Sentences with phrase «filling glass houses»

It's a beguilingly simple idea: make maximum use of a small amount of space by filling glass houses with plant beds stacked high one above the other.

He calls it a «beguilingly simple idea: make maximum use of a small amount of space by filling glass houses with

He calls it a «beguilingly simple idea: make maximum use of a small amount of space by filling glass houses with plant beds stacked high one above the other.»

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My mama remembers it and I will never forget, how every time I ventured next door to play with Nancy Leigh Craig, that little slip of a girl would pull out an empty glass mason jar, and Nancy Leigh Craig would fill it with heaps of dirt dug up from the dog run behind her house, and then she would fill that jar up with water, throw in a bunch of weed tops, and stir the whole mess up with any found stick.

Determined to enjoy (but not too much) the fruits of their labors, the growing middle class of Dutch burghers, merchants, traders and manufacturers filled their tidy town - houses with art that celebrated their personal dignity and accomplishments, the humid sweep of their lowland countryside, and the miraculous bounty of Indonesian spices, Chinese porcelains, tropical fruits, Persian carpets, Venetian glass and other luxuries made available through the expertise of their merchant fleets.

This seems like the perfect soup to make when you want to have a day indoors and you can sit and read a good book with a glass of red... The house filling with the delicious smell as it bubbles on the stove....

On Thursday, the green and lush display house was filled with the roar of high - powered vacuum cleaners as workers meticulously sucked out shards of glass from the fronds of each fern, the tops of lichen - covered rocks and in the dirt that anchors the foliage.

To work in everyday life, the hope is that the flat panel actuators that act as loudspeakers by making glass and other flat surfaces vibrate will drop in price in coming years, making it cheap enough to fill houses with them.

If your raw honey or coconut oil is solid (coconut oil has a melting point of 76 °F, so if you keep your house cool, it will likely be soft but solid), put them into a glass oven - safe bowl or measuring cup (such as Pyrex), and place it in pot filled with shallow, boiling water (do not let the water get into the bowl or cup containing the honey and / or coconut oil).

Picture filling a bag that size with a glass of wine, a few pieces of bread, an appetizer, a main dish, a dessert and a cappuccino, and you realize the typical restaurant dinner is probably bigger than that bag could comfortably house.

In the protected nook of her classroom — a space filled with books, student art projects, and two beloved gerbils housed in a glass aquarium — I was one of 25 kids showered with positive affirmations on a daily basis.

Measures adopted include fitting 14 per cent thicker front door window glass, low - drag exterior mirror housings, new vibration - damping engine mounts, hollow drive shafts, stronger bodyshell joints between the sills and B - pillars, double - layer door seals, and increased foam - filling in the A -, B - and C - pillars.

It's hard not to miss Ella's — the large front windows of the cathouse are filled with tree houses offering cat - eye views on either side of the glass.

In these cases, make sure a good supply of fresh water is always available, and cats should be encouraged to drink by offering several watering stations around the house (pint glasses filled with water are always useful!).

The new wing Piano created for the Gardner, with its airy glass and oxidized - copper entrance, plant - filled greenhouse, public space, café, and tiered auditorium for concerts and lectures, also houses a contemporary - art gallery that adds a new dimension to the offerings in the Gardner's original Venetian - style 1903 palazzo.

Inspired by Elmhurst Art Museum's history and park setting, its light - filled, glass - enclosed architecture and its relationship to modernism, Norton's project will fill Hostetler Gallery, Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House and the corridor that links these two prominent and transparent spaces.

Doug Aitken's Sonic Pavilion, for example, features a deep hole in the center filled with sensitive microphones that capture tremors deep inside the earth, while Matthew Barney's geodesic glass dome houses a giant tractor clutching at an uprooted tree.

In the Dairy house shown recently, horizontal slots were filled with glass.

The Aspire E 15's speakers provide a lot of sound, and they filled my spacious living room with an accurate reproduction of the Screaming Females song «Glass House.»

We had a similar large opening in our house (11ft) and added a wood panel with little glass windows at the top to fill in the 2 ft on either side of the opening so our barn doors would have a place to rest.

So I'm going to fill this room up with muted, sea glass colors, white cotton, maybe some ruffles (but not too many), a gorgeous stencil wall and I'm also hoping to make the trim darker with General Finishes Gel Stain (so it is more consistent with the rest of the house).

Church candles, cocktail glasses and silver painted pine cones are must - haves on the dinner table, while filling transparent bowls with sparkling baubles and festive scented pot pourri make great features around the house.

Cooked bacon sandwiches for Sprogs» breakfast (to remove temptation from fridge for The Great Famine of 2012); did grocery shopping; bought Husband six - pack of beer for New Year's Eve party; bought chooks 25 kg bag of scratch mix; staggered to car with 25 kg bag of scratch mix; washed and hung out two loads of washing; filled recycling bin with empty bottles and cartons; baked eggshells to make grit for chooks; assembled wraps for Husband and Sprogs for lunch; baked banana bread to use up manky banana supplies; baked biscuits with Sprog 2, who doesn't like banana bread; shut back door 50 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; shut front door 20 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; killed lots of mozzies; threw out old magazines and newspapers; put crap away from recent car trip; cleaned chook shit out of chook house; sorted three baskets of clean laundry; unpacked and repacked diswasher; returned to supermarket for forgotten essentials: toilet paper, broccoli, sparklers and last shot of caffeine before The Great Famine of 2012; cooked dinner; washed Sprogs» hair and painted Sprog 2's toenails rainbow colours for New Year's Eve party; copped grief from Husband for painting Sprog 2's toenails (some sexualisation nonsense); went to New Year's Eve Party; reluctantly abandoned third glass of French champagne after being reminded of designated driver status; drove Husband and Sprogs home from New Year's Eve party; took Unisom; collapsed in bed at 11.50 pm.

A collection of glass domes and cloches filled with mini houses and woodland animals adds a festive «winter wonderland» theme.

One of my favourite ways to decorate for Halloween is to gather up some glass vases and apothecary jars from around the house and fill them with creepy treats.