I'm thankful for my friends
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vanillafluffyThis morning, I had a call from Schnauzerland: S and T have invited me to dine with them on Thursday at the Radisson. Oo-la-la, oui, oui! C'est posh! They had me there two years ago and it was awesome. Ice sculptures and a piano player for atmosphere and massive quantities of excellent food. I'll tote a massive bag and plenty of Tupperware...maybe an ice chest in the car for good measure.
They're editing their back bedroom for visiting relatives next month; I became the recipient of a cheap-ass bookcase that will match several cheap-ass bookcases I already own. If I can just get the far wall of the middle room cleared out, I think I'll have side-to-side bookcases for it. He brought it over and dropped it off a little while ago, and while he was here, I capitalized on his muscles and got him to drag out the dead 70s rug and the IBM. I never heard back from BC---oh well, his loss!
With that gone, the southwest corner of the dining room is vacant, giving me a chance to move things around and hopefully instill order. In particular:
1. I have a very large Rubbermaid bin crammed with hammered aluminum. I really need to winnow through it---when I first began collecting, I grabbed everything I found, just because it was aluminum. I'm more discriminating these days and I only have so much room to display them. Plus, I need to figure out where to store what I'm not displaying.
2. After living with them for several months, I'm not wild about the curtains that are up over the sliding glass door. Two reasons: They don't have enough volume to fill the opening, and with the sun behind them, you can't see the pattern. Time to explore my fabric stash for something better.
3. I want to change the chair seats---I have two chairs that match the table with nasty 90s colors on the pads. They don't match ANYTHING in my house. I've got some cotton canvas striped in fall colors which should be an improvement. Orange, red, tan and brown---and there's just enough to do the two chairs AND make a matching squared-off tablecloth. I can do that next month on the sewing machine at Kat's.
Orange seems to be emerging as the dominant color of my kitchen/dining area. Not that there's anything wrong with that---my love for the color goes way back---and it works with the cranberry reds that are accenting the living room. Even my old couch is orange---but that's not staying, it's too icky.
Here it is, late November, and I'm just now finally getting to where I have any energy at all to get shit done. None too soon, because it's pretty horrible. But! I feel like I've gotten quite a bit done the last couple of days. Even if I'm not having Thanksgiving dinner there, my dining room shows an improvement. Waiting for T's arrival, I cleared a bunch of crap out from in front of the garage door---it's been there for months---and I grabbed my big outdoor push broom and swept the driveway. Inside and out, there's progress....
They're editing their back bedroom for visiting relatives next month; I became the recipient of a cheap-ass bookcase that will match several cheap-ass bookcases I already own. If I can just get the far wall of the middle room cleared out, I think I'll have side-to-side bookcases for it. He brought it over and dropped it off a little while ago, and while he was here, I capitalized on his muscles and got him to drag out the dead 70s rug and the IBM. I never heard back from BC---oh well, his loss!
With that gone, the southwest corner of the dining room is vacant, giving me a chance to move things around and hopefully instill order. In particular:
1. I have a very large Rubbermaid bin crammed with hammered aluminum. I really need to winnow through it---when I first began collecting, I grabbed everything I found, just because it was aluminum. I'm more discriminating these days and I only have so much room to display them. Plus, I need to figure out where to store what I'm not displaying.
2. After living with them for several months, I'm not wild about the curtains that are up over the sliding glass door. Two reasons: They don't have enough volume to fill the opening, and with the sun behind them, you can't see the pattern. Time to explore my fabric stash for something better.
3. I want to change the chair seats---I have two chairs that match the table with nasty 90s colors on the pads. They don't match ANYTHING in my house. I've got some cotton canvas striped in fall colors which should be an improvement. Orange, red, tan and brown---and there's just enough to do the two chairs AND make a matching squared-off tablecloth. I can do that next month on the sewing machine at Kat's.
Orange seems to be emerging as the dominant color of my kitchen/dining area. Not that there's anything wrong with that---my love for the color goes way back---and it works with the cranberry reds that are accenting the living room. Even my old couch is orange---but that's not staying, it's too icky.
Here it is, late November, and I'm just now finally getting to where I have any energy at all to get shit done. None too soon, because it's pretty horrible. But! I feel like I've gotten quite a bit done the last couple of days. Even if I'm not having Thanksgiving dinner there, my dining room shows an improvement. Waiting for T's arrival, I cleared a bunch of crap out from in front of the garage door---it's been there for months---and I grabbed my big outdoor push broom and swept the driveway. Inside and out, there's progress....
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Date: 2009-11-24 11:24 pm (UTC)I'm off work until next Tuesday morning and have plans for painting the upstairs bathroom. The Habitat Restore paint worked great in the downstairs bath so I'm looking forward to it.
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:27 am (UTC)* It's blue-violet and will go with the Blue Hawaii/bright Caribbean thing I've got going in there.
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:49 am (UTC)By the time I was done mixing up the Habitat paint, I had a green that's slightly bluer than the walls of the hospital on House for the downstairs bath. Green is Corgiguy's favorite color and he loves this shade. The upstairs bath will be a Tuscan yellow. I started with a quart of paint the color of ballpark mustard and mixed it with cream and sandstone until it toned down to something warm and rich instead of eye-popping.
The remaining paint was pumpkin and burgundy, and I stirred bits of it in with a lot of white and some more sandstone to get terra cotta for the kitchen, which is now a too-pink-for-my-taste peach.
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:46 am (UTC)*shakes head*
BTW, you were off-line, I think, when I posted the pictures of my new place, but I'm a little miffed (kidding!) you haven't commented. Some of those shots - and their commentary - were taken with YOU in mind, my dear. Especially the ones dealing with my vintage furniture! Link is here if you missed it the first go-round...
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:08 am (UTC)What are nasty 1990s colors? I'm not recalling what was fashionable back then. Probably because I wasn't!
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Date: 2009-11-25 12:35 am (UTC)I'm subscribed to Flylady (for about the 3rd time since 2001), which helps me not beat myself up more than I do. I agree about the 15 minutes---WHEN I can focus for that long.