the laanba blog

A place to call home

My new sofa and chair were delivered on Thursday and I went into a redecorating frenzy (more like binge) that lasted for two days.  In the end I have a space that I'm much happier with.  It feels like the kind of space I hoped for when I first moved into the "nice" part of town.  

You would only know what an improvement this if if you had seen the previous version, but I never took photos of that because I didn't want anyone to see.  A few highlights of my frenzy (not all visible) are: rearranging the furniture into this configuration, replacing brassy gold lamps with silver ones, framing two prints I've had forever, finding a new end table for the chair, hanging mirror circles on the sides of my canvas, making covers for my camera and pantry bookcases and finding a starbust mirror piece to go over the pantry bookshelf.  Whew.  I did a lot in two days.  

Now I just need to stop Gypsy from scratching up my new furniture.

Spring Shopping

Ever since the Azalea Trail I have been on a plant kick.  I have not had much luck with plants in the past.  I even killed an ivy once and they are hard to kill.  But I get on these kicks and buy new plants for my patio and try, try again.  

I stopped by Cornelius Nursery on Voss for a look and it turned out to be a perfect way to spend part of my day.  Their springtime shipments had  started coming in and even as I was standing there they were unpacking more and more flowers.  The orchids were especially gorgeous.   Nothing makes me happier than bursts of color which is why I think I am so attracted to flowers.  Color really strikes a primal chord with me.  I even caved and bought one of the orchids which are supposedly difficult to grow.  Now cross your fingers that I keep these plants alive.  Just like I have been working on improving my cooking skills, I need to work on my gardening skills.  Not thinking of myself as Dr. Death will be a start.