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23602. Jenerator - 2/8/2008 4:11:07 AM That is so exciting, Thoughtful!
I can't wait to see it all. 23603. thoughtful - 2/8/2008 3:53:17 PM Me either!
Thanks, Jen. 23604. thoughtful - 2/8/2008 4:46:11 PM Here's a pic of the stained glass for the door to hubby's study...note Cas inspecting the door.
They is actually a pair of doors and the glass in both is damaged, one worse than the other. The glass is antique and can't be purchased any more so the stained glass restorer will have to cannibalize one to save the other. Then we'll have a new wood door made to set it in. Nice in that it will obscure his study when it's a mess yet be an interesting feature in the foyer. The colors will blend nicely with the stone and wood floor we'll have in the foyer (actually amtico, but it will look like stone and wood). I'll have to be sure to put good lighting behind the door so it can stand out at night.
Mother and her friend were taking one of their trips in Vt where they would do whatever they felt like. They saw an old victorian house being torn down so they asked if they could look around. The guy said sure. They found the doors, fell in love and asked if they could have them...he sold them to her for $10. 23605. thoughtful - 2/8/2008 4:46:39 PM They is...there is...sheesh! 23606. judithathome - 2/8/2008 5:41:50 PM They found the doors, fell in love and asked if they could have them...he sold them to her for $10.
I would say more but I'm trying too hard to regain consciousness after fainting dead away!
I'm sure you realize what a fabulous deal you have there....sigh.
23607. wonkers2 - 2/8/2008 6:21:06 PM Those art glass doors are a nice touch. We broke a leaded glass front door sidelight and were able to talk our homeowner's insurer into replacing both sides with Frank Lloyd Wright-style art glass windows ($3000)by a local artist. We liked them so well that we had him make two for upstairs closet windows in the same style. 23608. thoughtful - 2/8/2008 6:35:32 PM Mom and friend Ginny managed to salvage some fancy moldings in the house too. (I don't know what happened to them...maybe Ginny ended up with them.) The guy told them they could take what they wanted, but they'd have to take the stuff out themselves. So there is mother and her friend Ginny on their hands and knees ripping up molding and one of the workers stops by, looks at them and says, "I knew Joe was having trouble getting help, but this is ridiculous!"
Mind you, this was back in the 1960s. We've stored them ever since. I look forward to making use of them. 23609. Magoseph - 2/8/2008 8:22:44 PM 23610. arkymalarky - 2/9/2008 1:18:22 AM Thoughtful, that is just too cool. 23611. judithathome - 2/9/2008 5:42:54 PM Yesterday Leslie had a colonoscopy...he'd been having bad pain in the gut for a month...and they found five polyps that were very large. One was 5 times larger than the next largest one they removed.
I spoke with his doctor and she said they'd sent the largest one to the lab and might have "to go back in" after they get the results...don't know what she means by that. I mean, she didn't elaborate on why that might be necessary but I'm not worried about it because if it had looked really suspicious, she'd have kept him and had the lab do the tests right then.
We took him home and on the way, he asked that we stop by TacoBell...he got 3 bean burritos and 3 soft tacos. I tried to make him understand that was a bad idea. Haven't heard from him yet today...heh. (He'd had only 2 bowls of chicken noodle soup since Tuesday in an effort to "clean out" before the tests and was starving.) 23612. arkymalarky - 2/9/2008 7:22:01 PM Oooh, what a post-colonoscopy meal. They don't call that kind of food gut-busters for nothing. Let us know how things go with the results.
23613. thoughtful - 2/11/2008 3:51:22 PM Well, we went to our black tie dinner on saturday night and you guys were right. There were a wide variety of outfits that the ladies had on as well as men in regular suits. I was surprised at how plainly dressed some of the people were including the wife of the guy being honored at the dinner. Hubby looked terrific in his tux and his old GI shoes were just fine. The food was good, the music was good though as usual too loud.
As I didn't buy a new dress, I told hubby I'd put the $$ toward the charity who could use it more than I needed the dress.
In addition to the auctions both live and silent they had a 'dipping for diamonds'. You had to try to select the real 1/2 carat diamond from among 400 cubic zirconias. I bought 3 dips. No one managed to nab the real one so they had a drawing and guess who won...ME! So now i have to run down to the jewelers and pick up my diamond. I'll see what the jeweler suggests for setting it. I have an old ugly broach from hubby's grandmother that has 2 diamonds on it in different sizes, so I'm thinking of having a necklace made with a pendant with the graduated diamonds on it. Maybe something like this:
 23614. wonkers2 - 2/11/2008 5:58:55 PM Way to go! 23615. arkymalarky - 2/12/2008 12:23:57 AM Wow, sounds like you had a great evening all around! 23616. judithathome - 2/12/2008 12:24:27 AM Wow...that beats the hell out of us winning $50 on the Super Bowl! 23617. thoughtful - 2/12/2008 3:51:02 PM I was talking to a buddy of mine who was also there and he thinks the dipping business was a scam. Most likely it was. He said the jeweler went to 'dip' for his wife and accidentally spilled a bunch on the floor. He wasn't the least bit concerned and they even had to point out that he'd missed a few in picking them up. Now the jeweler claimed he could only tell the difference with the loop and he made a great show of examining each one after they were selected to see if it was real or not, but the more I thought about it, I realized there was no jeweler in his right mind who was going to spend the time to sort through 400 diamonds to find the real one. And there's no jeweler in his right mind who'd risk making an error giving away the real one thinking it was cz when it wasn't only to be out a diamond afterward. It was meant to be a drawing all along, I'm sure.
Regardless, it turned out ok for me. 23618. wonkers2 - 2/12/2008 10:51:39 PM Are you sure it's really a diamond? I don't doubt that is, but after the other questions you raise??? 23619. thoughtful - 2/12/2008 11:45:56 PM Well, I'm picking it up on thurs. from the jewelers and have decided to take it to another jeweler to do the setting. He can tell me if it's real or not.
I thought of the same thing considering the jeweler now has 400 1/2 carat cz's to get rid of!
And of course the value of the diamond can vary a lot depending on the 4 c's. It could be badly occluded or poorly cut, so who knows?
23620. judithathome - 2/14/2008 3:50:19 PM Still, you can't beat the price!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, everyone!
It's also our 27th wedding anniversay and true to form, Keoni got me nothing. But that's fine because just having HIM is enough for me. ;-) 23621. Magoseph - 2/14/2008 5:28:04 PM Well, I think that just like two years ago, he will surprise you later in the day!
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