The bad news -- my computer died.
The bad news -- my computer died.
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Hello, everyone.
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I don't know whether it's possible to have "a touch of dyslexia," but I'm convinced that I do. For the most part it's not a problem. I've been a voracious reader since early childhood, and usually I just know what a word is supposed to be. The troubles only appear with foreign words, unusual names, and sometimes numbers. (And oddly, the letters d, b, and p are basically the same thing in my brain.)
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Just a note to say I've been working on a few technical changes here at Two Wishes in the past couple of days.... There are now handy subscription links on the bottom left side of the page, including a link for our new FeedBurner email-based feed. (If you're not familiar with this FeedBurner feature, it can send blog updates directly to your inbox.)
I've also added a link to the brand-spankin'-new IndiePublic blog ring. IndiePublic is sort of a MySpace for independent designers, bloggers, crafters and artists, and the shoppers who love them. It's a vibrant community of interesting people and worth checking out. And please feel free to link up to me if you do!
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The final color of Color Week comes in handy, because I've been obsessing over a certain Blue topic for a few weeks now....
Ed has decided to paint his bedroom, a much-needed update. He loves blue, and after hours and hours of Internet research, he purchased pure pigments in a lovely shade of Mediterranean blue. The trouble? His room is situated at the back of his building, and the one window gets no direct light. Lovely for quiet naps on weekend afternoons, not so good for owners painting in darker shades without the room looking small and gloomy.
But recently, staring at the paint sample on the wall, I was reminded of the blue trim on Mediterranean-style buildings that I used to see in Israel:
(House of `Abbúd, Akka, Israel)
(House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá, Akka, Israel)
And I formed a new plan -- paint Ed's ceiling and trim blue, with the walls white. Overall, the look would be of a Mediterranean house. His furniture is dark wood -- Chinese antiques, actually, but they should blend well with the look. And there are many simple blue-and-white patterns to be found in bedding. With maybe an inexpensive Persian rug from Ebay (emphasis on the inexpensive because the pets will inevitably shred it over time). The interior of these houses often used dark wood, as well as lots of plants (an actual interior courtyard garden) and Persian rugs:
(House of `Abbúd, Akka, Israel)
For art, among other things, I could blow up some of my altered Polaroids of the actual houses:
(House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá, Akka, Israel)
(Mazra'ih, Israel)
Ed is open to the idea but stuck on the fact that ceilings are difficult to paint. My theory? If Michelangelo could handle 4 years of work on the Sistine Chapel, I figure we can handle "blue"!
Posted at 07:43 PM in Bloggy Misc., Decor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So I missed out on Green Day yesterday ... completely underestimated the disruption of attempting to blog during a family visit, especially when your family is sleeping in the room where the computer lives! But I'm just squeaking in under the wire with today's Yellow post.
Yellow doesn't fit well with most of the color scheme of my home, but I absolutely adore the mood lift that the color brings. I really only have three yellow collectibles that I can think of -- some fake daffodils from Target (beloved for the Wordsworth poem), a little stepstool from childhood, and a teapot that I picked up at an estate sale in NC for a couple of dollars about 10 years ago. The three have been grouped together in one otherwise-useless corner of the kitchen counter that I think of as "the yellow corner":
And then of course there are the required rubber duckies in the bathroom.... The little guy with all the attitude on the left is said to be the original rubber duck. When I lived in New York, I once went to the chi-chi Zitomer Pharmacy and browsed its stash of high-end products quite thoroughly, and all I walked away with was this little guy and some Band-Aids with funny patterns on them. Guess I'm still just a kid at heart.
Then there's the most important yellow duck in the household -- Zoe's toy Duckie. The Duckworth Family are supposedly ergonomically engineered to fit a dog's mouth, and, while that has always sounded a bit silly to me, I've never known a dog who didn't love a Duckworth toy above all else. Trust me on this one!
Finally, a quick shot from Home Cheap Home, the decorating book from dear, departed Budget Living magazine. They suggest using vintage scarves to recover a lone chair, and I love the bright yellow color they used to paint this one. How could you not be happy with this chair in your home???
And the house that made me realize that, as much as I love little yellow accents around the house, I love an actual yellow house the best of all! Frank Black's house from the late 90's TV show Millenium:
But no matter how fond I am of yellow, I think these guys like it even more.....
(Photo by Jodi Cobb, from Fashion, published by National Geographic)
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Kayte at Love Forever has declared a Color Week, and today's colors are red and pink. I've been looking forward to this to almost a pathetic degree, as it's my first mass blog "event", and better yet my parents are in town this week and I can look for colors as we're out and about in DC.
However, I forgot that today would be a problem. One of the downsides of chronic illness is that you always run out of energy before reaching the bottom of life's "to do" list. Always. And what's near the bottom of my life's to-do list? HOUSECLEANING. So major cleaning really only gets done when there's some reason to bump it up to the top of the list. (And, darlings, it's been a loooong time since Thanksgiving!) In other words, today was spent in an absolute panic of frenzied housecleaning until my parents arrived in the early evening. No time even to stop and grab a snapshot of a red item in my home....
Luckily, at the very least, I happen to have a conveniently colored pic of the scapegoats:
Look forward to joining you all for Green Day tomorrow!!!
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I've been quite ill this week, and all I can seem to manage by way of daily activity is propping myself up in a desk chair in front of my trusty computer. I have spent a lot of hours exploring the far reaches of the Internet, and wow, the Internet is huge! (I mean, "duh", right? But sometimes it takes a fresh brush with the vastness of it all to remind you of the mindboggling dimensions of what's out there.) Every interesting blog or site that I find leads to dozens of others....
One case in point was yesterday's discovery of Delightful Blogs. Another has been a new site called sk*rt. There's already a site called Digg, one of the "user powered content" stars of Internet 2.0 in which users submit links to sites/stories/videos/etc. that they find interesting and other users rate those links to determine their popularity. Sk*rt is, bluntly put (and according to its own Website), "the female version of Digg." I have mixed feelings on the site -- the tips are mishmash of the inane, the mediocre, the see-my-site self-promotion, and the useful and interesting, and you have to weed through all of the former to get to the latter. (Then again, you might call that a description of life itself...?!?)
But I've passed through many interesting destinations in all these Internet travels, and I'm looking forward to sharing some of the fruits with you all. Stay tuned!
Posted at 02:38 PM in Bloggy Misc., Internet Fun | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I've been online for hours today, thanks to my new discovery of DelightfulBlogs.com. It's an "edited directory" of 1,624 blogs on all sorts of subjects -- 127 on DIY and Crafting alone.
Let's just say my "Favorite Craft Blogs" list is going to need some serious editing one of these days. I've discovered so many fantastic new blogs, hopefully there will be a better way to organize them than just a long alphabetical list?
OK, I'm now stepping slowly away from the computer. No more blogs for tonight....
Posted at 05:22 PM in Bloggy Misc., Internet Fun | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)