Livin' in 1920's Home

I am a proud homeowner of a home built in 1920. Due to my home ownership I have become obsessed with homes of that era. My house is a very basic New England Colonial. There have been some minor changes, like, the porch has been closed in and turned into a bathroom and a small office sort of room. The kitchen and both bathrooms have not been updated since the 1970's, therefore I am constantly gleaning the Internet, books, magazines etc. for ideas on how to update/restore the bathroom so it will look some what authentic. Hence my collection of 1920's bathrooms I mentioned on a previous blog.

I also love home decor type magazines, like Domino and Real Simple to get ideas. Last months Domino was great and featured all these penny round tile, which look very 1920's. I like the penny round tiles which incidentally you can but at Home Depot. However I like the honeycomb design much better like in the picture below.

I don't know penny rounds vs. honeycomb? You be the judge!

I luv New England

Today was another lovely day in New England. The leaves are slowly starting to change and USA is running an all-day Monk marathon.

Many, many, thanks to the USA network for airing Monk and the 20 billion episodes of Law and Order.

I luv 1920's Homes

Perez I'm lookin' out 4 U

Hello fans of Fitzlingon Tooley. I have sent numerous emails 2 Perez Hilton. I love him, but he never returns my emails.
For instance, I sent him a "separated at birth" ideas. Like Lauren Conrad and Christine Taylor (Ben Stillers wife) or Heidi Montag and the actress who was in Crocodile Dundee 1&2. But I have yet 2 reap the rewards of my hard work. Does he not care? Is he 2 busy "celebrity rapping" to hear my call?
IDK friends, but please, please help me out!

Maginot Line

Music & More

So it is yet another lovely Autumn Sunday on coast of New England. One of my favorite Sunday songs Sunday Morning Comin Down by Johnny Cash

Well I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head, that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and the songs I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playin' with a can that he was kicking
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's fryin' chicken
And it took me back to somethin'
That I'd lost somewhere, somehow along the way.
Chorus:
On a Sunday morning sidewalk
I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned'
Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of a sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down.
In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin'
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the songs they were singin'
Then I headed down the street
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'
And it echoed thru the canyon Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

Dear Sharon,

Sharon King & the Daptones

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Y'All

Quick and short entry...TMZ on tv is ok. Good, but not up to par with my TMZ reader experience. A bit on the cheesy side (and I hate the word cheesy, but no other adjective defines it).
Anyway the Hills are on tonight, my favorite guilty pleasure. However, WTF, Heidi does not deserve the job. Elodie, if you went to college with a MTV reality star and were a Coloradan parasite like Heidi...you would of totally got the job

Indian Summer

This is the first post of me newly renamed blog. I am going to dedicate this blog to all things Fitzlingon Tooley loves. I will start with my love of outdoor living.

A few months ago I ordered custom made cushions made for my vintage wrought iron outdoor furniture. I purchased the furniture at local junk store, it was a great find, however the cushions were old and basically trashed.


Anyway after about 2 years of looking for fabric and finally deciding to take the expensive plunge of having cushions custom made, I decided on Waverly Sun N Shade fabric appropriately titled Monkeyin' Around.


The fabric is very cute. At first I was a bit apprehensive about the color pallet but those damn monkeys are so freakin cute.

Ok the next purchase I made was a total nightmare to order. It all started with Real Simple Magazine and these bamboo stools from a Canadian company named Envi. The stools are pretty inexpensive $35 a shot. I ordered 3 stools, pink, orange and green. And yes they do go with my cushions.

Ok, so this blog is really boring. Next time I will try to bring it up a notch.