snow!

while I think here in brooklyn we're on the very fringes of the big snowstorm hitting much of the rest of the east coast this weekend, we are getting SOMETHING. i had plans to go into the city to the manhattan vintage clothing and antique textiles show, but I think I feel more like staying indoors today....

here are some scenes from earlier this morning....

gone by...

here's looking at you...

I've had a headache all day...but still tried to be productive when I got home from work. Caleb and I went for a short walk - Dog Park is way too muddy after the crazy rain we had yesterday. I washed *most* (let's not get crazy now) of the dishes. I straightened up the ebay accessory area. I saw an idea on a decorating blog today - a wall was covered with lattice...they just used it as a decorative wall treatment, but I thought I could hang stuff on/through the little lattice "x-es," like hats and stuff...and I could do the hallway wall like that. It's a thought. Hats are hard to store cuz they smoosh easily and it's a pain in the butt to get them re-shaped.

What does all this have to do with today's picture?? Abolsutely nothing  :-)

a little progress

well, i did get the vanity cleared off and prettified...and then i watched a movie. really a documentary. about the Pugaches? The guy who threw lye in the woman's face and blinded her back in the late 50s, and like 20 years later when he got out of prison, they got married. crazy story. but i look at them - psycho lye thrower ex-con and blind desperate woman...and I think...THEY each found someone?? SIGH.

the messy bits

okay. phew. today i bare myself to you. usually i just show the pretty parts, but today i will share the messy bits.

this is supposed to be my "dining area." i envision a narrow farm-type table, with a shallow credenza against the wall w open shelving on top for my transferware collection. in reality, this has become my ebay packing/photo shoot accessory storage area. sigh.

the desk has never totally been organized since I got it. i need to get through the piles (see shelves and next picture) and really file things properly. plus I wish I'd had it made 6' wide instead of 5', AND the desktop is like an electromagnet for dust and animal hair.

the bedroom vanity is *really* not the place for piles of papers and magazines. this is supposed to be the one area that's always neat and pretty and girly for when i have just a moment to sit by the window...

this poor chair is always piled with STUFF. this is the start of me prematurely pulling stuff out for an in-apartment CraigsList vintage clothing sale. this is the "as is" section. nice things that need a little tlc. the cat can stay where he likes.

I get that by REALLY MESSY standards this is all probably not too bad. But it's such a small space that Everything Is In View All the Time and I get claustrophobic feeling and a little depressed when I always have mess and disorganization around me.

Today's project is The Desk (which includes the pile on the vanity). Wish me luck!

a promise

i promised myself when I get back on track financially and moved, that I could get myself flowers every week for the apartment. it's just been so...crowded in here, that I've never done it...but today at Fairway (Red Hook) I couldn't resist - they had such a great selection!

guess it's time....

to take down the very last vestige of Christmas...sigh