Entries from January 2007 ↓

This weekend we’ll be preparing for a small superbowl-related get together. And by preparing I mean, Thom’ll be drinking beer and gluing his eyes to the screen. Meanwhile Jesse will be stopping by for commercials and half time. But hey, any reason to make some special drinks and eat junk food.

While Justin Timberlake will not be gracing us with his presence there will be CHEESE BALLS. No, I’m not kidding - I’ve been waiting years for an excuse to get these from Costco. Yesss! And Thom’s drool worthy vegan buffalo wings.

I’ll try to catch any manly displays of can crushing on camera. Of course this could be difficult considering we tend to drink fancy, imported beer. Not so much with the cans…sigh.

(In case anyone is wondering, while this may not be the exact jar of cheese balls this is the correct size. Let’s just say it dwarfs Jasper.)

check out the new Jasper do…

This weekend I exercised my inner rebel. I spray painted both chairs shorta shiny black. Not too shabby for my first official DIY.

Flocked Fabric - usually a cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or rayon, which is pulverized to form velvety patterns. Flocked fabric is used for automotive, home furnishing, packaging, and other applications.

But what I really meant was the tufted trend - tufted, not flocked.

I know what you’re thinking - you’ve just ordered a new couch/daybed (arriving mid-March). But I’ve become obsessed with the new “flocked” trend. And I’ve been daydreaming about where this one could live… Especially in the lovely green.

I’ll keep daydreaming.

They installed our new cellar doors in the front and back of the house yesterday. The one in the back has a custom goose neck (no more carbon monoxide in the cellar - yay!). Don’t they look pretty?

We decided to go for the non-waterproof ones since we haven’t had any water issues (and you saw what decrepit covers we had before) and because they were considerably more expensive. Plus I got the distinct feeling that the guy thought he could charge us anything he wanted thinking we wouldn’t know the difference. Oh the joy of homeownership!

For those of you who don’t have cellar doors of your own - they exist as a method of lowering items into and out of the cellar. When these houses were all built at the beginning of the 20th century they were rich vacation homes. This way the servants could bring in supplies without going through the house.

Thom working hard shoveling snow in front of our house this past weekend. Of course it melted later that day…

This is the sign on the bar around the corner from us - if you look closely, the sign says “No Do Rags. No Hood’s. No Lower Riders.”

Huh? Welcome to the neighborhood…

In anticipation of our new daybed (6-8 weeks), we ordered pillow inserts. I can’t wait to fluff them on our couch