Sunday, January 08, 2006

More new furniture and decorations...


While we were in california, we built a crate for 2 paintings that Richard had made. One was a Graduation present for Jane for her Master's Degree from Hayward.

The other one is a painting that we had purchased from him. Both paintings are very incredible and we feel honored that we are able to show them in our house.

We got this wall sculpture at a local "Modern Furniture" store. It's 6 pieces and you can hang it anyway you want. We liked this look. Also in that picture are the 2 DVD media cabinets that we got yesterday at CostPlus Importers. I had ot modify them to hold more DVD's than they were designed for. The wonder of designing a cabinet in the age of CD's then just changing the label to make them DVD friendly. They didn't even change the spacing of the shelves to make DVD storage anywhere close to correct. I got to do that. w00t.


Also this is probably my best christmas present. Karyna (My 8 year old niece) gave me this frog. It's cast metal and the top lifts off to reveal a place to put an incense cone. You light the cone and put the top back on and it looks like the frog is blowing smoke. Very very cool.


We also got this cool fountain from my parents. We put it in this platter as it creates quite a bit of condensate. Since we put it in the platter, the counter has stayed fairly dry. Right now it's our humidifier for the house. ;)

That is all for now...

Christmas Aftermath


Some of our decorations. For a while Mom was into doing little ceramic projects at a local shop. These are some of the seasonal decorations that she has made. I love all the little expressions on them.


This is our Wintertime centerpiece on our dining room table. Looks very festive. The hollyberry thing started out life as a garland.


This is our mantle. We got many many christmas cards this year. We got out a big chunk of Christmas cards to friends and relatives (By we, I mean Janey...), but next year we are going to start a bit earlier.