Scary...........

Nothing about Halloween scares me as much as having to learn about all the new and soon-to-be-new high tech...everything out there.  In fact-- I have vivid, gorey nightmares about having to, gulp, replace my television.

This was modern when I was growing up, people!  A TV you could carry!!!

Between HDTV, ED, LCD, DLP, Plasma well, I'm lost.  Plasma has something to do with blood, doesn't it?????  Now I see why my dreams are gorey.  oh my.

Television everywhere.

And sharks everywhere, too, it seems.

A remote that will work on hand gestures.  I can only imagine the hand gestures I'd be using with this thing.

And, think about it...our favorite shows are about people digging through filthy barns....looking for old stuff.

I don't have a smartphone or iPhone or whatever they are called.  And I would NEVER put anything named  "Droid" in my pocket.

But what does the future hold?

Yep.  A phone.

Oh. No. Way.

Once they got the cord off, I was good.  And safe.  Any advances in technology should have had something to do with eating pounds of chocolate with no weight gain.

This intense fear all started when my sister sent me this video from Corning Glass.  It did not amaze me.  I did not marvel.  I went back to bed.  I don't want pictures enlarged on my glass kitchen table or all over my glass walls (hmmmm. Will we still have greasy fingers then??)  I want all that computer type stuff contained safely in a little box on my desk.

This is how I don't gain weight!  I'd never be able to work my stove.

(those sly devils, they have been working on that issue!)

It's a gas cooktop, you ninny.  Where have you been??

Don't even ask.........

Oh, please!!  This attached computer lets you choose water temperature, pressure, etc.  Have mercy.

Possible good idea.  A lawn mower curiously like the popular Roomba vacuum.  I would only hope it had an automatice cut off if one of the cats decided to sniff it..

And a waterless washing machine.  We'll be using UV light to clean the Nano titanium dioxide coated clothes we'll be wearing.....(Really.  It's true. I read it online.)

I remember my parents saying "I don't want to know how to use it" about modern inventions.  They stopped after they got a remote for the TV.  A console TV.

(google it if you're too young to remember those!!)

I truly have become my parents, then.  I am officially middle aged.  Progress and innovation is great.  It's neccessary.

I just don't want pictures floating around the air beside me.  I want to read books made of paper.  And, although I love email, once in a while I would love to get a hand written letter.  Scary, huh??

Signs of Fall, etc

Bittersweet wreaths, from our vendor in Pennsylvania, will be showing up this week at good goods.  I've been buying from Ellen for about ten years and am never disappointed by the quality of her work.  Nothing is better when decorating for Fall than natural elements and orange bittersweet announces the season's change beautifully.  Inside or out, it's a perfect choice even without added decoration. 

Then for Christmas, we'll be expecting the wild rosehips.  I love these guys.  They are great on a door instead of the expected evergreen but I especially adore then inside.  Several sizes of these coming in so keep an eye out!!

xxoo
Cheri

We're in the Spirits..............

Bootique was a smashing success and we want to thank the continuous stream of visitors that joined us last Saturday.  Everyone managed to get in the spirit....

....especially after snacking on "season appropriate" appetizers.

                         Even the guys managed to find something interesting............

The second round of Halloween started arriving on Monday.  It's priced & on the floor!

 Our Hot Swash velvet pumpkins have been flying out the door.  A new order was just placed and will be here in about a week.  These are great and you can display them through November!

 Marlis brought us this "new" upcycled chair upholstered in a beautiful linen.

You can see even more at my buddies' blog here.  Go check it out!



XXOO

Cheri

Halloween Sneak Peek!

So, we're getting ready for the big "reveal" this Saturday, September 24th at our "Vintage Halloween Bootique".

Great food will be conjured up and some wicked libations, as well.  Here are just a few of the folks joining us....

Hope you'll be there too!!

9/11

Three airplanes took my daughter's innocence ten years ago.  For many in my generation it was the Kennedy assassination.  Pearl Harbor stole it from my parents. 

You never forget that.

Bubble, bubble, toil & trouble....

   

Such a fun season coming up!!  We're getting ready.  Are you??!

Restoration Hardware...............

Ok.  So Judy, my very good friend from Denver, asks me if I'd gotten the new Restoration Hardware catalog.  (Obviously, Judy is in a different tax bracket than I am....)  Whenever she tells me something has made her hyper-ventilate, I just have to check it out. 

 So check this out:

(click on any picture to enlarge it)

Lord have mercy.  I must have stared at this image for a full hour, devouring every detail.  And asking questions like...can I really put four identical lamps in a room?  Who came up with that chandy?  What is this?? Glamour?  Dreary-ness?  Is this appropriate for my house or do I have to move to some old castle to possess this room?

Calm it down a few notches.  This could be in a real home.  Like someone I'm friends  with.  Alright, maybe someone I passed in my car that time.  Not quite so mind blowing.  (unless you stood up too fast and drove the point of that chandelier into the top of your head...)  This I could live in more easily.  (I mean, if I had to..)  Again, symmetrical all over the place.  Loving all the framed "whatever they are".

"Caged" chandeliers. And my beloved neutrals.  Again, that wall crammed full of framed

sepia toned art.

Yes, yes, yes!!  MY lamp.  Give me industrial and I promise to behave.

Look at what happens when you put one on each side of your chesterfield.  Dang, friends!!  We've got this British gentleman thing going on here.

This bed.  Yipes.  This is the first time a bed has brought tears to my eyes.  Trunk inspired everything...

Would you take a close look at this desk/ shelving unit.  It's a huge steamer trunk.  Ok, there has got to be some way I can convince the DuPonts or Rockefellers that I am somehow related... it's only $4500...

...and when you've made a mess paying bills...you fold it up and hide everything.  Or attach a rope to the handle so you can pull your office around with you.  Genius!  Worth every penny.

This sideboard...oh my.  It's metal.  This industrial revolution we're seeing all over the place has just reached another level. I. Love. This.

Notice the huge canvas map hanging on the back wall?  Gaaaa!  I am biting my knuckle right now.  It's over 100" wide.  I have a big wall that has needed this so badly for years.

Will this never stop???  This is in the "Garden" section in case you needed to order a couple.  It's the smaller model priced at $1500.  sigh

So what did I get??  A pillow.....the St. Honore.

It was on sale....!

Rant over.

XXOO,

Cheri