Spray painted christmas tree

November gold

Vintage yuck

Here is the before pic and I will get the after in about 2 weeks. I love this couch and it looks dirtier in the picture than it actually is. It is truly the most comfortable couch in the world to me. My husband's (Honey) parents bought it probably in the 70's and they always rave about how expensive it was. On nights I have consumed too much alcohol or I am sick, this couch helps me sleep because for some reason I can not sleep in my bed. In fact when the couch left last friday, my honey said to me "you can't get drunk because you won't have any place to sleep". Wait.... First of all, I don't drink all the time just at parties but I can't tell you how true that was because I got a little tipsy last night at a party and alcohol always makes for a sleepless night so I usually get up, get on the computer and browse the web for a little while then I'll finally lay back down on my couch and go back to sleep but not last night, I tried going back to bed and never fell back into sleep. It sucked, I was so tired all day.

I have been fretting for years what to do with this couch. I thought about getting a couch cover or maybe having it recovered, I tossed those 2 ideas for quite sometime. Um...and trying to find a couch cover in this town that would fit and that wasn't made of that nasty velour crap is like trying to find a chicken in a pond full of ducks. So finally after getting married I got an image of what I wanted it to look like and it's going to be beautiful and I pray just as comfy.

My designer is totally diggin this vintage fabric. I told her I could see where she was coming from because she needs to be thinking about all that weird taste those crazy people that hire her have. I am so over vintage.

Finally the time arrived last Friday for the couch to be delivered to the designer. I called Honey and said I would take the cushions and he was, of course responsible for getting the rest of the couch there (the heavy part). I started picking at him about how was he going to get that couch down the spiral staircase. I made fun with him about some guys he could ask from our local coffee shop and then forgot all about it. About 30 minutes later I went to pay the woman and proceeded to tell her I had no idea when the rest of the couch would show up and while in mid-sentence, what??? the couch, in all it's bigness, already here? My mind could not grasp the fact that it was sitting there. I threw the check in the air and ran out the door to find out how this was possible and there he stood with a gloating grin that said "that's right, I did it all by myself". He sincerely acted like I shouldn't be surprised either. I did not believe him so I called Debi who lives on the first floor of our home and she saw him carrying it all by himself. And she doesn't lie. DANG! I love that man. He loves to shock me like that every now and then and it so fun!

I just love sexy shoes.

Blissfully becoming

Being and becoming a wife begins with a crock pot, that's right. LOL!

When people make the remark "marriage changes everything", it sounds so dreadful that it seems to reinforce the idea that you are getting divorced before you even consider getting a someone to say I do to. My experience; I know.... I have been married only a month, but still, I believe being married has made me a better person. I think differently now, but in a good way.

For instance, I want to take better care of us. I have a deeper desire to cook, to nurture. I would've never dreamed of owning one of these domesticated items (not necessarily true, I know) but now I love it and I am eager to cook all my meals in that giant hunk of ceramic and stainless steel! Forget that damn oven!

Getting groceries has taken on a whole new meaning for us too, for the last 5 years, just living together, groceries consisted of dried apricots, hot sauce and chips, and olives for the martinis. Now I stop by the meat counter and buy big hunks of meat learning by trial and error the difference between a good roast and a bad fatty roast. I am buying whole chickens (organic, of course) also great for crock pot cooking. I have been making things like mashed potatoes, and green beans. I am turning into my mother- oh god, that is so scary.

Another thing that I like about being a wife is I feel more confident at parties and outings. Girlfriend, in my opinion, says I am still a girl and a friend which is a great start to build and grow on but if the relationship is to last it should, and it did, for me, mature into marriage. I must say it is creating a whole new level of growth and I like it a lot! Life is such an experience of emotions and feelings that will forever shift and change...the beauty of living and growing older and having a loved one to share and grow with makes it all so much more worth the while.

I am more in love with life than I have ever been....I thank god for the man who was just texting me NO drunkblogging Katie!!! Ha!

Next, I'll be thinking kids, NOT!!! :0)

A Bigger Beginning

I know you all have been anxiously awaiting for some descriptions of the grand event.

We got side-tracked while winding our way up the coast to our appt in Blue Hill, Maine to get our marriage license; Robert forgot his divorce decree. Oh shit!!! What the hell do we do? Well, we tried numerous tactics like, for instance, sending our friend in Texas over to Robert's office to try and find it amongst his files and when that didn't work we called another friend who can usually find out why, who and when someone got divorced on the internet but that fell through too, so we just lied! And that my friends worked like a charm. :0)

Our friends in Maine planned a very romantic little trip by sailboat across the bay to a grand estate, where we said the I dos on a hilltop overlooking the ocean. They set up a nice little buffet of flowers, champagne, seafood and an old gramophone playing Russian songs from the 40's. We waltzed right into married life so sweetly.

Two days later after being wined and dined by our host we had to say our I dos again, only this time officially by the D.A. of Ellsworth. I got all dolled up again in my fabulous dress and walked onto the gazebo where we were to meet our guy and noticed we were surrounded by a group of very special people who happened to be out on a field trip. Some had Down's Syndrome and some where just mentally challenged but they were so excited to be a part of our ceremony.

All in all it was a fabulous trip and both weddings were wonderful in their own unique way.

Call of the mermaid

OMG, look at those nipples.....wow. I just love her.

Robert put her in his relationship corner a few years before we got together. Of course, he had no idea that he was putting her in the "relationship corner". He's definitely not the kind of guy who is into Feng Shui but I know about these kind of things and I knew she was me when I first saw her.

I know you are laughing, Debi!! :0)