoilers.

Songs, Singers, Storytellers

Songs, Singers, Storytellers / After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Vintage Weird / Weird Vintage

Bad Idea / Sometimes I see that thing, that ill-considered, ugly, impractical, inappropriate thing, and I put them here. Things like barstools (seriously, no one thinks they are comfortable, stop designing for their use) or crafts that have managed to hit the stupid mark (did you see that photo in the jar of olive oil? Did you?)

Mode of Dress / I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~
Katharine Hepburn

Adornment / Jewelry and decoration

Nattily Dressed

Nattily Dressed / "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." ~Charles Dickens

Gimme A Head Of Hair

Gimme A Head Of Hair / Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Roots :: Family Tree

Roots :: Family Tree

My Precious / So bright... so beautiful... ah, Precious.
We wants it, we needs it.

My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things / Pretty mugs, romantic scents, useful tools, interesting pottery-
These are a few of my favorite things.

Synesthesia / I am a synesthete.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

I have grapheme color synesthesia which means I see all my letters and numbers in color. Music is color for me, as well. Words and sounds often have texture and shape and patterns. These images reflect what I see or what I am drawn to, in texture and combination of colors.

Getting Graphic

Getting Graphic / "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration." — Jeffrey Zeldman

Manuscript / Lover of words and script.

Art & Illustration

Art & Illustration / "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." ~Georgia O'Keeffe
"Great art picks up where nature ends." ~Marc Chagall

People Are People

People Are People / People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get
Along so awfully
So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs...Depeche Mode

Studio / Making creative space a priority and center in the home.

Art of the Salon

Art of the Salon / Where thou art, that is home. ~ Emily Dickinson

A Crafted Life / “The following characteristics are essential for the successful crafter. Firstly, every crafter must possess a contortionist-like dexterity or monkey-hands, and strong agile fingers capable of bending thick wire into tiny intricate shapes, as well as a superhuman ability to clutch. Secondly, superior hand-eye coordination is critical. All crafters must excel at precise high-velocity hand movements not unlike the jaws of a snapping turtle or a lizard’s tongue, if that lizard could decoupage with the same ability he uses to catch flies.” ~ Amy Sedaris, Simple Times, Crafts For Poor People
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."-
Wole Soyinka
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” - William Morris

I've Got The Notion

I've Got The Notion

Vignettes / Vignette (noun) 1. a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. 2. an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like that is shaded off gradually at the edges so as to leave no definite line at the border. 3. a decorative design representing branches, leaves, grapes, or the like, as in a manuscript. 4. any small, pleasing picture or view. 5. a small, graceful literary sketch.

Floral / "Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." ~Emma Goldman
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." ~Chinese Proverb

Alluring / “If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” ~ Kathy Acker

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.” ~ Anais Nin

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ~ Carl Sandburg

Cats Meow : Guinea Pigs Wheek

Cats Meow : Guinea Pigs Wheek

Hounds of Love / I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive. - Gilda Radner

The Friendly Beasts

The Friendly Beasts

Dream A Little Dream

Dream A Little Dream / Things I dream about doing, seeing or creating.

Home Decor Books

Home Decor Books / These books fills shelves in my house and are comfortable companions that have guided me in my quest to nest and create a home for my family.

Kitchen Cupboard

Kitchen Cupboard / The relief of it. Home. Her own house, her own possessions, her own kitchen. The Aga, oil-fired, simmered peacefully to itself, and all was blissfully warm. ~Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

Put The Kettle On

Put The Kettle On / “Strange how a teapot Can represent at the same time The comforts of solitude And the pleasures of company” -Zen Haiku

Cookbooks / Stained, worn, bindings shot; beloved cookbooks that remain tried and true in my kitchen.

Best Pizza In A Cup Ever

Best Pizza In A Cup Ever / Marie: You live here? Oh, it's nice. Did you decorate it?
Navin R. Johnson: Yeah, I got all this stuff from the old Cup 'o Pizza place before they tore it down.
Marie: Good pizza.
[the two are eating pizza in a cup]
Navin R. Johnson: Oh, this is the best pizza in a cup ever. This guy is unbelievable. He ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business. People come from all over to eat this.

