Weekend Flings

• Matisse: Up-Close & Illegal (seen above)
• Same Sex Sparkle
• A Lennon Family Portrait
• Budget: Starlet Style
• A New Game/Addiction

If you're new around here and have no idea what this list means, click HERE for a brief and witty explanation.

Wish List : Eames Rocker

Fiberglass shell rocker, at Modernica

Earlier this month Hardwood and I celebrated our 4th Wedding anniversary! We celebrated by enjoying a leisurely morning and a late brunch. We then spent the afternoon browsing around a couple of antique stores in our neighborhood and later treated ourselves to an amazing meal at Green Zebra.

At one antique store, Hardwood spotted an Eames Rocker and proclaimed his love. I knew we were meant to be together!! We checked out the price tag and were stunned to see $1600!!! WTF?! Seriously?! We grumbled, but then I remembered that Modernica allows you to build your own chair. So when we got home from our walk we started messing around with the shell, runner, and leg colors. Our favorite combination is the moss shell, zinc legs and walnut runners. Maybe on our next anniversary we'll get this!

Bonus Bone: Cameron's House

Remember this guy?

Some Jibber Jabber About Red Wings

Well, his house is for sale.

370 Beech Street, Highland Park, IL

"THE BEN ROSE HOME-site of the famous movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, cantilevered over the ravine, these two steel and glass buildings, which can never be duplicated, have incredible vistas of the surrounding woods. This is a unique property designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid, both notable architects of the 20th Century."

We assume that, for the 2.3 million dollar asking price, all the damage from that Ferrari free-flight has been fixed.

If the views and structure aren't enough to grab you, just realize that you'd be able to make pancakes and check your mail in the very space where this lovable ticking time bomb finally let it all out:

I'll Go I'll Go

For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.

Faucet Folly

Faucet Fail

For anyone remodeling a bathroom right now...eh em...please remember the old adage:

Measure twice; cut once.

A Blue Blogger

So it's only been one day in Worktown without Porcelain and I already miss her. I missed her after only 48 minutes! Invoices and PO's just aren't the same without her happy, shiny (I mean matte) face around.

So I'll just pacify myself with the thought that she is having the SUPER BEST TIME EVER on her rented cottage getaway. And she'll undoubtedly come bouncing home with lots and lots of photos. But, in case you all need a visual to attach to my anguish, this is what Porcelain looks like in Michigan:

D P N' Dots & Hard Scoop

[Insert melancholy sigh here]