8th OY!! VEY!! Q&A Tuesday!!!

Welcome to the 8th Q&A part of OY!! VEY!! Q&A Tuesday!!!

This is how it works.....

On the first Tuesday of the month

You ask some design questions,

and I answer them for FREE!!!!

Just remember-----

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

(Just sayin')

So ask your question at the end of this blog post.

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Today I am going to stroll back down

Memory Lane

and show you guys the cabin that 

put me on the map!!!!!!! 
The following pictures are from Traditional Home Magazine, that I scanned into my computer, which is why the images are crappy.....

This was my tiny cabin on

 Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire.

When I first bought it, it tried to kill me.

I'm not kidding!!!!!

The first summer I lived there!!! 

first I got giardia.......

according to Wikipedia.....

Giardia lives inside the intestines of infected humans or other animals. Individuals become infected through ingesting or coming into contact with contaminated food, soil, or water. The Giardia parasite originates from contaminated items and surfaces that have been tainted by the feces of an infected animal.^[3]

The symptoms of Giardia, which may begin to appear 2 days after infection, include violent diarrhea, excess gas, stomach or abdominal cramps, upset stomach, and nausea..........

Up heah, in the north, we also call it

BEAVER FEVER

because beavers can be carriers, and they infect the water.

DON'T DRINK THE WATER 

FROM THE

 SHALLOW PART OT THE LAKE!!!!!

Which is what I did.......

Sunapee is a class A lake, which means the water is reservoir quality.

But don't drink the shallow water.

so one of the first things I did was put in an atesian well!!!!! 

THEN.....

I slipped on the wet stairs running down the outside of my cabin and broke my coccyx.

It's seemed like anything associated with my tush was sore.
I gots to tell ya,
there's something to say about the pain of a lower GI
when one is recovering from a broken tailbone.
OWCH!!!!
BUT I owned this little slice of heaven for 17 years.....
and we learned to care for each other.
I certainly threw enough money at it.....

It was perched on the steep windward side of the lake

, 
looking west over Mt. Sunapee.
THE SUNSETS 
WERE
GLORIOUS!!!!

and even on the hottest of days, there seemed to be a breeze.

(I had to use the collage part of PicMonkey to put pictures that were a double spread into one shot...)
(Oh, the problems of being a published designer)
 (sigh...)
This was the way I set up the living room the first couple of years I had the joint.
Unfortunately, I don't have any shots of how it ended up.
IT HAD CABBAGE ROSES OF COURSE!!!!
And draperies.
That were made out of cabbage roses!!!!!
I used the same fabric that I used on a cape code showhouse.
I blew up a detail of the fabric from 
ANOTHER
Trad Ho story of that showhouse room, 
which I will share more of sometime!!!

This was the story that caused Steven Tyler and his wife Teresa, to give me a call.
They had a house across and down the lake.

We were BOTH way younger then!!!!!
(That's me on the left.....)
This cabin also brought me to the attention of one of the guys who started Nike.
So.....
this little house acted as my design 
PIMP!!!!


I  realized I didn't share that much, but it's dinner time, and if I don't cook it, it won't get cooked.

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Now for this months Q&A

This is a question and answer party!!!!!

Only questions, please you guys. 

If it isn't a question, I'm taking the @#$ link down.

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It looks just like a button!!

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