Sryashta spins golden yarn inside which she weaves your fate. (If you are a good and kind person, she may just take matters into her own capable hands and improve it.)
She is the goddess of good fortune and serves as the household assistant of Mokosh, the Slavic earth goddess.
Sryashta is a variant of the Dolya/Nedolya myth.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Coolest Piece of Furniture EVER
Do you see this? Susie Sunshine has a link to this site on her blog, and I found this picture there. I want this more than anyone can possibly want a piece of old furniture.
Disadvantages to living in a garett: I'd have to put that piece of furniture in the middle of the room. It wouldn't fit up against any wall. Someday...
vw: begyk. Hmm. What would that be? be a geek? or beggars can't be choosers...
Weird -- I was going to leave a comment on bb's last post to say congrats about Primo getting into the magnet school but I kept getting a "URL not found" message. Anyway -- congrats.
Seems to me its likely out of production. Get Andrea to draw one for you and I'll give you a price for making it. Looks like about a weeks work - I still have nothing to do over spring break.
I steadsfastly refuse to put my mixer off the counter and into a cabinet because i use it alot. but my whisk and attachments and extra bowl - in the back of a closet. ergh.
the only hitch to following those plans that andrea linked to? you'd be required to wear the dress and shoes. Which I find charmingly retro-stylish, but others might not : )
My mom actually refinished a hoosier like the one in Andrea's link, but I like the Sunbeam one better because of the slide-out table. I had a slide-out table in the kitchen of my old house, and it's one of the only things I miss about the place. (That, the laundry chute, and the pretty but very drafty old windows.)
Andrea and David? You guys get on this. I'd have to put it in my dining room, because there's no space at all in my kitchen, but if it were on wheels it could come to the entrance to the kitchen when I wanted it . . .
I imagine there's something on the order of 10 days of work there what with all the panel doors and drawers.
10x8x15=1200 (poverty cabinetry labor) .6x=1200 (labor is typically 60% of the total job) x=$2000 (total price)
that's with a reasonable rate for a furniture carpenter and would assume materials not quite as nice as the kit Andrea shows, b-flat hardware, and no finish.
But there would be some wiggle room, and really the estimate on this kind of project is meaningless without choosing the stock, hardware, and finish. Could be as little as half, could be five times as much.
You know, I helped a carpenter friend of mine build a bookshelf once, years ago. Maybe it's time to raid my family for tools and see if I can be a carpenter/woodworker all on my own. Then the labor would be FREE. 'Cause I'm poor. POOR.
That isn't a Hoosier cabinet. Hoosiers are bigger. Black Rose antiques in hanover Pennsylvania has several of those cabinets and I believe they were all priced under $200. Some were painted colors other than white.
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didn't they used to call those cabinets Hoosiers? Or am I thinking of something else??
it is very cool.
Disadvantages to living in a garett: I'd have to put that piece of furniture in the middle of the room. It wouldn't fit up against any wall. Someday...
vw: begyk. Hmm. What would that be? be a geek? or beggars can't be choosers...
I like it.
Weird -- I was going to leave a comment on bb's last post to say congrats about Primo getting into the magnet school but I kept getting a "URL not found" message. Anyway -- congrats.
The girl asking for a room was hysterical.
That piece of furniture is wonderful.
Seems to me its likely out of production. Get Andrea to draw one for you and I'll give you a price for making it. Looks like about a weeks work - I still have nothing to do over spring break.
damn!
we forgot to build a cabinet for our kitchen aid.
as it is now, I must crawl head first into the corner cabinet to find the whisk attachment.
I would take David up on that offer.
I steadsfastly refuse to put my mixer off the counter and into a cabinet because i use it alot. but my whisk and attachments and extra bowl - in the back of a closet. ergh.
the only hitch to following those plans that andrea linked to? you'd be required to wear the dress and shoes. Which I find charmingly retro-stylish, but others might not : )
My mom actually refinished a hoosier like the one in Andrea's link, but I like the Sunbeam one better because of the slide-out table. I had a slide-out table in the kitchen of my old house, and it's one of the only things I miss about the place. (That, the laundry chute, and the pretty but very drafty old windows.)
Andrea and David? You guys get on this. I'd have to put it in my dining room, because there's no space at all in my kitchen, but if it were on wheels it could come to the entrance to the kitchen when I wanted it . . .
How much would something like this cost, David?
I imagine there's something on the order of 10 days of work there what with all the panel doors and drawers.
10x8x15=1200 (poverty cabinetry labor)
.6x=1200 (labor is typically 60% of the total job)
x=$2000 (total price)
that's with a reasonable rate for a furniture carpenter and would assume materials not quite as nice as the kit Andrea shows, b-flat hardware, and no finish.
But there would be some wiggle room, and really the estimate on this kind of project is meaningless without choosing the stock, hardware, and finish. Could be as little as half, could be five times as much.
You know, I helped a carpenter friend of mine build a bookshelf once, years ago. Maybe it's time to raid my family for tools and see if I can be a carpenter/woodworker all on my own. Then the labor would be FREE. 'Cause I'm poor. POOR.
But thanks for the estimates.
That isn't a Hoosier cabinet. Hoosiers are bigger. Black Rose antiques in hanover Pennsylvania has several of those cabinets and I believe they were all priced under $200. Some were painted colors other than white.
actually I only gave you the whole shpeil so you could see the scope of the job. even without the labor the $800 in materials isn't cheap.
I bet we could do something much more reasonable using slightly more cost effective materials.
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