Friday, January 30, 2015

Freaky Friday: Switchplates



You know it's the dead of winter in upstate New York when you're so bored, you start decorating your switchplates.









 What's that?  Why yes, yes I DO have way too much time on my hands.  But at least the switchplates look pretty.



7 comments:

Becs said...

Love it!

~~Silk said...

I like the idea, but my house is so well built I'm afraid to remove the switch plates for fear the switches will fall down.

Where did you get the pictures? I especially like the unicorn one.

James P. said...

Love them. You could moonlight as an interior design person.....with the clients' understanding that ANYTHING GOES. ("Had you considered the ambient effect of a LIVE BLUEJAY roosting, oh, say, over here?")

Am thinking that "switchplates" is one of those words that kids of the near future will not know....progress, ya know.

rockygrace said...

Thanks, Becs!

~~Silk, there's always that moment of doubt, after I've pulled the screws and am about to slide a knife behind the plate to pop it off the wall, where I'm all, "do I really want to do this?"

The pics all came from old art books I got at flea markets - the unicorn one was from a large-size paperback (with a Metropolitan Museum of Art price tag from August of 89 still on it) about the unicorn tapestries from the Cloisters. Very interesting.

(and do I feel a pang cutting up books, even thrift store books, for decorative purposes? Oh yeah. But I figure I'll look at the painting way more on the switchplate than I ever would if it was still in the book.)

and Ginny, I could always bill myself as an Outsider Art Interior Decorator. Ha.



~~Silk said...

I found an article for you!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/donate-poop_n_6580474.html?cps=gravity_2377_-8348795975748975506

James P. said...

I can hear Silk tee-heeing to herself all the way down here in Virginia.......

rockygrace said...

as I'm sure Ginny and James know, once you've experienced c-diff, you will be the recipient of every poop joke ever invented.

Love the article - "Poop! Saving Lives!" Ha.