With the growing need for PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), it looks like many of us are on the hunt for ways to make masks. I have put together a number of resources here for you. Learn more from the CDC with additional options to make your own masks. Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19 CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings … [Read more...]
Living with the new normal
We are all learning to live with the new normal that COVID-19 has forced us to do. I hope all of you are staying home and keeping safe. In the past couple of days, I learned of some great resources out there to help. Dave Keller Livestream Concert Dave Keller performs a 90-minute concert of original soul- and blues-inspired songs. Resources from Paintbox Garden to help keep you … [Read more...]
Ways to Help: Generator’s COVID-19 Relief Fund
GENERATOR is making MEDICAL Reusable N95 masks shields for our local HOSPITALS which will SAVE LIVES. COVID-19 Relief Fund:Generator and some of their medical, educational, manufacturing, and engineering partners are prototyping personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to requests from the UVM Medical Center. They are working to immediately start producing equipment including face … [Read more...]
Through the Lens with Susan Frost
Photographer, author, and traveler Susan Frost has something new she is sharing with her followers. Through the Lens is an amazing blog that provides helpful information about traveling and taking great photos. So stop by and subscribe so you can get wonderful posts like my favorite one, Graceful Snow Geese in Flight. ABOUT SUSAN E. FROST Susan E. Frost is an internationally published … [Read more...]
Cozying up near the fire
Who wouldn't want to cozy up near this beautiful fireplace? LineSync Architecture created the most stunning space at Mount Snow, VT. Below is a little more information about this Eco-FireWall. To see the whole new look at Mount Snow, click here. What was the inspiration behind the Eco-FireWall? How big can you make a fireplace in a very large room? Fireplaces have a time-honored … [Read more...]
Join The Burlington Garden Club on a colorful trip as we walk through the tulips!
Register now for the BGC trip to the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa You are invited to join members of the Burlington Garden Club on a fabulous overnight trip from Burlington to the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa on May 13 and 14, 2020. It is reportedly the largest tulip festival in the world, with over a million tulips planted throughout the city. The deadline to register is … [Read more...]
Which way should we go?
About Orah Moore Over 30 years of artistry brought to shooting weddings, portraits, pets, commercial, fashion, maternity, and newborns. Visit her website for more on the photographer. … [Read more...]
Wouldn’t it be lovely…
With a focus on the design of efficient new homes, additions, and renovations, Sustainable Design, LLC is a Vermont-based architectural firm providing architecture, renewable energy consultation, and interior design services. Their designs are beautiful and create the perfect spaces to cozy up and relax. About Sustainable Design LLC Established in 2009, Sustainable Design, LLC is a fully … [Read more...]
An American House featured in OLD HOUSE JOURNAL
The Essence of Traditional Wills in Vermont BY PATRICIA POORE / PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROLYN BATES A single-storey Cape by the office of the Colonial Revival architect recently got unobtrusive additions that added space while knitting the house to a patio and the yard. “Two separate wings were kept secondary by their placement and scale,” says the Vermont architect Sandra Vitzthum. To the … [Read more...]
Living a big life in a tiny house
COZY A Brattleboro tiny house suits this entrepreneurial couple to a T. Story by Marisa Crumb • Photos by Carolyn Bates Walking up to the stained shiplap-and-corrugated-metal-wrapped home, one could wonder how an active, industrious, and energetic couple could possibly live in such a small space and make it all happen. But Erin Maile O'Keefe and Kev-in O'Keefe definitely do … and then … [Read more...]
Climate Resilient Buildings
In 2000, Sandy Lawton and his business partner, Adam Lougee, had developed a beautiful piece of woodland and fields with rugged ledge outcrops into 10 house lots with shared community space, conserved land, and trails that has today become the main entrance to one of the most beautiful and interesting town forests which overlooks the Mad River. This rugged beauty has inspired him to develop a … [Read more...]
Mount Snow, VT is getting a new look
Mount Snow Master Plan - 2009Type - PublicLocation - West Dover, VermontStatus - Design DevelopmentLineSync Architecture is the lead architect for Mount Snow’s comprehensive master plan, developed over several years in concert with a team of consultants and focus groups. Phase One, Carinthia Base Area, includes residences, a community center, and a base lodge. LineSync Architecture continues to … [Read more...]
CHITTENDEN HOUSE featured in OLD HOUSE JOURNAL
BY REGINA COLE / PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROLYN BATES History Retraced at CHITTENDEN HOUSE A couple planning to downsize instead took on the restoration of a large, important house built in 1796: “We’d done a series of renovations, but nothing could prepare us for this project.” We were living in a 4,000-square-foot house in Dallas,” Dan Dixon explains, “and we planned to downsize. We’d … [Read more...]
Enter into the secret garden
How can you not possibly be enchanted when you see the Rettinger Garden? This beautiful space is designed and maintained by Kirsten Seibert of Broadleaf Landscape Architecture, Waitsfield, VT. … [Read more...]
Must See VT TV
Have you seen Episode 448 of Stuck in Vermont? If you haven't then it is definitely time to meet the Vermonters in Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown! A decade ago, Vermont songwriter Anaïs Mitchell created Hadestown. The folk opera premiered in Barre in 2006 and is a creative reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. After years of touring with the show in concert format and a … [Read more...]
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