Soooo....

[Scrooge McSam]

My dice plates came in!!!

They're gonna be perfect as appetizer plates. Hmmm, might be time to learn to make clams casino.

[Not Afraid]

I just love those plates, Sam! It's fun how just one or two unique items can make a "look".

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I just love those plates, Sam! It's fun how just one or two unique items can make a "look".

I'm getting there. I never realized it would be so hard, really. Slinging things around in an apartment is one thing, decorating a house is a whole something else entirely. Yeah, I cliched out and went leather in the great room and now I'm slowly digging my way out of mancave slash pub with a few fabrics, pillows (GASP), art and incidentals. I'm having a blast. It's fun, and most importantly, it's MINE!!!

[Not Afraid]

Pillows, table coverings and curtains play an amazing role in softening furniture and making a original statement.

[Scrooge McSam]

So, tell me if I'm crazy. I want a course silk floor length drapery and valance set over dark matchstick blinds. I'm thinking a wide vertical stripe or possibly different colored panels shirred together. I need the shade in the windows on the west side in the afternoons, and I like the shadow potential with the matchsticks. I also like play of the fine silk against the almost primitive blinds. Too much? My best bud says, yeah, go for it. My lunch ladies are divided. What say you?

[blueerica]

Oh, today..

I have been on this kick lately: Taking long drawn baths in the afternoon. I swear, nothing has been as luxurious as taking a deep soak before going on with the rest of my day. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though I do go to class on that day, and do computer lab work (mostly goofing off on the boards as opposed to real efficiency), are sort of like vacation days to me. I get a chance to really pamper myself. So I soak.

Today, as I was washing my hair in the tub, I let the warm water coming from the tap rush over my head. And then I realized; I found a tiny slice of nirvana. So I blissed out under that tap for a while, as the steamy water enveloped the rest of me. OH YEAH!

I did eventually turn off the faucet, but ended up losing track of time anyway. After 50 minutes of listening to jazz, reading a book, and nearly total immersion... It dawned on me that I should probably leave...

Here's hoping everyone got to be as blissed out as I was at some point today...

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

So, tell me if I'm crazy. I want a course silk floor length drapery and valance set over dark matchstick blinds. I'm thinking a wide vertical stripe or possibly different colored panels shirred together. I need the shade in the windows on the west side in the afternoons, and I like the shadow potential with the matchsticks. I also like play of the fine silk against the almost primitive blinds. Too much? My best bud says, yeah, go for it. My lunch ladies are divided. What say you?

I immediately pictured dupioni silk in one of the rich color/drapes available over a bamboo blind. That was after 20 seconds of thinking, so idea are not fully flushed - and are incluenced by my own projects.

I just bought a piece of bronze/gold/red dupioni silk with embroidered bees on it in the Garmet District. I will be making a valance over a 6' wide dining room window and replacing the metal blinds with wood. I also bought a remnant of dupioni silk for a runner for my buffet which sits below the window.

[Scrooge McSam]

Tell me how I knew I was talking to the right person

Dupioni? That's the stuff, I believe. I had a blazer a few years back of something similar in a pearly white and gray.

http://www.bridalfabric.com/images/dupioni.htm

I'm loving a pale yellow and gold combo, with narrower stripes of red between.

[Sheila]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I just bought a piece of bronze/gold/red dupioni silk with embroidered bees on it in the Garmet District. I will be making a valance over a 6' wide dining room window and replacing the metal blinds with wood. I also bought a remnant of dupioni silk for a runner for my buffet which sits below the window.

Wow. That is so impressive. I don't have the decorating gene at all. I can pick out nice-looking furniture and stuff, but taking it to the next level is just not my thing. You're gonna show us pictures, right, so I can be pea-green with envy?

[UvaGirl]

Originally Posted by blueerica

Here's hoping everyone got to be as blissed out as I was at some point today...

That sounds amazing ~ I felt relaxed just reading about it