Worst. Project. Ever.

Okay, so here's some advice: never undertake a kitchen cabinet painting project. My house was immaculate before I started. Now it looks like Sanford & Son just moved in. The green's fantastic, though.

Yes, that might be chicken wing detritus visible in one of the pictures. Very important to the painting process.

Going Green

Me: "Gee Sister Meg, that sure is green."

Sister Meg: "It'll dry darker."

Me: "Mmmm hmm. Will it also dry not green?"

Sister Meg: "It's my signature color."

Sister Meg's Pocketbook Wall

Somebody asked to see this so y'alls all gotta suffer cause this was the best way to show them....and I thought it might be nice to get the dead cat post off the top.

This is Sister Meg's pocketbook wall. She collects this one kind of pocketbook - Enid Collins box bags. Not the canvas ones, just the wooden boxes. It's pretty arresting when you walk up the stairs and you see them all like art on the wall. Also, they have to be from the era when Enid's husband made the boxes and she painted them, not after they started being manufactured by some company. Also, painted backgrounds are preferable. She never carries them because people ask her about them NON-STOP (seriously, every single person asks about them) and Sister Meg does not like to be the center of attention. Which is my strongest piece of evidence that she's adopted.

She has one that's a donkey and one that's an elephant and they have the words "People's Choice" on them.

When she lived in Atlanta, someone broke into her house and nearly went crazy opening all the pocketbooks looking for money. It must have been very frustrating.

If you look closely on the lower left of that upper pic, you can see Buster, one of our un-dead cats.

She Went To Sleep

Sarcastic Voice: "Well, That Was Easy"

Someone just reminded me that I never posted pics of the final end results of the bathroom renovation. The main reason behind that is because it's JUST NOW FINISHED. Anyway. One day I'll post the whole long involved story so you can all be warned away from ever undertaking any sort of project whatsoever. But in the meantime, here are the pictures.







There are a couple of things I'd do differently but overall, it turned out almost exactly as envisioned.

Cold & Warm

No news! I just wanted to post a pic of my house in the little bit of snow we got today.



And also of my dog curled up in a basket!

I'd Like to Thank the Little People...

A few years ago, when I worked for a film production company, my friend Jason called because he needed a video done really inexpensively for his alter-ego children's act, Farmer Jason. We were able to help him out and I felt very protective of it because I had been in on the creative meetings for it and had basically begged everyone at the company to practically work for free on a Saturday. With children. And animals. In the woods. It's a miracle any of them are still speaking to me. Wait. Only two are!

ANYWAY. We made a really funny and charming video on verrrrry little money and we delivered it and then promptly heard nothing forever. A studio/label was involved for a while and I don't know all the smoky-back-room details, but it ended up running on the local PBS affiliate as interstitial material, along with three or four other videos Jason had the affiliate shoot. And they got nominated for a regional Emmy for Outstanding Chidren's Programming.

And Saturday night they won! So that's very exciting. My name's nowhere near it, so I don't have an Emmy sitting on my mantle right now or anything, but I'm really happy about the way it turned out. The Farmer Jason project is just a fantastic concept and I really think he deserves to be huge.

You can watch the video here.