Home Is Where the Art Is

Some more photos of Stefanie DiStefano's house.  It was a piece of art in itself.  I have a tumblr  inspiration blog, as well as this one, and every view of the house looked like something I would post.  I love art, and I love creativity.  Danny and I recently got a new apartment, and we're planning to decorate it with all kinds of art- our own, and that of others.  But we couldn't compare to this.  

That first photograph is of the house from the street.  I got attacked by a cactus in her front yard, actually.  I was wearing a flippy skirt, and my skirt flipped into the cactus, then back into my leg... which was surprisingly painful.  More annoying, than painful, really.  Hey, now I can say that I battled a cactus.  Totally worth it for the story.

Austin, Texas, USA

Ooh Beads!

One of my favourite movies as a kid was Disney's Cinderella.  I watched it far too many times, and sang the songs from it constantly.  Driving my mother crazy was, in retrospect, apparently a preferred pastime of mine.  I digress.  In the film, Cinderella has many little friends who happen to be these charming mice.  The two main ones are named Jacques and Gus Gus.  Aw.  In one scene, the two of them find a bunch of pearls, and I cannot remember which one of them says it, but in a high, squeaky, shaky, excited mouse voice, whichever one it is screams "ooooooooh, beads!!"

I thought of that moment when I saw this lovely box full of beads in an antique store window.

New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

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