silvercat17

(This is partly a test post to see if the crossposting to livejournal and dreamwidth is working)

Color palettes:

Kitchen / dining room is emerald green, teal, and yellow.
Bathroom is royal blue, baby blue, and pink.
Bedroom is shades of blue, with whatever other colors I end up throwing in there.
Office area is wood tones, jade green, and indigo.

To get:

• Tie rack
• Jewelry box for cufflinks, tie bars, and jewelry
• New blinds to replace the venetian blinds.
• Glass top for sideboard and desk
• Bar supplies (shaker, cocktail glasses, etc)

Projects:

• Display case for by bed for toys
• Rewire orange lamp and make shade.
• Clean, repaint, and rewire yellow kitchen cart.
• Media computer in floating shelf box above sideboard

I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

I've been posting pictures of my mid-century inspired apartment as I get it set-up at Curiously Lydean. At some point, I'll get it set up so they cross post here automatically. For now, you have to go manually. Sorry about that.

I've gone back and deleted entries that are either too personal, have lots of broken pictures, or are from a story that has been abandoned.

So I've got a new apartment. Finally. I've been living in my parents' guest bedroom for two years and was in the dorms for a year before that. So, yeah, haven't seen my stuff in a while.

I want to decorate my home as mid-century modern (more or less. I have two many 80s and newer toys to go all the way).

(From here down is mostly for my own reference)
Kitchen / dining room is emerald green, teal, and yellow.
Bathroom is royal blue, baby blue, and pink.
Bedroom is shades of blue, with whatever other colors I end up throwing in there.
Office area is wood tones, with whatever other colors end up in there.

Shopping list:
Sideboard, preferably blonde wood.
Rugs
Vacuum - can I find a new upright that uses bags? Otherwise a small canister vac (I hate bagless vacuums)
Microwave
Dining room chairs - preferably teal vinyl Bought these.
Rolling cart to use as a counter with butcher block (I have very very little counter space) Bought this.
Dresser / drawers for socks, underwear, undershirts, etc. Something very small. Found it at an antique show. From the 50s.
Tie rack
Jewelry box for cufflinks, tie bars, and jewelry
Bookcases / display cases (glass fronted)
Lots and lots of cushions.
New blinds to replace the venetian blinds.
Narrow drawer for between fridge and cabinets.
Hooks for mugs. Maybe other hanging stuff.
Dish drainer.
Organizing stuff for kitchen cabinets.
Tension rod towel rack for in the bathroom. I got a standing chrome one from Ikea that folds flat.
Sunburst mirror.
Cool clock.

Projects:
- Add two clothing rod in the bathroom hallway so the closet can be pure storage. Supplies: clothing rod, 2x4, rod holders, possibly paint. Unfortunately it ended up not being that easy, and dad is building a free-standing thing.
- Install curtains between entrance and main room. Supplies: curtain rod or clothing rod, hanging supplies, sheer curtains. I may get one more curtain for a layered effect.
- Rewire orange lamp and make shade. Supplies: at parents'.
- Clean, repaint, and rewire yellow kitchen cart. (it's very rusty.) Supplies: chrome polish, yellow paint, maybe green paint. Mine looks a lot like this one, except it's pale yellow and has an outlet on top (I'm bummed to remove the porcelain outlet, but it's only two prongs). The legs on mine are a LOT more rusty, so if I can't get them looking nice I'll paint them green.

To be continued as I think of things...

Poll #1650159 AMF - gay marriage
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 0

Nano is... going. I wrote about seven pages, long-hand, today. I don't know how many words that is because I haven't typed it up. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to break 50,000, but since most of my words are things I wrote earlier, sometimes years ago, I'm not particularly heart-broken. I would like to get more stories done than I have so far though. Anyway, random poll time. Most of the stories I'm working on are set in the AMF, which is a fictional country in a fictional world. The big social issue in this world is 'ex-men', which are individuals with strange powers. Most have minor abilities – faster healing, physical mutations, enhanced senses. As soon as they are discovered as ex-men, they are legally no longer human. The issue is, of course, are they animals to be caged up or are they sub-human who should be allowed to find whatever means of living they can? So the random poll, with that being the big issue, should gay marriage be legal in this world?

I ask because, well, there's all of two married couples in the entire series so far, and in one of them the wife dies in the very beginning. I have one other long-term couple, who would be the benefiters of this poll.

Re-reading some of my writing - I really need to work on it. I'm thinking of trying to do NaNoWriMo this year.

Anyway, I may have posted this before, but I really doubt it'll matter if I post it again. One of my poems that I don't yet think is too goofy and juvenile.

I wander
Thru past unknown and future unsaid
We go
Forward, bravely, into the void
And the light beyond
To death and life and the circle
The helix
Things change
Things remain
Time passes
The mounds of ancient cities
Stone and steel and glass
Fire and electricity and the atom
We wander
To where,
We do not know.

January 17, 2001, 2:12:25, Intro to Western Civilization, Moorpark College, CA, USA;
Letting the flow of babble wash over me.

A new section started, viewable here: The Dressing Room I still need to pretty it up, but there's stuff in it at least.

Ben-Day Shots updated with a new commentary about TWO comics.

And now to icons to caption:

This needs text. There are so many possibilities. Give me one and it make become an icon.




And, y'know, you'll be famous or something. I dunno.

There may be more to come as I finish with the two issues I'm working on.


(if you really need a prize, I can draw you something. Or take a request as to a comic to comment on, or something.)

(the comic this is from will be going up on my website this weekend. Y'know. Finally.)

Yeah, I totally flaked out. I have two more comic commentaries started, but I have to do the pictures for them. A lot of it is the transition from my PC to my laptop (which is awesome, although I desperately need to get a skin for it before it gets more scratched up) on top of having an actual job now that keeps me from goofing off all day. Besides that (just in the past week), I'm working on sorting through the stuff in my storage unit so I can move it to a smaller storage unit. I have to finish that before next week.

So, yeah, I got nothing.

I am going to start a new section of the site, eventually. I haven't quite decided what to name it, but it's going to be about cool/interesting/weird things I see in antique stores and, generally, anything older than I am (which is not antique, since antiques are supposed to be 100 years old, although you're lucky if you see things that are 50 years old in so-called antique stores, these days).

I've also been replaying Lego Batman, which is AWESOME. Seriously, it's adorable, it has all these fun fandom touches (like Riddler can mind-control people, which makes no sense until you remember the horribly horrible movie. But it works in the game.) However, I end up calling Gotham 'the land that OSHA forgot' because the stages are set supposedly around the city, but they're all death traps. Especially the stage with Mr. Freeze. And the Batcave.

Anyway, I wish they'd make another one, or one from another property I'm interested in (I don't care about playing Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Indiana Jones.)