tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post8481014762608670138..comments2023-09-01T04:29:11.256-04:00Comments on Suburban Soliloquy: Friday Night Frolic — The Metamorphosis (To Come)Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-4152238252858840122012-04-05T18:03:08.113-04:002012-04-05T18:03:08.113-04:00I just discovered that your comment got thrown int...I just discovered that your comment got thrown into spam! Sorry about that Eco-published it just now. I remember decorating the room I shared with my sisters, and my parents definitely got a kick out of it. I think I'll enjoy watching Lu put her energy and creativity to good use. But I'll still miss the toile. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-26270524407064697992012-04-05T17:59:53.303-04:002012-04-05T17:59:53.303-04:00Love that movie, Billy. I could play MV all day. :...Love that movie, Billy. I could play MV all day. :)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-37082946105226430282012-04-04T14:57:30.215-04:002012-04-04T14:57:30.215-04:00Oh, JES, if only Freud could drop by...
The chips...Oh, JES, if only Freud could drop by...<br /><br />The chips were, as I remember, each about a square foot of wallpaper. Bold wallpaper. But before the paper went up my father divided the room in half w/a wall on one side that served as a bookcase and then a single bed built in adjacent to the wall. The oldest got that single. On the other side, Dad built in bunk beds and an L-shaped desk along the wall w/cabinets above. My two younger brothers shared that space. It was the baddest bedroom on the block. I was jealous. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-9373947917415129492012-04-03T09:58:27.263-04:002012-04-03T09:58:27.263-04:00I don't know if it was hunger, but I'm sur...I don't know if it was hunger, but I'm sure I was repressing <em>something</em>. And/Or in need of stimulation, but We Won't Go There. :)<br /><br />Loved loved loved the idea of a wall of paint chips. That wall must have positively bristled over time!JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-87723153479111465362012-04-03T07:49:48.580-04:002012-04-03T07:49:48.580-04:00B- One never knows! Let me tell ya, though, she...B- One never knows! Let me tell ya, though, she's quite the chameleon. ;)<br /><br />Oh, can't wait to get the brushes out. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-55286991806608595872012-04-03T07:48:45.968-04:002012-04-03T07:48:45.968-04:00"Imagination ran riot." I've no doub..."Imagination ran riot." I've no doubt (and I'll bet from that young age you've been stockpiling those stories). I had to look up silverfish: fishmoth, carpet shark or parasite. A damn insect, not a fish at all! And a creepy looking insect, at that. What lively ceilings you had in that house.<br /><br />Love that story about your old room. Blue. I've been reading up about the psychology of color. Blue, an ocean blue or light blue is supposed to sooth, and also, calm food cravings as we don't often find blue naturally in food. But a <em>sort of</em> royal blue--I wonder if you slept better, hunger repressed for the night in your walls of blue?? We once painted the basement blue--a deep blue--and the walls seemed to encouraged the kids to bounce off of them. Deep blue stimulates, I read later. We quickly painted over with a lighter, slate blue. Much more soothing down there, now. <br /><br />My parents were fairly liberal with letting us do what we desired with our rooms. When the boys had their room done over my father brought home four different sample books of wallpaper. The boys (three of them) couldn't decide-they liked everything. Or maybe couldn't agree on one thing! So, my father bought all the sample books from the shopkeeper and pasted the colorful squares on the boys' bedroom wall. The effect: a melange of cartoon characters (like Mighty Mouse, Superman and Daffy Duck) and geometric designs. It was quite a creation. <br /><br />We'll be painting Lu's room and will definitely not use oil! I've done that once before--learned the hard way, too. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-1890233591767548952012-04-02T18:06:42.621-04:002012-04-02T18:06:42.621-04:00I highly doubt she'll be turning into a giant ...I highly doubt she'll be turning into a giant cockroach. But I've been wrong about these things before.<br /><br />Good luck with the redecorating;)A Beer for the Showerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17029139745335325356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-46065446605246779922012-04-02T17:15:30.841-04:002012-04-02T17:15:30.841-04:00PS: And I too love sunflowers. That wallpaper, h...PS: And I too love sunflowers. That wallpaper, however, was far from what I am sure we both love about them!