HA! Funny xpost... I like Michele Lea's dress there better than one of the weird bustier-big skirt things she's been wearing.

HA! Funny xpost... I like Michele Lea's dress there better than one of the weird bustier-big skirt things she's been wearing.

No, you're right, I went back and took another look. She looks ravishing. I just think she looks a little small in the tall dress?

Youngest nephew gets tubes in his ears tomorrow.

And a year ago and a day, I saw this house for the first time. That afternoon, I wrote my mom this email:

I LOVE the layout/style. The floors have inlay, the rooms are huge-dining room is the size of my LR. In addition to a rear deck off the kitchen, there is a teeny rooftop balcony (it's really just roof of the kitchen bumpout, but the sides are raised hip high) off one of the back second floor bedrooms. Door (and maybe jamb) to that needs replacing and needs weathersealing. ... The kitchen also has less cabinetry than the one with the pictures, but it is a pretty open space, if small, so Things Could Be Done, some expensive or just furniture. ...I'd like to see a few more maybes. It's a really charming house though. Double french doors with screens (which need the screen replaced, they had a few tears...hey, I remember how to do that!) lead to the square front porch, which is covered and had a painted beadboard ceiling (I'd so want to strip that.) This is a really nice street and the houses are all pretty much the same, and people definitely keep them up. Seeing bikes out on the porches gave me a good feeling. .... I know a lot of the things that will make me swear, and yet.... Every time I think about what if it got taken off the market/scooped, I feel a sinking feeling.

Pretty much destined, wasn't it?

OH MY GOD: Kathy Ireland? What happened to you? Did you do a tribal neck lengthening thing? [link]

I think, java, the portrait collar on the dress that fans out of the shoulder is a bit much, but her hair and makeup are perfect and she doesn't look like she's been vacuum sealed into the dress. The fit is lovely.

Patricia Clarkson LOVE [link]

Joan MF Collins [link]

Yeah, the fanning out is what I was talking about. But it's a small complaint. She has amazing skin.

OMG, isn't this, like, the most beautiful clock ever? [link]

From here: Nixie Clocks

Only $395.

Interrupting the dress talk to say -megan's chicken gigi is so good. You have to make it when you have time to put something in the oven for a few hours , but really good. and really easy. and the sauce/gravy would make a great sauce for au gratin potatoes

Look like parallel surgical scars to me.

I'm no expert but I have a pair just like them. Scars, that is.

oh my lord NO [link]