Jun. 16, 2018 "Pump up the volumes": Today I found this article by Jura Koncius in the Edmonton Journal:
It used to be that your books said something about you.
Today, that may not always be the case. Books are evolving as a decorating statement for their looks, not for their content.
Some people adore having favorite books on shelves throughout their homes as totems of their literary life or their studies. But today, like it or not, many books are bought by the box, by the yard or by color. Sometimes, a book is only bought for its cover or even its spine or page-top hue. Books can add warmth and color to a room, and stacks of books can serve as end tables or nightstands.
Even in New York’s prestigious 2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House, shelves of books encased in identical white Brodart jackets served as a backdrop for an otherwise colorful living room by Los Angeles designer David Netto. “It looks mysterious and abstract,” said Netto, who procured the wrapped books from private-library curator Kinsey Marable.
Instagram and Pinterest continue to inspire DIYers with fresh ideas on decorating with books. We present a few here.
Book arch
If you do a search for #BookArch on Instagram, you’ll see a charming variety of arches in homes, book shops and libraries. They look good framing fireplaces or rounded doorways or creating interest along a wall.
Julie James, a floral artist and wedding designer in the Pittsburgh area, says book arches are in demand for weddings and are especially popular with English majors and teachers. For a photo shoot, James bought a used book arch made of two lengthy pieces of bendable steel (rebar). A variety of hardbacks and paperbacks had two holes drilled in them and were threaded onto the arches, which were then secured into heavy bases.
James says books turn up in many roles at nuptials. “I’ve hung book pages from trees and laid out book pages under flowers and moss on tables,” she says. A popular centerpiece: little stacks of vintage books with a candle or small vase of flowers on top.
Book headboard
A popular online tutorial these days is how to make a stylish headboard out of books. In 2012, Kassandra Utzinger, a Vancouver graphic designer and blogger, wrote a post on her website Design Every Day (designeveryday.ca) about her bed. She had arrived in Canada from Australia and needed a fast, affordable design idea for her new apartment. “I was looking for some way to decorate in a personalized way,” Utzinger says. “I was inspired by seeing how Banana Republic was using books to display jewelry in their stores back then.”
She explored secondhand shops to collect books and nailed them onto plywood, leaving the top pages loose. She affixed those with two-sided tape and finessed them to make it look like the pages are about to flip. Haters posted negative comments on the blog post about damaging books. “They said, ‘Why would you stick nails in books?’ But in reality, the books I found otherwise would not see the light of day.”
Utzinger’s blog has been reposted many times, and she has been delighted to see other versions of her idea. “It’s cool to see how people put up the books and then do some painting over the pages,” she says. “I have seen various-size headboards using different-size books. In children’s rooms, sometimes they use colorful and bright picture books. It’s all really fun.”
Color-coded books
Everything at the Wing, a chain of women-only co-working spaces and social clubs, is carefully coordinated — even the bookshelves.
According to Chiara de Rege, an interior designer with offices in New York and Los Angeles who decorates the clubs, books by female authors were carefully curated for club members to check out. One of the co-founders of the club, Audrey Gelman, was interested in creating a rainbow of color on the shelves.
“Audrey had been talking about a spectrum of color,” deRege says. “She is a total book nerd, and it was important to her that there be a library with relevant books that people would read but that it also have a cool rainbow vibe.” They organized books on shelves in the Wing-branded Pantone colors, which are pale pink, mint, navy, burnt orange, caramel and gray.
Some books are displayed with their covers out, and some with covers off and spines out. All the books and authors they wanted to include, from Danielle Steele to Hillary Clinton, found a home in the rainbow, deRege says.
Organizing books by color continues to be a very popular look in design magazines, Pinterest and Instagram, despite a lot of naysayers. It’s an inexpensive and striking way to add interest to a boring bookshelf. Online sellers are happy to sell you a foot of lime green or lipstick red.
Tinted spines
There’s another way to organize books by color: by the hue of their tinted page tops. The most popular page-top colors are blue and green, says Nancy Martin, owner of Decades of Vintage, which sells old books curated by color, as well as rare antique books. Publisher’s stain, the technical term for tinted page tops, was applied to the page edges of certain vintage books to shield pages from later damage because of dust and dirt. “It was a cheap way to make things look fancier,” Martin says, “and gave a series of books a competitive edge.”
She says shelving books with the page tops showing out is popular for nurseries and children’s rooms, since 1950s book series such as the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and Tom Swift have tinted tops. “Sometimes, people put a few with the spines out and then put a few flat in the other direction,” Martin says.
Coffee-table books
The oversize, photography-heavy books stacked on many a coffee table have their own category in the publishing and decorating business: “coffee-table books.”
These books often say something about the residents of a home. These books may be used to make a political statement or give clues to where the owners might have traveled.
Cape Cod designer Sandra Cavallo changes out the books on the coffee table in her shingle-style home in West Falmouth to reflect the seasons. If she has an overnight guest, she might gear the books to their interests. She places books in stacks and carefully arranges collections around them, giving the books space to be easily accessed. “Grouping books by color and size helps my layout to appear clean and simple,” says Cavallo, “but mixing vibrant, fun colors and different sizes can be a great design statement.”
