clicking around on sunday morning
i spilled the coffee this morning. which is leading me to seriously reconsider... everything. while i was on my hands and knees cleaning up i turned to see the dusty spattery spots and messes in the corners and low down just out of everyday sight that one finds when one is on their hands and knees in the kitchen. i thought again of a constant daydream of mine. a dream of a seamless home. a place designed without all of the dead space between walls and fixtures, without many surfaces where dust can build up or hide away. a place with hidden closed storage everywhere. a serene place so seamless you could hose it down in ten minutes and be finished cleaning... aaaaaah.
but of course i don't live that way. i like details and pleasing objects arranged in pretty groupings. i like baseboards and crown mouldings and old wood floors and paneled doors. i like curtains on the windows and shears underneath. i like art on the walls and i like books and bookcases. i collect things. i have a lot of dusty corners. and my dream home looks more like this.
after visiting my dream home i found a personality quiz at smosch i had to take. i like quizzes. but they always ask a lot of either-or questions that i want to click both answers to. both answers are sometimes truer than one. but still, you might like to take it too. see my results here.
besides spending time spilling things on the kitchen floor and clicking around the internet, i have been getting things done around here.
this is almost finished. i led all those threads thru the eye of a needle and back thru the fabric where i tied each one off in knots underneath. and then i made a lot of layered prints. see them here.
what are you finding while you click around these days? send me links with your comments! i love links. and comments :)
happy sunday!
Well I'd say quizzes must be designed by people who don't like open-ended. I recall giving a school related quiz to people I worked with. One woman just refused in the end because she could not decide on answers. No doubt she was a P in her myers-briggs.
That coffee mess has happened to dh. I leave the room when it happens, until...
Posted by: Maureen | July 21, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Isn't it funny how the simplest things (spilled coffee) can make us "reconsider everything"? I was clicking around today too, so if you are still up for links I have some on my blog. And thanks for the personality quiz--it didn't tell me anything new, but quizzes are a weakness!
Posted by: sweetcheese | July 21, 2008 at 12:33 AM
hmmm... i'm blaming it on friday's full moon. and hormones. i like blaming hormones for most things :)
Posted by: sosser | July 20, 2008 at 02:00 PM
what is compelling you to spill things in the kitchen for the past week or so? do you have an oven poltergeist?
Posted by: gigi | July 20, 2008 at 01:50 PM