I’m notoriously bad with plants. In my younger days, I actually managed to deflate a cactus within a week. Not kill, but deflate. I definitely had not inherited my mom’s green thumb. Then I moved to California, and all of that changed. Pretty much anything grows here. Of course, I […]
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From the first time I laid eyes on a DIY for a bubble chandelier, I knew I had to make one. I believe it was the night I discovered Door Sixteen, and I spent the AM hours reading through her blog, bookmarking gray rooms and the instructions for this chandelier. […]
image from Prints.com As I’ve thought about what to do with our master bath, art is one of the many things that has stuck out in my mind. I’ve wanted to have old movie posters featuring pin-up girls, or something evocative of these posters. Maybe Vargas girls. Just something fun, […]
That’s right, two years. It feels like yesterday we were moving in, playing furniture roulette, and enjoying beer while sitting on the porch. Literally on the porch, because we hadn’t dragged any furniture outside yet. I guess in some ways things haven’t changed. I’m still playing furniture roulette, but I’m […]
view from the master bedroom It seems as soon as summer hits, out the window goes anything indoors. All of our focus has been on getting the outdoor space to be as close to perfect as possible. Sometimes with all of the hard work, I lose sight of how much […]
After is a bit of a misnomer in this picture, this is really a “during”, because there’s still much work to be done in the living room. However, as you can hopefully tell from the picture, we’ve done a lot of work in this room. When we moved in, the […]
CNN lady continues to speak about race, and how historic it is that Barack Obama , a black man, will be president. And all her cohorts are ignoring her, cutting her off. I’m guessing CNN has laid down the law that this shouldn’t be focused on race, even though it […]
Yeah, we lack that sort of precision.Heh – yeah. We’ll just do our own thing – we’re blonde.😛 Before the Chinese junks in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, there was a beautiful performance leading in – men in a green and yellow dip-dye costume, with a woman above them, […]
For a wedding present, Raju’s cousins Shubha and Indu gave us a desert dune bashing trip to watch the sunset. Ooooh so scary but oooooh so fun. The Land Cruisers were sliding this way and that way, and some of the drivers were getting stuck, but not ours. We also […]