a strange view of our dining room.  one day i will get better at shooting with a digital camera.  i can't get used to not looking through a view finder.  i keep changing the chandelier by adding postcards and pictures that catch my eye.  i love the black and white of the baby.  the basket in the middle is from somalia, africa.  hand beaded, it's gorgeous.

so this is the bottom.  pretty exiting.  all those wires on the floor are a mystery to me.  i just don't have the guts to just cut them away.  someone please tell me if i can just cut them away.

inside the bedside table:  brass owl, porcelain skull, real alligator head, picture of my boys a long time ago, mouth guard so i don't grind my teeth at night, inhaler for asthma(even though i don't think i have asthma)(i think my allergist is a turkey), and the living man which i bought for the boys and have since reapropiated(it's really cool, the major organs pop out and you have to figure out how to fit them all back in correctly).  oh and duh, a couple of books.

this is the top of my bedside table.  i made the lamp shade about 2 years ago.  i just strung a bunch of babies together and wrapped it around the shade.  i think i could have done it more elegantly by using something other than ordinary twine.  i guess i could sew them on individually with fancy thread, but that would have to wait until at least one boy is off to college.  

this is how retarded i am.  i just realized that by clicking on the photo, it enlarges.  i feel like a kindergardener.  so, if you want to see the photos big, click on them.

i know my pictures suck and i am working on improving them.  any ideas anyone?

this is the awesome eiffel tower i built out of legos.  i built the base 3 times before it occurred to me to use some kind of glue.  next up...the taj mahal.  really, i mean it, when i get around to it.