Thursday's Things in a Row

Do you have a Gordmans store near you? They have the neatest stuff! I've been there twice and have yet to make it past the home goods section! That's where I've got my rows for this week!

I found things from "A" to "Z", starting with these adorable rocking Ants! The ONLY kind I'd like to have! (read upcoming post on Friday!)

Birds in a row on an "already looks old" birdbath.

Aren't these ceramic "rubber" boots adorable? I bought the yellow pair and planted ivy in it!

Wouldn't these butterfly rocks look sweet in a flower garden? Or any garden, for that matter!

Far out, man! Ceramic mushrooms!

Signs - Sex has no calories!

The 2012 summer Olympics are coming up next month in London. Since America lost out on the bid to host the Olympics here, the least we can do is be healthy for our fellow Olympians by having a lot of sex. Well, that's what the sign says, anyway!

For more signs, visit Lesley here.

Thursday's Things in a Row

This is Part Two of my visit to the Home Depot.

BUCKET LIST?

THE CONCRETE JUNGLE STARTS HERE.

SILICONE - IT'S NOT JUST FOR BREASTS

SO MANY FITTINGS, SO MANY LEAKS

REALLY SMALL AREA RUGS

A SUMMER'S SUPPLY OF BUG JUICE IN IL - WHERE THE STATE BIRD IS THE MOSQUITO

Hit me with your best shot - fire away!

Signs - Everyone who enters...

Sign hanging in the entrance of a restaurant we ate at the other day.

For more signs, visit Lesley here.

My bones are happy!

My living room furniture has arrived!

I finally found the furniture of my dreams, okay, truthfully, furniture I could live with, at J. C. Penney's. Because I didn't like the color/fabric that the couch came in, I chose one fabric for the couch, and a contrasting fabric for the chair.

The order was placed.

EIGHT days later I got a call from the salesman.

"Uh, Patricia, I am sorry, but your order has been cancelled."

"CANCELLED?! Why?"

"Because the fabric for the chair is discontinued," he answered meekly.

"SO THE WHOLE ORDER WAS CANCELLED?" I raised my voice.

"Yes, yes. You see, it's considered one order, so when there was a problem with part of the order, the whole order was cancelled."

Call me crazy (and people have, believe me), wouldn't a simple phone call to the customer BEFORE cancelling the order be a common courtesy?

Maybe I would just have ordered the couch.

Maybe I would have ordered the chair in the same fabric as the couch.

Maybe I would tell them to go f**k themselves. Wait. Did I really type that. Sorry. You see, I had problems with Penney's with an on-line order for a bed. I won't go into it, but it was a mess. One day the order went through, the next it was out of order, the next it was on back order.

But I digress.

And another thing. Why did it take EIGHT DAYS to find out that the fabric was discontinued?

Not having much choice, I trudged back to Penney's to pick another fabric for the chair.

Why not go to another furniture store you ask? Ha ha ha

At this point I had been to 5 different stores, and went back to 2 of them.

Stick a fork in me.....I was Done - with a capital "D".

I picked out a new fabric, the salesman said 6-8 weeks, but it could be a shorter time.

In the meantime we had our midget chair (sorry if that's not politically correct but there's no better name for it), a rocking chair and a desk chair in our living room.

This is a long story, I know, to finally get to the point that our furniture arrived on Friday.

And when I tell you that I was sitting in a midget chair, I am not lying. Either that or my new chair is humongous. Look at the two sitting side by side.

I was beginning to feel a little like Will Ferrell in the movie "Elf".

Sitting on the midget chair is just one step above from sitting on the floor. It raised me up a little, but I still struggled to get out of the chair. And the worse part was, sometimes I'd have to part my knees so I could see the TV.

Here's my couch and chair together. I need to add some color to pop things up. The chair has small traces of blue in it so I think I'll get some blue pillows to pull that color out and put them on the couch. Also get a blue patterned throw for the back of the couch.

You can see that I have a lot of brown going on. I've got to change that. But remember, we are currently renting this place so I'm limited. (We don't want to hang our pictures, yet). The end tables and coffee table were bought at a used furniture place nearby. A real steal at $39 for end tables, $99 for coffee table and they are in great shape. I also bought those lamps for $18 apiece.

I love giraffes (my favorite animal at the zoo), and fell in love with this statue.

Again, goes with the brown theme. *wink*

Lily, my granddaughter, has named her "Dottie".

Another addition to my menagerie is this little sleeping elephant. Bought him at an antique village, although I don't think he's an antique.

He fits on the edge of a shelf. Isn't he just adorable? Here is a top view of him.

Lily has named him "Peanut".

Here is Lily, of whom I speak.

On Saturday morning I stumbled into the living room and was surprised to see the furniture. I yelled to my husband, "Hey Hon! Santa Claus came early and brought us furniture!"

Hope you all are having a great holiday weekend.

I've had two parties because, alas, I have furniture!

