Happy Day!

We're renovating our house.
That doesn't just mean a new coat of paint and some new pillows. We're going to gut about 1/2 of the house on both floors and put in some new rooms (a library! a great kitchen!) and redo others. We're putting the architect under contract today (barb - be prepared for emails from me saying "What the heck does this mean?") and already have the contractor blocking time for us. We also learned that our house was designed by a Russell Pancoast, who's well known for his 30's and 40's mediterranean deco architecture. Amazing.

If anyone has any funny or scary renovation stories to tell, please do! I think I'll need them before this is through.

My Childhood

Is here. And what a good childhood it was! Weebles, Pac Man, Goonies, General Hospital circa 1981, vinyl Charlie's Angels lunchboxes, those barettes with ribbons in them - it's all there.

And out of all the above things, the one whose inclusion amazes me most is the listing for ribbon barettes.
As the blurb says, they were a craft thing that we all did after, or around the time that, we saw Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu. I spent a tonne of time in my parents' breakfast room making them - they're long gone now, but if someone had the instructions, I might just make them again.

Wouldn't wear them, but I would make them.