just putting it out there on a sunday..

it's raining today. 

ahhh sweet sweet rain.

cooling off the devil's armpit that is the south.

 

can we talk school supplies for a minute?

target raped me this morning.

$124 for a 1st grader?!!

glue, pencils, ziplocks, pencil cases, shit, poop, stuff, glue sticks, pee sticks, crayons, paper, binders with prongs, prongs with tabs, tabs with nuts, gold and silver, the lost arc of the covenant?

shit be expensive.

 

and then in a pee drinking twist of fate all that shit will be used to make 6000 art projects and drawings that will come back to me in her little pronged notebook that i can't bear to throw away so that a level 5 hoarding situation starts to happen.  where is the justice in that? 

 

but not to be outdone by school supplies, UNIFORMS be expensive too.

polos, logos, chinos, mesh shorts, privacy shorts, jumpers, plaid, black shoes, brown shoes, skorts, farts and sharts, belts and beaver pelts. 

 

the good news is that with fiona back in school..

 home projects can resume, starting with fiona's room and ending with my dining room..

a not pocket raping ikea pendant is going to get a coat of aubergine paint.

the walls are going to get a coat of peachy pink.

a couple of inexpensive ebay sconces similar to the ones in the board will be added.

a super awesome craigslist deal in that chinese glass front cabinet to store my pretties and uglies.

the rest is already mine.

 

fiona's room is a secret.

but i will tell you there is yellow pom pom fringe involved and these:

 

 

 

as you were.

 

done looking **now with updates..

 this is it..

the world's most awesome kitchen.

 

close up of awesome bits:

it's perfectly sized.

not too big not too small.

is that the fridge with those brass handles?

bananarama.

the floor.

the fireplace.

the symmetry those windows are giving me.

the brass kickplates/baseboards whatever you call it..

the skylight.

it's all so good.

OH! and look at the dishwasher handle!

she/they obviously had shit custom fitted..

 

i love it. 

don't you?

 

here's more house..

 

i give it 4 house hearts. 

(the highest you can get is 5)

 

 

***updates- the cabinets are from ikea. the unlacquered brass hardware was found in vintage shops and on ebay 

 

after you leave a comment telling me how many house hearts you give this house..

go over to LA MAISON BOHEME and see my guest post on what my outside world would look like if money were no object.

there is a poop tree!

actually it's a brownie tree but it looks like a poop tree. 

plus it's little charlie's birthday and he just had brain surgery.

but he's home and doing great!

CLICK HERE.

 

 

images via canadian house and home

recasting NYC housewives..

here is the lineup..

 

frankenberry

"i play the violin and i have berries for fingernails, nobody better mess with me"

 

 

toast

"toast is NEVER inauthentic"

 

 

 

bert michaels

"i have a taste for luxury (and vaginas) and luxury has a taste for me"

 

 

the honey badger

"i just take what i want"

 

 

 

magda from sex and the city

 

 

magda from there's something about mary

"there's more than one magda in this town. see above" 

 

 

 

daula dabdul

"i look like paula abdul and my name is daula dabdul"

 

coming soon i think. 

 


 

design star recap- LOL 4EVER!!

i cannot be responsible for the outcome of this post.

last time i checked it was 104 degrees inside my air conditioned house.

the nutella is on lock down (just kidding it's gone).

my underarms smell like onions.

and i don't know how much longer my kid is going to be ok with doing puzzles on the floor.

we gots'to make this quick..

 

this week the turds are on the jersey shore..

the jersey shore

 

standing in front of a B&B owned by someone named mr. and mrs. semen


 the semens need a little redecorating and decide to enlist the turds to decorate since it's pretty much going to be for free.  smart thinking semens!  maybe. 

 

the semens

 

 

cathy and kevin are a team...OR ARE THEY???

once again chompers doesn't want to do any of the work, just wants to shop for all the furniture and wants to eat some apples alone in her design paddock.

 

meanwhile kevin stays back and ruins a perfectly good floor..

kevin, to my mind taking on something like white washing a floor when you've never ever done it is sort of putting the cart before the horse...right?

 

"neeeigh!"

 

that means yes!

 

 

meanwhile karl, meg and mark can't agree on anything..

"i already played my mosaic card...what now what now!!? life is so hard sometimes"

 

 just when you think for sure these 3 are gonna lose..

they find a store with some cute shit in it and a design is born..

look closely...inspiration is happening.

 

 

 leslie hangs some doormats..

 

brett gets a cute chair..

 

 

kevin passive agressively tells cathy to fuck off..

 cathy don't give a shit.

 

meg buys some ugly fabric..

 

 

karl makes some stupid dumb mural moulding of the seashore..

seashore mural of dumbness

 

 

cathy hates life and kevin.. 

 

 

mark is making a rope ladder..

 

"if i close my eyes and think of the sea shore i see ropes"

 

 

"when i close MY eyes i see kevin hanging from that rope....and emmy's....and hay"

 


bret is losing..

no really.  he loses.

 

 

day 3.

the day of the bromstad.

as in on camera tip day.

as in i don't care day.

as in this is the worst part of this show.

as in i feel like this shit should be done in private.

as in it's like watching your grandma get a pap smear.

 

 

day 3.5

judgement day.

vern and genevieve show up.

tanannkiaa introduces the guest judge..

kathy ireland..

 

 since you all know my side job is designing frangrances for celebrities, i feel like now would be a great time to introduce kathy ireland's new frangrance..

it's called: swim meat

scent: chlorine, mission oak, 20% cotton- 87% polyester, arts and crafts, steam, chicken strips, old lipstick, and daisies.

 

back to the judging..

kathy loves everything.

genevieve loves leslie's rugs.

vern loves sweaters.

 

collectively they all loved karl, mark and meg's room:

 

 

 

it was my favorite too.

and by favorite i mean the one that didn't make me want to blow shit up.

in its defense..

it was fun.

in its offensiveness..

it was still gimmicky.

 

in last place was bret and his headboard..

 whatever..

6 of one, a half dozen of the other.

6 vern sweaters is still the same as a half dozen candace leather cubes..

6 bromstad art installations, one half dozen antonio treatments.

 

 

turd love,

gorgas and manzos and shit.

i am obsessed with the jersey housewives this year. 

maybe it's bc they are filming during the holidays.

maybe it's bc i am obsessed with anyone who spends 50,000 dollars on a birthday party for jesus.

 

 

lowlights...

caroline and her dumb radio show.

ashley and her bad attitude.

melissa and teresa and their dumb feud.

joe guidice humping teresa in the country bed.

thatmotherfuckingchristening!

 

highlights...

anytime melissa says "jesus's birthday".

anytime joe gorga shows me his slightly inbred puppydog eyes.

the guidice's "country house".

lots of delicious fucking delicious food.

kathy and rich's kids using their allowance to buy their mother a laptop.

albie smiling at me.

 

i could go on...

 

it's the jersey husbands/sons who are getting the hi5's from me this year..

 

 

excpet for this one..

it's this fucking gorilla that is keeping the gorga's apart..

he is planting ideas in tre's feeble little brain. 

animal.

 

otherwise..

top husband honors go to..

bitch please..

 

strong. slient. puts up with that douchebag ashley.

 

 

i want to mainline your face. 

 

 

share your thoughts.

but only if you watch this shit.

don't bore me with your "i hate these reality shows, i have more important things to do with my time..like walking my dog and winning emmy's and  farting gold"...

 

NOW!