So I know some of you have been following along in our “Misadventures of Decorating the Apartment” and have probably heard me complain about how my husband wants to hang his animal portraits on the wall. A few of you even betrayed me and said that his sheep picture was awesome and totally qualified as fine art. Jerks… (I am just kidding. I always appreciate your honesty — I just appreciate it more when you take my side.)
Anyway, I decided that he should be allowed to hang his picture if he wanted to, and I very generously allowed him one room of the house to decorate. Now, before you accuse me of cruelty, let me point out that I only have one room of the house to decorate, too, so this isn’t totally unfair or anything. It’s just that my room is my studio/office, and his room is a little smaller. The bathroom. Yep, the guest bathroom. I figured that if he wanted to hang a drooling camel on the wall or maybe a warthog, I would just never use that room again. Ever.
We picked up a poster-sized frame at Ikea a couple of weeks ago, and I waited while he thought it over. You can’t really tell from the abysmal photo below, but this frame is large — the print inside is 19″ tall. I thought he might pick the the sheep, but in the end he chose this incredible photo he took of an Indian-Crested Porcupine. And you know what? I love it. It matches the brown towels. It’s cute and weird and slightly abstract. It’s an amazingly detailed photo and every time I walk in there I think to myself, “my husband is awesome.“ Who knew?! Ok, so I did.
We’re working on a plan for the master bath next. No animals though. I don’t want to push our luck.
Filed under House & Home, Photography.
Tagged with bathroom decor, decorating, decorating dilemmas, Photography, porcupine.
The title of this post says it all: We have art on the wall in the living room! There is a huge part of me that wants to shout this to random people passing by on the street and invite them in. LOOK! ART! WALL! US! (Except of course for the obvious safety issues of inviting random pedestrians inside your home.) Thank goodness for blogs, right?
So hanging up artwork is what happens when all of Los Angeles is trapped inside for a weekend. Thank you, Carmageddon.
Remember this post a couple of months ago? We’ve known we wanted to hang some of our photographs on the wall, but we just couldn’t decide on a layout. Well, looks like I was over complicating things again. Who needs fancy layouts? We are symmetry people. Eight large square frames in two neat and tidy rows did the trick.
It took us a long time to sort through thousands of photographs and narrow it down to eight, but it was worth it. Each of the photos has a story to it.
I’m still in that state of post-decorating bliss where you find yourself entering and re-entering the room to admire whatever changes you made. I have viewed this little spot from every imaginable angle — standing in the kitchen, in the entry way, in the reflection of a nearby mirror. My husband has asked me to stop doing this because apparently it’s creepy.
Next up: the bookcase! Isn’t amazing how one little change can set you on a roll….?
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Tagged with decorating, decorating dilemmas, frames, Photography, the last 5.
Technically, this is not a chipmunk. It’s a ground squirrel. I read some signage at the L.A. Zoo about the difference between chipmunks and squirrels, and I’m afraid I forgot it all. I think the chipmunk has a stripe on it’s head and a smaller tail.
We got out this weekend with the camera, and it felt good to have a free Saturday for playtime.
Of course, as we passed the camera back and forth between us, my husband was sure to point out which new animal photos should be blown up and hung in the living room. He was campaigning hard for this sheep (below) and an extreme close-up of an elephant’s eye.
Maybe I will try to appease him with a coffee table book instead.
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Tagged with animals, L.A. Zoo, Photography.
[Images courtesy of my husband.]
Over the weekend, we visited the L.A. Zoo. We saw so many pensive little animals — like this monkey (above), stroking his beard. The weather was unusually warm. It gave me the feeling of being flashed forward to a different season. For the afternoon, we had a glimpse of what might be coming ahead. I wondered if that was what this monkey was thinking about too.
The zoo was popular this weekend. In fact, it was so popular that we decided to buy an annual membership just so we could skip the line. So we’ll be back.
We discussed skipping the meerkats completely. We have enough pictures of meerkats already, right?
But how can you ever have too many pictures of these worried little faces? This photo ended up being my favorite of the entire day. Thank goodness for a husband who has steady hands with the zoom lens.
I spent the rest of the weekend puttering around – trying to straighten things up a bit, catching up on some chores, and enjoying a few quiet moments to stare off into space myself. What about you? How’s 2011 shaping up so far?
Filed under Gardens & Special Places, Travels Near & Far.
Tagged with animals, L.A. Zoo, Photography.
By Kelly
January 17, 2011
These images are all from a recent trip to the Huntington Gardens. I always go with the intention of photographing the flowers (which I do), but then I end up completely absorbed by the structures themselves. There are so many pretty patterns and shapes.
This week has been a bit bumpy, but we’re almost done with it. Thank goodness. I’m going to try to slip out for a bit and see if I can soak up some inspiration outdoors.
One more day until the weekend – we can do it people!
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Tagged with Huntington Gardens, Photography.
By Kelly
September 16, 2010