My best friend and her husband visited me this weekend, which was awesome! It's the first time they've seen my house ( Read more... )

Sometimes I'm like a little kid ( Read more... )

http://www.artisanstoneworks.net/

Stumbled across this site. This is some first-class work. People are too interested in doing things fast and cheap, but this site shows why we need artisans even in "practical" endeavors. It's utterly WOW.

The reason I suck about posting photos is because it's a royal pain in the ass. I applaud you folks who have the patience to wrestle with all the uploading and coding.

Anyhow, here are the photos of my ring, finished. ( behind the cut, of course )

These are the pieces I sent out to the casting house. ( Behind cut for courtesy )

I was vegging this weekend--Friday, I think, or Saturday, at 11pm--and I saw that the first two episodes of the third season of the BBC Robin Hood series was on ( Read more... )

The iron-wheel fence at the Dahmen Art Barn in Washington state.

I feel a ridiculous urge to vacation in southeastern Washington all of a sudden.

Or at least it is in the hands of artist Mark Wagner. Check it out.

I particularly like the one of the Brooklyn Bridge. The peacock's pretty cool, too.

The lovely and talented and ever-so-kind malkatsheva came to my house late last night so she could help me hang carpets in my entry stairwell. The stairwell is two stories high and it's plaster walls, so sound echoes up and down. It's not generally loud, but I always can hear the vague reverb of my TV ( Read more... )