Pallet for Home

There's a Fuel For Schools promo right now, and here's how I shopped it today:

Get a $10 Catalina coupon on your next grocery purchase of $10 or more, Coupon printed at checkout...when you buy any 10 Kellogg's, Keebler, Sunshine, MorningStar, and/or Eggo products. (3.8 oz or larger, Mix or Match) Purchases must be made in one transaction. Offer valid at participating retailers during select dates between 7/28/10 and 8/14/10.

There are also the $5 off 5 Keebler and Kellogg's item coupons in the ad. One deal per customer per day at the Haskell, OK store.  I had done this a week ago, and still had one $10 catalina left.  Today I purchased this:

5 boxes Blueberry MiniWheats, 5 for $12 - $5 in-ad coupon
5 TownHouse Crackers 5 for $12 - $5 in-ad coupon
One Crest toothpaste $1.99 - $0.75 MQ on any (doubled to $1.50)
3 Avocados on sale for $1
1/2 Gallon Milk $2.05 - $2 MQ wyb 5 Kellogg's cereal
One Pound Round Steak $2.90 - $2 printable found here
Minus the $10 I had from last week

For a total of $7.50!!!  Plus I got a $10 Catalina off my next order, so I can go back and do it again tomorrow.

Ever since reading The Secret Garden as a girl, I've loved the idea of a walled-in garden. A courtyard garden is both an outdoor space and an extension of the home--a bonus room. Some may dream of wide open spaces, but I dream of a little patch of the outdoors that is completely private. A courtyard is the perfect place to experiment with plants without having to tend to a lawn, while providing an appealing spot to pause for breakfast or dinner. The garden above, which I photographed in Savannah, lured me through timeworn shutters to lean in for a closer look. The following images illustrate that four walls under open sky, plus greenery and comfortable seating, add up to a dose of tranquility.

From Malorie:

"My pal, Ilana and I took photos at Pallet City this past weekend. We dig interactive art.

Much Joy,

Malorie"


From Amy: Lily at Pallet City
From Kseniya: "Art"

From Karina: Eli, Age 7

On view July 2-August 6, 2010
Katherine Gressel, Curator

In this Pallet City exhibit, six artists/artist teams respond to the idea of a shipping pallet gallery by exhibiting work made with found or recycled materials. These artists also address questions of the Ideal City as related to the history and future of Governors Island, having mined the island for both building materials and subject matter for their work.

Marina Zamalin’s photo dioramas juxtapose images of Governor’s island and other sites that suggest different possible solutions for the island’s future. Deborah K. Hall re-purposes a found wood cabinet and found sheet metal as a metaphor for “Governors Island as a more carefree world”—the cabinet’s door opens to reveal images of play. Julia Whitney Barnes and Triada Samaras/Susan Handler Konvit address the importance of preserving the island’s natural landscape, from the East River that has become “scarred” by chemicals, to disappearing local wildlife-- Whitney Barnes sees the island as “a perfect location for a bat refuge because of its abundance of abandoned buildings and ample tree cover.” For Katherine Gressel, wood scraps found on the island become canvases for small plein-air paintings completed in one afternoon at Pallet City—they reveal new vantage points of the island as seen through pallet walls. Michael Sherman also explores the potential of the pallet not just as a support structure, but a means of fracturing space and encouraging new interactions with the island.

Marina Zamalin, Island Dioramas 1 and 2, 2010, Photo collage, mixed media



Katherine Gressel, Pallet City Plein-Air, 2010, Acrylic on found wood




Triada Samaras and Susan Handler Konvit, Scarring Our Water, 2010, Canvas, acrylic paint, bamboo, human hair, grommets, wood burning, epoxy, polyurethane

Deborah K. Hall, Go out and Play, 2010, Found wood cabinet, acrylic paint, oil paint, found sheet metal, wire




Michael Sherman, Every Other One (Propeller), 2010, Stain and paint on found pallet wood

Julia Whitney Barnes, Gilded Phytophilic Bats, 2008, Stoneware, glaze, gold luster, brass wire





Visitor-drawn graffiti from our first, participatory exhibit: we sanded some of it off, but kept the contributions we liked the most that were written in response to the question: "What is your idea of the ideal city?"