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Diary Of A Lady With A House
By Elizabeth Madine Boykin
Monday Leonardo da Vinci
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Wednesday
Spent the day
with
was an interior decorator among making cushions for the answer- other things and undertook the de-to-my prayer, a chaise longue corating of many noble homes. He very nice it is too, even though it sister was discarding. was also, quite a plumber for his is one my day and age and had a lot of ideas I've made a new cover of French on the subject. He installed a blue and it impresses me at least. very fancy sanitary system in one One cushion I made out of an old ducal palace in Milan, then when party dress of pink crepe he was at work on "The Last Sup-| old rose velvet ruffles on the bertha two per" was often called away by the (vintage 1934). The other
cushions were made from the scrap Duchess to repair her plumbing.
bag too one pale blue, the other. old rose,
both with a bow of blue and rose ribbon tied to- to the gether, then stitched flat cushion top. Very pretty, if I do say so myself..
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Tuesday
The newest closet idea I've encountered is this for room that sorely needs extra shelf or hanging space. If. there's a window in the centre of a wall, fine put a Venetian blind
The
minister's family
is
coming Sunday.
on
just it; if there's not a window
But hang up the blind anyway. either way have the blind hung at least a foot inside the room, so as to have a recessed effect which gives space at either side for shallow closet or shelves. Over them you have an imposing drapery and the whole business would look like a fine big window.
Thursday Here's. news if you don't have enough wall plugs for your electric fixtures, you don't have to wait till the budget will to permit ripping up the walls put in more. Now there's a new arrangement that can be run along the baseboard, like the telephone wire, so you can have a plug where you need it. Very neat too-you hardly see it.
Friday. I ran onto a sale glass- ware the other day so I stocked up with enough to last me the rest of my life or at least a good long time. What a relief it will be not to have to dishwash punch cups between rounds!
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On the telling
Saw an exotic effect Saturday
a cabinet. achieved with
fantastic fortune doors, cards were glued all over it like The rest tiles, then shellacked.
of the piece was painted turquoise blue.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1939
GIRLICACS
(Oopyright, 1838, by The Bell Byndicate, Inc.)
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