Even More Plants
Since the air in Oaktown is extra dirty, plants like it even more.
These are some more plants in Ikea-hacked stainless steel bowls.
Club Fizz Bathroom is Complete
Everybody knows that you must have toilet paper in a bathroom.
The Club Fizz bathroom is no exception.
However it couldn’t just be regular old boring toilet paper.
Finally Club Fizz Has Some Pillows
Club Fizz was missing some nice fuzzy pillows for lounging about.
I got these from Realm Dekor. There were a couple of weird issues with the fur but they were very nice to deal with and made sure that I was happy with my purchase.
I got white and black fur so that the white would pick up the color of the LED lighting.
The fabric is called Bubble Fur.. Lots of Burning Man people like to make things out of it.
Some More Plants
The Magazine was having a big sale so I got some fabulous planters by Serralunga
Then I found this amazing Ponytail Palm
This is the Plomb umbrella stand/planter designed by Karim Rashid with a snake plant in it.
Now I just need a plant to put in this planter from HipHaven
Painting is happening but not in Club Fizz
Since Club Fizz is so perfect, all the other levels of the house have been looking dirty and old.
So we decided to give it a fresh coat of low VOC paint thanks to fabulous Mark’s Paint Mart and add a few new colors and plants.
We also did lots of LESS IS MORE de-cluttering.
This is an old photo of the living room. Behind me you can kind of see some of the large canvases we had on the wall.
Here is the new incarnation of the loft wall with lots of integrated toxin-eating plants. eventually they will form a plant curtain and look really cool.
Fizz House Mentioned at Ikea Hacker
Finally THE famous Ikea Hacker blog mentions my Ikea stuff.
Kiss Kiss Fizz Fizz
Kiss Kiss Fizz Fizz was a very good party.
Roman certainly had a good time.
  
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This is the DJ’s reactable which is kind of like this
And these are anatomically correct heart cookies.
Why Fizz 2008 was canceled
There aren’t very many reasons why I would cancel a Club Fizz party but sometimes things go wrong.
Here are the two reasons why:
1. Crazy Ants
Something to consider when your ultra-spoiled poodle is on a BARF diet and there are ants around.
Warning: the following is NASTY.
2. Club Fizz foundation leak.
Before leaving for work this morning I checked the foundation for leaks. There was some water in Hal’s room but not really that much. At about 11am John called me to let me know that there was a ton of water coming from the foundation in the corner of Hal’s room. So I had to get home to help keep water at bay while the source of the leak was identified and fixed. On my way home I pickup up a wet-vac from Home Creepo. I was super lucky that the foundation contractor was able to come over and help John dig a trench around my neighbor’s unit. It turns out that the water was coming from his foundation and causing it to divert underneath mine. After the contractor left, there was still water gushing in. It turned out that there was another area where the water was diverting from under his unit directly into mine. So we climbed up the muddy hill and John dug another big hole where the water was able to collect and go outside of the building instead of into Club Fizz. Basically it totally sucked and my floors got all wet and there was mud everywhere and we are both totally exhausted.
Me in my trusty Marc Jacobs wellies vacuuming up water.
As far as we can tell all the temporary fixes we made today have been 100% successful. The sub-floor is drying out and luckily the Tarkett is not damaged. Just lots of nastyness.
In other news, Queen Flee Wee is old enough now to write her own blog.
Ikea Hacks
Normally I might recommend against permanently installing anything Ikea in one’s house.
One day a neighbor who was moving out left a Tromso in the street.
After hacking it up and adding a couple pieces of extra hardware, it worked perfectly as a loft bed space on my previously useless top of my closet.
Sometimes Ikea furniture needs a little extra something to “get the Ikea out”. This is an Ikea Kajak with Verushka the mannequin torso permanently attached to the top. The unit spins with storage on one side and a full length mirror on the other.
Last is this pasta/salad bowl turned into a hanging planter.
Custom Window Bars
Reed Brother’s Security fabricated and installed these window bars based on my fizzy design.
They kinda messed up my drywall in the process as they had originally fabricated them incorrectly and had to re-do them in order for their screws to be flush with the wall.
They never did get them quite flush with the wall but I was tired of them coming back and making a mess so I stopped trying to get them to fix it.