Design on Someone Else's Dime

So I had a store credit at Room & Board from when my couch was so severely delayed/etc. way back in Nov-Feb timeframe. Then Bunky gave me an R&B gift card for my birthday. Well I finally went and spent it this weekend with my Mom and Big Sir in tow - so it was fun to buy myself something for free. Even better when I got a floor model with very minor flaws for 20% off!

It looks awesome and is on a dimmer - tres chic!



Then since moving to SF, I've become more interested in photography. And I have had not a stitch of ANYTHING on my walls since moving in. While at R&B, I bought three basic black frames, complete with mats. I had a series of close ups I took in some lime trees at our most recent Palm Springs rental house (former home of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, btw!), so I had Walgreens print 'em up and hung them last night in my kitchen. If I'm not careful, my home will soon look like a bona fide adult with some semblance of good taste lives there!!




Now if I could just get Charlie to get interested in re-decorating her little boudoir.




"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi

112 y'all

Bitches, it is HOT up in here.

112 at 6:3o pm PDT in Palm Springs.


"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi

don quixote

I don't know why but I am fascinated by these new-fangled windmills:

when the sun does down...

...you come back from Joshua Tree (pics to come later, as they are on another camera - and I should warn you - our internet research led us astray... we were limited on time and unable to motor through the entire park. The frickin' thing is HUGE - and it will require another trip to get pics of actual Joshua trees. I can't really talk about it. I'm a little bummed.). Then you go eat a yummy Austrian inspired meal for birthday celebration. Then you come back to your movie-star digs and do a hot tub soak followed by a cold plunge into the pool. You then alternate the hot cold sensation, all the while enjoying the stars above and the luxurious firepit next to the pool/tub:

luxury

is this shower. two sides and an overhead rain head:


not sure if the water reads in the photo - but here it is in action:


I think showering with an open door and seeing the gorgeous CA sun-filled sky has me beginning to understand outdoors nudism...

form

I took these because I was feeling the circularity (that's not even a word, but go with it) of the shots:



These I was feeling the angles:


And these I was digging the combination of right angles and circularity (there, I've used it twice now so it is a real word):

more palm springs

here's some more pictures I took today while out and about...



It's so gorge here...

1970 in more ways than one

Yeah - I can't even begin to describe how many kinds of ridiculous this house is. I am thinking it's missing some trays of party drugs and some naked pool boys running around. Oh wait, I'm sure there must have been at some point in the 70's.

LOVES IT.