Author: Pam Goode

A Very Fine Faucet

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Steam Valve Trio

Since she doesn’t have the option of hiding in the pantry on bad hair days, the Perfect Kitchen Faucet is decorative as well as functional. I’ve been looking for the impossible, naturally — a European antique-style one-holer with a pull-down spray. While this one doesn’t fit my image of “antique,” it’s retro enough to look old and certainly un-American. Made in England by Steam Valve Original, it features a Very Cool Spray, in my opinion. If you go to the site, you can see a little video of some lettuce spraying. Continue reading →

Tibetan Mosaic

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Tibetan Mandala

Tibetan monks will create a sand mandala like the one above in Atlanta beginning Tuesday, October 16 until destruction on the 23rd. Whereas most mosaics may use several hundred carefully cut pieces, the 5′ x 5′ sand mandalas use millions of grains of colored sand. The good news is that the grains don’t need individual gluing. The bad news is that this exacting work is back-breaking, and takes three to five days to complete. And, you know, you can’t hang it in a gallery. The event is free and open to the public, and more information is available here. His Holiness will speak free to the public on Monday, October 22 at Centennial Park.

Sex in the Fifties

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50’s Glasses

Hickies and Hot Flashes, Oh My! My thoughts for today, simply by clicking on the link in the column to the right.

French/Swedish Kitchen, Yes!

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Corner CabinetThis morning we finally wrestled the last upper cabinet off the right end of the wall and hoisted up the gorgeous cabinet we found last weekend at the local flea market. It’s 6′-6-1/2″ tall, with 24″ sides, and we got it at a hefty discount on closing day. I had seen it a couple of days earlier and squelched my impulse to buy it immediately because, you know, Continue reading →

Kitchen Obsessed

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Green GoddessBusy, busy, busy day, but I know everyone wants to see my eagerly-awaited Green Goddess, now scheduled to arrive right off the boat from France the week of November 26. Will she be here in time for the Thanksgiving Feast? And what will she cook???? 🙂

Today I met with Karen, my Kitchen Guru, and finalized all the fun details for the cabinet order (which gets smaller with each successive meeting as the cost of each cabinet continues to rise). But hey, they’ll be beautiful, won’t they? We’ve been meeting for about six weeks now during “slow season,” but today the place was positively redundant with kitchen sluts slewn across every stool and horizontal surface, Continue reading →

Mosaic Passion

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My Mother SuppliesThe best news I have lately is that I’ve begun working on my current mosaic in earnest. I tend to be a slow starter in so many things, but I’m working with thinset for this one, and a “wrong” tile is so much harder to pry loose, so, in my world, this involves many, many hours of staring while the art muses arrange things in my head with absolutely no help from me, Continue reading →

Does the World Need Another Blogger?

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It’s a sad, sad day here in Whoville for those of us (me) who’ve just finished reading Julie Powell’s Julie & Julia, a remarkable book based solely on the unlikely topics of 1) a so-so cook blogging her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as she attempts each of the 524 recipes within the span of 365 days, and 2) a so-so college-educated secretary temp who blogs her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as she attempts each of 524 recipes within the span of 365 days and gets a book deal out of it. Continue reading →