done painting: dining + living, curtains?
We used no-voc Olympic paint from Lowes. Ceiling = delicate white. Gray walls = quill. Accent wall = baritone (castile was too dark and maiden voyage was too blue). 1 coat of primer + 2 coats of paint. Lesson learned: get those little $4-5 sample pots first before buy a $25 gallon of the wrong color. You get to make 5 mistakes instead of just 1 big one and then living with an almost-right color.
This is our first ever dining table, just in time for Thanksgiving. We're grownups now! No dining table chairs yet. We're saving our pennies for Emeco navy chairs. Maybe we can get one a year for Christmas?
Next steps: making curtains for the living room. I think a pale mustard yellow might look nice. It would be cool, but time-consuming, to do some kind of illustration or print on it since I can't find any fabric patterns I like that's at a home decor scale (except for Marimekko which is like $60-100 a yard, and it adds up when you're getting 10 yards).
heather ross giant octopus, marimekko ginkgo, marimekko kaiku, marimekko keisarinna. swatches from: purlsoho, kirros marimekko
painting
I am really bad at picking wall paint colors.
On this wall, we wanted an accent color. The blue looked fine until it was halfway done, then we realized it was the same color as Cookie Monster. So, we went back to the store and got a more desaturated, greener version. Those websites that tell you to go one shade lighter than what you think you want? They don't mean that -- they actually mean one shade grayer.
Of the 4-5 rooms we painted (2 bedrooms, hallway, living, dining), I think I'm only entirely happy w/ the living/dining/hallway, because they're mostly light grays. Can't go too wrong with that.
We finally finished painting this past weekend. Yay! Photos to come soon.
twilight?
I read Twilight a while ago, and didn't really think much of it, except that the characters were awfully dumb and useless. And that only teenage girls who'd never talked to boys before and thought vampires were really cool would like it. Or idiots.
I didn't read the rest of the series, because I'd just learned my lesson with the Rift Wars books. I read the first book, and even though it was clear that the author thought "Hey! I like Lord of the Rings! I like Sword in the Stone! And hey, I think Japanese culture and warp holes and aliens are cool too!", and even though the main players flipped personalities halfway through, and even though all the women were weird cardboard characters, I still read the 2nd, and then the 3rd out of sheer stubbornness before I gave up out of exhaustion.
Anyway, back to Twilight.
Now that there's a movie coming out, all sorts of reviews and comments are surfacing about it. And because I have a lump of coal instead of a heart, I think the mean ones are awfully funny. Enjoy!
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002631.html
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/07/fug_the_cover_the_twilight_cas.html
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/10/fug_the_poster_twilight.html