Luccella's Profile

PAINT COLORS PLEASE! Gorgeous - love, love, love.

Does anybody have a recommendation for a kettle that has absolutely no plastic parts touching water? (Not even the little window that shows you the water level.)

If you live in the SF Bay Area, there's a terrific community-based training program offered by the San Francisco fire department called NERT. It is free and you learn how to prepare and deal with major disasters like earthquakes, fires, etc and how to develop a family plan, a list of things to have on hand, etc. Totally worth the time and hey, it's free! http://www.sf-fire.org/index.aspx?page=879

These look great but I thought they needed circulating air. Won't being closed in the ornament cause them to rot?

I bought a cheap rectangular mirror from someone off of Craigslist. When I got it home, I knew why it was only $10. Fat mirror.

Very beautiful but I know exactly what would happen: 1. you have something on your fingers that gunks the thing up immediately, 2. you pull out the stopper that is covered in a fine dust of something colorful and it goes everywhere, 3. you can't set the thing down while it is uncorked because it will roll around. Trouble in the making.

I second and third the recommendation for dumplings at Yank Sing in San Francisco. The Shanghai Dumplings and the snow Pea Shoot Dumplings are so good I want to cry. Absolutely delish.

The duvet cover is by Marimekko - they carried it at Crate and Barrel a couple of years ago.

Unless you have spent many of your childhood summer nights alternately sweating under the blankets to avoid a lone dive-bombing mosquito, then turning on the lights and jumping around swatting at the ceiling with a magazine or shoe, you can't possibly understand that this is one of the greatest inventions known to man. 1,000,000 people die from malaria every year - many of them children - mosquito nets over beds could almost completely prevent this.

You guys are totally brilliant about shortening the cushions! I would have never thought of that but I'm squinting a bit and it makes all the difference. I don't have any particular style I'm going for and I certainly am not cool enough to have any unified look in my place,but when I see something like the Moderne fabrics by Mokum, my heart starts to pitter patter and I fantasize about robbing a bank to afford them: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/03/new-mokum-moderne-fabrics.html. Too expensive for me, but if anyone has similar suggestions, I'd be thrilled. Thanks so much (and the boyfriend breathes a sigh of relief - until, that is, he realizes he'll have to look at endless swatches of fabric that all seem 'nice.')