Happy Mini-Beret Bastille Day!

Courtesy of The Simpsons, it's "wear a mini-beret on your wang" day! 

Anyone catch the reference? Anyone?!

LOL. And other new words in the dictionary....

I love making up words. 

I'm still trying to get IDWT into the casual vernacular. IDWT -- I'm Down With That. See how simple and straightforward?!!! Come on, people, we can do this!

And, hey! Why not?! LOL just made it into the most recent revision of the New Oxford English Dictionary. LMAO and ROTFL are common texting and FB'ing initialisms.

I think P is taking on some of my wordsmithing habits, be that good or bad. The other day he created a really funny one. "Chesticles." We were watching, of course, The Simpsons and discussing how great Ned Flander's body is...drawn. And there was some other guy who was in the episode, I forget who, but he was some beefed-up, steroid kind of dude and I mentioned his man-boobs, et voilà, chesticles was uttered.

Really kinda love it. Way to go, P!

Cow-ch Gag

Perhaps I've been inspired by too many nightly episodes of The Simpsons, but this came to me the other day and made me laugh. I am a ceaseless punster, as well as faithful Simpsonite. Need I explain further?

Since our leather couch and matching club chair are seriously breaking down and beginning to sprout pieces of their innards...they are over a decade old now... I got this cowhide from a guy out in Red Hook to use to hide the holes in the seat cushions. I figured it was a more affordable way for me to "recover" them for now. We kinda love it.

I know rustic shabby Americana is in, per the New York Times article "American Rustic" that ran with this photo a couple weeks ago. Note the stuffing stuffing out of the red club chair!

Photos courtesy of NYTimes.com. Top row, Randy Harris for The New York Times; bottom row, Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.

This is our club chair, below. I tried to glue a piece of thin suede over the well-worn hole, but it didn't really work. Sometimes I drape a piece of suede over it. That doesn't really cut it either.

 

We, too, use vintage suitcases, plus a few old picnic baskets, for extra storage for photos and writing.

 Our armoire is an old china cabinet (two people's clothes in a studio closet is virtually impossible) that I've dragged with me ever since snagging it at a yard sale in Columbia, South Carolina. Initially I'd painted it lacquer black and added mirrors to the doors, but later I stripped it and added faux pie tin fronts and shelves to the inside. 

Voilà! The perfect bedroom bureau.

How do you cope with storage in a "charming" NYC studio living space?