Boho Decor 'Balcony' Update

I won't know about you, but all of this Bohemian/Boho Chic themed stuff is kinda blowing up all over the place! Looks like so many folks LOVE IT!
*waves hello to all the yuppies*

Well, as promised, because some folks were kinda eagerly awaiting on this update since last night & this morning:
  
HERE is my updated look at my New England so-called "balcony".

This morning & noon I set up my brunch with a foot soak, while I listen to my ULTRA MEGA IMPORTANT CONFERENCE CALL.

Today was actually somewhat hot, so I took off my robes...

The view from my seat.

Told ya.... My spouse moved these chairs outside now. the purple seat cover was hand-made by my mother-in-law last year.

The so-called power-wash and the squirrels made a mess on the floor...

桜 Sakura Festival Fusion Mix from BlackUniGryphon on 8tracks Radio.

The Korean sea salt is for the foot soak. You know it's good because it's from Korea. And some tools for grooming my feet....

Persian Cucumber slices, ripe raspberries & California black figs (all from Trader Joe's).

Foot soak with some bubbles, sea salt and green tea.

Since we're approaching the equinox very soon, there's just not much light here... :-/

There's my coffee. This one was a banana Split flavored Light coffee from Target's brand "Archer Farms".

After that comes some low carb, slow-cooked in a Bulgarian casserole pot chicken with walnut pesto, bruschetta, herbs, artichokes, chicken, and almonds, with an iced Rooibos Red Chia tea.

Yeah, that was a looooong conference call!

After that I headed off to the pool with my daughter to chill out with my neighbors. It's the only time or place anyone can really socialize, if you're not walking around... It's hot today.

My Lil' Summer Boho Party Spot At The Picnic

My lil' Bohemian party spot beneath the trees! 
That big blue thing behind the trees is the giant water-slide!

Libby was pretty excited to give me this table set! It was VERY nice, and generous of her! She said she got it at Aldi's , I think...
Anyways, she told me to go set-up my table set, and make a lil' party area for myself, and my friends.

I threw my sarong over this double camping chair thingy. I figured if I made it look Hippie-ish/Bohemian, no one (especially perverts) would annoy me... that DID actually work, until the bearded yuppies figured out my friends were COOL in the evening and wanted to play Karaoke with us. 

I actually only invited a few folks, because the last time my father had a pig roast picnic, some stuff didn't go very well.... i.e. overly late, broken promises, mixed messages, and different friends not getting along with each other... and stinky smokers. And, somehow I'm supposed to be the one to apologize for all of that???
So, I only invited my closest friends from Philly, and nobody from NJ. (Not sorry either.)

You can also see my camera bag in the photo, my quilted bag, which I did some knitting with while waiting for my friends to arrive and hiding from sexual deviant perverts.

Wow! Good thing I invited George! He looks SO HAPPY! I don't think I've ever seen him THIS happy EVER!
Fun factoid: my friend George here also has the same birthday as I do, but a year later. ^_^

My bestest buddy Pebbles, AKA Pirate Pebbs, amount other nicknames.

Jerome AKA Stanley, also is a dude of many many names, and talents, like my other friends.

He's drinking the cider! ^_^
Yes, we had to wear name tags. Mine said "The Awesome".
Jerome's said "Stanley Sir Psycho".

Party time FTW!
Pebbles also brought her mom, whom I am also friends with, and her BF arrived in the evening, Paul whom is also my friend and a kool nerdy/geek like us. ;)
Yes, not only are were pretty much all artists/creative types, we're also geeks or egg-heads.

Here's the view of a section of the party from my seat at my bistro table. ^_^

After my friends set up on-the-spot portable Karaoke since they're DJs AND Karaoke MCs for a living, the other yuppies wanted to sing with us and played country music songs with us.

Somebody was kind enough to give us a tiki torch... but, I have no clue who, or when because i was so drunk...

Looks like we also got a pest/mosquito candle. Thanx whoever put those there! My formerly drunken ass salutes you!  

The rum bottle was a gift from my lil' bro', and I also got a bottle of French Pinnacle Vodka, and apple cider (real cider). There was also a ton of other stuff to drink at the party, including alcoholic and nonalcoholic.

Anyways, now you can see Alexis (Pebbles' mom, and hr BF Paul) and you can also see why drinking + photography is bad....

I think this might've been one of my KTV songs I picked... I don't specifically recall... because I was SO DRUNK... I usually do '90s music.

Well, I guess that was a success!


And, that's a wrap!

WIP: "Balcony" Decor; My New Bistro Table Set & 'Garden'

Work-In-Progress: 
"Balcony" Decor; My New Bistro Table Set & Garden

I generally say: My so-called "balcony" (in quotes) because my property documents call it that.... but.... I'm on the first floor... }:-/

I've been wishing & wanting to actually comfortably use this space, but there's a number of issues with it, besides being stuck living in Boston.... which is cold... and this specific angle means I only get sunlight at the summer solstice period from about mid June to mid July... add on top of that the bushes that grow, and the rude upper neighbors that dump litter on me frequently, the condominium office personnel, the squirrels,  and.... I'm broke. All of those are very long complicated stories... and I'd RATHER NOT think about it, or I'll be in a not-good mood....

