Tuesday, August 31, 2010

ABC Wednesday--G


G is for George.

Do you know George?

Everyone should know George. You can meet him and read about some of his antics at Finding Life Hard. His people are pretty cool, too.

We visited George, Liz, and Mike in Wales. It was one of the  highlights of our trip.



George was a bit upset that he didn't get to help take us to the station.

George is out of sequence in the story of our trip, but perfectly in sequence for ABC Wednesday's arrival at the letter G. See what else starts with G at ABC's link site.
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Drinking Study
A new study shows that heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers... especially the non-drinkers who get killed by drunk drivers.



Bad Back to School
Retailers are not having a good back to school season as receipts are weak. This is actually a stimulus for Millions of middle school bullies who can now continue to make fun of the nerdy kids' hand-me-down clothes.



Bag Ban Bagged
The California's legislature was unable to pass a state-wide ban on plastic bags. The bill was killed when some lawmakers realized a bag ban could stop concerned citizens from putting one over Ariana Huffington's head.



Kerry is the Richest
Senator John Kerry remains the richest member of Congress, with his wealth increasing by another $20 million in 2009. So instead of fighting the taxes to dock his yacht in Massachusetts, Kerry is just going to buy Massachusetts.



New Ford Cop Car
Ford is now making a new version of the Explorer to be used as a police cruiser. Cops are expected to mostly use the SUV to aid stranded motorists in broken down cars made by GM.





September 1st


1836: Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains arrives at Walla Walla, Washington and immediately sets up a mayonnaise plantation.


1864: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after enduring a four-month siege by General Sherman and three weeks of Atlanta Braves broadcasts.


1897: The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system to exclusively transport drunk people.
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Watercolour Dresses

like it was painted with autumn watercolours...

via Lace & Tea

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Hadrian's Wall

Back in the year 122, the Emperor Hadrian traveled to the limits of the Empire to check things out. Rather than try to expand further, he decided that it would be wise to consolidate and strengthen the existing expanse of Roman territory. Visiting Roman England, he ordered that a wall be built--to keep the barbarian Picts from crossing into the Empire and making mischief.
You see, there was trouble from the Scots even then. My Scots husband had no trouble going down the steep hill on this portion of the wall trail. Myself, I was scooting down one stepping stone at a time on my seat.

The wall stretched from the Irish Sea on the west to the North Sea on the east--about 73 modern miles. From Carlisle to Newcastle--from the River Solway to the River Tyne--portions of the wall are still intact and the route of the wall makes up the popular trail.
It was eight to ten feet wide and 15 feet high. In a few portions of the path, you actually walk ON the wall, not just beside it.
It was not just a wall. Small forts called milecastles were built into it every Roman mile. There were gates opening to the north (not everyone on that side was feared.)
And several large forts were built as well.
the ruins of Houseteads--one of the larger forts

Since the Hadrian's Wall Path shares itself with sheep pasture, there are some means of keeping them in place. These gates do not assume that everyone will remember to close the gate behind them. And in some places, instead of a gate, there is a stile.
We hiked along just a few miles of Hadrian's Wall. We would like to go back to walk more of the wall and see the ruins of the Roman town of Vindolanda, where civilian artifacts have recently been found, including typical letters home.
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Our New, Old T.V. Stand




One day a few years ago, I spotted this antique dresser in my fiance's garage. His dad was about to give it to his brother and his wife to refinish.
 "No! I want it! We will have a house someday and it would be soo perfect as a t.v. stand" I told him.
He agreed, and told me he would work on it. He began stripping the old finish off the top and then didn't touch the thing again.

When we moved into our house, my fiance put our t.v. on this ugly faux wood stand. I informed him that he had better get working on the antique dresser because that ugly stand was not staying long.


Last weekend, he got the dresser out, stripped, sanded, and stained the entire thing in one day. We were laughing that this dresser was a project that took him over a year, but actually only took a day. I was all ready to buy new hardware, but he wanted to keep the original hardware. After a little cleaning, I'm happy we did. I love the results and he was so proud, which makes it even cooler :)

sorry for the dark pictures! I should have taken them before we put the t.v. back on, but didn't think about it.


Here is the before. He did a great job!

~Do you girls have any good before and afters? They are my favorite! Have a great day!~
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Details, Details....


Elsie de Wolfe said "Good dressing is largely a question of details and accessories." This applies to dressing people and rooms. The details of pulling together a room are often the most fun to design. Trim, pillows, lampshades, decorative accessories, books, objets d'art - all of these are the icing on the cake that define a room and make it sparkle.

On a recent project we have had the pleasure of working with a client whose parents' decorator in New York was Sister Parish. There have been many beautiful pieces of furniture, artwork and accessories with which to work. We are looking forward to sharing that project when it is complete in the Fall.

Fortunately, the kind client saved an old lampshade of his mother's for us - I love the detail and scale of it. It is no longer usable (the silk is falling apart), but I wanted to save it for inspiration and to perhaps copy the detail. The lampshade has a beautiful detailed top and bottom, with shirred gray silk. We just don't see shades like this anymore.

I wonder if this came from a Parish/Hadley design?





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ps - this lamp is not what the shade calls for, but I needed a place to put the shade.
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Art of Body Tattoo - popular Tattoo of th world

A tattoo is a permanent marking made by inserting ink into the layers of skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification or branding.

Tattooing has been practiced worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa) and Maori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was widespread among Polynesian peoples and among certain tribal groups in the Philippines, Borneo, Mentawai Islands, Africa, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, New Zealand and Micronesia. Despite some taboos surrounding tattooing, the art continues to be popular in many parts of the world.







Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BCE, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from Ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau.

Pre-Christian Germanic, Celtic and other central and northern European tribes were often heavily tattooed, according to surviving accounts. The Picts were famously tattooed (or scarified) with elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper for the blue tone) designs. Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54 BCE).

Tattooing in Japan is thought to go back to the Paleolithic era, some ten thousand years ago.[citation needed] Various other cultures have had their own tattoo traditions, ranging from rubbing cuts and other wounds with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.[citation needed

Tattooing in the Western world today has its origins in Polynesia, and in the discovery of tatau by eighteenth century explorers. The Polynesian practice became popular among European sailors, before spreading to Western societies generally
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