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-84563426384417919412012-04-02T13:04:48.338-04:002012-04-02T13:04:48.338-04:00Since I never had kids, I'm forced to think ba...Since I never had kids, I'm forced to think back to the walls of my own childhood rooms... never had wallpaper, just simple paint. The ceilings, for me, had a particular fascination. In the room my brother and I shared upstairs, the nailpops (marking where the sheet rock had been nailed to the rafters) haunted my nights. Imagination ran riot. I was sure they were <em>moving</em>, and were probably silverfish ready to drop on my sleeping face (or into my sleeping ears, if on my side). I loathed silverfish. Amazing that I ever slept at all.<br /><br />(The ceiling in our parents' room had a sort of scalloped pattern; if you tried to fall asleep in that room, the swirls resolved themselves into the faces of howling ghouls.)<br /><br />When we moved downstairs, to the back room, we told Mom & Dad we wanted to paint the walls per our own taste. They sort of looked back and forth at each other, the way parents do, but agreed. The idea was that we would paint the ceiling flat white, but the walls would be this sort of deep royal blue -- about midway between the two shades shown on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_blue" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia "royal blue" page</a>. And we were also going to paint on one wall a diagonal line, in bright, bright red -- we thought it would vibrate against the blue, and (who knows?) make intruders dizzy.<br /><br />But there was a problem: the only paint we could find then in the right shade of blue was <em>oil-based</em>, not latex. It took the walls 3 days to dry, by which time we were too impatient to paint the red stripe.<br /><br />Whatever decor scheme finally Lu goes with, don't let her involve oil-based paint.JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-23946471202788117452012-04-01T22:31:14.491-04:002012-04-01T22:31:14.491-04:00Marylinn- Ack. I don't want the transformation...Marylinn- Ack. I don't want the transformation! And a giant step scares the Dickens out of me. I'm taking deep, slow breaths. It's going to be all right (repeating this several times). I will listen, yes. All right. ;)<br /><br />Whimsical forest music will be queued for the first brush stroke!Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-7428484854947497492012-04-01T22:27:45.863-04:002012-04-01T22:27:45.863-04:00Friko- I will never, ever put up wallpaper again. ...Friko- I will never, ever put up wallpaper again. That girl is going to look at a color wheel and that's it! Come to think of it, I think I'm going to buy her her own paintbrush. I think it's time for her to do some work around here.<br /><br />Battle? Oh, no. No battles here. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-89781222409108463242012-04-01T22:25:05.972-04:002012-04-01T22:25:05.972-04:00Joanna- don't make me cry. There will be no cr...Joanna- don't make me cry. There will be no crying. It's a beautiful room and I'm showing this comment to my daughter. Forget it, she can't redo her room. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-52149540253965689522012-04-01T22:23:59.422-04:002012-04-01T22:23:59.422-04:00That's a great idea, Nessa. I actually still h...That's a great idea, Nessa. I actually still have a partial roll of the toile wallpaper. It was so damn expensive there was no way I was going to throw it out! And thirteen years is not nearly a wallpaper's useful life, so I am taking down and tossing out a not fully amortized paper investment... and well, I'd better stop there--I'm feeling my bp going up.<br /><br />Ugh, yeah, I'll just frame a 12' x 14' piece of the paper. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-17591056670221258762012-04-01T22:19:27.271-04:002012-04-01T22:19:27.271-04:00Ha!, Kono- that girl is already a giant pest! But ...Ha!, Kono- that girl is already a giant pest! But at least her shell hasn't hardened. Yeah, she's a lovable pest. I still get misty-eyed. Every day, total mist. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-56630767507010116222012-04-01T22:17:16.513-04:002012-04-01T22:17:16.513-04:00And how! Such a sweet story about your daughter in...And how! Such a sweet story about your daughter in NY. My girl is pretty affectionate and she's not afraid to demonstrate that in front of her friends, so I have no reason to believe that will change, but, you never know. One of the things I like about her school is that the kids, for the most part, are very supportive of each other, and they're all huggers. I see that even with the older ones. Keeping my fingers crossed. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-69184360844606676062012-04-01T22:13:57.469-04:002012-04-01T22:13:57.469-04:00Ha! Well, I suppose I owe it to you, Susan, to see...Ha! Well, I suppose I owe it to you, Susan, to see the end result. When I finished my son's room--and that was a bear--chalkboard/magnetic paint wall, custom made (by me!) padded, fabric headboard, window treatments, etc. (sheesh--I ought to post a swatch of that!)