Going for a casual but elegant look, hope I've starting to lean
that way,
although 99% of what you see we had in our apartment, I really think
it all just looks better here! I'm thinking of painting the
mirror frames black but haven't decided yet.
That's a fancy space heater you see... otherwise known as an
electric fireplace. Click here to see how
it looks in action via small WMV format video, which is smaller than
most of the full-sized photos on this site, in case you're wondering
about load time. We love that it's 100% safe around us and
Tashi but we
still get the nice ambiance from it and heat when we want or not.
Click here to see the Christmas decorations
from our first holiday season in the new place.
You may
get an error message loading the video, just return here and go back
in. The second time
should work fine.
We really worked HARD getting the fish moved and I'm very proud to
say that we didn't lose a single one! Which is nice, not
only because some (like the 9 clown loaches) are worth nearly a grand
as a group, but they're
our babies and most should live another ten to fifteen years or so
with any luck. Thanks to Bruce, Doug and especially Nathan.
Here's the automatic drapery control in action. This is a
safety feature. Closed drapes are safer at night, but not if
nobody gets around to closing them, which was our problem. But not
anymore... now we've got morning opening and evening closing,
courtesy of the fans from nearly 100 countries at
my Sims custom content site who
during the height of my Sims creating around 2005 some 25,000
visitors a day would come by and many said thanks for the fun with
donations, which among other things, paid for this drapery
controller. Thanks guys!
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video. The video speed is doubled to save load times, in case
you were wondering if it's really so fast.
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pics to view full-sized enlargements.
