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friday favorites: roundup of new columnists
22 May
Posted by Kate Karloan as Home Improvement Minute
Weve been introducing you to our blog columnists since last Thursday. Now that youve met everyone, we thought wed compile links to their blog posts as our Friday Favorites! Click on their banners below to read their debut posts, and meet us back here on the At Home in Arkansas blog each month to get to know them better!
The new Tureberg Church is situated in Sollentuna just outside Stockholm. Architect Helena Tallius Myhrman from Tallius Myhrman Architects wanted to do the Tureberg Church bold yet timeless. It’s a modern concrete church with sustainability in mind.
Most of the equipment in the round church is made of recycled materials. To the altar, baptismal font and the organ kabinett the artist Finn Ahlgren of Godspeed used recycled wood. The altar and processional crosses are made from recycled glass from scrapped televisions and monitors. The c
Rob Finch of The OregonianBeautiful Peninsula Park is not as well-known as the rose garden at Washington Park.The Rose Festival blasts off in less than 10 days with the big fireworks display at Waterfront Park. Are you ready? The roses aren’t — unless we get some amazing weather. I don’t have high hopes for that. The forecast is, however, conducive to planting roses. So, that’s good news.
Need some ideas on which roses to buy? Louise Clements, owner of Heirloom Roses, and Harry Lauder, curator of the International Rose Test Garden at Washington Park, offer their favorites in six categories, including most fragrant and best cutting rose.
When the roses do bloom, keep in mind the Washington Park garden is not the only Portland rose garden. Full Post…
Its time to get to work with La Cornue Carving Board; this is exactly what this board means – business. Crafted from solid hornbeam, the same wood used in professional butcher blocks, the board is set on a slight incline that allows the meat juices to flow down the channels, carved on the outer edge of the board, and collected in a stainless steel Rolse juice bowl. The stainless bowl is easily removable to be used in the making of gravies or as an au jus dipping bowl, while two cast iron handles provide easy handling.
Tastefully designed, this elegant poultry carving block does not come cheap. T
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