I'm back!

To both of my followers, I apologize for the delay in postings! My computer had the poor manners to die on me last week, and it's hard to blog without the contraption, so I've been forced to do things like call people on the phone instead of email and talk to my husband instead of surfing the internet. It's been interesting, I have to say. On the bright side, I'm still married; on the less bright side, I'm pretty sure I've used up all my minutes for March.

ANYWHO! Back to the real excitement. While I've been cyberly-MIA, I refinished a chair that I bought from the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store here in LA.  I've been wanting to tackle reupholstery for a while, but it's always seemed out of my skill range, so I thought a cheap chair ($19!) with a removable seat cushion would be a fairly painless place to start. It was. Fairly. It was certainly a learning experience-- in fact, I'm still learning from it.

Take a look at it before:

Not so impressive, right? (Thrift store furniture smells AWESOME to cats. I had to lock them out of the room while I worked on this because of their insistence on rolling about on the cushion).  (And yes, The Chan-Chan Man is wearing a cone-- he had an itchy back paw that he was trying to chew off. Unfortuntely, he could still chew on the foot with cone on, so we eventually took it off. It was mildly entertaining to watch him walk into the furniture, however.).

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Remember me?

Dear Readers, if there are any of you left out there after this extended hiatus,

I wish I could tell you that I've been exiled to an exotic island devoid of WiFi, or that I've been been on set of the new Meryl Streep movie for two weeks and unable to break away to blog because Meryl's decided she wants to adopt me. Alas, my life is not that exciting. I've been in a very intense acting class for the past two weeks, and any spare minute I have is spent asleep. I've had no chance to do anything creative outside of my work for class, hence no bloggies lately. Class is over this Wednesday, though (HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY!), and after that, I anticipate getting back to a more normal life. Until then, I'll share with you a picture of a chair that I saw at Barney's and fell in love with:

Mark my words, I will own this one day. It's supremely comfortable. I'm not one for much uber-modern design, but I love the idea of this in a room of traditional furniture in bold patterns. I've been thinking about the use of "ghost chairs" in apartments; I saw a picture recently of a small apartment in NYC's East Village that had a fairly traditional black lacquered dining table surrounded by clear lucite dining chairs. In such a small space, the chairs seemed to disappear. You could see what was in the living area behind them, and they didn't distract the eye from the overall space. And interestingly enough, they truly matched the traditional lines of the table, probably because despite their untraditional materials, their shapes were fairly classic. Anyway, I'm in love. End of story.

Model

Love him. It's been a very busy week, so we'll have to make do with pictures of Mr. Fuzzy Buckets. He's a stunning kitty model!



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