Last night I was getting interviewed by a Japanese TV station. We were supposed to do it at India’s, but she called just as I was getting on the subway and said she couldn’t do it, so I texted the TV crew about the location change as I ran back home and kicked all the gamers out of my house and everything in my house into the bedroom and lit some scented candles and tried to get rid of the giant pizza boxes the gamers had left behind them. (OK, the one thing I don’t like about hosting game at my house is that they always leave XL pizza boxes around, and they don’t fit into any of the garbage cans.)

Before that, I had to get dressed for the interview. That took a long, long time and definitely involved me shouting, “I don’t own any clothes!”

It wasn’t that I don’t own any clothes, I have far too many clothes. But I own no clothes with any color. It’s true, I wear almost no colors. It’s strange. All of my clothes are black or ivory or something like aubergine or gray or hunter green. And that was a problem, because bright colors look better on camera than any of the colors I just described. (That’s part of my “Know your audience” mantra. Film reacts differently to different things. For example, pearls look better in still photos than do diamonds. Diamonds look best when they are moving.)

Anyway, I had to forego all my neat architectural clothes and strange layers in favor of a bright purple T shirt that belonged to my sister in high school.

I own many colorful things, but they tend to have 18 different colors and be concentrated at the bottom. For film, it is best to wear a single bright color up by your face.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/boston/good-questions/ideas-for-displaying-an-action-figure-collection-good-questions-096657

Haha! They’ve been having “Collections” month, which was awesome, but all the collections were for arty things or colorless things or uniform-looking things. So I asked about action figures and they just it. (Minor mea culpa for pretending they were “my husband’s” collection. I was embarrassed to take the blame for having purchased all of them, which I did. (I think Nick only bought The Goon.)

Weirdly, we pretty much did exactly what they suggested before they posted it. Except I put the shelves up in the bathroom. (OK, I did not put any shelves up in the bathroom. But I bought shelves, so that’s kind of like putting up shelves, right?)

I picked the bathroom because I couldn’t think of anything to do to make the bathroom look interesting, since I can’t paint or use wallpaper or anything, and all the fixtures are attached. Also I thought the lines of superheroes would look best on a white background, and all the other rooms have ivory walls. So now there are glass shelves with lines of bright-colored action figures behind your head when you look in the bathroom mirror.

lalala it is 10pm. i have been at the office for 14.5 hours.

Try to catch Modern Family on ABC at 9pm ET on Wednesdays.

I never would have thought to look at it, but 5 or 6 adamant posts from a media/culture blog I tend to agree with convinced me to DVR it last night. OMG, I’m glad they did, or I would have wound up with another My Name is Earl situation. (ie: It comes out, looks stupid from the ads, I ignore it and turn it off when it is on. Then one day five years later am on a plane and see an episode, realize have been missing one of best shows ever for years and years.)

Seriously, Modern Family was really funny. And it was just a pilot, and pilots are almost never actually funny

If you saw it - I laughed so hard at the Lion King number that I was genuinely in tears. That’s not too much of a feat with me, but it got Nick too. (And he’s all stoic and shit.)

So we’re reporting on the semiannual Hermès sale going on in NY now, and the correspondent made some joke about the “requisite leather saddles ($2440 for kicks).”

WhatwhatWHAT? Um, holy crap. I assumed the saddles would be like the Kelly and Birkin bags and not be included in the sale.

I haven’t been on a horse in like 4 years (grrrrr), and for a moment I genuinely considered grabbing my credit card and running out of the office to stand in line like a crazy person.

But I don’t remember how big my butt is. And, again, I haven’t been on a horse since I moved to New York in September 05.

OK, for reasons of my own I am in the market for a display head for wigs.

Having investigated this market a tiny bit, I am quite enamored of their sculptural potential. You can get mannequins in so.many.pieces. Hands. Feet. Busts. Butts. Legs. Arms. Heads.

Does anyone know where I’m going with this?

Nick probably does. Or he would, if I’d mentioned this. (He’s probably not going to like it.)

We’re never going to be an “Apartment Therapy” house. ^_^

IKEA Billy corner bookshelves
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S99864131

Another one for the side wall
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S09847631

Plain black slipcovers for the sofa and loveseat.

Maybe ivory instead? I don’t know what I’m doing. But probably not ivory.

Ornate picture frames, lots of them:

Somewhere recently I saw an ornate picture frame on a huge, curly black flowered wall decal. I vaguely remember the decal was kind of art nouveauish, and I think the frame was gold.

Does anyone remember where I saw that? I’m completely drawing a blank. I think I followed a link from someone’s LJ, but I can’t find the specific picture anywhere.

I’ve been toying with picking up the Period Impressions polonaise pattern, but I don’t have it yet. But I just saw a really nice deal on a cute cotton I could use with it, and I’d like to grab the fabric while it’s still on sale.

If anyone has the pattern, could you tell me the required yardage? I’m 34-25-34. (Also, can you tell me what size to order? I can’t find a sizing chart anywhere and I don’t want to get a 6 if I’m a 16 or vice versa)

Thanks!

I’m thinking of making something like this: http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2009/08/boue-soeurs.html

I have some antique supplies I can use for it. I think it could be awesome. Not sure what color of slip to use with it, though. And I like the little sash worn partly underneath like that. No clue on that color either.

My other thought was to put together a Lanvin-style dress. But I don’t have a book with good pics of those, certainly nothing with cool patterns. Does anyone have recommendations? Or I guess I already have the Vionnet book and could use something from that.