Over the Hill

Our friends Amy & Matt visited recently from Kansas City. Amy decided she wanted to come visit us--US!--to celebrate her Fortieth birthday. We were excited and honored. She is the ONLY person from my childhood that i am still friends with, and i wish we didn't live so far apart. Rare times when we are able to get together, we become immature brats again? Witnesseth:

Kung Hei Fat Choi

White Coral Dinnerware

Here is some modern, non-kitsch and non-antique dinnerware i could get into. From a Dutch manufacturer, this particular line is designed by a Pratt Institute grad, and is tres tres tres TRES bon. Wonder how many fabulous thousands of Euros it would set me back? Isn't it beautiful?

Ch Ch Ch Changes

Turn and face the strange. The very strange. Love it:

Kinda Wow Kinda NOW

Szechuan Fire Chilli

Somebody's going to win that trophy again for a second year in a row...

FISA renewal and SOTU showdown

I've been reading alot over lunch today about Harry Reid inexplicably becoming Republican (again) and attempting to whisk the Bush FISA renewal bill through the Senate, while squashing his Democratic colleagues' better proposal. WTF??

Anyhoo, here are SOME GREAT PHOTOS!! Check them out, and then go HERE to leave one of your own. What a great idea. I can't wait to do my own later tonight. I'll post it here; and maybe show some good ones from the flicker page.

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Did you guys click on the photo link above to see all the super cool messages people have made?? Here is mine, just completed. Hope this crap washes off my knuckles (really don't wanna explain that to everyone tomorrow at work...)



Here are some other choice ones. Go check em out!

New Dining Room :: Part II

Hopefully, we will finish with the dining room this weekend. Here is a picture of the completed wall treatment, two layers of mottled glazes over the dark red base. It has come out pleasingly like leather--from a distance anyway--but on close inspection, the metallic highlight / pearlescence becomes visible. The other pic is of our sample board we made last weekend, with the arts and crafts border we'll do at the top of the wall. We've decided to go with the middle green; it is a shade darker than the ceiling green, and works nicely with the broken green beer bottle pieces in the chandelier. We've both got tired arms!

New Dining Room

arriving soon. no it won't be clinical white. had to prime over those rather Neil Sedaka stripes.



and here we have the rich base color, a nice slightly-bloodier-than-terra-cotta. Next, a golden glaze mottled over.