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November 20, 2005
I suffer for my art..
We hit the nursery, picked up 2 containers of this Rose and will plant them over the holiday weekend..still have to remove the existing bush, and prep the soil...this rose will get as large as 6x6 or 8x8 feet, so I'm hoping it'll get HUGE and deliver gorgeous fat cabbage roses all year...
So last night I took the beads outta the acid bath where they'd been electroformed all day...and ended up putting my finger in my mouth to retrieve an errant hair, only to realize - d'oh! there's acid on my fingers...and so, the rest of the night my lips tingled and my mouth simmered...if you use Advantage on your animals for flea control, and have ever gotten that on your hands and in your mouth, its about the same feeling...Its cleared up this morning, and I will be more careful, but no promises...I've always been the kinda girl who had bruises from playing softball, scrapes from being outside or riding my bike (scored a broken arm on that one), blisters from walking miles in the summer...and sticking my feet on the bubbling hot tarmac in the neighborhood from freshly tarred streets...that's cool popping bubbles in liquid hot tar with your toes...heh...anyway, having acid make my lips bubble is not out of the ordinary, it coulda been a lot worse...
I was watching a show about small spaces in HGTV last night and they featured a house in my neighborhood that's only 968 sq ft (which is about the size of my house, actually, not including the studio) but it was the 2 college kids who are living in the Upper West Side of NYC in a loft that is only 350 sq ft that fascinated me...two people living in a space where most of us would consider a decent sized closet...wow...I know its hard to find space in NYC, and I bet this place was priced like crazy, but I just can't see two kids living in a space that small...wow...and then I went on to watch a show about the Royal Jewels on BBCA that was even more fun...I did make some beads, played around with some new colors, and then watched the movie "Elizabeth" with Cate Blanchett (one of my faves)...I love all things English, and study the 16th and 17th century monarchy, so I find it all interesting..Here's a little rhyme for you to remember Henry VIII wives - "Divorced, Beheaded, Died...Divorced, Beheaded, Survived"...and now you know the outcome of his six wives...('died' refers to Jane Seymour who died after giving birth to a son, rather than being beheaded, which would also infer 'dying')...
Time to do some housework and then take a trip to the nursery..i've decided to plant some antique roses - climbers, ramblers, big pink puffy roses, can't wait to get them in the ground!!!
Posted by Donner at November 20, 2005 02:49 PM
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Oh, I can tell you all about living in TINY, cramped spaces! Hubby and I shared the cottage he lived in for 20+ years before he met me, once we were married. It was fine for a single guy, but once I was added to the mix it was a nightmare. We lived there together for 6 years, 3 months, and 17 days.....in a 500 square foot sardine can. The kitchen was a galley kitchen in the strictest sense of the word...literally only one person could be in it at a time. Everyone who visited would remark about how 'cute' I had fixed it up...that it looked like a "dollhouse". Geez that would be fine if we were Barbie and Ken, I guess. Once we finally went house hunting we went BIG....our new home is 1922 Sq. feet, not including a finished room in the basement. We feel like we're in a palace!(No, we don't NEED 4 bedrooms...but after the dollhouse experience I think we just wanted to bust out of crampdom in a major way.) It sure is nice to be able to move. And everything has it's place now!
Posted by: Rachel G. at November 20, 2005 10:45 AM
Beautiful roses! You're lucky you can grow so many varieties of roses. My beautiful roses all died due to 25 degrees below zero weather or the antelope who will eat anything and everything. I have said many a discouraging word to the antelope but it hasn't helped. That's what you get for living in Montana.
Posted by: Sharon H. at November 20, 2005 05:10 PM