I'm so, so sorry I haven't been posting. I could show you pictures of pretty things over at any number of blogs, say Love Made Visible. I could tell you how much I admire how people are helping each other with their 8-week cures over at Apartment Therapy. But the fact of the matter is that I'm completely badly depressingly insurmountably stuck. Here you see my living room back to looking like a furniture showroom.

Yes, work is busy because we're relaunching the site in a few weeks. But this is a recurring psychic problem and I'm not sure how to get past the hump. Any advice is welcome. Seriously.

My friend Lisa whom I stayed with in London had these curtains made with fabric she got from the Designers Guild in London. (She copied them from her sister Nina, but that's their issue.) Either way, I think they're just so cheerful and graphic and they look perfect in her neutral room. Lisa, who's the designer on the fabric, I forget?

Close up and more about why this matters after the jump.

Did I forget to mention that I'm in England and now off to Ireland this week so I won't be blogging. Or it'll be spotty anyway? Here's a photo of a regatta race I saw on the Thames the other day. I do have some photos of my friend's curtains to show you, but I've forgotten my camera cord, so I can't upload them.

Back in a flash. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi. I'm not decorating much these days. Can you tell? I feel really guilty about it, but we're redesigning the website to be bigger and better and I've been working fourteen hour days. Okay, that's my it-happens post. I will get back on it again, especially snce I'll be in London and Ireland next week so I'm sure to see all kinds of great stuff.

In the meantime, see this bedframe--it's actually an iron headboard and footboard that I found on the street about eight years ago. I've had it leaned up against the wall behind my bed for that long. Everytime I get in bed, bang. Can you see how that'd be annoying?

I want to connect the frame to a regular bedframe. Think that's possible?

...They always have. I think it's because I have an overbite when I smile--you'd never know from this grim, doesn't-really-look-like-me mug shot. I guess it's better than "apey", which my sister called me because I was apparently overly hairy as a child.

So, bunny. It's not a bad name. And it explains my attraction to art work like this "Celestial Cheesiness" from Binth. Too bad this one below called "Decline of the Lawn" is sold... found via designklub.

Holly at decor8 has found me something else to love. Look at these great hanging lamps designed by Rasmus Frankel for the Danish company UdeDaDa. You can bend the shades any way you like to cast your own personal shadow. What do you think?

Should I buy this Le Klint PVC pendant lamp for my hallway? I think I can get it for a song. Plus, look how cool this lady looks making it.

This is my mom's old trunk. It's kind of beaten up. Should I keep it? Ma?

ADDENDUM

kroxas has asked if there are any stories associated with this trunk. You want a story? How's this: I brought this trunk with me to college stuffed with enough kilts and cable knit sweaters to last three winters. This was before my New York college days when I started wearing cheap black clothes from Reminiscence and huge men's tweed overcoats from Canal Jeans. Anyway, at least once I got a little tipsy and slept in this trunk.

I just found this post on design*sponge about someone who is taking Karl Blossfeldt's photos of plants from the 1920's and 1930's and turning them into these gorgeous images called Blossfeldt Fractals. Apparently you may be able to get high-quality posters of these images. But I can't quite figure out exactly what he or she is up to...

They're pretty and spooky, aren't they? I wonder if one would work as a stencil for my bedroom wall.

I know I keep avoiding the big things like buying a sofa, but I have to figure out how to pay for these  things. I keep distracting myself by stuff I can afford--like art. Look at these pretty photos by my friend David Mimran. I think they're amazing. I've hung a few in my office, but I think I need some for home--should I make him give me a few? The one above is taken is part of a series called "Verrazano."

This is an image manipulated from a '70s blue film. It's part of a series called "Digital Slydes."

"Tribeca Slides 2" from a series of photos taken through slides (I think).

Be sure to check out his site arth.net to see these in context.

Remember Emily Litella, Gilda Radner's character on SNL Weekend Update who would launch into those long editorials about "violins on television," and then say "never mind" when she realized she was supposed to be talking about "violence on television".

What was I thinking about that rug? Would someone tell me why I'm such a contrarian?

I have a bunch of beautiful rugs that I brought back from Turkey and Greece, but as you may have noticed, I don't use them. That's because Emma the cat likes to use them as a scratching post and they're looking a little tattered. But I'm making too much clickety-clack with my heels on the wooden floors, so I need to do something.

I grew up with a cowhide rug (shaped like a run-over cow, mind you) that my parents bought in Argentina. I'm sure my mother's got it--bald as a baby--in the basement somewhere. Do I use it? Kidding. Animal skins are everywhere, but they aren't really me despite my recent Oscar Wilde fetish and his obsession with fur.

Thanks to Lizzie at the new DesignWatcher, I have found my answer to the ubiquitous animal skin, and specifically zebra rug. An abstract un-zebra rug from The Rug Company! Check it out in the Contemporary Designs section.

But it's been sneaking up on me lately. Take the wallpapered switchplate from yesterday. And then today--I'm wearing this kind of un-me purple and black outfit. One of the editors came into the room to give me some wallpaper samples, which I gladly took. Our production manager then asked if I was planning to turn my outfit into a room. I hadn't been, but it's kind of genius, isn't it... You can't plan that stuff.

Hurray for Shelterrific for finding these cute switchplates--because of course I've never put my old ones back on after the painting was finished. I think the one on the bottom right would look good in my soon to be Oscar Wilde lair of a bedroom. Or am I just wack?