According to my book “Decorating is Fun” by Dorothy Draper, published in 1939, there are many things you need to be really happy in bed:
1. A good reading lamp – perhaps a gooseneck with a high-powered bulb,
perhaps one of those little spotlights that fall right on your book.
2. An adequate end table (one at each side of the bed if possible).
3. A small radio on the table.
4. A bedside clock, perhaps with a luminous dial.
5. A thermos for ice water or hot cocoa.
6. A jar of cookies or fruit for night nibblers.
7. An outlet for an electric pad when you need one.
8. A bedside telephone and a complete list of telephone numbers.
9. A small book, or magazine rack, for night reading.
10. An ashtray and cigarette box.
11. Just the pillows you find most comfortable.
(Perhaps one hard and one soft and one baby pillow.)
12. A good supply of blankets of all weights.
13. A comfortable, pretty breakfast tray and china, for breakfast in bed or for use when you’re ill.

Doesn’t this sound luxurious?
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Some friends from out of town visited last weekend and I got to go do
all the touristy things that I never seem to do while actually living here,
like going to the aquarium and the Hancock building. Here are a couple
views from downtown as the sun was setting.

This song came to mind although it’s about dawn in San Francisco,
not dusk in Chicago.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the studio lately, and have some new things
to show for it. This simple necklace will be listed this week in the shop.

Went thrift shopping yesterday and found this little gem of a book.
Bad Hair by James Innes-Smith and Henrietta Webb. Filled with
“follicular atrocities”, this is one for the permanent collection.

Also got a chance to cut a pendant from the shape in the photo below.
It will be listed in my shop soon.

Working on ideas for more pendants. Collecting shapes such as
these cement blocks. Also thinking about making the bail as part
of the shape, instead of drilling a hole and using a jump ring.

Got my necklace today from elliina, a great etsy shop out of Finland.

Trying out a new shirt pattern. I had just barely enough fabric
to make a sleeveless version of view C.

Here is the fabric. I love it so much, I made a palette from the colors.

Trying out a new jacket pattern. Isn’t the mp3 pocket cool?

I think I’ll go for view B first. Here are the fabrics. I’m making a women’s version in the dark burgundy, a men’s version in the gray, and if those go well, I might also need a hoodie out of the silver rip-stop nylon.

gardenapartment.org is finally live. This forum is off to a great start, with random and hilarious comments being added each day. It was created in collaboration with digabledesigns, under the guise of “middleman”.

Laverne and Shirley lived in a garden apartment. Here is a classic episode titled
“Two of Our Favorite Weirdos are Missing”, in which Lenny and Squiggy
run away with the circus.