Cheap, but not easy on the eye.
Coffee Break #54 Light at the end of the tunnel?
I make my own fabric curtains.
Then Playboy?
Playgirl?
You decorate your windows, I'll decorate mine!
Speaking of which: cleaning out a recently flooded basement yeilded 10-20 old Playboy mags from the 1970's.
They have that "moldy" smell, but they looked fascinating, even though I'm a female, disinterested in photographs of other females.
It was a "Cultural Flashback"; I just couldn't sentence the mags to history's junk-heap.
Somewhere, there is a guy that would tolerate the moldy smell and crinkled pages, just to re-live his youth (or a social historian).
I like fabric curtains....Colonial house, so Country Curtains on my windows......
Send em to victor!
Victor is already "stimulated" enough, I'm afraid. Let's not push him over the edge!
Seriously, if a person is over 40, the articles are fascinating...I know all the jokes about "I just read it for the articles"; but really, they are a snapshot of our culture, frozen in time.
The mags are free to any thoughtful individual, who can read them in a well-ventilated space, due to their moldy "aroma."
BA - those are actually pretty valuable magazines, even with their perfumed condition! You should take them to a collectibles dealer and see what you can get for them.
As to the window treatment question - I think it is personal preference. In our antique house in NH, I have simple muslin curtains and blinds in the bedrooms and no window treatments except painted woodwork around the large windows in our great room. Down here, I have blinds on all windows because of the sun, and various valance treatments on all windows except on the sun porch where I have only blinds.
Victor's treatments are much classier than mine, I must admit!
What do you think?
DonnieBrook, thanks for your ideas!
I think the Playboy magazines, although a real treasure trove to flip through some night (with Cheez-its and M&M's, for a 40-year flashback!), are too deteriorated to be "collectables."
Window treatments are a really tough call, since it involves the decor/style that surrounds them...I guess I'm just tired of cleaning them !!!
I have gotten most of ours from Country Curtains. About to get some new ones. I like blinds (the ones without a cord) and a treatment - usually a swag.
They have already suspended the sale of the mothers milk ice cream in the UK, pending testing. Worried about pathogens.
I am restraining from joking. Just too easy.
I used to have curtains, also bought them from Country Curtains. Here in LI I have vertical blinds, one side is plain white and the other side is fabric, I couldn't be happier, - less maintenance.
Portland Flower Show starts Wednesday, 9 March. Not as big as the Boston Show but still a nice show. I have a friend who has a booth there again this year highlighting fairies!!! Website on facebook. My friend owns Petal Pushers Garden Place and has a site on facebook too if you're interested.
Still is!
Here's my little guy's car in the Pinewood Derby finals the other night. He came in 5th. The was is named Avacar, for the Avatar character on The Last Air Bender.
He did a great job! My oldest GD, HayHay just joined Daisy Scouts.....don't think they make cars! Frank, Jen is doing a fairy garden for her daughter....I'm sure she'd like to see that site.....my son & dil have no curtains in the house except on the downstairs bath.....they are in the woods, don't know who's going to look in!
Frank I saved their website to my favorites, so hopefully they'll post the fairy pics from the show.
Cute car, I was checking out the pinewoodpro.com website, some people carve the cars into shapes and add weights to them, fancy axes, etc.. Guess it depends on the rules of the club.
jen if I know my friend there should be plenty of picks and she has a good imagination so it should be good.
Yes, all that is allowed. Dads go nuts and practically use CAD to design, cut and make them.
Wow, sounds cool, get out the graph paper and calculate aerodynamic drag. (lol!)
Nice hobby! - who knows, maybe he'll design cars one day...
Cute car, Victor! I like how he came up with the name.....very clever.
I'm very sad here today. Just lost my very dear and close friend and garden mentor in NH. She was 101 and lived a long and amazing life and despite being blind, called me every day for a minute or two. It seems I was the last person she spoke to, so that has a special feeling for me. Even Hank cried, so that says something about what she brought to us in her always cheerful and positive and fun way of facing everything in life. I feel empty, but very blessed by her wisdom and dear friendship.
Sorry to hear, Louise.
OOHHH, {{{HUGS}}} for both you and Hank as you miss your dear friend and mentor. How blessed you were to have had her in your life.
So sorry Louise my deepest heartfelt sympathies to you on the loss of such a dear friend ((((♥♥♥))))
Sorry Louise. You're in my prayers.
Sorry for your loss, Louise.
sorry for your loss louise.
Hugs go out to you, Louise......
Very hard to lose such a close friend, my thoughts are with you.
Thank you all for your caring support. We were so very blessed and we know it. Today we have relived so many fun memories of time spent with her with tears and smiles. It is unthinkable to have had 100% mental acuity at 101 as she did. Her body just gave out. It is amazing to have felt no age or generational difference with her - or with our other older friends that remain part of our NH social group. In my adult life, I have been fortunate to have always had much younger and much older friends as well as friends my own age, and find that here on DG we are all blessed to have so much in common with each other, no matter what our ages. There is a lesson in that for this caustic world. Find the common ground and cherish differences with others who enrich us by their "difference". That's what I found in Barbara, and I always learned from her wisdom and life experiences.
There is a free app that ID's virtually every tree in NYC!! And Dirr has an app ($15) based on his Manual of Woody Plants.
so sorry to hear it Louise... hugs!!
Me too Louise, so sorry for the loss of your friend.
Thanks, Allison and Celeste. All of you guys are such a comfort! So appreciated!