If You Are What You Eat

Apr 18, 2009 | This Life

Oh, the implications. 

Drooling

Apr 17, 2009 | This Life

Drool worthy: The Ekornes Stressless Collection

 

It’s been nearly a year since Snickers annihilated my beloved red couches. I’m still not over the trauma! And it’s been a year of sitting in beautiful yet uncomfortable replacement couches. Never, never buy a couch without sitting in it first. If the store will let you move in for a weekend, all the better. Never, unless your cat annihilates your  beloved couches and you need an immediate replacement and you only have credit on such short notice. Otherwise, sit. Sit long and hard and critically! Beauty be damned, people, it’s about FUNCTION. My backside cannot stress this enough. Ahem.

The upside is that I spend less time sitting on these miserable lumps. That has to be good thing considering the lecture I got from the scale yesterday. Oh. My. (Total aside, good thing I worked out before I weighed myself. We were this close to a major meltdown; because you know if I’m melting down, I’m bringing you people along)

The downside is that when I do want to sit down, I’ve already spent the day standing at an ironing board, sitting in a folding chair at my computer, and sitting in what has to be the most uncomfortable chair to sew. Teach me to keep old furniture and reuse it in ways never intended.  By the end of the day I’m ready to sit down on something comfy, warm, inviting—something not my couches. Put up my feet, sip a cup of tea, and watch a few Tivo episodes of Frasier. 

Don’t get me wrong, they beat the floor. I can at least get off the couch without the use of a crane. But they are remarkably unsquishy. That is a word, for the record. Squishy applies to my logic, too–which is how I got to these drool worthy pieces by Ekornes. 

See, while sitting in my unsquishy couches, watching reruns of Frasier, I’ve been drooling over the Eames chair and ottoman on the set. You know, that fantastic chair that has been relegated to the background in order to make room for Martin’s hideous lazy-boy. That chair. At least five times an episode I look over at IZ, sitting on the matching unsquishy couch, and say, “I love that chair.”  

So, you can imagine the squealing involved when IZ sent me a link to these couches. Needless to say, I’m now drooling on my computer keyboard. You can pick your color of leather and wood bases not to mention a half dozen different styles!—and even the seats of the couches recline. They are “stressless”. I’m going to ignore the fact that they’ve emblazoned that tagline on the actual chairs because it’s kinda hard not to love a chair that promises to be squishy and stressless.

I could use less stress, couldn’t you? 

Just The Way It Goes

Apr 16, 2009 | This Life

I might be back later this evening with words. It’s one of those days—too much to do in the time alloted. I’m racing the fickle Sun which is always stress inducing. I’ve yet to grab a product shot I like, despite the ALL CAPS item on my to-do list! I’m learning that the Sun could not care less about my compulsive need to scratch things off that list. I’ve suggested, politely, that the Universe get with the program. It hailed.

Anyhow,  I thought you might want to see this capture. I shot a few extra frames of just the flowers after dozens of product shots. So, of course, this is the one that belies the fleeting sunlight. 

What can you do? 

Until We Meet Again

Apr 10, 2009 | This Life

It’s Good Friday and time for me to step away from the computer and be with my family.  May the blessings inherent in the rituals you choose to honor restore you. We step into the darkness of Friday and emerge with new beginnings, fresh perspective, and renewed selves. Sunday is, after all, just around the corner.  

I’ll be back on Monday with images and words and maybe, some news. May each of you know the Peace that surpasses all understanding. I do wish you all a beautiful holiday weekend.