Sunday, May 10, 2009

Caviar and Sconces



For our MDay lunch, my kids and I shopped at the local gourmet grocery, buying whatever we wanted: beef and salmon jerky, mango salsa, fava beans in olive oil, Humboldt Fog cheese, proscuitto and melon, Indian salmon, truffle pate, and multiple desserts. But the biggest splurge was a jar of caviar. My foodie thought he might like it, and now I’ve created a monster…
After a long lunch outside I worked on these crazy brass sconces. Everyone said, correctly, they were too much trouble to clean up. But when I went to the antiques shop to find replacements (as you can’t just plug up a live hole in the wall), I found they are worth several hundred dollars a pair! One of my sconces (not pictured) is fully cleaned, and it looks like plastic, so I’m going to leave the others shabby chic-ish. That’s what you get when you’re working on a house with a history, and it’s fun!
Hope you had a good Mama's Day too.

2 comments:

Ilaria/Swimturtle said...

I hate it when you clean something and it looks like plastic! You may have to distress it on purpose. Oh, the irony!
You're doing a great job so far, but I would love to see pictures of the whole house! Big hugs!

kloeamongtheturks said...

Well, whole house ain't too pretty yet... Back is now jackhammered up a bit, plumbing is now out, phone line out...
Progress!