January 29

Did a little photo shoot last night, just fooling around with the new strings of pearls I bought yesterday and all the mandarins from China Town.  I got all vamped up and had some fun.  Put on a mish mash of things, black velvet fingerless gloves, white lace bustier.

Went a little crazy in the wig department pinning a couple of wigs together to make a stacked mass of curls.

Got a little sexy, and really enjoyed flirting with the camera a bit.
 

And of course, the mandarins were good.

That was nothing though compared to the joy I had today.  I never knew I could love a piece of furniture so much, we were shopping in Chinatown today again, and we were in a little store that sells antique furniture in the back of the store, I was buying some of the paper they sell at new years with the metal foil on them, thinking they would be nice to patch my shoji screens with, mixing cultures I know, but hey.  We browsed the furniture at the back, and discovered they had certain pieces on 50% off.  It was an amazing deal, still, money is so tight, that were selling a couple of other pieces of furniture it will be replacing, and will have to do without any luxuries for a few weeks, cheap meals, and no diet cola for me, but it's well worth it.  I love it, love it, love it.  It's a 150 years old, and from the Northern Part of China, and the wood is so... succulent.  It's just rough, and heavy, and solid, and it's sat in the store long enough, or maybe from it's prior homes, that when you smell the wood, it smells like incense.  It's just yummy.  I love it!

It's huge too, which is nice, because we're using it for storage, as our place has no closets, being an open design loft.  It's over 4 feet wide, and about 2 feet deep, and just over 6 feet high.  It really fits our space with the 16 foot ceilings, it has a good solid weight to it that matches well.  Of course it doesn't hurt that it's going into a space already filled with Asian accents.

There was another one identical but literally half the size, and I wish we could have afforded it as well, and I would have stacked it's little brother on top of it, because of the super high ceilings we could have gotten away with it, and then stored things we don't really need to access often up in the little brother (also 50% off).  Maybe in a month or so, if it's still there, and I can figure out something else to sell... who knows!

They also had ones that had a red/paint stain, wedding cabinets, for the traditional colour red for Chinese weddings, which we also really loved, but they were not on sale, and just too rich for our blood.  Considering the amount of red in the loft anyways (half the walls), it was probably just as well, the natural wood has it's own subtle tones that are just as lovely.

You'll be seeing it again, I already have plans to one photo shoot empty it out, lift out the removable shelves inside, and shoot me, or some other lucky body/ies inside, It's big enough for one big girl, or two small, with ease.

One of these days, I swear, I'll get around to a photo tour of the loft, promise, I just need a maid/houseboy in -first-.

XO
Leila

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