I *LOVE* it! (but hubby doesn't)

No, it's not something I've done, just something I just saw in a magazine. Dwell, to be exact. A wonderful magazine, but it also tends to be just a little bit modern/minimalist for my regular gal tastes. But, I caught sight of something that I will have to have one day.

I was cruising through their latest issue and gaping in amazement at these families that live in unnaturally clean, uncluttered houses when I came upon an advertisement for Woolly Pocket. It featured this fabulous array of plants just hanging on the wall, VERTICALLY! Well, now I've got my blank space in my newly painted living room taken care of - NOT.

I showed the ad to hubby, all breathless and giddy and he says, "What? The couch?"

Huh?

I looked at the ad. Yes, there was a couch pictured but it is a 60's mod-style that isn't my taste at all.

"No! Can't you guess what I like in that picture?" to which I received a glare and a "I'm not going to play guessing games with the whole page. Just tell me."

I pointed with great vim and vigor to the sculpture of lush greenery and said, "That! Isn't it fabulous?"

"Yuck!"

Hmmm. Not the response I was looking for. This may have to wait for our next house when I get some sort of hobby/craft/office room to myself .

I couldn't find the ad picture in the magazine that started all this, but feast your eyes on this use:
Seriously? What's not to love about fresh produce that not only gives you something to fix for dinner but also looks good AND keeps your air smelling like a garden? NOTHING!
This is a little more similar to the type of use that set my heart afire:

Granted, my house is a 'leetle' less on the avant garde decor (okay, LOTS less, but I digress), but doesn't that wall of plants just look divine? I knew you'd like it!

Has anyone out there had any experience with this type of product? Or, have you had the desire to do something like this but didn't know you could? I'd love to hear your incorporating plants into your house stories!

Love,

Kellacious

I spoke too soon

Okay, I may be 2 for 3 on the cars, but my car is really taking a beating. Today, the A/C condenser got holed (yes, I mean holed) on the drive on I-25 today. A part from the trailer hitch on a Dodge pickup nailed a 1 inch diameter hole in it. Sheesh! I'm hoping my string of bad luck on cars ends *NOW*!

Any way, I promise to have good pictures of all the improvements I (read: Mr. K) have made recently on this Sunday's post. Saturday is shot, as both kids' teams wrap up their season and we have trophy/award/picture presentations as well as end of season parties . . .

Not enough hours in the day to get done what I need to! Do you feel the same?

Kellacious

All apologies

To everyone I convinced to come check out my new blog, I owe you *big time*!

You see, 5 days after the last post (June 24th), I was rear-ended and had to put my car in the shop for 2 weeks. Oh, and I discovered that I didn't have rental coverage on my policy (crud). So, that means that Mr. Kellacious graciously lent the kids and I use of his snazzy '06 Mustang and he drove our Heep. Excuse me, I meant to type Jeep.

I won't even delve into the details of taking the Jeep to band practice and it stranding me in a part of town I wouldn't normally hang around at 11:00 . . . that little exercise involved Mr. K waking up both kids at 11:30 (daughter was raring to go and son could've cheerfully killed us all for waking him up). At least that car was fixed in a day.

So now I'm 2 for 3 on killing our cars. Yes, I am fortunately still married, but I digress.

The original intent for this blog is to follow the home improvement path I take with our house, good, bad and ugly (a rarity, I'm hoping).

What has happened in my blogging MIA days:

1. Almost finished the front living room. By this, I mean that I got some of the new trim painted, the mantel painted and some beautiful greenery for the top of the fireplace that splits the room. Also got one gold bar on the fireplace painted aged copper as a test run. *MUST* find the ultra high heat brown paint to change the fireplace panels from black to brown!

2. Mr. K whipped himself into a frenzy on the 4th of July weekend and managed to empty, paint and redo our 2nd living room. I have finally managed to do a passable job on a color wash to blend the ultra dark brown (mine and son's fave) of the front living room to the medium brown (preference of Mr. K and daughter) of the 2nd living room. Compromise makes the world go round (peacefully)!

3. Mocked up (excuse me, I'm an engineer and some things you can't beat out of me, like geeky terminology) a fabric storage bin for my too deep shelves in the 2nd living room to hide the perpetual toy/game/whatever mess that lives there. Have to get up on my soapbox here for a moment: Mr. Builder? When you drew up the plans for my house, did you not think that maybe a nice bookshelf on both sides of the fireplace would be handy? And that shelves that are 2 feet deep aren't practical except for shoving junk into and looking like a mess? Okay, enough rant. I'll post a picture to show what I mean about this very soon!

Okay, enough typing for now, since it's time to start printing out team and individual photos for my son's baseball team in time for the last game/end of season party.

Thanks again for your time, and I really do promise to keep up this time. I mean, it's not like the world's gonna spin off it's axis into the sun and prevent me from doing this, right?

Take care,

Kellacious