Looks like my sister wants them.
UPDATE: nope, her suitcase is too full.
November 6, 2008
November 5, 2008
November 4, 2008
Information
Do you need some information?
I scavenged (stole?) this from a library in Midtown that was being emptied out—I rescued it from the jaws of a dumptruck.
November 1, 2008
Bears don't read blogs
So Nicky won't find out he is getting a new bowtie for Christmas!!
UPDATE: added a lifesaver.
UPDATE: added a lifesaver.
October 31, 2008
October 30, 2008
It is always eleven minutes to seven in our living room
Greg and I agree that it is eleven minutes to seven AT NIGHT, not in the morning. I didn't find this exactly, but I did get it for $5 from a yard sale... It basically was a dream come true. I had been wanting such a clock for a long time—like the ones we had in my elementary school! One day I will get it running again.
October 29, 2008
Sheep friends
Augh, commercial wool makes sheep's lives horrible!! No more of that for me. I guess I will have to find some old sweaters to unravel...or another fiber (recyled?).
Thanks Bonnie.
Thanks Bonnie.
Pointsettia
I saved my pointsettia from Christmas last year. Do you think it will turn red and bloom this year?
October 28, 2008
Bathroom friends!
Our bathroom friends have acquired some pink beads! One of them seems to like it a lot.
Sarah H. found the bracelet on the street and gave it to me. I left it in the bathroom, and Greggy gave it to the little guys. Very nice.
Sarah H. found the bracelet on the street and gave it to me. I left it in the bathroom, and Greggy gave it to the little guys. Very nice.
October 27, 2008
Free plates!
I found these four brown-and-white plates on the weekend. The consensus is that they are too ugly to keep.
You want em?
You want em?
Check out our dresser!
It used to be black and new and perfect, but that didn't sit right with us. First we sanded the hell out of it, then we replaced all the matching knobs with mismatched glass, metal, and wood ones. That still didn't do the job, so I painted it (with "Oak Buff" paint found on the street). Then a couple months later I painted all the knobs. That was better, but then I edited a book about Roy McMakin and got INSPIRED. NOW it is really perfect.
October 26, 2008
Flowers
In the porcelain pen-and-pencil holder in my office at work I have two kinds of roses.
A beautiful cloth and wire pink flower, made by my friend Sarah Kilpack...
And these orange candy flowers, which Greg swiped from a birthday cake given to Whoopie Goldberg by Oprah!
Whoopie lives above the shop in Soho where Greg went for a job interview. I guess she wasn't so into the cake (or Oprah?) so she gave it to the shop people.
October 23, 2008
Our guestroom
So this is the bed in our guestroom (now occupied by Sarah H.—yay!). Greg built it last year when this was our bedroom. Note that it is lofted about 4 feet above the floor.
For two nights we had to scarmble up from the floor onto the bed, and then kinda slide off in the morning. BUT THEN—we found these on the street in Soho in front of a theater:
COMPLETE STEPS! ALL IN ONE PIECE! We were with friends in a mininvan, so we brought them home and screwed them on. They fit perfectly!!!
For two nights we had to scarmble up from the floor onto the bed, and then kinda slide off in the morning. BUT THEN—we found these on the street in Soho in front of a theater:
COMPLETE STEPS! ALL IN ONE PIECE! We were with friends in a mininvan, so we brought them home and screwed them on. They fit perfectly!!!
October 22, 2008
October 21, 2008
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?
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!
October 20, 2008
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)
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)
October 19, 2008
October 18, 2008
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.
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