Perfectly Disgraceful

Dressing room

Our house is small, but it's really almost the perfect size for us-- except for the severe lack of closet space. I won't bore you with the description of the various ridiculous problems of the four existing closets, closets that were designed by morons. Right now my clothes are hanging in the over-stuffed closet in the Younger Child's room. So overstuffed that everything spills out of the closet into the room. And it is difficult to get dressed or undressed when she's sleeping or has left 50 Polly Pockets in front of my dresser. However, the latter situation gave me a bright idea.

The Polly Pockets were being played with in her room, not in the tiny sunny jewel-box of a playroom. That lovely room was almost unused except as a cluttered receptacle for toys. And it occurred to me that, technically, the Younger Child has two rooms to herself, but no closet, while I have no rooms to myself, and one overfull closet. Hmmm. How to remedy this situation? Why, wouldn't that delightful bright room make the perfect dressing room? And while it has no closet, thanks to Ikea's Stolmen system, couldn't one be easily and cheaply created? One that would offer two or three times as much hanging and shelf space as I currently have? Why, yes, that is an excellent idea, if I do say so myself.

Right after I had my genius epiphany, I saw this picture in the August 2009 issue of Country Living.

I adore that couch. That couch is the inspiration for my dressing room. I love the little table, too, and the giant mirror in back of the couch. The wallpaper, not so much.

Red Lipstick

I am in love with red lipstick and with this picture.
 

 
From coco+kelley.
 
I wish I knew what shade they were wearing. Not that I could indulge in that lipstick. No, of course I’m not afraid of the color, the problem is far worse. Sadly, years of lipstick abuse (I’m looking at you, eight-hour lipstick) have made me, sob, allergic to seemingly everything except Clinique.
 

Knobs and handles

So, yeah, the kitchen. It's coming along, Rex has been doing a lot of work whenever he has time, which usually means a big burst of work about once a month. We now have the new floor under 80% of the kitchen, yay!

Of the many advantages of having Rex do all the work is that when he does things like removing the cabinet beneath the sink, but instead of leaving us sink-less for months, he built a structure to hold the old sink until we're ready for the new one (which is actually old and may have a crack in the porcelain, which may be a problem). He also taught himself to hook the gas stove up to a longer hose so that it can be moved over six inches. Impressive. Seriously.

2010 Golden Globes Gowns

Warning: I am feeling very cranky so my opinions on the gowns may be excessively negative. That crankiness is probably intensified by having to repeatedly see, while viewing Photos on Celebuzz. Amanda Seyfried eat some guy's face on the trailer for Dear John. Yuck. Also, I'm so cold that I'm wearing fingerless gloves to type. I was feeling much more generous last night, it must have been the cava.

There was a lot of bad hair last night. A lot. Yes, yes, it was raining, whatever. That slicked-back hair looks terrible on a lot of people, and on the ones who can get away with it, it looks boring. And there was a lot of boring last night. A lot of perfectly lovely yet utterly boring dresses. Dresses in pretty colors but boring styles. Black in flattering but boring cuts. A lot of delicate pastels that might have looked good on a different skin tone, but looked bad on the person wearing them. I have a firm belief that one should be able to distinguish between where the dress ends and the skin starts. And, as I have noted in the past, what do these people have against necklaces? There is nothing like some good neck adornment. Way too many naked necks last night.

I didn't think I had any unqualified winners last night until I saw this, which I missed last night. It's the blond cheerleader from Glee who is uncannily beautiful on on the show and keeps up the beauty here by adding in a gorgeous and interesting dress. And this gray works on her, unlike a lot of people last night.

All photos from Celebuzz unless otherwise noted.