I have moved slightly forward on my 17 object living room to do list. This morning I managed to make a pattern, and get cut out three pre-shrunk sofa pillow covers and one bodice for an 18-inch doll Carnival/candomble goddess dress, out of white linen and its scraps ( Read more... )

Of all the cheezass things the Peebees did to my house, the plastic floors, doors, and windows, the babyshit brown colors in room after room, including the tile in both bathrooms, the Hogwarts portal, the Torquemada moderne light fixtures, the fist-size river rock paving the yard, the worst was letting all five trees on the property reach the point ( Read more... )

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I want to make Maida Heatter's sweet potato pound cake, and eat it with homemade applesauce.
Also Nigel Slater's plum cakes and crumbles, and mushrooms baked with tarragon mustard butter.
And a good green soup.
Tonight,
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I am noting, for future reference, these cabinet pulls from Rejuvenation hardware. I replaced all the cheezass closet door pulls in the house with these as practically the first small thing I could do to get the stink out of the Casa de Culo de Queso.


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I have solved virtually all of my intractable design problems by purchasing a roll of grasscloth, white with lime undercurrents:


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