So, I'll just focus on the positive side (and suppress the bad... far-far-far, and deep-deep-deep within for some therapist to MAYBE dig out someday... or perhaps in nightmares, or meditative trances gone wrong... but I digress).

Where to start.... hmmm.....


Oh yes:

I used to have a charcoal grill, and some really old lawn furniture... but, due to a stupid story of some idiot in a different town that's NOT mine whom burned down the side of a poorly built apartment building, the following year some idiots in my town forced through some idiotic legislation about no fire grills with charcoal or gas at all EVER.... also, I used to have some old lawn furniture... but they were always dirty, and my spouse wouldn't allow me to clean them in the shower, because his imagination would be aware the outside dirt had once passed through the tub/shower even tho' it was washed & cleaned away, but the ideas bothered his imagination of his ego, ergo I was NEVER allowed to wash them... and also hoses DO NOT EXIST IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
So, you also cannot hose them down, and spray cleaners also couldn't get the dirt off either... and if I sat on them using a towel, my spouses' imagination would be bothered again, even if the towels were washed, and he would throw away the towels, and we'd have no more towels, and couldn't afford to constantly buy new ones... so, about the time when we were legally forced against our will and without due process to throw away our high end grill, those chairs went with them... }:-(

So, around 2012... our store closed down, and we had some left-over stuff... and since then, the only thing I had to sit on was a Taoist Porcelain  Chinese Stool.

Also.... trying to get anything to grow out there was quite a challenge... and then I stumbled onto permaculture... so, I've been experimenting and learning since then...

By summer 2013, I used to sit outside with my tiny somewhat pathetic piddly "garden" (just some pots with barely anything growing in them, and my wind-chimes and listen to philosophy or zen stuff, like by the late Alan Watts, or music, or out in the rain... contemplating my situation, or journalling, or playing music, or drinking hot tea whilest it rained, and rained, and rained some more...

And, In the winter, I started to notice balcony decor & Boho decor popularity on Pinterest, so I actually have my own Pinboard there now. So.... I started wishing for my own style, or something to happen... I dunno... *shrugs*

Anyways, I actually DID get stuff to grow. ^_^ Permaculture FTW! W00t! :D



Greens, Blueberries, lentils.... the only problem was pests: squirrels, thieving neighbors, aphids, and slugs.  But, I'm making major progress! The aloe did better than expected!


I assumed for sure the chives would grow easily... Nope! Totally wrong!















My Greens: Mustard Spinach









I spent about 2 weeks in New Jersey this month (August 2014), and when I came back, my so-called "balcony" got power-washed by pricks. Making it covered in debris, and busting up one of my wind-chimes, which I JUST refurbished. Check the other blog HERE of that.

And, they FINALLY trimmed up the bush... but it's TOO LATE, because all the good sunlight is past the correct angles... but... somehow, the parsley managed to burst into some kinda major growth!

Gonna have to make a salad with those parslys this week!
And, I dunno what kinda crazy growth happened with those celery stalks. I might have to just pluck them out in the fall.

Anyways.... My step-mother, Libby, bought me a LOVELY wooden Bistro Table set, that folds up, so I can take it back inside in the winter, or if it rains! ^_^


Here's the view from my favorite spot sitting at my new bistro table, where I can drink my tea or coffee, and journal, check my smartphone news, twitter, do knitting, eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner, meditate, pontificate, sketch, or do whatever the heck I want! Drink rum or wine! Whatever!

 The herb pot was also a gift from Libby, which I will try to transfer my herbs into WHENEVER I CAN GET A BAG OF ORGANIC POTTING SOIL. In these shots, it has freshly cut Sunflowers from New Jersey, also a gift from Libby, that were drying outside...
However, the infamous squirrels discovered the sunflowers when I moved them onto those chairs in the corner (that Libby found) and made a big mess all over the place!
The sunflowers have since then, been moved indoors....

If you'd like to see what these sunflowers looked like BEFORE they got cut down check out my album from My Flickr Gallery (which is STILL in the process of being updated daily, since I took lots of photos.)

 Those chairs have also been mended, and ALSO moved indoors...

And, here's my lil' Boho Party Spot at My Father's Pig Roast Picnic a few weeks ago where I parties & got rather drunk with my friends, including my buddy Pirate Pebbs.You can see THIS table set up there, with some other bohemian stuffs... I figured Boho-chic was the other end of the spectrum of yuppy fads... sorta faux Hippie-ish.

It was my lil' mini haven under a tree from the the yuppies that got all into the recent trendy fad of pretending to be a faux hick or redneck and blast so-called "Country Music". I wonder what the next NJ fad will be! Fear not! I'll surely bee there with my camera! ^_^

I was near the giant water-slide, so my daughter could find me.

 The chairs are mingling!
Well... as of now... as I stated earlier, these chairs are inside the house... but the Chinese one is still out there... 

Wow!!!! Is that it? 
Yay!!!! I think I'm done! 
Typing this entry too FOREVER! 

I'll see if I can add an update to my so-called "balcony" decor... because it's changed, yet again...
And, let's hope that NO MORE S.N.A.F.U.s, nor random problems, just up & occur! OK?