What's Black And White On Sunday Favorites?

And now. . . the burning question of the day:

. . . what's black and white and red all over?

On the playground at Eagle Avenue Elementary School on Long Island,
we used to say "a newspaper!" and laugh ourselves silly.

But now at That Old House, the answer is ... The Powder Room!
Not as witty, perhaps, but infinitely more satisfying.

My most-viewed-ever post was my February 16th 2009 one about the metamorphosis of our Powder Room;
if you are curious, click here. The "befores" were interesting. . .

. . . the "afters" were not complete in that post. . . .

No curtains!

(Oddly enough, taped up samples of fabrics don't count. Who knew?)

Toile was the fabric of choice for most of you who expressed an opinion back then, and as luck would have it, I had a generous length of $1.00 a yard cream and black cotton toile that I bought last year at WalMart (it's the bottom fabric in the picture, above).

Kismet.

I am really pleased with how this $1.00 a yard fabric looks at this window. I self-lined it, just doubled over the fabric so if the blind is raised, it will look the same from the outside as from the inside. The print is busy enough and fabric substantial enough that the pattern doesn't "shine through" from one side to the other.

Hope you like the new curtain! It had to be swagged to one side, as the sconce would otherwise interfere with the fabric. But luckily, it's all period appropriate!

It needs a tieback -- right now just a narrow bit of satin ribbon is doing tieback duty. Time for a tassel, maybe?

(Update from March 2010 -- the curtain now has a red tassel tieback.

But my camera is out in the car and my hair's still wet from the shower --
too cold outside for me so no new picture!)

Let's peek into the powder room from the dining room. . .
(not that we encourage that sort of behavior!)

Now...what is black & white & black & white & black & white & black & . . . ???
As we used to say at old Eagle Avenue, "A nun rolling downhill."
You need to have grown up in the days of nuns wearing habits to appreciate this witty bit of school yard hilarity.

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(March 2010) My sister and our husbands and I will be doing hospital duty with Pop today, but I'm also jumping ship for a couple of hours to have brunch with daughter Anne and catch up on her life. Enjoy this beautiful Sunday . . . as all Sundays are beautiful! -- Cass

Thanks to Chari at Happy To Design for the Sunday Favorites blog party;
you can visit by clicking on highlighted words.