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[ksmith]

Taxes mailed off. I don't like slopping over into April, but I just couldn't find the drive to pull stuff together. I should commit to setting up my 2007 spreadsheet now and logging things as they come. I've been talking about doing this for 5-6 years--why can't I manage it?



My room now looks a little less like a college dorm room thanks to some major straightening up and the replacement of the clunky stereo with the Bose. I still need to put actual framed prints on the walls, which means I need to take said prints to the framers. One will likely be the ENDGAME illo that Chris McGrath sent me. The other is up in the air.

I am still afflicted by my weakness for stuffed animals. One, however, is the teddy bear given me by an aunt and uncle over 45 years ago. Not giving that up or packing it away. Then there's the wolf from one of the nature organizations that howls when you squeeze its sides. Not getting rid of that, either.

The crab and cockroach stay, too (Hey, a new name for a pub--The Crab and Cockroach).

And my piggy bank with the spaceship decorations. It's staying. And the King Arthur figurine...I should probably take Guinevere and Lancelot out of the living room display case and set up the triangle atop my armoire.

I need a bigger bookcase, but for that I would need a bigger room.

Those gorgeous bedrooms in the Crate&Barrel catalogs? Just a dream. I think the best I can hope for is "not a dorm room."

It's not that I don't like nice things. I love to leaf through house magazines and design catalogs. Then somewhere it all disconnects, and I fail to try to bring some of that into my life. And I should, because I'm a little old for the dorms.

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[affreca.livejournal.com]

I have a similiar problem. My excuse is that I've been moving an average of once every year since I left my parents. I tend to get furniture that is light and cheap, except my kitchen table, which is suitable for a prairie farmhouse.

The problem I have with artwork right now is that nothing I have matches the walls. For once I'm in a rental with colored walls, and that complicates things.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My living room has darkish maple walls. It takes a formidable picture to overwhelm them--personally, I don't think it's possible. The Raphael Madonna print in the big gold frame is hanging in there, and it looks pretty meek.

Could the frame/mat act as a bridge between the wall and the picture?

I really don't know if anything needs to match these days. Everything in the catalogs seems to be a jumble of color and pattern.