BetterBombshell's Profile

Yeah, I'd like more discussion of what makes an app a favorite. I personally use the Kindle app on all my devices, and I love it. I especially like the font/background color options, allowing me to read white (or is it pale gray?) text on a black background, which is much easier on my eyes on a backlit screen.

As people have stated previously, it isn't about the objects themselves as much as it is their meaning in our lives. No one should feel defensive because they own and love and use something that happens to be popular at the moment.

Refusing to decorate with a favorite color or pattern, or to display or use something you love because it is currently trendy might be worse than choosing those items merely because they are on trend. Do I cringe a little at the overabundance of matryoshkas lately? Sure, a little. But I won't stop loving and displaying the dolls I grew up with as representational of my Russian heritage. And it would be silly to hide my great-grandmother's beautiful art just because thrifted oil paintings are on all the design blogs this month. If a random person doesn't think I'm a special enough snowflake because they don't know these things are part of my authentic experience and life, so what? With all the actual problems available to me, I hope I never let the remote possibility that someone will think something I do or like is passe influence my choices.

And I think they could have chosen some more egregious props for that article than excellent cookware and fans that still work. And the fresh flowers get mocked, but not the crazy mirror above them?

While we keep a brew log for our homebrew recipes, it has somehow never occurred to us to keep a house cocktail journal. We're always Googling and trying to remember that substitution that ended up being better than the original recipe. Dummies. And me with a million blank journals.

This is a wonderful room!

What is the profile? Sounds like it isn't overly-peaty, which I like. How is it with water?

I don't think any style or frequency of shopping is inherently superior to any others--what matters to me is the quality of food I am buying and how my habits fit into my overall life. To get the food I want--local, organic, pasture-raised dairy, eggs, and meat; as well as local and organic produce--my husband and I visit our favorite farmers market on Saturday mornings for the eggs, meat, bread, and dairy (and sometimes fresh caught fish). Then Sunday mornings we pick up our CSA co-op veggies at a local cafe, where we also enjoy coffee and conversation.

Each is a bit too far to walk, but even if they were the next block over, they would only be available once a week. I live close enough to both a typical American grocery store and a smaller natural foods-style grocery store to walk to either or both daily, but until I stop working full time, daily shopping doesn't sound romantic to me, and they can't provide what my weekly routine provides. I don't wish it was different. We've made grocery shopping into a leisurely, fun weekend tradition. Turning chores into a date is pretty fantastic. This is what works best for us, now. Hooray for food!

Is it my eyes or are the curtains too short for the windows? Anyway, I like it, and I can imagine how fun it is to live here.

So far we've given up the "must have" of home ownership in order to live in our favorite area of a city we love, in spite of unemployment/underemployment.

Having moved up gradually from 8'x8' living spaces to the current sprawling (to me) 800sf I share with my husband I have to chuckle a bit at the idea that larger spaces are harder to organize or keep uncluttered. Of course it's possible--even easy, if you have the resources--to fill any space to the gills with stuff, especially the longer you live in one place, but it's not the same as a space so small that bare necessities create clutter.

Like HHRI says, it's still a commitment and uses similar skills to small space living. But if everything doesn't have a place now, I know I've accumulated too much, and it's time to evaluate what we really need and use and love. It's different than when I used to debate whether a winter coat and a soup pot were worth holding onto during the warmer seasons, because they took up precious space.

That paint chip SF is amazing. LOVE it. I think the curtains and lettering makes it a little cluttered for me, BUT I think it's just one of those quirks of taste. How wonderful to have such a vibrant, personal space for a new little one. Congratulations all around!