Slow Cooker Recipes

Slow Cooker Recipes

Gathering Home / "A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless." ~May Sarton

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience." ~ Sydney Smith

Pottery : Crockery : Ceramic

Pottery : Crockery : Ceramic / “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one." ~ E.B. White :: “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” ~ unknown

Mudrooms + Bootrooms, Closets + Cupboards

Mudrooms + Bootrooms, Closets + Cupboards / "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat." - Henry David Thoreau

Living Spaces / Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from. ~ Seth Godin

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris

Woodstoves Cookers Hearths

Woodstoves Cookers Hearths / "The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness." ~Henry David Thoreau
"To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world." ~Charles Dudley Warner

Getting In The Wood

Getting In The Wood

Houses / "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” ~~J R R Tolkien

Ikea Rooms / Ikea: design, space planning, color, texture, furniture, small space living, kid-friendly homes, inspiration.

Doors + Windows, Stoops + Porches

Doors + Windows, Stoops + Porches

Upta Camp / In Maine, we go upta camp.

Staircases + Hallways

Staircases + Hallways

Guest House : Apprentice Cottage

Guest House : Apprentice Cottage

Sheds, Outbuildings, Coops

Sheds, Outbuildings, Coops / "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair." - Friedrich Schiller

Old House : Modern Style

Old House : Modern Style / Loving old homes while living for today.

This Old House Needs Improvement

This Old House Needs Improvement / We have two old houses - one is a 1888 Italianate beach cottage and the other is an 1860 farmhouse cape.
"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store." ~ Kin Hubbard

There Are Places I Remember

There Are Places I Remember / Places I've been: "There are places I remember,
All my life though some have changed,
Some forever, not for better,
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments,
With lovers and friends I still can recall,
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all.
But of all these friends and lovers,
There is no one compares with you,
And these memories lose their meaning.
When I think of love as something new,
Though I know I'll never lose affection,
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them,
In my life I love you more.
Though I remember I’ll never lose affection,
For people and things that went before,
I know I’ll often stop and think about them,
In my life I’ll love you more,
In my life I’ll love you more."

Motels : Motor Inns : Cabins

Motels : Motor Inns : Cabins / Remembering the small, mom & pop motels of America's back roads, interstates and country highways. Many of these were home to me in the 1970s-80s, and they all looked just like this.

Gaia / Our Mother Earth.

About Gaia Theory: "Gaia Theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light of increasing concerns about global climate change. The Gaian paradigm of Earth as a living system, first articulated by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, has inspired a burgeoning body of researchers working across disciplines that range from physics and biology to philosophy and politics. Gaia in Turmoil reflects this disciplinary richness and intellectual diversity, with contributions (including essays by both Lovelock and Margulis) that approach the topic from a wide variety of perspectives, discussing not only Gaian science but also global environmental problems and Gaian ethics and education." http://www.gaiatheory.org/

Roam If You Want To

Roam If You Want To / roam if you want to
roam around the world
roam if you want to
without anything but the love we feel

A Camping We Will Go

A Camping We Will Go

Sea Air / “A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

Acrophobia + Gephyrophobia

Acrophobia + Gephyrophobia / Acrophobia: fear of heights
Gephyrophobia: An abnormal and persistent fear of bridges, especially crossing bridges.

"To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accurate, but it would fail to give the full picture. Richard hated clifftops, and high buildings: somewhere not far inside him was the fear--the stark, utter, silently screaming terror--that if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over and he would find himself walking to the edge of a clifftop and stepping off into space. It was as if he could not entirely trust himself, and that scared Richard more than the simple fear of falling ever could. So he called it vertigo, and hated it and himself, and kept away from high places." ~Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

Historical Context

Historical Context / An unsantized recording of history. Putting history into perspective through images.

Brown Paper Packages

Brown Paper Packages / "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favorite things."

Costume / The art of make-believe.

Secular Pagan / "Secular Paganism is not a religion, it is an ethical view of the world, based on the belief that Nature is sacred and must be respected and treasured. Secular Pagans hold many of the same views about Nature that religous Pagans and many people of other religions do. Secular Pagans believe that we are a part of Nature, not her master. There are no particular religious views connected with Secular Paganism." ~ Abby Willowroot

Autumn Equinox : Mabon : Samhain : Halloween

Autumn Equinox : Mabon : Samhain : Halloween / The Autumn Equinox, Sept 20-23. The Holly King begins to regain his power and the days grow shorter. We bring in the harvest to sit in baskets under beds, in attics, on counters and tables. Aprons are donned and mason jars are cleaned in granite ware pots. Warm days and cool nights. Harvest fairs. Later, a hard frost. Cerulean skies. A garden dipped in gold and rubies. Branches, like crooked fingers, reach out. Apple butter simmers. Pies bake. The house gets cleaned top to bottom. Rain pours from concrete skies, skattering amber leaves. Winter approaches. We transform into creatures of both fright and beauty and go out into the night. We are not afraid. ~Amy Bradstreet

Samhain, the Transformative Sabbat http://www.onbradstreet.com/2008/10/samhain-transformative-sabbat.html

Haunted House / Creating a spooky, spine-tingling atmosphere out of our fear of the unknown. This is about the flame that goes out, the face in the window, the flicker in the corner of our vision, the sensation that the veil is thin and we are not alone.

