Remember that Project To-Do List?

Yeah, I kind of forgot about it too!

I just made a BIG step in crossing off the very first thing I put on that damn list:  the leaking shower!  (It’s actually item number 3, but that’s because I was trying to hide it behind other things everyone has to do.)  It has been leaking since June 2007. 

Wait wait wait… before you lose your chops about how much water I have wasted with a leaking faucet over the course of 2.5 years (oh my… I just got queasy for a second) I have been turning the water off behind the faucet with a screwdriver this whole time!  Let’s say it – all together now… GHETTO!  Yes, I know… it’s only the best of the best in the Girly Fabu-palace.  D’oh!  Any way… that little bastard’s number is UP!

It’s really the little joys in life, isn’t it?  Like being able to step in to the shower, turn a handle, and have water come flowing forth… clean, clear, cleansing water…. *drool*

If you loved me you’d buy me this: Minx ring edition

Want!

The Noisy Plume rules – if you didn’t know that already!

Christmas is officially a Shiny Thing

Can I see a show of hands who is surprised?

Of course I couldn’t simply trim a tree.  That would be far too pedestrian.  Noooo… It had to become part of the design.  Hopeless, I am.

Holiday photo expedition

Tonight The Child and I bundled up and headed downtown with cameras in-hand.  The lights this year are over the top and it was a fun cheap date on a Friday night. 

Whipper Snapper

Red lights

Skaters

Union Square

The torture! The agony!

Do I open it?  Or do I wait until my birthday – TEN DAYS AWAY?? 

(Kelly, you evil, lovely, fabulous woman!  Wait!  Is that you in the package?  With your disco shoes on??  Ready to go boogie til you just can’t boogie no more with us?!?  )

I feel like Stimpy, finger poised over the History Eraser Button…

Room and Board j’adore

Just what I need – another online store front against whose glass I will smash my virtual face and slobber.

If you loved me you’d buy me this: anything from Kelly Clark Studios edition

The breathtakingly beautiful and immensely talented Kelly has finally opened her gallery site, KellyClarkStudios.com. 

And my prized triptych is featured on her “Works on Paper” section.

I dream of dining rooms

Someday…. someday I will once again have a dining room.  Or dining area.  Or a dining nook.  Someday.  But really what I want is a real live formal dining room:  a room that serves no other purpose than the enjoyment of meals, preferably with family and friends.

And by the way, how have I never seen these chairs in Ikea??  They are CLEAR! 

Damn it!  Should I get one of these?  Or hold out for a Ghost chair??

Photoshop fun

There’s this song called Bucci Bag by Andrea Doria that has become the theme song for my adventures with one of my dancy friends.  Today is his birthday, so I made up some wrapping paper.  Bucci Bag wrapping paper, of course!

So freaking awesome, even The Child had to admit she was wrong!

Haley has moved from scoffing me to trying to plan my untimely demise so that it can be hers NOW…

THANK YOU AGAIN MOM!!!!  I loooove it!

Just what I need (like a hole in the head)

Dammit…  why is jewelry looking so pretty to me right now?  I am the girl who generally goes totally unaccessorized!  Maybe it’s the beautiful corner of my room that is devoted just to getting beautiful?

GAH! 

That’s all I have to say on the matter.

My first Plumage

UmberDove, bless her, introduced me to another purveyor of beautiful things.  I have been admiring for some time, but now I will finally be owning a little bit of fabulousness from The Noisy Plume.

*photo courtesy of The Noisy Plume

If you loved me you’d buy me this (or if you don’t I’ll commit unspeakable acts): bedroom finishing touches edition

I only have a couple of things I need to finish my bedroom

A bedside table, such as this mirrored beaut…

And a lovely chair for my vanity…  I happen to think this is the most boss chair EVER.  I don’t care if they are trendy.  I will love them forever and ever and ever.

But being that they are pretty spendy, I’d be happy with the stool (clear, of course!)…

So if you loved me (MOM! ) you’d buy these little bits of awesome for me.  But if you don’t love me, like I mentioned already, I will commit unspeakable acts. 

I will gladly risk eternal damnation for these little objects so close to heaven on earth.

100% pure, unadulterated “Emily”

The infamous vanity is done and I could NOT be happier with it.  In fact, when I look at it I *SQUEEEEEL*

And to hold my jewelry I HAVE A STAG HEAD!!!  I know you wish you had one, too!  I know you also covet by beautiful UmberDove tray, so go get one of your own!

Sneak Peeks!

(Sloth?  Gluttony?  What??)

In a shocking burst of productivity… I’ve gotten some sh*t done!  Here’s a couple of sneaky peekies…

My new little pretties

My lovely UmberDove has created 2 more custom masterpieces for my humble little home.  

Behold, nap-tacular “armrests” for my sofa!  Because while it’s armless elegance is a thing of beauty, the lack thereof makes it a little formal feeling when what you really want is to be a sack of lazy.

 

South Beach any one?

I work for an investment bank.  We specialize in high-end resort properties.

I have been designing the graphics for a book we’re putting out to help raise financing to redevelop an historic hotel in South Miami Beach.  It was a fancy place before (the brand it used to carry started with an R and ended with a Z, and only had an I and a T between ) and they plan on making it fancy, swanky, kick-ass and hipster.

This is what the guest rooms will look like.  Now I must go home and cry over my ridiculous attempt at bedroom “decoration”.  I am so unworthy. 

Well, Phillippe Starck did the design.  Not like many people can hold a candle to him any way.

I think I smell a collection coming on!

I think I’ve only been a “collector” of one thing in my life – Breyer horses – and I kicked that habit around 1985.  I admire restrained collectors, like camragirl with her Fiestaware.  Alas, nothing has really inspired me to date.  (This is not a great source of distress for me, so worry not for my happiness )

Then last night I discovered mercury glass.  Oh my!  Loads of interesting new and vintage shiny things in a plethora of forms!  How have I not known of this wondrous stuff before now??

And best of all…  there is a huge market of vintage mercury glass Christmas decorations, like this garland!  Christmas!  Christmas!!!

It comes in many colors but, really, only one is the awesomest:  silver.

Birthday bowling party

’nuff said

Other peoples’ things

I just left a comment for UmberDove and it got me thinking, “I don’t think she’ll misinterpret that…”

I miss my mom’s parents something fierce and I find myself trying to reconnect to objects of theirs because I’m terribly sentimental.  I can’t imagine the hours my mom, my brother and I have spent combined trying to find the painting that hung over their fireplace (You can’t even imagine how many paintings of running horses were massed produced!  I alone have viewed at least a thousand to no avail.)

The original treasures I did have the forethought to ask for are really treasures to me.  This is why when there is something that a loved one owns that, to me, represents them in a way most special to me…. I don’t hesitate to ask them to make a note in their will that it goes to me.

So if I ask you for something of yours “when you die” please don’t see it as anything other than an expression of love and wanting a piece of you to touch, hold and enjoy.  Feel free to do the same.