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This week’s mad Men Monday is late – basically because I had WAY too much fun doing the research for this and am complaining of a chest cold. Next week I’ll start on Friday night!
So, without further ado – here’s our salute to Mad Men Lamps!
The first lamp is on Don’s Desk at the beginning [...]

Enjoy your Thanksgiving and I hope you used plenty of butter! :

I found this on Retro Housewife – go say hi for me!

Monday mornings just aren’t the same without my usual surf of reviews and run downs on last night’s “Mad Men” episode. I’m having withdrawl. The interiors and the characters somehow rounded out my week and I’m missing it. So, starting next Monday we will  have an in depth analysis of the interiors on Mad Men [...]

I got this email from a reporter at the Denver Post and it made me think:
 
I’m working on a story about how people now, during the second holiday season of the Great Recession, are adjusting to the season.
Has the prolonged economic slump caused some families to reassess how they approach the holidays? Maybe in the [...]

Things have been intense and busy, but I wanted to make sure my mid-century friends knew about my give away on my “other blog”. My personal and crafty blog is “Frequently Wrong But Never In Doubt” and is where I post about the rest of my life – the non-midcentury, crazy quilt, embroidery party of [...]

I read many many blogs and the Zillow blog is one of there. Where I ran across this:

Ok, I realize it’s probably a TON more space, but YIKES! Am I the only one? 50’s cute to WHAT? Farmy?
YUCK. Obviously I have given you my opinion already, but anyone? Go read the little story.

We had friends for dinner on Saturday and they brought these:

Can’t you just squeal with delight? So, they were worried they weren’t 50’s because they’re gold – I say absolutely 50’s – opinions?

Mike over at “Modern Capital” is curious if you know 12 Architects who have appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. I have to say, I wouldn’t have a clue, but I’ll be watching and learning!

And the prize:
The first person who e-mails me with the names of the 12 architects who have appeared on the [...]

My husband’s bar is named “Franks”….not oddly after Frank Sinatra (although there are pictures of him) but after Frank Zappa – I bought an expensive photo of him years ago and that’s what started the whole bar theme! So, here’s the new and improved “Franks”.

Some of the “Franks” around the bar – it’s fun to [...]