What, your house doesn't have coffins?
Yes.... I call it "bed"! Where I die every night from trying to keep up with myself and everyone else.... (what happens
after I die is anyone's guess but I'd be nervous if I lived with me!)
There needs to be a thread for this! We could spend hours on that topic!
Yeah except everyone thinks my casting choices are garbage because, as you know, we all envision books in our own heads in our own ways and although I love the idea of sharing, I'm equally afraid the thread could just descend into chaos and then get sucked into a vortex and never be seen or heard from again!
If only I could get a government grant..
I've actually had some experience with those from when I was teaching. PM me if pointers and some observations would be helpful. I
love helping others give away money, especially when the money is going to people I like for worthy causes!
Love watching it done, never have tried it. If I had more time, I could be talked into redoing some chairs or a curio cabinet.
I'm actually self-taught. I inherited two very old steamer trunks that my Grandpa used to come over from Norway with him when he emigrated. They were in terrible shape and I wanted to fix them up and put them in my library/living room both to honor him and to use them as furniture. One made a perfect huge end table and the other, shorter one made a perfect coffee table.
I spent 8 weeks in my garage, sitting on a dolly rolling around them, stripping, then putting on a base protective coat, then lacquering them in black (probably the original color but not as shiny), then taking a brush and actual gold paint and retouching all of the hardware, right down to every single rivet holding the leather edges onto the boxes themselves. When I finished that, I ordered old hotel stickers from the 20s-40s from Grand Hotels in Morocco, India (Bombay), Asia, Europe, Rio, Monte Carlo, all over the world in places the rich and fabulous used to travel, placed them strategically all over the trunks and then put a protective coat over the top of all of it.
And because my house is a rather eclectic collection of Asian, Russian, Italian and "mutt-like" paintings by average people (along with items we've collected traveling ourselves) I found in antique stores and Good Will and then framed... well, every room looks like an "organized" mish-mash of stuff going from old porcelain teapots to a black stone "World Clock" that desperately needs to go to the repair shop! There
is a method to my madness but it definitely does not look like a home done by Ethan Allen or Better Homes & Gardens (I've used an old metal wheelbarrow as a planter for annuals and it just sits there blooming in one of my beds next to a full sized wooden wine cask (Cab. Sauv.) with a rain chain draining into it so I could find a way to water out of the barrels instead of the tap.
My dream house would have movie posters, comic book art, movie memorabilia
This, CS, constitutes an actual theme around which you could in fact, decorate a house (or at least one room if that's all you can get surrendered to you). I am actually in the process of creating a "sitting room" for myself in our one remaining bedroom as when we moved Mom into the house, she got the library/living room because it was both the biggest room in the house
and on the first floor. So the room I put the most of myself into is gone and I need a replacement for my own peace of mind. Everywhere I look now it's pretty much her furniture and she's trying pretty hard to redecorate my house so it looks like her. So by god I'm going to get one room that is
all me! A room you walk into and immediately think "I remember this". "This is what Janine "looks like" when she pours her heart into her house.... It may not make much sense but I worked hard on our home and my husband was on the road while I did most of it so having a small piece of all that back is really important to me.
I did a tropical island with a big skull cave. It was awesome!
I would kill for that talent!..... And if, after climbing into my "coffin", I could travel in my sleep, I would come to your house and suck that talent out of you like blood! You should be
very afraid my friend!
I should stop now don't you think? This is probably enough trouble with my posts for one day!?
And for all of us "eccentrics"......... The DBs!
Not unless Marvel will hire me to write and actually get them back on the right path.
I ain't got no body....
