German Pretzels on BekahBakes.com
I have written a guest post for my sister over at BekahBakes.com
Click here to check out my favorite German Pretzel Recipe!
Prost!
Sarah
Downton Abbey Finds: Season 2 Episode 6
We see 2 new beautiful places in this episode. First, the house that Sir Richard Carlisle buys when he is engaged to Mary. We don’t see much of it but this grand entry is plenty enough. I’ll take one!
We also see some ruins in the garden’s at Downton. They are quite cool and it’s a shame we can’t see more of them.
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Door and other Hardware in DC
If you haven’t already, you should check out my collection of light fixture pictures from my recent trip to DC with my sister. I must say, I think I was more excited going into and out of the museums than I was in the museums.
Nice Nockers…hehe.
Push Bar.
My sister of BekahBakes.com next to a GIANT granite collumn.
These ventilation grates as the National Gallery were so cool. Some of them had been painted but a good number were still brass.
Coolest Water-fountain Ever
Another neat push plate.
Yet another neat push plate.
Stairs at the Smithsonian Castle.
This one was outside a bar in Georgetown. It looks remarkably like this one from HinkleyLighting
The postal museum had some awesome wood-paneled rooms
An old post office in the Postal museum
I love these benches! They are branded “U.S. Capital” too which is kinda neat.
It was a super fun but whirl-wind trip. I hope you have enjoyed seeing a glimpse of the things that I love about DC.
Sarah
The Light-fixture tour of DC
My sister had a business trip to DC and I met her down there for a quick weekend trip. It was a ton of fun and we hit most of the highlights in just 2 days. I’ve got light fixtures and door hardware on the brain and I must say, DC has some of the coolest light fixtures ever! This is my collection of iPhone pictures of lamps and chandeliers and street lights from all over the city.
The Department of Commerce has some cool sconces and urns.
This street light has the big glass globes that I love.
Cool hanging lantern from the DAR hall.
These are at Union Station and they line a giant walkway. They are more gothic than most of the city but beautiful none-the-less.
I can’t recall where this chandelier is from but I’d put this in the piano room in a flash if I could.
You can see the capital building in the background. This light was huge and needed to be cleaned but it was very unique looking.
The Smithsonian American History museum had these cool floor lamps. They were quite large and the styling was timeless.
You can’t really tell in this picture but those are gas lantern…like real gas! So cool!
At the national portrait gallery.
This outdoor fixture was quite unique.
And, if you haven’t seen enough lights, there’s practically a whole exhibit at the American History Museum! I wanted to buy prints of all this cool stuff but they didn’t have anything nearly this cool in the gift shop. If you know where I can get a print of this image, please let me know in the comments!
This may be the coolest old picture ever. I want it framed in my dining room. I love it from the array of “electroliers” to the lady and gentleman in turn of the century dress.
They had whole display cases of early electric lamps and light fixtures as well as the beautiful images from the patents for the fixtures.
DC is a light-fixture lovers dream. I can’t wait to take Stefan with me next time I visit. I’m afraid my sister thought taking more pictures of the lights than the art was a little strange 🙂
Sarah
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