Sue and I made two trips to IKEA (one Friday night, the other Saturday morning) in Stoughton, MA, and much of the weekend was spent unpacking, assembling and arranging Stolmen and Malm furniture. Sue danced two sets at a Syrian restaurant on Saturday evening, and she really enjoyed a three-hour workshop on Sunday afternoon with a famous bellydancer who used to reside in Providence.
In preparation for the Stolmen installation, we also hastily emptied and painted the 91" nook in the yellow room. We kept one wall yellow (but toned it down by using a Disney color called Main Street Lights), and chose a yellow-tinted creamy paint called Eggnog for the rest of the room.
We also found a smidgen of time to plant our garden bed. Squashes (two varieties) and cukes in the front. Tomatoes in the middle (two varieties) which are so small as to be hard to see. Wee little beet seedlings are farther back, then onions (which are not pictured).
The yellow room was sort of overflowing with stuff and art projects and whatnot. It's not shown, but for several months, I didn't have enough storage, so things were being "stored" in piles on the floor. Not good.
Enter Stolmen.
(When the sun goes down, the white light in the room lightens the yellows dramatically.)
Much better overall. You'll note the stop-action tent has been removed. I am working on redesigning it for easier access. For the time being, it's going in the basement. Even though they make for amazingly vivid pictures with near-zero shadow, those lights from the first pic (the round aluminum thing clamped to the tent "roof", and there's another on the other side of the tent) are too much - basically blinding, in fact. More to come over the next couple weeks on that topic.
We'll show the Malm tomorrow.
PS
Planty the Plant reached the summit this weekend! She has successfully scaled the lattice work ladder.
That means she grew about four feet in a month, and plants are supposed to slow down when they experience the shock of transplanting! Ha! (Click the link and see the bottom of the post for old pics of Planty.) You can almost watch her grow!
PPS
The painters finished the side of the house on Saturday. Today they'll be working on the front. Hally-loo-ya!
2 comments:
Sue's description of that yellow room shelving didn't even do it justice -- looks great!
The pictures don't do justice either. Those shelves/drawers were a good investment - a bit of a pain to install - but definitely a good investment. We thought we'd get black shelves, but apparently they don't sell those anymore. Could be that they're phasing out the line of furniture.
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