I WANNA live there Wednesday # 60

Good Morning everyone!!!

Start spreading the news......................we're leaving today ( back to the heart of it, New York, New York )
My second favorite city in the world - and my favorite city in North America.................
( and that is SO unfair I know - because although I've seen Paris - London - Milan - there are a a few other cities out there somewhere I think ) but oh how I love love love New York
John and I even discussed packing it all in and trying our luck there ( because if you can make it there - you'll make it anywhere ) before reality  came crashing down around us with a thud..............
So.............we'll have to live vicariously through IWLT Wednesdays lol

I've mentioned before that I think I was meant to live a certain way - and something went horribly wrong.
I know - I just know that I was supposed to be surrounded by great wealth - with homes in several places around the world - I was SUPPOSED to have a Pied a Terre in Paris for instance..............and an apartment in Manhattan for when I wanted to go see musicals - or shop and a getaway in Hawaii for when I needed to be near the ocean...............I was also meant to have staff - you know the kind of staff that could do my hair everyday - pick out my clothes etc................as I prepared to sit down for the morning giving half of my fortune away to charities and friends.
" Oh Madame - your girlfriend Darlene called - she just saw the cutest town house "
" Buy it for her Gisele "
" But Madame - you don't know how much it cost !!! "
" I don't care what it costs - she's my friend - write a cheque and buy it for her - end of story "

And I suppose these are some of the homes I was meant to live in ( just to fulfil the fantasy folks - humor me a little )

17,900,000
Built in 1899 ( you know I love my old homes )
The mortgage is listed at 89,988 a month
( which would be a measly amount in the world I was supposed to live in - however in the world I accidentally ended up in I'd have to declare bankrupty about a week after I moved in - but oh what a week it would be )
6 beds, 8 baths
2,640 sq feet
Realtor:  BROWN HARRIS STEVENS - Sami Hassoumi

Gisele would absolutely LOVE this kitchen, I know

True story - Picture it - 1979 - Montreal in it's Hay Day - ( done in my best Sophia voice )
I went on my first ( and last )  blind date - that I can remember clearly wishing I were blind for - with the creepiest little guy - ugghhh was he creepy - anyway during the course of the evening he casually mentioned that he was Royalty from Saudi Arabia - his ship, in fact, was at the port...............I inwardly rolled my eyes and feigned an acute case of something or other and fled for my life after he casually asked if I would be interested in marrying him LMHO - seriously this is a TRUE story -
I had stupidly given him my work number and he called every day for about a month - with me telling the receptionist to say I no longer worked there - until finally my boss threatened to take him to court.
Shortly after I saw his photo in the local paper - he wasn't lying....................
But still - that was not the way I was supposed to have great wealth - I think I was supposed to have inherited it actually - from birth ( you know, the easy way )

The next one up is a Condo ( prewar ) listed at 15,900,000
Upper East Side ( moving on up? )
5 bedroom ( 4 plus maid's bedroom Gisele's room ) 4 bath - 1 half bath
5,345 sq. feet
Agent SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY

SO..................are any of you living the life I was supposed to be living?
And if you are - could I be your friend?
Because there's a darling little place in the UPPER WEST SIDE - could you have your Gisele write me a cheque please?

310,000 ( an absolute steal )
Studio ( perfect pied a terre - or student's apartment )
Realtor ROBERT KRAVATH

With a private garden

Ok everyone - I'm off to live the life I happen to be living - which includes more and more packing :)
Have a wonderful Wednesday
Much love,

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A LITTLE DIVERSION?

Good morning everyone -

I needed to take a little break from packing last night - and by some fluke we opened our back door and this little end table was sitting there waiting to be " brushed "

The perfect little " diversion "

I first painted it entirely with Paris Grey but it looked a little boring - so I added a harlequin pattern using this
" diamond " cut out

until it looked like this ( sorry for the ridiculously terrible image - but I'm so tired I can barely type never mind play photographer - of which I'm lousy at, at the best of times :)
anyway you'll get the idea - also I marked x's where I wanted to paint them in to avoid confusion -

random thought - I don't know how I have any followers - really I don't -
I've had no time to reply to anyone
I've had no time to visit anyone
My photos are horrible
and I played with the idea - for 3 minutes - of taking a sabatical from blogging entirely
but really if the truth be known, right now, this little blog of mine is my only link to sanity and I mean my ONLY one..................at this moment in time.  It's that or gone on medication lol
When we listed the house for sell - we did so knowing they don't go fast in this area - 2 of our neighbors have been listed for a year and 2 years respectively - so we figured we may as well list it if we wanted any chance at all of ( possibly, maybe ) selling it by Spring - but as you all know it sold in a week - leaving us 45 days to find a house ( of which it is still not a " done " deal - close - but not " done " yet ) and pack and organize everything that needs to be done )
Ok - random thought over.................

Here's the next step with the table :)

and here it is done

Except I DON'T LIKE IT - NOT ONE BIT LOL - I even sanded it all down and still didn't like it

And because I happened to be packing up the dining room - I had some charger plates just sitting there staring at me

I literally held the charger plate in place and painted all the perimeter in Pure White..................
( and then ran like crazy to wash it off the plate before it dried )

I'm not sure if I like it any better - but it's the teeniest little bit easier on the eye - and maybe it'll look good in my new ( wherever I end up ) all white living room

And then HE walks by......................

John says - Why did you paint an Easter Egg on the table?
OMG -
He's right!!!!!!!!!!
That's exactly what it looks like

And now you know I can't keep it like that, right?
I hope I don't develop an imaginary friend with all of this insanity

Have a wonderful Tuesday everyone -
For now I think I'd better stick with the task on hand and forget about painting furniture for a little bit lol
76 and counting
AND that's just the living room and dining room

Much love,

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