Party pooper LJ!

[wiseheart]

Well, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.

We won't allow LJ to crash our party!

Original post

Hi folks! *waves*

Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.

Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.

NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

solanpolarn:
In honour of wiseheart's birthday bed: The furniture
thread What is your favourite piece of furniture? This can be
something you own, something you have seen elsewhere and would like, or
indeed just something that exists in your mind.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Then I bragged by posting a photo of my bureau and saying:

This is my favourite piece of furniture: an Art Deco bureau with a bookcase with glass doors. When I moved to my current flat there wasn't room for a desk so a friend of mine suggested I look for a bureau instead. I was going to find out about second hand furniture shops in my area on the internet, which lead me to finding this one for sale of eBay. I feel in love with it straight away and when it arrived it was every bit as lovely as I thought it would be from the photos. :-)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

jenn_calaelen replied:
That is lovely!

sammydragoncat agreed:
That is gorgeous

espresso_addict chimed in with:
That's very handsome & functional. [Is envious.]

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

wiseheart told us about her favourite piece of furniture:
Very beautiful indeed. My favourite is our 200-and-some-year-old cabinet with glasses, made of walnut wood, inherited from my great-great-grandmother. It's got drawers, it's got an upper section with glass doors and side sections to display the china and even two small tabletops that you can pull out from over the side drawers and put things onto it while serving snacks or drinks or coffee to your guests.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I relied:
That sounds lovely, and with the family history it must be extra precious. My flat is mostly furnished with things from Ikea which are good and some of them even great, but I like a mix of things and this applies to furniture as well! I do love the few pieces of old furniture that I do have.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

To which wiseheart responded:
Old furniture - especially with family history - gives your living space a unique character. It makes it home.

We've got a set of ceramic spice containers in the kitchen that are also over 200 years old. They've moved with us at least five or six different times, so they mean home more than any given place whre we've lived.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

and espresso_addict told us about hers:

Wiseheart reminded me of my favourite. I used to have a circular coffee table made up of a central small circle of burr walnut plus six arcs that slotted onto it made from three different traditional English hardwoods, apple & a couple of others I forget. The arc subtables were perfect for putting next to chairs, and it was robust enough you could sit on them too. It was handmade by a craft workshop that also did more normal tables, nad it was a wedding present. Unfortunately, I lost it to divorce. Damn.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I replied:
That does indeed sound like a fantastic and very useful piece of furniture. I am keeping my eye out for a nice, and functional set of nesting tables though I don't really have the room for them in my living room. I love nesting tables though.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

espresso_addict said:
It was almost worth sticking with first husband for -- which is saying a lot :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

rcfinch told us:
My favourite piece is a phantom: the white cabinet with paneled glass doors big enough for my silver tea tray. I just don't seem to be able to find an affordable one.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I replied:
My Mother bought me a lovely blue glass bowl that is too big to fit in any cupboard I have ever had. I just use it as a fruit bowl and leave it standing out at all times.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

rcfinch responded:
That way it´ll draw more attention, too.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

jenn_calaelen said:
Sadly all of my furniture is of the cheap and nasty type, but one day I would like to have proper built in bookshelves - all fitted the the sizes books really are :)