{"id":4454,"date":"2006-02-12T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:36:37","slug":"sheilas-wee-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"Sheila’s Household"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have mentioned before that I am a simple girl. I have appreciation for simple things, minute things, and get reaaaaaaally excited over things like buying a new coffee mug from Home Goods or whatever. Like my periwinkle dishes<\/a>, for example. I’ve had them for three years now, and I’m still not “over” them. hahahaha My parents came down and hung curtains for me<\/a> that my mom made and it took me weeks to get over the excitement. I still look at my curtains with pride – and awe at how nice they look. I truly feel like if I became a millionaire and was able to hire a damn decorator, and go all out and live in the lap of luxury – I would still have moments of utter thankfulness and appreciation of my physical surroundings. I enjoy my things. My furniture. My stuff. I am happy and grateful that I have a wee apartment to myself, and that it is cozy, and it’s mine, and I still have moments where I sit, and look around, and think: “Yes. Tis good, tis good.”<\/p>\n

It’s not perfect and I have a long list of things I eventually want to get – and have to spread out the purchases due to finances: another rug, a big plushy ridiculously huge armchair, an ottoman, one of those little desk things that you can put on your lap, with your feet up – so you can rest your laptop on it – Let’s see, what else. Oh many more things. But you get the point. It’s an ongoing list, and I do what I can, when I can. When all my ducks are in a row – and things are dusted, neat, and organized – and I have put away all my damn PILES (my main challenge: my apartment is so small, and I have so many books, and also so many MANUSCRIPTS lying around: scripts, my writing, my essays … in PILES on the floor, on my desk … There just is not enough damn room for all that stuff. There needs to be constant vigilance on my part to not let my PILES take over my LIFE.) But anyway … when all my ducks are in a row, and I look around my little room – with the Oriental rug, the desk (that I PUT TOGETHER MYSELF – I rock) – and my little desklamp with the green-glass shade … and my beautiful Out of Africa-esque lamp that my mom got me as a gift – and my dark green-stained wood bookshelf – and my plants – one here, one there, one up there, one over there … I just feel happy.<\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago came one of the items on my “to do or to get” list … I have two things that I wanted framed – two things I bought in Ireland – same size, same style … so they would make a nice pair on the wall if they were framed identically. One is this<\/a>. It has a big black border around it. The other is an image from the Book of Kells – not one of the famous ones, like the Four Apostles <\/a>– but a page like this one – of “type”.<\/a> The pictures are cool and all – but there’s something about the writing ITSELF, and the look of it – that gives me chills. So. That also has a black border. Same size. Like I said. But they have been sitting in their little cardboard poster rolls since I came back from my last trip to Ireland. I don’t want to tack stuff up on the wall anymore. I want to do it right.<\/p>\n

So before I went to LA I brought the two of them to a framing joint – and told them what I wanted. I still can’t get EXACTLY what I wanted, too much money – but I did find two nice sleek black frames that I thought would look really really nice.<\/p>\n

Okay, fine … frame ’em up!<\/p>\n

I picked them up this week. They look so good that I feel almost beside myself with excitement. I can’t stop looking at them!!! So now … where to put them. Already running out of wall space, and I really wanted them to hang side by side. I finally decided on a spot … and painstakingly measured out where to hang them so they would be level with one another. I am horrible at this stuff. But after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing – it all worked out, and now there they hang – side by side on my wall – and they look SO NICE. I can’t stop looking at them.<\/p>\n

Hard to believe that two framed images would have the power to transport me into ecstasies but they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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