--I had the whole world come in to take a look at it. That was before blogging and Facebook, so the virtual world was spared. (I still endeavor to spare them.) <br /><br />I'm curious, too--she's still formulating the plan. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-20085329163768192052012-04-01T22:08:35.176-04:002012-04-01T22:08:35.176-04:00Elizabeth, I've wondered whether the younger g...Elizabeth, I've wondered whether the younger generation have read Potter's tales, and I'm so encouraged to hear that you're a Potter fan! I have not read Wittig Albert, but she can also be found over at openlibrary.org (link is in my response to Leonora), so I'm going to have to investigate...<br />I'll bet my daughter would be interested in books about Potter. Heck, this might be JUST the thing to get her to change her mind about the makeover! ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-8733034759782491342012-04-01T22:01:55.333-04:002012-04-01T22:01:55.333-04:00Oh, Leonora, I feel the same way: she'd better...Oh, Leonora, I feel the same way: she'd better love this renovation for a long, long time. I don't mind the work so much, but I don't like to renovate a room that is already so pretty. But I do understand her desire to have her own space reflect her present taste. Her taste cannot change, though!<br /><br />Hunca Munca. Potter knew how to write a story. Jemima's tale can be read at <br /><a href="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7145440M/The_tale_of_Jemima_Puddle-Duck" rel="nofollow">archive.com</a> via Open Library, for free, along with other Potter books. It's just like having the real thing in your hand!Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-21475401974991032312012-04-01T13:41:30.682-04:002012-04-01T13:41:30.682-04:00Whimsical forest music - I think you're playin...Whimsical forest music - I think you're playing my songs.<br /><br />What joy to have named the creatures, Pigling Bland always a favorite. I, too, hope you can share some of the transformation. It is a giant step for her. How fortunate to have a mother who listens. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-49216312016236259802012-04-01T13:17:06.863-04:002012-04-01T13:17:06.863-04:00Is the thirteen year going to get a say in the cho...Is the thirteen year going to get a say in the choice of wallpaper? I hope so. <br />On the other hand, you might have a bit of a battle coming.<br /><br />I like the idea of framing a piece of the old wallpaper. or perhaps a photo of the room as it was?Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-85277473280691715742012-03-31T23:21:26.487-04:002012-03-31T23:21:26.487-04:00What a beautiful room-- and bed!
Happy redecorat...What a beautiful room-- and bed! <br />Happy redecorating... I hope you and your daughter have fun together doing it.<br /><br />jjJoanna Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10836376588710862173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-7137957944850716422012-03-31T22:41:04.450-04:002012-03-31T22:41:04.450-04:00I've got a friend who re-vamped her kid's ...I've got a friend who re-vamped her kid's room. Just for memory's sake, she framed a square of the old wallpaper and it hangs in the "new room" now. I thought it was a pretty neat idea.Nessa Lockehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10793613496258240147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-30217921224685972392012-03-31T20:45:27.127-04:002012-03-31T20:45:27.127-04:00Every time i look at baby pictures of the boyos i ...Every time i look at baby pictures of the boyos i get misty-eyed, me, the big derelict who ran the streets for years, but when i see how they grow and change i'm amazed and sad at the same time, teenage girl, i wish you luck Ms. Jayne, i'm leaning towards the Kafka only cuz i'm a big fan of Franz.Konohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13865029570865495659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-62844671602056535222012-03-31T19:21:05.488-04:002012-03-31T19:21:05.488-04:00i'm still enjoying madison violet.
happy birt...i'm still enjoying madison violet.<br /><br />happy birthday lulu! makes me think of "to sir with love"billy pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128876723713271131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-67189796297280660822012-03-31T18:23:22.939-04:002012-03-31T18:23:22.939-04:00Try as we might to stop it, *sigh*, they do grow u...Try as we might to stop it, *sigh*, they do grow up. But, if you are lucky, as I am, their love continues to grow and they are not embarassed to show affection. Just today, I was walking along the streets of NY and my youngest daughter spotted me threw her harms out, ran and jumped into my arms. Pure bliss.....William Dameronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10129769129251689759noreply@blogger.com