very pretty.. I love the blue glass, and the lounger.

Charming. Mr. Cracker likes it too.

I used to have a cabinet/nightstand like the one in the pic. I lent it to a church for a Christmas play and haven't seen it since. Guess they liked it too much.

Good stuff...good pic.

Hal

Gee, I don't think I could have overlooked their not returning it, Hal. I might have had to enter that sanctuary brandishing a bat.

So would I, Donnah. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" is something a church especially ought to heed.
Lounger looks comfy.

Mr. Cracker sometimes disturbs my tableau by piling things there. That rips holes in the fabric of the universe and sets Jehovah on his throne off on a big crying jag.

There's two highly effective ways to handle a man that does stuff like that: keep yourself out of the kitchen or keep him out of the bedroom. lol
Of course, a well-trained man rarely needs those kind of reminders.

Horizontal surfaces were designed.....dare I say....ordained by their maker to be repositories for 'stuff'. And it's not just a gravity thing. It isn't as if we're just holding something....let it fall...and it lands on a horizontal surface. We don't just drop stuff on these surfaces, we PLACE things there purposefully. We have stuff, we need to put it somewhere (even if it's 'just for now'), so we put it down. You see, the Y chromosome controls the part of the brain that effectively controls reason, logic, and accountability.

REASON
This goes to the very core of what makes men and women different. Men are simple creatures. Things make sense to us. Where a woman will clean the house because the housekeeper is coming, a man thinks that the housekeeper should clean the house. When a man is laying on his back staring at the ceiling, and you ask him what he's thinking about...... 99 times out of 100 he's thinking about the ceiling, because that's what he's looking at. Simple. Obviously he can't tell you that, so he scrambles for something warm and fuzzy to say because that's what you need to hear at that moment..... but trust me, he was thinking about that crack in the paint, or some new cobweb, or the funny shadow that one of the fan blades makes.

LOGIC
Women, on the other hand, see the same things that men see..... and process the information differently. That empty horizontal surface over there...... it's perfect. It's clean and void of obstruction. Leave it that way. Put your stuff 'away' (whatever that means). And you don't need another car, it will just fill the driveway up. And how many shotguns can you shoot at once? Why would you need another? With women, it's about 'need'. We left that space open. We need it to remain that way. With men, it's about 'want'. We want to put this crap down. There's a spot. We'll put it there.

ACCOUNTABILITY
And don't get me started on door knobs, shower curtain rods, chair backs, etc. The double standard regarding where hangers get hung is simply over the top. Anyone want to talk toilet seats......and why we all can't just look before we sit? You wind up in the water and it's our fault? Please.

And you wonder how I've managed to remain unmarried.........

My nightstand has a matched Fenton set..lamp, bell, basket, bla bla bla..as does every surface in our house..and nestled in the midst of all that glass is
my book, my pistol, my other goodies..yada yada.

We took a very similar mirror and hung it on the wall...Then I made a very nice guitar stand out of the frame..

My wife noticed this picture last night..and HAR HAR.. It caught her attention..

I could be looking at the Lingerie Bowl player's
and she wouldn't notice..but lace and blue
vases..uh oh !!

Beautiful Donnah.....wish my house was clean enough to show pictures on the net!

LMAO@Mike. That was awesome! Let me tell you sometime about the hideous afternoon where I asked him for help hanging curtains and he brought out the level!!!!!!! The psychic pain I experienced that day still echoes.

Owen- those lingerie girls are an distant product marketed by some man. But lace and blue vases...spoor. ;)

Mr. Cracker can borrow my laser level any time....