Happy Friday!

Its beginning to feel like spring in Boston... which makes me want to go for a bike ride on this bike:

City Bike

Thanks to Matchbook Magazine for introducing it to me... a couple months ago...
Have a happy and bright and cheerful weekend and I hope it feels like spring where you are!

Martha puts a bird on it at Macy's

I was wandering through Macy's last week... maybe longer ago... and I saw a lovely display of cake plates and domed tops (a definitely happy sight) and then I saw a cute little one with a bird on it... Martha put a bird on it!

Song Medow Figural Bird Collection

How adorable is that cake plate. Its in the background of this photo, but I just think it is adorable.

Cake Stands

Glass Domes and Stands

I need to get me a dome. I have a cake stand. I make a cake this weekend and put it on the stand. But alas, there was no dome and it got a little dry in the refrigerator. The key is getting a dome that fits my stand so I don't buy more kitchen products than I need (I already have more than I need!)

Martha Stewart for Macy's

Doesn't this little tableau on the Macy's site look divine! Sigh. Cake plate lust.

Adventures with Smoke Detectors

In retrospect the landlord's words of "there is no such thing as too sensitive [a smoke detector]" should have sounded ominous.

Sunday I made lamb for a celebratory "We've moved in together" dinner. Which was delicious and though expensive, has served us well for several meals now. But the smoke alarm in the kitchen went off. So I turned off the oven, opened the doors, and windows and turned on the light to see the smoke dissapate.
Except there was no smoke.

So I closed some of the doors, and turned back on the oven and was a little more watchful.... and the smoke alarm went off again. At which point I opened a door, and left it open. Because the door was open the landlord (who lives upstairs) stopped by and when I mentioned that while the lamb smelled delicious there was no smoke she said "yeah that happens, they're sensitive, but there is no such thing as too sensitive" Right?

WRONG!
Monday night at 4am I woke up to the sound of the smoke detector. I've been sleeping pretty lightly lately since its a new house, and I needed to wake Tallman up. So Tallman and I stumbled out to see what was the matter. It was the smoke detector in the spare room. I sniffed about (I have a super human sense of smell, fyi) and I smelled no smoke, no odd odors, nothing. So we went back to bed.
Ten minutes later, it happened again! Tallman didn't take the battery out of the detector, just took it off the ceiling (eye roll)... so he took the battery out and I googled "smoke detector beeping but no smoke" and found that it could be dust, bugs, or simply time to get a new smoke detector.
Or we were about to die from carbon monoxide poisoning... I have ruled this one out though since I seem to be alive still and none of the other smoke detectors have gone off (yet).

I think the plan is to buy a carbon monoxide detector, just in case, and replace the old smoke detector... maybe...

I ordered fabric!

I ordered fabric on Sunday... lets hope we love one of them..

I hope this one is perfect!

But this one might be nice too...

I want it known that Tallman has ok'd both these selections as good potentials for a headboard. I'm not making our bed purple without clearing it first, I swear!

We're IN!!!!

I cannot tell you how excited I am to have a home. :)

Yes, the weekend was long and arduous and full of very little sleep and a few terse words... but its (mostly) done and very homey.

Friday night we made three trips, and got the bed, Tallman's dresser, chairs, and the dining room in, along with a variety of odds and ends.

This is what it looked like after the first night... full of stuff, but less than liveable (though we did spend the first night in the apartment!)
 (funny story: I went to make Tallman eggs Saturday morning for breakfast because I knew we didn't have much else, and I knew he needed food-- and while we did have eggs, butter, a frying pan and a spatula... we did not have plates.. or even more crucially FORKS! or even SPOONS! oops! no eggs for Tallman!)

After Saturday (two trips, once to parents house and got the couch, TV's rug, TV stands, my dresser, more kitchen stuff, and more odds and ends) the house looked much more normal.

This is what it looked like Saturday night, and continues to look like today :p
On Sunday we rested... and by rested I mean moved in our clothes, hung pictures with our favorite interior designer, went on an epic grocery store run, made food, hung out with the comcast guyand generally made things more organized so we could go about our week without going crazy.

That was our weekend, in a nutshell... I'm exhausted... and there is still so much to do! Our bedroom doesn't feel cozy yet, our dining room still has boxes, our second bedroom/closet/mancave is a disaster, and we don't have a colander, I need to slip cover the couch, the bathroom is a riot of beauty products (sorrynotsorry Tallman!) and we're still adjusting to living in a new place... but man is it fun and pretty.
Stay tuned for the fun things we do about the house as we get settled in!

I've got a busy weekend!

Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday are all moving days! Its going to be a very busy weekend!
Lets hope for good weather, no dropped furniture, no big fights (little ones are inevitable, oh you disagree, oh you've never moved), productive trips, no injuries to people, and a Sunday evening with a new house full of stuff :)


Speaking of which, I need to call the gas company, I think we need heat and electricity. On it!

Happy March!!

Spring is coming! (Not that this winter has been horrible)

Tonight we're getting the keys to our new place!!!!

Tomorrow we start moving in!!!

One of the first things to do (after moving all our stuff into the new place) is to buy gray boxes to conveniently store odds and ends (I'm thinking one for crafts, one for Christmas stuff, one for extra office supplies, one for party decor like fun paper napkins) above our kitchen cabinets. The uniformity of color will make them look like this picture (I hope):

Wall of Boxes

These are the boxes I'm thinking of getting:

Container Store Milano boxes

I checked ikea, martha stewart, and target and couldn't find gray storage boxes anywhere! Do you, loyal readers, have any suggestions??