Bedroom!

So...painting the bedroom. This is what I've been doing for the last month. The reason it took that long is that as usual I wanted something elaborate and detail oriented. BUT. I finished, and I am SO proud of how it looks that I could gag. Tonight I'm touching up the last little details where the stencils pulled up paint edges, and moving my bookshelves in. Or alternately sitting in the completely empty room and grinning.

Obligatory before shot

The smallest wall by the window I did in all flowers.

Bunny and birch trees along my longest wall

This will be where the bookshelves go so I didn't do a lot of detail.

Little details I spent lots of time obsessing over.

Notes:

The room is five sided- like a square with a corner chopped off next to where the windows are. The diagonal wall is the short wall with the flower details.

Interestingly enough the blue (which is a little more turquoisey than these shots) makes the room seem both bigger and brighter, which I always thought was what white was supposed to do, but the white room maybe just makes things blander and therefore fades to a middle ground. I was worried it might be dark after I painted, but I think it reflects more light. If that's possible?

Moral: Anything I didn't do last month that I should have...this is why.

Since I moved.

Here are all my worldly possessions about 2 weeks ago now, getting ready to leave their home and set out a great distance of 4 blocks to the northeast.

I moved into the new place. And we're working out the kinks slowly (for instance shower head is shorter than I am. Or the fireplace worked mysteriously for 72 hours and then quit. Etc.). But! The fridgeless, sterile white kitchen that you see the fuzzbucket testing boundaries by trying to scope out whether or not she should jump on the counter and risk my wrath (answer: yes, but wrath does ensue.) has been transformed and now is officially pretty awesome and can be cooked in. I will be slowly painting and furnishing all the rooms of the house and the kitchen isn't actually done yet- I just wanted to show off.

Before + Cat

After Painting: Food items, fridge and flowers.

Eventually that back wall is going to be full of spice racking, dishtowel, pan hanging goodness. I'm not there yet, but I did make a delicious stirfry last night to commemorate my first night with a fridge to store leftovers in, a dishwasher to throw prep dishes in and COUNTER SPACE which is easy to wipe down. Hallelulah. I also bought produce at the farmer's market for to cook more awesomeness with tomorrow.

Movin on up.

For Jez

Jez here's some pictures of fabric projects. If you want, let me know and I'll add pictures of this skirt and dress I made from old sheets.


This is a puffy quilt I made for an art project. The embroidery panels were pre-done fabric, and it's puffy because each panel has stuffing instead of batting- just wanted to show you I can make square quilts.


This guy is a an queen sized afghan. if you are getting a sense of my style I tend to like geometric and solid colors

Quick Idea sketch here. I like the thought of going crazy quilt on the top with images incorporated, and putting in the border of words on a simple background- either sprinkled liberally all over or put in just as a border. The text line is me playing around with how the border might go.

Tons of Huntington!

I went to the Huntington, with the Huntingtons. These pictures are for those of you not yet convinced to get out to Cali this winter. Its November people! Those are T-shirts we are wearing, and we were too warm. How's that 30 degree day with the minus 10 windchill feeling about now? Here are just a few of the attractions at the Huntington:

Monarch catapillars

Small Worlds of Great Beauty to Destroy



Nerdy Men in Pith Helmets to Stalk

Knowledge! Carnivorous Plants!


And then there was a cool picture of HRH- the Mrs. Huntington looking shocked, but i stupidly deleted it. Imagine it here.

Finally, for those of you I haven't seen in ages- new hair. Side part! Quasi Bangs! Now you can recognise me at the airport. Or as Frances put it, "Ooh look at me all fancy with a scarf and books! I'm soooo coooool".

OMG! WHAT IS IT?!?!

A coworker found this in his yard. Already dead, but we think it might be faking. Its a bug, but it looks kind of like a fetus and kind of like evil. Its huge too, look how it dwarfs the quarter. The pictures are small so you don't have to look at it too closely.

Honey I Ate the Kid....

While I was on vacation the plants kept a-growing (Thanks Thuy!). The basil and thyme and sage and salad greens are all approaching regular plant size, or at least micro green-ness. The tomato shot up a bit, and I transplanted the second tomato into its own cubby with the poppies and spinach, on the theory that tomato one was winning.
Thuy's plants are also coming along as well. (Sorry for the blur- this is not my usual camera) She has mini planters with tomato, sage, spinach and nasturtium, and some peas went home with her. I think they get a little more natural light where she is.
Finally, in a horrifying ritual of paternal cannibalism, we ate the first fruit of our labor! A tiny pea pod with one tiny pea inside of it. It was damn good, albeit slightly unsatisfying split between two. I'm keeping on with a quest to increase yield- I think we're going to try sub irrigation methods next.