Weird Lovely

Lillies in the Valley - Jun Miyake



Miss you Remix - Trentemoller & Massive attack

Christmas 3 (2012)

Might get around to putting up the trim in the Christmas tree room before I leave for California on Wednesday. Happy New Year.

The High Road

Broken Bells

add jazz

Santa, pfft, please.

I got some elves helping me at home.

This second hand, country-honey coloured table top got a walnut-flavoured update:

morning sunlight on new finish, my mom did most of the hard work

Our drawers handles were going to be reclaimed wood but turns out they were too fat. Last minute options using copper that was laying about:

took us about 30 minutes to make a few style

settled on the hefty looking "crunched pipe" option

opened this package of silicon rubber

taped off the drawer fronts, let the sugru set

We've been using the sugru-handles for our pots & pan drawers for a week now.

And although I didn't take any pictures of our progress, we got the casings from two more windows stripped over the weekend. We did it while listening to the whole Hobbit audiobook, currently available on youtube and well worth the re-read (movie we saw on Saturday, hee).

Elitism

Check out this nerdy song (turn up the mic)



I have some pictures and things from the house but my replacement laptop just arrived this evening so updates coming shortly.

Jack Frost's seat

Winter has arrived and the wood stove is almost always on. Like moths to a flame, we gravitate towards the room closest to the heat source - the kitchen and back parlour. Our old set-up, where the dining table was the only piece of furniture near the stove, meant we spent all night on rickety caned chairs watching movies or playing games and never ventured to our upholstered furniture in the next (colder room).

Well, by jamming the table against the half wall nearest the kitchen, and hauling over our smaller couch, we've managed to diversify the seating near the stove. It's a tight squeeze but overall much comfier to sit in the couch to watch a movie . We've also created seating where there was none before in the bay window next to the stove:

A few nights ago, without the finished doors

Yesterday with finished door and better light

We go through that much wood in about two days, but it's still nice to have seating for five or six people within reach of the stove. Today was the first frosting of snow - brr!

shabam retro glam