I'm really bouncy so I am totally the Frank in this relationship

[cimorene]

Guys. I'm so accomplished today. Let me tell you the nesty stuff I did.

The place was kind of a pigsty when I came home, but Wax had done all the dishes so I didn't mind. I did three loads of laundry, re-folded and put away those and the three loads that were lying in teetering stacks on the coffee table, floor, and couch. Then I pulled down the curtains in all three rooms and added more hanging clips and put them back up, rearranged the shelves on the bookcase in the kitchen and moved the microwave over onto it to free up some counterspace, and scrubbed the counter.

Then I took down and put away all the random posters in the bedroom and replaced them with the four Tove Jansson Moomin prints Wax bought recently. Today we bought a picture frame for this giant picture of my parents and I framed it and hung it in the hall, and replaced some screws in the wall that we were hanging bags on with actual hooks.

Also we bought a little hanging wooden plaque and I painted a rooster on it for the door of Wax's mom's outhouse, and while we were out I bought nine little tiny wooden chairs, about three inches high, for €1 apiece and I am going to paint them all green and use them as a menorah this year, with little tealights (because it's not like you can buy Channukah candles here. Heh).

And! Also I deciphered directions for making an origami rose. Eventually. It took me like an hour. Then I made a paper stem and some leaves for it and tied it to a little black lacy heart for Wax for our anniversary.

And THEN I discovered that iI had leftover fabric from the kitchen curtains! So I cut a length of it off and tacked it to the door side of the kitchen bookcase where you see it right when you walk in the room with thumbtacks (in lieu of staplegun). It's not quite long enough, but I stuck a watering can in front of the bottom and I quite like it. I love the pattern, too. ♥!

Comments

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

You are the Mikeyway in this relationship. You are into arts and crafts and decorating... your home. Also you're skinny. So there. Too skinny to be Frank, booyah.

Your hair is better than Mikey's, though.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

My hair had just goddamn well better be better. Because it's not full of GLUE.

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

But look at his little shoulders:

It's kind of like you!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL. I don't know if his shoulders are really like me. He looks more like Aubry. His shoulders are like, bony but pointy and wide. And mine are pretty small.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Um...complete stranger here but

I bought nine little tiny wooden chairs, about three inches high, for €1 apiece and I am going to paint them all green and use them as a menorah this year, with little tealights

that is seriously the cutest, most awesome menorah idea ever.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Not completely original. I've wanted this silver reproduction chair menorah (http://shop.thejewishmuseum.org/jmuseum/product.asp?s_id=0&dept_id=3143&pf_id=PAIGMJLEHFMHIJNN) since I was a kid. But I agree - the chair thing is just enchanting!

[farwing.livejournal.com]

That is a nifty manorah, but I really like your idea better- I mean, litte green chairs for the win! (My menora is a rather lovely tree shape, and I quite like it. But it is not green!)

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

wow! I am impressed. :-) Go nesting you go!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I know, I feel so shiny and happy and snug. And like making and arranging more things. It's like once the ball gets rolling on nestiness it just... keeps going!

[sinden.livejournal.com]

If you were the Frank, there would have been more injuries to yourself and other people in the process of nesting. I think I have to agree with Wax about you being the Mikeyway.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Mikey doesn't bounce, though. I bounce a lot.

[sinden.livejournal.com]

Hey, he was bouncing during INOK. Look at the start -- I call that bouncing!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, he's kind of bouncing. But more his head. He's sort of like... jamming. But I have a much more high-energy bounce. It probably helps to be smaller.

[sinden.livejournal.com]

Probably. I think Mikeyway might be a secret bouncer. It would ruin his rep if it got out, though.

[pierydys.livejournal.com]

If you don't have a little apron to wear around the house, I'm SO making you one. *g*

The wooden tealight menorah? Seriously with the cute. *checks calendar* Ooh, it's an early year, isn't it? I might be a bit too late to see them in their full glory, but would still like to stop by with goodies for the two of you and resident fuzzballs :-D

And yay with crafty things! Hearing about people painting and decorating makes me happy. Did you do the version of the rose where you make it out of one very long strip?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Actually, I do but I forgot to wear it. It's not very cool, anyway. At least, not as cool as the one we bought isilya last Christmas and haven't mailed yet. But we would love to see you at the holiday season! Even if you miss Channukah entirely, we can drink glögg (I love glögg!) and eat cookies and possibly we could invite slashas over if they're in town for watching some stuff.

As for the rose, I did this evil impossible thing: How to fold an origami rose (http://www.bloom4ever.com/howto/howto01.htm)

[pierydys.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that'd be so much fun! I'll work out a plan ahead of time, too, so I'll have the whole day to visit rather than just an hour. :-P Now, what's your favorite color, should an apron suddenly appear in front of you one of these days...? ;-)

The rose... Cripes, girl, you like pain, don't you? That one is pretty, though. I usually just do the ribbon ones where you use one long strip and just pull on the end until it makes a whorl that looks like a fully-open rose.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Dammit, nobody ever told me about that one! If only I'd googled "paper rose" instead of "origami rose"! I thought I was good at origami, but appparently I'm only so-so at the intermediate stuff. And anything requiring diagrams more complex than a quadratic equation. And my favourite colour is greeeeeeeeeeeeen.