NEW APARTMENT

[Deb S]

All right. I'm finally getting around to posting some photos. I promised the folks (see what I did there?) photos 3 weeks ago. First, can you BELIEVE this candelabra?! I bought it yesterday from Michaels. It's for Halloween but it's foreEVER for me. However, it's flocked and after a time it may get pretty dusty. Don't know how well you can dust flocking. But never mind. It will just add to the Miss Haversham thing. I LOVE it!!

Did a 360 degree thing of the living room-bedroom-dining room-office, the bathroom required a photo sweep collage, and a tour of the kitchen.

But first I should talk about moving. Well, not the moving part - arf arf, turn the page, but the weirded out in small ways that I seem to be. I'm beginning to get used to it but at first I was befuddled. FLUMMOXED. I guess I thought everything should be completely different, as if I haven't moved 10 thousand times in my life. But I mean little things like making coffee. "Ok, how does this thing work?" Same Mr. Coffee I've had for 15 years. It happened again today when I was uploading photos from my camera to the computer. "Ok, how do I do this?" Same camera. Same computer. Same programs. WTF!? Maybe it's because many of my moves were LARGE. Like different electrical current kind of large. But that's been a while. How WEIRD is that? Very funny.

OK. The apartment. I think I shall call it "the Diarama" because the main room is pretty much the same dimensions as a shoe box. It's like I'm fixing a little box into a living area. For Barbie. The bedroom (it's really my art room) sort of goes off to the left at the back. Makes me really curious about the layout of the apartment next door. Anyway, the HUGE design problem, scratch that, CHALLENGE, was the effing beigie mauvie pukie carpet. Alright it's here, it's not going away. I WILL continue to see it even if I try not to so I guess I have to embrace it (sort of). So I bought a coupla pink Indian cotton bedspreads and made 2 pillow slips from 'em for 2 big Ikea pillows for the couches. One couch, my old green one and the LITTLE GIRL BED I bought which acts as other couch by day. Presto Change-o. Only one bedroom here and I need it for an artroom so gotta sleep in the front room. Hung my favorite thrift shop painting (you know the one, the abstract) above my little girl bed (it has pink in it) and bought a couple little Big Lots pillows with the other colors on 'em. I bought a cream area rug at Ikea for the sitting area (so I wouldn't have to look at the pukie color so much) and put my cream shaggy thing in the office/dining area. Rug is ancient. It needs to go to the cleaner's again.

Then what do do about the curtains. Well, first I took down those vertical clack-clack things - they had to go. I usually do just white or off-white curtains 'cuz I have so much artwork on the wall there needs to be a place where eyes can go to stop the strobing effect. (Epileptic seizure avoidance) But I still wanted my eyes pulled up from the pukie rug so what to do? What to DO? THEN I saw these panels at Pier 1. LOVED 'EM. They're a great take on old damask curtains/davenport (!) fabric. Just sort of simplified, stamped black on white -- comic bookie. Very Droog Design feel. They're the Dutch design team in the '80's that did so many cool funny things. "Droog" means dry. As in dry sense of humor. So all these years later that aesthetic trickles down to Target/Pier 1 type places. Nope that sounds elitist. I mean ripples out to Target/Pier 1. COOL. So I hardly see the puke now.

I still need to photograph the art room but next weekend I have a play date with a friend and her kids for arting so I'd rather take those shots filled with busy little artists.

OK photos in comments.

[Mel]

even doo doo dooer is that I was emailing you back while you were commenting me here.....weird!

[Deb S]

Oh too freaking weird that you put that link there. I just came here after messaging you about that blog!!! doo doo doo doo

[Mel]

So happy you have leaves!! I've been collecting them like a magpie, especially the transtional ones:
Leaves

[Deb S]

There are these "garden" pockets all over LA. I'm so lucky! I just moved into one of them. And this was a misty morning so it felt even less LAish. And the maple street is a rarety. This one and one other are street that I used to make a point to drive down every fall. And then when I saw that there was an apartment vacancy on one of them, I said YAYUSSS!!!

[thefirstofmany]

Having a hard time remembering that you're in L.A., Deb -- this is looking some much more lush than anything i remember seeing there, well except for that cousin of my mom's that lived out in Downey -- eghad that was a long time ago.

Loving the husky!

[serenity]

wow, fab neighbourhood (now i have we are the people in your neighbourhood from sesame street stuck in my head)

[Deb S]

And the leaves, the leaves!

[Deb S]

Ok. Let'a try it here.
WTF?! Ok. Sorry. I had to delete it. Weird.

[Deb S]

Took at walk around the neighborhood early this morning. Misty, foggy, coooooo. Had muh thermos of coffee. I forget you have to hold this camera really really still or it won't focus. You could just waive my old canon around and it would grab it all. Sigh. But I met Dave and Frosty (the Siberian Husky) this morning. SUCH a cute dog. I'll put the photo up even though it's out of focus. And I have a couple of favorite houses now. All overgrown natch. Some Halloween stuff is up. Always a hit with me. AND IT'S HAPPENING - FALL on the maple street. Yay. No biggie for you guys but HUGE for me. Weird. When I try to add photos, the browser hides behind the World Science Fest video above. Let me move down and see if it will work.

[Deb S]

THAT WAS SO COOL!!!! And it was so fun to jam with Bobby McFerrin, the music machine! Thank you!