Like the idea of doing this birch tree design on the basement walls. There is wallpaper available:

But potentially I could do it with paint. Perhaps projecting with this stencil:

And maybe adding texture and color contrast with little birds:

Perhaps on one wall in the basement and solid grey on the other walls. Weathered wood slats on ceiling or leaving the exposed white beams.

Happy Birthday Michelle!

This free greeting card generated with Smilebox

We All Scream for Ice Cream

We went to Bluebird Ice Cream this weekend - had yummy peanut butter and strawberry flavors. They were all out of chocolate pudding flavor which also sounded great. There seem to be all kinds of ice cream shops cropping up around Seattle, must be the new cupcake.

Old School
Molly Moon's
Parfait
Peaks
Poco Carretto

New easy cookies to try

Some new cookie dough I'd like to try soon. Like the new Five ice cream from Haagen Dazs. All natural all the time these days. Like the direction we're heading...

Fun Things this Summer

Free outdoor play for kids for the next few weekends at Volunteer Park.
http://www.octheater.com/show.asp?show=126

Indoor play area at local gym (5 and under)
http://seagym.com/indoor%20playground.html
*This gymnastics studio also planning to open a location in Ballard soon.

Hikes to Fire Lookouts
http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/seasonal-hikes/summer-destinations/fire-lookout-hikes
*The first one at least looks manageable :)

Park in Ballard with fun play couch (phase 3 in the works still)
http://ballardcornerspark.org/ballardcornerspark/

Recycle Bottle Caps

Can be dropped off at Aveda stores now for recycling:
"The program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter."

Also found that you can recycle plastic and metal lids larger than 3" in our curbside recycling bins.

Aveda information

Here's my first Animoto video...