"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Take A Look At This on Feb 8th, 2013
I did a light refurb on an old woodstove this past autumn. The stove, in fact, is now situated in my living room, though is not yet hooked up, as we’ll need to line the chimney first which is likely to be a fairly expensive undertaking. This stove is an Danish contraption from the 1970s, […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Up The Pole on Feb 4th, 2013
So, I’m just about out of the first trimester, which is kind of weird. It should feel like a milestone, I think, but it really doesn’t. I think because I have been so fortunate and not had morning sickness, I hardly even feel pregnant, aside from my larger chest and, you know, having to pee […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Holidailies 2012, Home Improvements, Kansas City, Oh, for fuck's sake on Dec 7th, 2012
Some freakin’ jackwagon gang-tagged the shed behind Nancy’s house last night at some point between 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. So, Joel and I went down to our basement lair, gathered up every partial can of spray-paint left over from every bicycle we’ve redecorated in the past decade, and fixed that shit. It’s not 100% […]
Posted in Holidailies 2012, Home Improvements on Nov 24th, 2012
My dumb-ass decided to do Holidailies this year. Because I obviously love life, like a Chicken Lady. Goodness knows what I’m going to be telling all y’all, but for starters, I have been wreaking massive amounts of property damage on behalf of my beloved Mother-In-Law. That’s all I have for now, but tune in tomorrow […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Jan 2nd, 2012
What you see before you is my “new” stove, a 1950s-era Magic Chef gas range and oven which pretty much outclasses everything else currently residing in my kitchen. Never mind you that the new stove is currently residing on the back porch. It’s in good company. It’s got a disconnected Swedish woodstove and a mysteriously […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Photo entries on Dec 9th, 2009
Joel redid our closet in the bedroom: Before (CROWDED) Also, I have the sartorial aesthetic of a 1970s sofa. after (much less cram-packed, easier to see what I have to wear) Joel’s side (and the shelves for sweaters & shoes in the middle) Another view of Joel’s side of the closet. This isn’t the first […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Home Improvements, Party, Sewing on Apr 6th, 2009
This past weekend was quite the social whirlwind. To start with on Friday night, the Frank Stallone boys had all sorts of shindigs going on. They did another roller race at the Cellar Rat, then rolled over to ACME to run a charity alleycat to raise money for Diabetes research! We didn’t get in on […]
Posted in bike commuting, Home Improvements, Playing With Weather on Jan 15th, 2009
I went back over to my old house today to do some more cleaning and work. It was darnstupidfreezingasscold out there. Like a high today of 10F or similar. Whatever it was, it was ridiculously cold out. Like tears freezing on my eyelashes cold. Nonetheless, by the time I hit 12th & Paseo (a little […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Playing With Weather on Jan 14th, 2009
Holey cow, man, was it ever a windy beast out there today! I grew up in northwestern Nebraska, where they consider 25mph winds a “breeze” so you would think I could handle a little wind. Well, to be honest, since I have been living in Kansas City for so long, I guess I have gotten […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries on Dec 20th, 2008
I’ve had a general purpose disaster area for a workroom pretty much since I moved out of the apartment on Warwick. So basically for the past 6 years, give or take a few months, my workspace has been an explodey mess. In my old house, my workroom also doubled as “That Place Where I Put […]