Thanksgiving: Simple Gifts: We Gather Together

Thanksgiving: Simple Gifts: We Gather Together / "Come, ye thankful people, come. Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin." - Henry Alford

Yule : Mother's Night: Winter Solstice : The Wild Hunt: Boxing Day

Yule : Mother's Night: Winter Solstice : The Wild Hunt: Boxing Day / Winter Solstice, Dec 20-22. Yule, the midwinter fertility festival, Mother's Night, the Wild Hunt. Feasting, toasting, a 'Waes Hail' for your good health and a blessing for the trees and next year's crops. The Oak King defeats the Holly King and the days get longer as sunlight returns. We exchange gifts, celebrating the returning light, hopefull that the year will be bountiful.

Yuletide Carols

Yuletide Carols / Music is integral to celebrating the Yuletide season. Carols are played in my home the second Santa makes his appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and until Boxing Day, December 26. I have a Spotify playlist called "Yuletide Carols", as well. Many carols are steeped in Pagan imagery and are Nature-based. We sing because our souls require it, especially in the dark days before the Solstice.

Yuletide Treasures

Yuletide Treasures / TV and movies that make my family's Yuletide merry.

Imbolc : Brigid's Day : Quickening : Groundhog Day

Imbolc : Brigid's Day : Quickening : Groundhog Day / Feb. 2. Midway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. A celebration of home and hearth. Rich stews and porridges simmer in the pot. We tend the fires of our hearths and of our beings, our imaginings, gathering fuel to last the rest of winter. We begin to feel the Quickening, the stirring beneath the soil of seed and bulb. http://www.onbradstreet.com/2009/01/quickening.html

Valentine's Day : Lupercalia : Juno Februa

Valentine's Day : Lupercalia : Juno Februa / Mid-February. The Wolf Festival. An early spring fertility festival. Poetry, drawing names from boxes, enticing lovers. Red is the color of fertility; of blood, of birth, of ripeness. We open our hearts and give tokens of our admiration.

Easter : Ostara : Vernal Equinox : Spring

Easter : Ostara : Vernal Equinox : Spring / March 21, the Goddess Oestre brings the dawn in rainbow colors, and The Hare bounds in, heralding new life, in brightly painted eggs, those eternal symbols of fertility.

Beltane : May Day : Gwyl

Beltane : May Day : Gwyl / Beltane is the last of the three fertility festivals (Imbolc, Feb 2 and Easter, March 21), arriving midway between the vernal equinox and summer solstice, and was traditionally the start of summer. It is time when the veil is thin, once more (as it is at Samhain) and a celebration of life, planting seed, and marks the beginning of the growing season. The earth and self are awakened in all its pleasures.

Summer: Summer Solstice: Litha

Summer: Summer Solstice: Litha

First Harvest: Lughnasadh : Lammas : Summer Feast

First Harvest: Lughnasadh : Lammas : Summer Feast / Corn and grain, breads and honey mead, baskets filled with garden bounty; these are the foods that are the centerpiece to this later summer feast. Storage for winter begins and we feel ourselves cycle into personal reflection as we begin to notice the waning light each day and begin to feel a coolness in the air.

Neighborhood Finds

Neighborhood Finds / Nifty finds from the coastal community and surrounding towns of Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

I Am iPhone / My iPhone and I. We're a happy pair.

Ticky-Tacky / tack·y [tak-ee]
adjective, tack·i·er, tack·i·est.
1.not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
2.shabby in appearance; shoddy: a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
3.crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
4.gaudy; flashy; showy.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

Things that I like.

Things that I like. / There, is that a better title???

More ideas from Amy

Woodlawn Snow, Valspar

Ancient Olive from Valspar kitchen color idea

Bright fabrics and patterns add a punch of color and texture to this bedroom.

Small-Space Solutions The bed's placement in front of the window maximizes limited square footage. Don't be afraid to place your bed in front of a window, especially if it will create more room for other essentials, such as dressers or armoires.

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen, farmhouse kitchen, open shelves, old farmhouse, maximalist

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen, farmhouse kitchen, open shelves, old farmhouse, maximalist

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen

On Bradstreet Farm - kitchen

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

On Bradstreet Farm - guest bedroom

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