Thursday's Things in a Row - Home Depot Part One

My sister and I made a stop at Home Depot the other day. She had a long list of items that she needed to pick up. Her three year-old granddaughter, Brooklyn, and I, followed her around dutifully with the cart up and down the aisles. Finally, as my sister asked a worker some questions, I said, "Don't mind me. I think I'll go take some pictures of things in a row for my blog."

The man said, a little sarcastically I thought, "What. Is this your first time at Home Depot?"

Ha ha, very funny.

So Brooklyn and I went off searching for things in a row.

Here we go:

SWEEP ME OFF MY FEET

OH NO! THAT'S GOING TO LEAVE A STAIN!

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE THE MAKINGS OF KALEIDOSCOPES FOR GIANTS

COME RIDE THE HOME DEPOT ORANGE TRAIN

COLOR MY WORLD WITH COLOR TAPE

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY

TA DA! BROOKLYN SHOWING OFF THE ORANGE CONES!

IS IT HOT IN HERE OR IS IT JUST ME? FAN-TASTIC FANS!

What did you hunt up this week?

Signs - I need GLASSES!

Oh no, I can't see this very well.

Wait, let me take a few sips of wine. Ah, that's better!

Here's to ya!

For more signs, visit Lesley here.

From the "You've gotta be kidding me file"

Yes folks, I thought it was time for another addition of "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!"


Would you believe lickable wall paper? Okay. One word? Yech!

The Mischief PR agency teamed up with McVities, maker of Jaffa Cakes, and created the world's FIRST lickable wallpaper made up of 1,325 Jaffa cakes. This is currently installed in an office building's elevator in London, but they are hoping to bring it to more locations in the future.

Here's the question. Would you or would you NOT lick the wallpaper?

Hot dog stuffed pizza crust now available in the UK

I am a pizza lover. I love thin crust, pan pizza, you name it. Stuffed crust with CHEESE. And although I'm not a big meat lover (as far as pizza goes), I've seen sausage stuffed into the crust. But hot dogs? Just makes me want to vomit.  I also read about chicken strips or mini cheeseburgers stuffed into the crust. Seriously? Can we just stick with one food idea?



Blood puddle pillow

Proof that we have too many CSI shows on TV - blood puddle pillow now available on line! Yipee! Be a hit at the next party and whip this bad boy out! Take pictures and post on Facebook! Scare all your friends AND your parents (if you happen to be friends with them!)


Penis leggings

Made of lycra, these penis print leggings are available for both women AND men. Makes you stop and think, doesn't it.

Tell me, where would one go, wearing penis pants?

Suggestions?

Thursday's Things in a Row

Two weeks ago Jim and I went out to dinner with my sister and her friend to a restaurant that makes its own wine. (This was the restaurant where we lost our car.) There was a cool gift shop which we browsed through after eating a delicious meal. Luckily I had my handy dandy point and shoot camera in my purse, for I saw lots of things in a row here! For instance....

Wine bottles....lots and lots of wine bottles!

Of course, where there's wine bottles, there's a good chance there's wine barrels. Yep. Saw them too!

Actually, if you look closely, it looks like I hit the mother lode in that photo! Not only are there rows of barrels, but also lights, wine bottles, and bricks!

How about "thongs" in a row? Oh, settle down all you dirty old men! I'm talking "flip-flops". (Growing up we called them thongs!) Now I'm not talking ordinary flip-flops.

These here are for your WINE glasses. Seriously! Here. Let me show you.

Yeah. Okay. It's a coaster for your wine glass. It's cute but seriously? As soon as you lift the glass up, that stupid thing is going to fall off. Then every single time you put your glass down, you are going to have to "slip" the two bands over the "foot" of the glass. I don't know about YOU, but after I've had a couple glasses of wine, I can barely slip a flip-flop between my TOES let alone my wine glass. I don't think this would be a big hit at a party.

Here is a nice display of wine glasses. You can see the different prices of each.

The second from the right is a "flight" glass. Not used when taking a flight (well, then again maybe it is), but used when having a "flight" of wine, meaning several wines to compliment each course of your meal. Jim and I did this once at a fancy restaurant. We each had 6 or 7 wine glasses fanned out above our plates. I thought, "Geez, we are going to get snockered!" But in fact, they only give you about a half a glass with each serving and the meal is spread out over a couple of hours.


Here's a row of fancy, painted wine glasses. I had one of these that I took to all those parties in Arizona. Mine was made of very thin glass and broke. It was a sad day in my life......but I digress!

How about these beautiful wine stoppers? They are quite nice, although leftover wine in THIS house is really a rarity! *wink*

These t-shirts in a row caught my eye:

And here's what they say:

These aren't in a row (are two considered a row?), but I had to throw them in this week because they were so cute AND funny. Cute and chic way to display wine.

Quit your "wining"! It's your turn next!

Signs - Love Me or Leave Me

Saw this sign at a local store and it just cracked me up.

For more fun signs, visit Lesley here.