Tuesday Toss Up #15
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Here is this week’s links for Tuesday Toss up #15…
Decorating & DIYs:
Emily Henderson’s friends’ moody, dark green dining room.
How to decorate a basement flat.
Makayla Creates featured eight charming old-fashioned spring hobbies.
Gardening & House Plants:
How to make your garden a place to entertain all year round.
Six worst places to keep a Chinese money plant indoors, and where to put it instead.
How to plant tulips in the spring and still get them to bloom this year.
Food Tips & Recipes:
Recipe for slow cooker London broil.
Make a creamy caprese pasta salad.
How to make herb & cheese quick bread.
Entertainment:
On Netflix, The Life List is a new romantic comedy starring Sofia Carson, Connie Britton, Kyle Allen, and Sebastian de Souza.
Set against the backdrop of New York City, Alex Rose’s mother sends her on a quest to complete her childhood bucket list. She begins a journey in which she uncovers family secrets, finds romance, and learns more about her true self.
The Mule, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, is on Amazon Prime Video and is free if you have a Prime membership. The 2018 film is based on a true story published in The New York Times Magazine. Eastwood’s character, Earl Stone, is a ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran who turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
The Mule also stars Bradley Cooper and Lawrence Fishburne.
New Books:
In the new Fredrik Backman book, My Friends, most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist, knows otherwise, and she is determined to discover the story of these three enigmatic figures.
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.
Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed in eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it.
In The Names, after a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son’s birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she’d like to call the child, Cora hesitates…
Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora’s and her young son’s lives, shaped by her choice of name. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.
Random Links:
Read how homemaker and content creator Julie Blanner organizes her refrigerator.
According to pro organizers, there are eight ways to instantly make a kitchen feel less cluttered.
I hope you found some interesting articles to read this week at Tuesday Toss Up #15.
Your lovely links are always appreciated and fun to look at!
The caprese pasta salad looks delicious! I never thought to put pasta in it, but yum! I think my favorite thing was the adorable kitten picture at the end that says there’s always someone who silently cares for you. That’s precious!
That london broil recipe sounds delish. Showed hubby and will certainly try it.