She might use a round or square tray on the table to group smaller elements in different heights and materials. Play around with your vignettes, she says, and step back and take a look. If you’re not sure of the overall effect, take a quick iPhone picture. “That’s how I got started on Instagram,” says Cavallo, who now has more than 176,000 followers on her account, @oldsilvershed.
Jura Koncius covers style, home and design for The Washington Post.
"Millenials become the renovation generation": Today I found this article by Andrea Yu in the Star Metro. I like this article because it's about saving money and appreciating the home you already own.
You could call them the renovation generation.
Millennial homeowners, rather than sell their starter homes and move, are staying put and spending their money on expansions and improvements, according to a recent national survey and report by home renovation website HomeStars.
My week:
Dec. 1, 2019 Holt Renfrew closing down: I was looking up companies that are closing down, and this was in the news in May 2019: The store's closing date has been set for Jan. 11, 2020.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/holt-renfrew-edmonton-store-closing-1.5135298
Dec, 2, 2019 Woman scammed out of $4000 in SIN scam:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/holt-renfrew-edmonton-store-closing-1.5135298
Dec, 2, 2019 Woman scammed out of $4000 in SIN scam:
Julia-Shea Baker, a 23-year-old server, lost $4,000 to the "SIN scam," a new version of the Canada Revenue Agency scam that fraudsters have been using to dupe people out of their money.
It all started two weeks ago when Baker got a terrifying call from Service Canada telling her her social insurance number had been compromised. The caller identified himself as RCMP investigator Steve Rogers.
The caller told her a car rented in her name had been discovered abandoned in south Toronto with blood residue on the seats and 10 kilograms of cocaine inside.
The "officer," who gave Baker a badge number and a case number, told her her name and social insurance number were involved in a drug and money-laundering investigation.
"My heart started racing, my palms started sweating," Baker said. "I was absolutely panicked. I was terrified, absolutely terrified."
"Steve Rogers" told Baker the RCMP would take care of getting her a new SIN, but in order to protect her money she had to transfer her savings to secure gift cards.
He instructed her to drive to grocery stores and pharmacies across Cornwall to buy up Google Play gift cards, all the while staying on the line to make sure she did what she was told.
After several purchases her debit card was declined, so the caller told her to go to her bank and withdraw all the cash she had left to buy more gift cards. When she'd done that, he ordered Baker to call the bank to increase her credit limit, then buy yet more gift cards.
"This went on for four and a half hours," Baker said. In that time, she spent $4,000 to buy 35 gift cards.
The whole time, the caller stayed on the line, carefully taking note of the gift card numbers and codes.
Baker said she broke down in tears several times during the ordeal, but the man on the phone kept reiterating that she couldn't tell anyone what was going on, and if she did she could be implicated in the investigation.
He told her her messages and conversations were being monitored.
"You're not being physically held hostage or held for ransom, but it feels that way. It feels like your freedom is on the line," she said.
"Steve Rogers" told her he would call her back at 9 a.m. the following day to arrange to give her a new SIN, but he never called. When she called the original number back, the person who answered didn't speak English.
My opinion: I had to write about it because it's about scams and warning people about it. People mentally and emotionally getting at you to scam you.
She should write down his name and badge number and case number, and go straight to the police to ask if this is real.
This reminds me where I almost got scammed too:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2017/07/scream-4-southgate-construction-scam.html
This reminds me where I almost got scammed too:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2017/07/scream-4-southgate-construction-scam.html
"Former sex slave confronts her ISIS rapist in TV interview": You may be offended by reading this. It's good that she confronted him to help her heal.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/destroyed-life-former-sex-slave-130114082.html
Aiko Melendez: This Filipinio dishwasher R tells me I look like her. I don't think I do at all.
I mentioned before last month when I was at the Centre of Spiritual Living Potluck, this man says I look like his niece.
I then remember around 2012 I attended a job interview. The woman says I look like her daughter's friend.
https://www.instagram.com/aikomelendez/?hl=en
My 2004 computer: For the past couple of weeks I have been deleting and transferring old files from it. The weekend I spent a few hours each day doing it while listening to Stingray R&B music. My brother was ironing his shirts and he watched the Thanksgiving episodes The Family Guy ep "Shanksgiving" and Bob's Burgers ep "Now we're not cooking with gas":
I didn't save files on it, but I had to transfer all these old bookmarks I had:
1. Job websites: It's all about jobs and careers.
2. Entertainment websites: Filmmaking, screenwriting, writing, and publishing. I had written about the links on The Vertex Fighter blog, but not Tracy's blog.
http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.com/2011/06/ehow-videos-on-how-to-become-produer.html
It's kind of the same with my blog:
1. Job articles
2. Entertainment articles: Filmmaking, screenwriting, writing, and publishing.
Dec. 4, 2019 Kippt: There is the saying: "If you want to get something different, you have to do something different."
