Photo Thursday: Lots of hard work...

Here are some pictures of my new room and the paint job Paul and I slaved over.

First, the befores: (Though my camera totally didn't do justice to the eye popping quality of the old purple paint. Looks downright pleasant in these pictures, if you like lavendar...)




During: (I believe this was second coat time.)


And after: (Glidden's "Tropical Surf" on the ceiling and "Natural Wicker" on the walls.)




This was my inspiration for the paint colors: (Aren't those Chinese laterns amazing?)


But we decided to go with a much lighter shade for the walls since there is less window and trim in Paul's spare room than in the magazine picture. I think it turned out great. And it was actually the first time I got to pick out paint colors for a room.

Photo Thursday: Helpful!

Jif, helping with the sorting:


Jif, helping with the things to store:


Jif, helping with the packing:


Jif, helping with the...sitting in boxes:


Jif, helping:




In that third picture the box was on my lap when Jif decided he needed to lay down in it. Pretty sure it could only have been made better for him if I was sitting in a dry bathtub, eating some yogurt, with the box on my lap, and him in the box.

Photo "Thursday": Ghosts

Happy Independence Day, 2011!

Crazy Awesome Huge Booklist Update - 2011 is Half Over...

--2011--

January 3 - 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' (BOT)
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy - (c) 1905
January 10 - 'Outward'
- Paul Kuliniewicz - (c) 2010
January 21 - 'The Man That Currupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories' (BOT)
- Mark Twain - (c) 1900
January 28 - 'The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England' (BOT)
- P.G. Wodehouse - (c) 1909

February 8 - 'The Scarlet Letter' (BOT)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - (c) 1850
February 11 - 'Just So Stories' (BOT) (Re-read)
- Rudyard Kipling - (c) 1902
February 14 - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' (BOT)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - (c) 1921
February 26 - 'Heart of Darkness' (BOT)
- Joseph Conrad - (c) 1902

March 7 - 'Love Among the Chickens' (BOT)
- P.G. Wodehouse - (c) 1906
March 10 - 'The Land That Time Forgot' (BOT)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - (c) 1918
March 18 - 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (BOT)
- Lewis Carroll - (c) 1865
March 29 - 'Through the Looking-Glass' (BOT)
- Lewis Carroll - (c) 1871

April 2 - 'The Fourth Bear'
- Jasper Fforde - (c) 2006
April 29 - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - (c) 1967
(Translated by Gregory Rabassa)

May 21 - 'The Time Machine' (BOT)
- H.G. Wells - (c) 1895
May 21 - 'Gulliver's Travels' (BOT)
- Jonathan Swift - (c) 1726
May 25 - 'Unseen Academicals'
- Terry Pratchett - (c) 2009

June 1 - 'Jewish Children' (BOT)
- Sholem Aleichem - (c) 1921
(Translated by Hannah Berman)
June 8 - 'Homer's Odyssey'
- Gwen Cooper - (c) 2009
June 11 - 'Nation'
- Terry Pratchett - (c) 2008
June 12 - 'The Other Queen'
- Philippa Gregory - (c) 2008

July 1 - 'The Cruelest Miles'
- Gay and Laney Salisbury - (c) 2003

Currently reading: All the library books I have out and have to return next month before I move!