Rooms of an Eccentric
May. 9th, 2010 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aimeekitty
We've been working on getting the house more together, so I thought I'd show you some progress.
OOO EXCITING! This is my laundry room!
This room seemed like a particularly appropriate place to put a fake soap bar.
I can't tell you what this is from because the first rule is that you can't talk about it. (haha... in college some of my fellow students held an event a few times... this was one of the props from it. I always smile seeing this fake soap bar. )
Here's the clothing-drying-octopus from Swimmer. The first time I saw one of these was the first time I visited Tokyo and Heather had one in her tiny apartment.
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Here's showing from the front door looking into the living room to show you where we put some new pictures up.
new pics! From left,... Mitch and I at the beach at sunset when we were engaged, top-middle: Crystal's wedding, top-right: sakura petals on the street in Tokyo, bottom-left: signed card from David Tennant, bottom-middle: Mitch, middle-right: How OOD glow-in-the-dark cross-stitch (from etsy), bottom right: Old Sheldon Church ruins in South Carolina
Living Room. We put up a wreath and I got another lucky bamboo to slowly murder. Yes, Edward is still here. What can I say, it makes me laugh.
Here's the wall facing the living room with some new pictures, too.
The set on the left is all cosplay photos, whatever ones I had around that were relatively highres. On the right, prom-dress photos with friends, AJ and Judy at Kiyomizudera, Tokyo Tower, Buckingham Palace.
KITCHEN!
While cleaning I found some cute curios. The totoro figure is from my last trip to Japan. They had a sequence of them, each was a different frame of the animated scene... but sculpted. (like those sculpted zoetropes!) But I only got one of them, trying to save money. But still, I love it. Crisso has one of the others of the sequence. This is one of my favorite scenes from Totoro (when they try to make the flowers grow),... and I like it being in the kitchen where you can look out at the garden.
Super Dollfie-sized parfait and egyptian glass perfume bottles
Solar knodding something-or-other
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DINING ROOM!
This is the secretary which you see as you come in through the front door. It's right under the staircase and facing the dining room. We added some pictures here. The folded cranes were made by Derek for us when we got married. The photo next to it is from our engagement. The straw vase and fake-sakura branches are new, too. (Thanks TARGET!)
In the dining room proper, we moved some furniture around a little and put up pictures.
Girly display in the china cabinet. (I found my Ouran High-school Host Club teacup, BTW.) Pocahontas sericel (Mitch's)
Usagi, my VOLKS Super Dollfie Kurumi
Buffet, Lion King sericel (Mitch's)
my parents, Mitch and I, and my friends. My grandfather's old wind-up travel clock.
Hina Matsuri (working) lanterns. The obi is a maru obi that was used for a table runner in my mother's parents house for YEARS. It's well-worn, but I love it more for that fact. I have no idea when/where they got it. The black book there is my cel book... I really want to get some cels framed this year.
My grandfather's bookcase... he had a whole library of these. You can also see Mitch and my only remaining Gargoyles cels. The Goliath/Demona one is mine and the Goliath/Elisa one is Mitch's. We had them before we started dating, actually.
what's in the bookcase
the Thai dancer is from my mother's parents' trip to Thailand. They'd bring the girls back a doll each time they went to a different country. I don't know what happened to the other dolls they brought back, but I still have this one. The tiny teaset, I think was a gift from Char. The leather awesome books are all Mitch's.
The beaded thing there is a Super Dollfie headdress. <3 The ducks were a wedding gift.
We also added some pictures going up the staircase and upstairs.
The Two Towers poster was signed to me by Richard Taylor from WETA. The Beauty and the Beast poster was signed to me by Glen Keane and James Baxter.
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Date: 2010-05-09 08:20 pm (UTC)Re: Puss!
Date: 2010-05-11 03:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-09 08:45 pm (UTC)I love the way you have the cels up.
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:10 pm (UTC)We left two walls for the cels I hope to get framed this year... we've only had them not framed for like.... EVER. Since college I think. haha. lame. oh well.
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Date: 2010-05-11 07:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-11 08:29 pm (UTC)but with signed posters, I guess I don't care as much, I just get cheap frames from ikea. At least then they're kept flat... posters when rolled and stored tend to get bent or torn after a while of being moved, etc.