I was going through these old links I haven't been on in some years like this:
http://kippt-export.herokuapp.com/
http://blog.kippt.com/next-chapter/
Shop local: I was reading the Star Metro and here's a website to buy gifts:
https://www.edmontonmade.com/
Dec. 5, 2019 Technology is getting smaller: I was talking to my brother about how computers, TV and cellphones are getting smaller and something about The Simpsons saying "smaller and more efficient." P told me it was on the ep where they go to Japan.
In the 1 min. 48 sec mark:
Marge: I'd like to see the Japanese take on the club sandwich. I bet it's smaller and more efficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXyfxrDmN4c
My 2004 computer weighs 50 pounds and I need both arms to carry it. My 2013 computer weighs 10 pounds and I can hold it with one hand.
My 2004 computer costs like $1200-1500. (My dad said that.). The 2013 computer costs $700.
Does anyone remember when DVD players came out they cost $1000?
Vaidas Baumila: He is a solo pop artist and he is singing this ballad "Tiktau tu" which means "Only You" in English. It was in my old links. The lyrics are beautiful. The guitar music is good. He is good looking in the cute and handsome way.
Here he is singing live with a woman M. Linkyte.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tiktai-tu-only-you.html
Dec. 5, 2019 The Masked Singer: Who is the Butterfly? I don't watch this show, but I watched this news.
Spolier alert: Michelle Williams from Destiny's Child. She says the show was "a confidence builder" and her voice cracked like she's going to cry.
In the news clip she said in 2017 that she was depressed and suicidal in the height of the Destiny's Child fame.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/the-butterfly-effect-exgirl-group-star-meets-her-destiny-on-the-masked-singer-022250135.html
I like this performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDpDg9cEHE
Dec. 7, 2019 Tracy's hip hop dancing videos: Would you like dancing lessons?: My friend Cham filmed me dancing and helped me put this up on Facebook and my blog:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/12/tracys-hip-hop-dancing-videos.html
Aiko Melendez: This Filipinio dishwasher R tells me I look like her. I don't think I do at all.
I mentioned before last month when I was at the Centre of Spiritual Living Potluck, this man says I look like his niece.
I then remember around 2012 I attended a job interview. The woman says I look like her daughter's friend.
https://www.instagram.com/aikomelendez/?hl=en
My 2004 computer: For the past couple of weeks I have been deleting and transferring old files from it. The weekend I spent a few hours each day doing it while listening to Stingray R&B music. My brother was ironing his shirts and he watched the Thanksgiving episodes The Family Guy ep "Shanksgiving" and Bob's Burgers ep "Now we're not cooking with gas":
I didn't save files on it, but I had to transfer all these old bookmarks I had:
1. Job websites: It's all about jobs and careers.
2. Entertainment websites: Filmmaking, screenwriting, writing, and publishing. I had written about the links on The Vertex Fighter blog, but not Tracy's blog.
http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.com/2011/06/ehow-videos-on-how-to-become-produer.html
It's kind of the same with my blog:
1. Job articles
2. Entertainment articles: Filmmaking, screenwriting, writing, and publishing.
Dec. 4, 2019 Kippt: There is the saying: "If you want to get something different, you have to do something different."
I was going through these old links I haven't been on in some years like this:
http://kippt-export.herokuapp.com/
http://blog.kippt.com/next-chapter/
Shop local: I was reading the Star Metro and here's a website to buy gifts:
https://www.edmontonmade.com/
Dec. 5, 2019 Technology is getting smaller: I was talking to my brother about how computers, TV and cellphones are getting smaller and something about The Simpsons saying "smaller and more efficient." P told me it was on the ep where they go to Japan.
In the 1 min. 48 sec mark:
Marge: I'd like to see the Japanese take on the club sandwich. I bet it's smaller and more efficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXyfxrDmN4c
My 2004 computer weighs 50 pounds and I need both arms to carry it. My 2013 computer weighs 10 pounds and I can hold it with one hand.
My 2004 computer costs like $1200-1500. (My dad said that.). The 2013 computer costs $700.
Does anyone remember when DVD players came out they cost $1000?
Vaidas Baumila: He is a solo pop artist and he is singing this ballad "Tiktau tu" which means "Only You" in English. It was in my old links. The lyrics are beautiful. The guitar music is good. He is good looking in the cute and handsome way.
Here he is singing live with a woman M. Linkyte.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tiktai-tu-only-you.html
Dec. 5, 2019 The Masked Singer: Who is the Butterfly? I don't watch this show, but I watched this news.
Spolier alert: Michelle Williams from Destiny's Child. She says the show was "a confidence builder" and her voice cracked like she's going to cry.
In the news clip she said in 2017 that she was depressed and suicidal in the height of the Destiny's Child fame.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/the-butterfly-effect-exgirl-group-star-meets-her-destiny-on-the-masked-singer-022250135.html
I like this performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDpDg9cEHE
Dec. 7, 2019 Tracy's hip hop dancing videos: Would you like dancing lessons?: My friend Cham filmed me dancing and helped me put this up on Facebook and my blog:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/12/tracys-hip-hop-dancing-videos.html
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