Gilmore is a 27 year old who loves decorating and is a self-proclaimed expert on just about everything. At least she likes to think so. Copyright 2011. Consult a design professional before beginning your project.
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March 10th, 2007
Just how lazy am I?
Tomorrow is daylight savings time. I am not a big fan of this whole daylight savings time thing. I know, I also get to sleep in for another hour. I know people who keep their regular schedule on Sunday & then change on Monday, so they get their extra hour on the day they need it the most.
This still doesn’t change my contempt for this practice. Mostly because it means that I will have to change all my clocks back. However, I never get around to changing all the clocks back, so I end up just subtracting an hour until it’s the fall. That way I won’t have to change my clock forward either. It sure messes up anyone who is visiting though. I’m a one woman island who refuses to acknowledge daylight savings time. What’s your funny daylight savings time story?
Update: The power of positive thinking made me set my clock back, which meant I was two hours late this morning. I knew changing my clock was a bad idea.
March 10th, 2007
Moving Up
I love watching the show “Moving Up” on TLC. It always makes me think about house values. Real estate values change so much state to state. The same house could be $200,000 in Utah, & $800,000 in California. That’s just the way that things go with property values. I think it’s smart to always know house values in your neighborhood & state. You could be sitting on a gold mine & not even know it. It might be time for you to move out, but there is no way for you to know unless you are aware what your house is worth & what kind of house you can get for that money where you want to live.
March 9th, 2007
Pink: Not just for Barbie
If you are a girl, the color pink seems to have a lot of significance. It has traditionally been used as the color associated with baby girls. Then, when I was a little older I started playing with Barbie, who had a pink car, only pink clothes, & even a pink house. Then when I was a little older than that, pink was the color of breast cancer awareness ribbons. Then, when I was in college, a few people were down on pink for being stereotypical & trying to put women in their place. In my life after college, I have heard pink described as a color for powerful women. I don’t know of any other color with this many mixed messages. I do like to use it in decorating though, it is a very soft, relaxing color that occurs often in nature. Pink doesn’t necessarily have to be "girly". If you like the color, find a way to use it. I try to stay away from pink floral fabric, but might go for a bold modern brown & pink stripe.Or, you can bring in a vase of very light pink cherry blossoms. Try pairing pink with a brown or gray to give it a nice balance, & so the color doesn’t come off as too feminine.
March 8th, 2007
Top Design: Garage Band
I love to watch Bravo’s “Top Design” it is like “Project Runway” for decorating. Last night’s episode was called “Garage Band”‘ & their assignment was to work together to build a garage for a family that had to include a theatre, office, tons of storage & space for a car. I was really disappointed with the final design, but that might have just been because there were too many requests to fit into one space. I for one don’t really want to hang out in my garage. Here is the break down of the designers last night:
Goil: I don’t know how his designs are always called innovative. Every single thing he has built has been on casters & painted white. It’s only innovative the first 3,000 times you do it.
Ryan: It was a pleasure to see him voted off. It’s decorating! There is nothing socio political about it. Paint some stripes on the wall & then fight a real socio political cause like world hunger.
Carisa: I think she has the most design talent out of anyone, but she’s not someone I would ever want to talk to or be in the room with.
Andrea: She seems cool, she seems to have a good sense of what works, plus she is non-psycho unlike most of the other decorators. I don’t know what happened with last night’s room, even if it had met up to what she designed it still would’ve been an absolute mess. I felt bad for the garage owners.
Matt: I can never remember his name, he hasn’t really made an impression but at least he doesn’t stand out as being horrible.
Michael: I really hated how he tried to pawn off the purple thing on Andrea. There are other colors out there, go & find one.
Erik: Again, it was hard to pick him out of a lineup but I think he & Matt have the most potential. I hope they both try to shine more.
Overall, none of these decorators are really wow-ing me. Anyone of them could’ve been told “See ya later decorator” & I would’ve been fine. If it were me as a judge I would’ve just gone “That’s it! Show’s over! All of you go home”. I will keep tuning in because I have hope for some reason. What were your thoughts on last night’s episode?
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