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Date: 2010-05-11 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:12 pm (UTC)and then it would be like "DID YOU SEE WHAT SHE HAD IN HER CLOSET?!"
or the kid wouldn't talk about it cause he thought it was magic or something.
+50 house points
one of our closets is really long. I wanted to get my friend to build a harry potter bed in the back of it. But... for now, they're the perfect spot for our comic book collection, so... that'll have to wait.
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:17 pm (UTC)too much geeky stuff and, to me... it can feel a little overwhelming and cluttered. Just like too much of anything, like too many Hummels. :D
Also... to some degree, I think it's more fun for SOME of the geeky things to be a slight surprise. Like, you don't realize it's extremely geeky until you study it.
and they're all items that I really love so.
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Date: 2010-05-10 02:39 am (UTC)Yours? Just... Nice. Like a for reals home that is inhabited by loving geeks.
Very slick!
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:20 pm (UTC)I've seen some great houses that have displays of geek, or geek corners,... but they work it into their whole decor, like the room has a retro colorful feel, so the toys look great, right?
But I really like british colonial travel style... and I love to travel. So I wanted the base style to be more like that, and work my geeky beloved items into that.
I'd like to gradually get more of our travel stuff up to increase the Brit Col. travel style. :)
I need a few more weird ancient travel devices. O_O....
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Date: 2010-05-10 05:27 am (UTC)I've been searching high and low on the internet for a Totoro garden gnome. No such luck, yet. May have to sculpt one myself! hee hee hee!
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:09 pm (UTC)OH MAN, if you find a Totoro garden gnome, you gotta let me know. though, you're right, it probably wouldnt be that hard to sculpt. then you could cast it in cement or something.
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Date: 2010-05-11 05:12 pm (UTC)P.S. I might have said so before, but you have such a stunning dining room set! I'm so indecisive over my own furniture... ::sigh!:: I have a cute vintage set, but I troll Craigslist and find other sets that I fall in love with. LOL
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Date: 2010-05-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-10 04:53 pm (UTC)I love how everything in your house flows. Thanks for posting the photos! It's interesting to see how you've decorated. I really like your style.
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Date: 2010-05-10 05:19 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Wernicke
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:06 pm (UTC)Eventually, I realized that most people think it's kinda cool that you can make things, and as long as you're lowkey and fun about it, most people dont have a problem with it.
And if they do, then whatever man. :)
but I work with a lot of artists, so they're more tolerant about weird hobbies, because they all have weird hobbies, too.
so yeah, my geek is out in the open now. It's too much work to separate all my hobbies and hide them.
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Date: 2010-05-10 07:34 pm (UTC)And hey, I got ducks like that as a wedding present, too! I think it's a Korean thing?
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:07 pm (UTC)We're not done with it yet, but... it's going to be a couple months probably at LEAST until I can show you guys some more significant progress, and we worked so hard to get it to this point, so I figured I'd show you guys. NEEDS MORE CELS FRAMED. But soooo expensiveeeeee. Maybe I can pool my christmas money or something.
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:37 pm (UTC)of dorks that lives a dream life as an animator.
Where's the posters? where's the artwork?
A couple of cels here and there doesn't cut it!
Lame.
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Date: 2010-05-11 03:02 pm (UTC)(b) We have posters all the way up our stairwell, we have cosplay photos up in our living room, our dining room has all the cels that we own framed. Unfortunately it's expensive to get cels (and animation artwork) properly framed. So, like I said, I'd like to get more framed this year. All our bookcases are filled with the few animation toys and statues that we really really like. My china cabinet has teacups from my favorite anime. but it also has china from my grandmother and keepsakes from my family. I don't determine something's place in my house based on how GEEKY it is. Just based on how much I love the item.
But I really don't need to justify myself to anyone, especially someone who's too chicken to use their name. I like how my place looks.
This is my house and I decorate it in a way that makes myself and my husband feel good. It's not a shrine to geekiness. I like working my geekiness in in a way that is still peaceful to me and not too cluttered. I don't need or want a wall of Gundam figures in my living room.