If the World Had a Front Porch

When I first arrived in Mississippi for college, I was immediately captivated by the grand houses along the sorority and fraternity rows on our campus. Not only was I struck by the beauty of their architecture, but I was charmed by the many with wide and expansive columned porches often dotted with white rocking chairs. Coming from the Midwest nothing could have seemed more quintessentially Southern to me, and I absolutely fell in love.

We have seen porches with curtains and those with screens so far in our look at these staples of summer living. Today, we'll finish with a look at spaces that perfectly characterize a traditional front porch-- those furnished with rocking chairs and swings.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Evan Sklar

Country Living

Martha Stewart

While technically the following room should have been with the other screened porches, the rocking chairs reminded me so much of those from the houses on my college campus, I had to include them here.

House Beautiful

Kuta Ink Tattoo Studio

Even it's new comer, Kuta Ink giving the best service for the clients. Kuta Ink have a hygiene standards as a tattoo studio.And they also have a sterile box for keep the equipment clean.

Average Kuta Ink get 4 to 6 clients every week. For the price the determine from difficulty level and color. And most their clients come to studio came from foreign tourists.

Kuta Ink studios also sell tattoo ink and needle.For the Ink they sell with price IDR 65,000, while for the needle the price is IDR 6,000. And it is imported from Australia. If you want to make a tattoo design in Kuta Ink tattoo studio, you can choose lot of their design. Or the tattoo artist named Putu Remaja can make special design for you.

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This Old Porch

The other day, we looked at screened porches as a part of summer living, and today, we'll look at some of the un-screened variety. Each of the spaces that follow have an element I absolutely love love love-- outdoor curtains! I adore the way they help make an outdoor space feel cozy and enclosed.

Domino

Last summer, I was excited when I finally hung porch curtains at our house, as I had wanted to do so for a while, but I quickly discovered, if you live in windy central Texas, every so often there are days when said curtains wind up on your roof.

Traditional Home

The curtains I used weren't the heaviest weight, and I never discovered anything that would keep them anchored to the ground on very windy days; I even tried fishing weights! I tied them back on days when they seemed destined to head upwards, but sometimes they even broke free of those ties.

Melanie Acevedo

It was my Porch Curtains vs. the Texas Wind, but it was a loosing fight for the curtains really; the Texas Wind certainly had the upper hand. Eventually, I simply resigned myself to pulling them down off the roof any day the wind blew strong.

Country Living

Still head, we have more outdoor summer living and more porches with a look at some traditional front porch fare.

Twice Tattoo Studio

Since Established in 2001, Twice Tattoo Studio is one of part twice bar is located in poppies 2 street. This studio is not big, but still comfortable. According Jerinx as the owner of Twice Bar & Twice Tattoo Studio, this studio established because he like tattos. Also studio tattoo business is not make inflict a financial loss.Moreover image of bars and tattoo studio is matching.

"Although over the studio is not guessable, but I think we still can survive" as Jerinx said.

Tools and equipment for the studio, they claim all of the goods imported from foreign. Except the artists, twice tattoo services still use the original local products, that is Made tattoo. The price in Twice Tattoo is quite flexible, and usually starting from five hundred thousand.

When asked about the relationship between music and tattoo, Jerinx's answer is related. Because almost of musicians are tattoo fans.

"Many musicians who make tattoo in this studio, Rufio band and keyboardist of Nidji band make a tattoo in this studio."

Image of a bar, music and tattoo seems to be quite interesting in this place. While future plans for the studio, the possibilities will be enlarged. But may not be in the near future, "may be 2 or 3 more years", Said Jerinx.


In the future, Twice Studio's guys hopefully is.. "RUU APP hopefully not be passed."

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Summer Living {Screened Porches}

As much as I love being outside when the weather is warm, there are certainly times when the bugs are a little too pesky, and in those moments, I long for a screened porch where I can retreat.

Coastal Living

Heather Garrett Design

Evan Sklar

House Beautiful

House Beautiful

I love the relaxed nature of these rooms; each of the spaces above seems to encourage taking a deep breath and following it with a contented sigh.

‘Dare to dream...'

The 4^th of July celebrations kicked off at RAF Feltwell with a rousing speech by the director of ‘Tops in Blue’ USAF performance troop, in which we were encouraged to ‘dare to dream’ - about what, however, wasn’t all that clear. It seemed less about the possibility of a change in American foreign policy and more about shoring up those ‘values’ which are apparently so crucial to life in a democratic society. Anyway, this all took place in one of the remaining American military enclaves in East Anglia. Lakenheath and Mildenhall are close by but are possibly too sensitive to host an event which is open to local civilians or interested party crashers like yours truly. Feltwell, it seems is no longer the home of the 5th Space Surveillance Squadron (departed in 2003) which, according to Global Security was ‘responsible for detecting, tracking and identifying the status of satellites orbiting Earth’ using ‘the Deep Space Tracking System (DSTS) and low altitude satellites using the Low Altitude Space Surveillance (LASS) system’. That would account for the unavoidable presence of four unique radomes, one of which was used as an improvised projection screen for a vast image of the Statue of Liberty. The 48th Fighter Wing, our host, (also known as the Statue of Liberty Wing) is also based at RAF Lakenheath where, two days earlier, Joe Biden flew in on a ‘unspecified mission’. I didn’t see him here, anyway…

Inspiration Board {4th of July}

The 4th of July is a holiday I absolutely love, not only because I adore choosing a festive outfit, as I mentioned yesterday, but because is a day that is often filled with family, friends, fabulous food, and, my favorite, fireworks. It is a day that seems to lend itself perfectly to not only celebrating the ol' Red, White, and Blue, but a casual outdoor summer wedding as well.

Row 1: Tec Petaja via Once Wed, Martin Lof, Paloma Images via Once Wed. Row 2: Martin Lof, Paloma Images, Orchard Cove Photography via Style Me Pretty, Kristi Blunt. Row 3: Home Beautiful via Brown Button, Myrtle and Marjoram Photography, EyeSpy Photography via Snippet & Ink, Myrtle and Marjoram Photography, Cannelle et Vanille. Row 4: Leigh Miller Photography via The Bride's Cafe, Home Beautiful via Brown Button, Tec Petaja via Once Wed.

For those of you in the U.S., I hope you have a most wonderful Independence Day, and to those of you outside the States, I hope you're having a fantastic weekend too. Happy 4th!!