Some Random Things I like
Martha Stewart isn't the only person who can have "good things", you know. Us middle-aged, borderline-portly homemakers also have things that make us smile: Mannequins, dogs in dresses, shrubs that are pruned like poodles - you get the idea. But here's two things that I am particularly smitten by right now.
Number one is this table: I got this table shortly before we moved into the current Chez Vel-DuRay, and it had been pining away in The Lodge for a long time. Too long of a time, if you ask me. It was originally supposed to go in a corner between two sofa pieces, but those are long gone, so now it is going to just be in a corner next to that fabulous sofa.
If it just sat there, that would be good enough. But like every self-respecting piece of mid-century furniture, it has a second use. That surface slides away to reveal a hidden storage space!!! (I use it for my comfy pink blanky, for when I'm feeling cozy. Yes, I do sometimes feel cozy. About twice a year.)
Then there's Dansk Kobenstyle, which is a line of cookware that Dansk put out about a million years ago. It's not the best cookware, and you always have to have potholders because it's so poorly designed, but it's just so neat looking on the cooktop.
Other than that, I really have nothing to say to you. We bought a kegerator with our tax money, but we need to find a place that fills CO2 tanks before we can use it. Where does one go to get a CO2 tank filled? I shall ask around at The Major Concern - they know about things like that there.
Memorial Day was uneventful: I had been somewhat under the weather earlier in the week. Delicacy forbids my divulging the symptoms, but just as I was feeling better, The Colonel came down with a much worse version of it. (I maintain that it was because he ate something that had been left in the refrigerator for two weeks, but you can't tell some people anything) So, what will all the purging, it was not a very pleasant Memorial Day Weekend. Certainly nothing one would want to inflict on visitors. But I did put a new cover on a lampshade, and I did some decorating in The Land Yacht, so all was not lost.
Interestingly enough, The Professor is suffering from a similar malady. Perhaps it's something that's going around Lysteria Lane this month.
So anyway, welcome to Summer, Darlings.
Number one is this table: I got this table shortly before we moved into the current Chez Vel-DuRay, and it had been pining away in The Lodge for a long time. Too long of a time, if you ask me. It was originally supposed to go in a corner between two sofa pieces, but those are long gone, so now it is going to just be in a corner next to that fabulous sofa.
If it just sat there, that would be good enough. But like every self-respecting piece of mid-century furniture, it has a second use. That surface slides away to reveal a hidden storage space!!! (I use it for my comfy pink blanky, for when I'm feeling cozy. Yes, I do sometimes feel cozy. About twice a year.)
Then there's Dansk Kobenstyle, which is a line of cookware that Dansk put out about a million years ago. It's not the best cookware, and you always have to have potholders because it's so poorly designed, but it's just so neat looking on the cooktop.
Other than that, I really have nothing to say to you. We bought a kegerator with our tax money, but we need to find a place that fills CO2 tanks before we can use it. Where does one go to get a CO2 tank filled? I shall ask around at The Major Concern - they know about things like that there.
Memorial Day was uneventful: I had been somewhat under the weather earlier in the week. Delicacy forbids my divulging the symptoms, but just as I was feeling better, The Colonel came down with a much worse version of it. (I maintain that it was because he ate something that had been left in the refrigerator for two weeks, but you can't tell some people anything) So, what will all the purging, it was not a very pleasant Memorial Day Weekend. Certainly nothing one would want to inflict on visitors. But I did put a new cover on a lampshade, and I did some decorating in The Land Yacht, so all was not lost.
Interestingly enough, The Professor is suffering from a similar malady. Perhaps it's something that's going around Lysteria Lane this month.
So anyway, welcome to Summer, Darlings.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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