The most poignant object in the world ever

I found this on the sidewalk in Alphabet City last fall. Check it out:



















Let's zoom in on that a bit:














The word is gouged into the wood with a soft pencil.

The back:
















Someone handcarved this wooden frame to fit a shard of broken mirror. Who?

Sweet

Amazon tells me I just sold two books I found on the street:

"Good News About Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching" and "Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Milennium."

Yay $12!

Who the hell is this?

First dinner at the new table

Some of you may recognize the place mats.



Ha! Look at that meal. We are such healthy ascetic types.

(Note: three of four chairs visible were found on the street—the school chairs in Chelsea and the gray wooden one in...Williamsburg?; the blond chair on the left was scavenged from a closed-out library in Midtown)

Sunday morning crochet love

Kitchen:



Added to the pile in the guest room:

Finishing touches

Windowsill redux

Last weekend's find, plus the remnant of the brown molding.

New table

That brown molding...

...really worked out! This afternoon I painted the front hall—and now it looks beautiful. Here is the molding in situ (sorry the pictures aren't great; I am still figuring out the camera):

And a wider view. We just got that shoe thingie, so our seventeen thousand pairs of shoes no longer sit in a dingy heap of death.

And another (I know you're really interested). Paintings, left to right, by Andrew Hunt, Greg, me.

And check out this horseshoe hook I got for Greg last Christmas.

Darling Greg...

...put up our new bag hooks last night, using the brown molding! Pics TK.

Furthermore...

I forgot that I found these beautiful glasses! In a paper bag on the sidewalk in front of those new condos near Kingsland and Richardson, on Saturday afternoon. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Also this weekend...

I found:

Eight books (catholic sex counseling [UPDATE: sold for $4], American morals by Jimmy Carter, "Johnny Tremain" [UPDATE: sold for $8] "Slaughterhouse 5," something by George Stephanopoulos, and some others). All now for sale on Amazon dot com.

About ten 8 1/2 x 11 white canvas boards for painting on, still in their wrappers! I gave them to Chris, who is a painter—perfect!

I found these things together, on Kingsland Avenue, near Nassau.

I also lugged a big ol' piece of brown-painted molding inside from across the street; G and I are thinking we can use it as a back board for some hooks we are planning to put up in the entryway.

The new hooks will go to the right of the others (below), on that patched spot, to hold our seventeen thousand bags. I'll take another pic when it is finished and painted and beautiful! We found the red piece of wood in a trash can down the street, and we found the blue/green board on a beach in Cape Cod.

Woo! We love f'ed up pieces of wood!



(Greg found the Yankees hat on the ground in Williamsburg in a rainstorm, and I adopted it. And see the gray felt hat next to the fedora? I found that on the subway.)

Found this weekend

Above: I found it on my street, by the curb, when I was coming home from the bar with Greg and Chris and Claudine on Saturday night. I don't know what it is...but I know what I like!

Below: Integrated into the collection.

I made these last night

Two down, some undetermined large number to go!

Our house

We have a little house in our dining room. On a stump. With a handmade iron nail for a chimney (or is that smoke?).