A funnyy.

The weekend project.

Since Andrew and I have very limited counter space in the new apartment we decided to get some sort of cart or island to put in the kitchen. I found this vintage enamel top cupboard on Craigslist for $35 and thought it would be nice to fix up.

Once we got it home we realized it had a few problems besides just the hideous paint job. The bottom board was severely warped and pretty much falling apart. It crumbled when Andrew was trying to remove the nails holding it on. Also, all the hardware was rusted and the latch keeping the main door shut no longer worked. The first thing we did was disassemble anything that needed to be and prime the whole thing. The next day we tackled the harder stuff. I had bought a really cool vintage looking glass drawer pull from Anthropologie a couple of weeks ago which I thought would be perfect to use on this. We got a paint color to match it along with some other hardware to go on the rest of the drawers, a new masonite board for the bottom and a new magnetic latch. Andrew cut the board down to size and reinforced it properly so we wouldn't have problems with it warping again while I got to work painting. Below are pictures of how terrible the bottom board looked.

We're both extremely pleased with the final product and it looks really great in the kitchen. Even Bowie likes it.

Um...

Want.

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AMERICA!

Ironically, this car that resides at the end of our street is an Isuzu.

A slow week.

- I'm too excited for Saturday already. One of my recent most favorite things is the fact that I get at least one full day a week with Andrew where neither of us has to go to work and we can have a slow morning and get mochas somewhere nearby.
- The feast starts tomorrow and for the first time in 5 years I can enjoy it from outside of Little Italy. This means no stress about being able to park within a mile of my house, no Sinatra blaring from multiple sources for 5 nights in a row, no fireworks at all and any random time of the day. Just delicious meatball subs and pastries to eat, It will be good.
- I have a new (used) car but feel guilty for turning my back on the old Volvo that's still sitting in the driveway.
- The house is finally feeling settled despite the few boxes lying around.
- I love that we can ride the tandem bike almost anywhere that we need to go.
- One month and one week until the wedding.

Craigslist: Wanted female tandem bike rider.

Looking for female co rider to take up rear station on my fine Nashbar tandem bike, bike riding experience(you got to be able to balance at least) helpful if not necessary, being at least somewhat athletic is pretty much a given. eventual relationship desirable but a co rider only position is possible. Long term ridership might build eventual equity in bike. Real hard core female cyclist may be a bit too much ( obsessions in other fields of interests might be better tolerated) but will be considered. Some kind of workable relationship priceless. Picture of legs might be useful in evaluating prospects riding potential.

(Last line made me laugh out loud and flag as "Best of Craigslist".)

500 pencils.

Social Designer offers this amazing set of 500 colored pencils. You purchase them in subscriptions that arrive over a span of 20 months and they also offer multiple display cases for your collection. I like the idea of being given a set of colors each month to focus on and create with. I tend to be drawn to the same colors over and over again and while that's not necessarily bad, I'd like to challenge myself to use some colors I'd typically stay away from. I love the way these would look displayed on a studio wall as well. While I definitely don't have $33 to spend every month to get this collection, I may have just thought of a new way to store my current box of old Crayolas and bring some color into the new office/studio space.