I laugh at you "week"...

some weeks start off and end off perfectly... and this was one of those weeks.
I took some perfectly glorious photos of us at the pool, riding the tube in the clear blue water at another lake we can now add to the list of "checked out", also took a few great shots of the before and afters of those crazy projects that i have been working on allll summer... but my camera is still MIA... so other than having a missing camera it has been a fantastic week.

i grabbed a couple photos this week with my phone and still managed to capture some great moments.

Let me start off with a shot of the annex...



this big beautiful beast has been slowly becoming a park bench (pics soon), a butcher block island (pics soon), a piano bench (pics soon), and a beautiful kitchen table complete with a bench for one side (i am picturing some great parsons chairs for the remaining 4-5 seats or something really linear, maybe even rattan, or a more retro modern type chair, really you could do whatever - and the table color options are endless as well)

the table, 100% totally constructed of reclaimed 3x6 TnG Douglas Fir (unfinished in pic)... (sorry this picture really does not do it justice but you get the idea)



here with the bench (also yet to be finished to the customers preference)...



i spotted this chair at home.sense the other day and thought the grey green was stunning, this would look great with this table - maybe a walnut stain on the table top with a smokey grey stain on the base of the table, shmuck gout...)



or this nils chair from ikea onomatopoeia wouldn't want ta be ya... ok sorry quite rhyming i mean it... anybody want a peanut!! seriously how could i not... really how could i? now back to the chair.... oooohhhh ahhhh



all the reclaimed annex items were built by my dad who experienced a triple by-pass surgery last summer and had to make a change in his career, so he has been working at designing and constructing these items all on his own (i help out when asked too and provide some of the drawings)... i will also be the finisher in this adventure... and we are hoping to someday sell our reclaimed furniture coast to coast! the table i have shown above has been sold, and i am sooo excited to see it finished and in the customers home later this summer... i will post pics when that time comes (if i can find that crazy camera that is)

now what about this "i laugh at you week" title i have above...

i know lots of words to read... but seriously it is worth it

well i had a couple moments this week where i thought perhaps i really have lost my coolness, my sophistication (okay stop laughing)... anyway i have a love for sushi okay maybe obsession describes it best... but along with sushi i should add pretty much any food that would be served with chopsticks. Now i would consider myself a pretty good chop stick user, but on friday we stopped for lunch at our new favourite little place... and i had a bento box... well apparently i was loving my bento box to much as about four hours later as i was driving along i felt this thing in my hair and first of all panic'd thinking it was a bug, then once i got its grips off my hair (in my bangs to be exact) i realized it was rice... seriously how many places had i been to, how many people had i talked to, and no one said anything... they must have thought "poor girl she has rice in her hair"... so to laughed in the face of humiliation and i went home and mowed the lawn with a dress on (complete with leopard print sleeves) my long hair flowing, shades on, and sipping my grande iced coffee... cause sometimes you just have too.

(now truthfully if you break it down, i was wearing the dress cause i was to lazy to change, my hair was down as it was cool outside and my neck was getting chilled - my hair really is my built in scarf, the shades are for sun-in-mine-eyes reasons and hiding the redness from allergies to mowing in the first place, the iced coffee is to replenish me when the smell of diesel and weeds gets to be to much and i might start coughing) so really there is always a method to my madness... i am not really that weird... all the time

smiles