Friday Show and Tell: May 2005 Archives

Blackbird's Friday Show and Tell theme is work in progress and souvenirs. I have photos of the work in progress. I have souvenirs but I am resting from a morning of working in the yard (read - taking down more of those overgrown boxwood shrub/trees). I don't feel like taking photos of them right now. Sorry, I am completely lazy at the moment sipping on lemonade. Mmmmm. Ice cold too. Want some? My work in progress is my second water garden just out the back door. You can find it here.

Today's show and tell theme is the view from your pillow by Blackbird. This is the view sort of straight up. I am propped on 2 pillows. With the tooth thing I am not supposed to sleep flat, which I never do any way! We plan to replace this light fixture with a Hunter ceiling fan. I have my eye on an cherry finish and am waiting to see if it will go on sale before the heat of summer grips us. This is the view to the right. My husband's pillow. Complete with his box of snack's sitting on his nightstand. This is the view to my right. My nightstand. The panel in the wall is the entrance to all of the plumbing in the house. The big box is my oldest daughter's birthday present. Her birthday is the 18th. I have to keep her out of my bedroom! I have made it off limits to all children until then! This is looking straight ahead from my perch on the bed. The large mule chest is my 'dresser'. I love that the center door has a full length mirror. In the corner is the roll of toile fabric I will be making our bedroom drapes out of. This is sort of a lower left view. This is my husbands chest of drawers. The top pieces are a butler's box, which has his 3 class rings (high school, RIT and GWU) tie tacks, and little things he has collected from his childhood to now. The large chest is the box I bought for him to use as his "landing pad". He has a bad habit of emptying his pockets anywhere he pleases, leaving little piles here and there. When we clean I put his things away and he cannot find them because they are not left in piles everywhere. This is the answer. He is supposed to unload his pockets in the evening into that chest. Most of the time he does. The paint colors for the room do not show well. We have not painted this room since we moved in. The walls are a french vanilla color named Williamsburg Parlor Cream. The trim is Williamsburg China Closet Red. I do plan to keep the paint colors. I really like them. It is not a bright red. It is deep muted red the exact color of toile crimson fabric.