Parris will soon be on her way home to take care of the cats, before they start rioting and have wild parties. So I'm pressing on by myself. Arrived in London a few hours ago. Signing at Forbidden Planet on the 11th.

Happy Friday everyone! This week we'd like to how you display/store your books.



Also, we're letting you guys submit your new Friday Salon graphic entries through the weekend.

Have fun and bon weekend!

And here we are in Dublin. Ireland has been exciting but exhausting. We had a huge turnout last night for the signing at Eason's, with a queue that seemed to go on forever, but I finally scrawled everyone into submission, and afterwards I signed all the stock as well. If you missed the signing, or happen to live a thousand leagues away, you can still get an autographed copy of the SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH hardcover or any of the Ice & Fire paperbacks by phoning, emailing, or dropping by Eason's on O'Connell Street. They even have a few trade paperbacks of DREAMSONGS.

Afterwards we adjourned to a nearby pub for a lively evening of Guinness and conversation with the local fans. I met the good folk who will be running next year's Octocon, where I'll be GOH, and hoisted a few with the hardy survivors of the Eason's event. Didn't stagger back to the our hotel till after midnight, by which time Temple Bar was roaring. Ah, if only I were twenty years younger...

The Belfast event on Tuesday was also a hoot and a half. The crowd was much bigger at Dublin, but in Belfast some of the cast of the HBO pilot dropped by to sign books and meet the fans as well. My thanks to Ron Donachie, Richard Madden (Best Dressed Man in Scotland), Alfie Allen, Kit Harington, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner (and their moms) for joining the festivities. And to the lovely Ros, Esme Bianco, who dropped by McHughes afterwards for the moot. Matthew Hughes, one of the authors who contributed to our Vance tribute anthology, also turned up at Eason's to help me sign SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH.

In between signing and mooting, I've been hanging round the shoot, trying not to get underfoot. "How is it going?" everyone wants to know. I think it's going great. Wednesday's location was amazing, so real I could hardly tell where the real castle ended and our fake castle began. I saw Bran and Tommen swatting at each other in the yard, Joffrey taunting Robb, the Hound growling at Ser Rodrik, while Arya displayed her wretched needlework to Jon above, and it all looked wonderful. Saw some of the footage from the crypts too, and that looked amazing as well. Yes, some things are not exactly as they were in the books, that's inevitable with any adaptation... but these are my characters and this is my story, and it's thrilling to see 'em come to life.

Last night in Belfast I got to meet two more of the cast, quite unexpectedly. Some of the Moroccan players were in Ireland for costume fittings. I ran into Ian McNeice for a brief moment outside the hotel, as we were waiting for our rides, and the night before we bumped into Dany -- the amazing Tamzin Merchant, who is even more beautiful in person than she is on screen -- into the dining room. What a terrific cast Nina Gold has assembled.

Also toured the Paint Hall, though we didn't do any shooting there while I was in Belfast. Some of our sets are going up, and look great. And in another part of the building the huge castle sets from the big budget (compared to us, anyway) feature YOUR HIGHNESS are still standing. Their great hall is pretty eye-popping and they built an impressive castle yard as well.

Tomorrow I'm off to London . Signing at Forbidden Planet on the 11th, Then it's off to Marrakech.

Life is magical and full of joy (but no, I have not been seeking out football scores, so don't tell me. TIVO is getting all my games).

Hi people :)

I need some advice on desks.
Long story short, I changed some furniture last February and got a new, tiny desk. I didn't realise that it would be so hard to study on it. I hate it now, 'cause I don't have anywhere to put books and stuff while studying and I always end up studying in the kitchen or the bed.
So, I'm planning of getting a new desk.

( my room right now and a little map )

You think it'd be good like this? And confortable for studying, indeed?
Any other ideas on how to rearrange the furniture? My other idea is to put the bed across the room, but I'm quite used to having it next to the wall and I'm not so sure of changing.

I'm all ears :)

Kammie.
(Sorry for the crappy, crappy English, it's not my mother language and I'm typing while on the phone so I'm kinda distracted :P)

edit: The plan is just a drawing, now that I see it again, it's funny how much I suck at it xD For example, my closet looks enormous and in fact it's pretty small. HAHA, Paint!Plan fails at life. *kammie hides in shame*

Thanks for commenting and giving advice :)

Okay, so Im re-painting my bedroom (its white..ugh), but afterwards its going to be the guest bedroom, my craft room, my little library, ect. The furniture is a light tan, and one peice (a shelving unit) has a light green interior. Another piece (my bookshelf) has a shiny gold interior I LOVE. Id rather not paint the furniture, but I will if it calls for it. If I did, I would paint the shelf unit.
I want to accent the room in black and white, with small splashes of color. (i.e. Black, white, and grey pillows, black and white art, then photos on the wall, ect.)

Even as Im typing this...Im thinking Im repainting the furniture. None of that sounds like it will match. I will probably repaint the shelf gold inside.

So my question is what color would compliment the room? I want it to be relaxing and modern. (I was thinking a shade of purple or teal...or maybe a pretty yellow). Any ideas? Also, should I paint the outside of my furniture?
Any photos of examples would be awesome!!
Thanks guys!

Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?



You can show it here... have fun!

Hi, I'm Stephanie from Toronto, Canada. Im 20 years old and this is my new room. Enjoy!




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Late, wet, and bedraggled, but I'm here.

Tomorrow heads will roll. Well, one head, at least.

Happy Friday! This week we'd like to see your saucy bathrooms. Again, if you've done some work and have before photos, please show them to us!

Next week we'll ask to see your favorite book storage/display solutions.




Also...We're interested in changing the graphic we use for the Friday Salon. We'd like to put it out to you guys to see what you can come up with.

- We'd like to have a sophisticated lounge in feel. It can still look retro. Always a bonus with me.
- No more than 550 pixels wide

And *gasp* you can send them to me via my LJ messaging!
ETA: I'm a diptard. I don't think you can send images via LJ so please send them to our mod email addy.
sdshmods @ gmail.com. Thanks!

Have fun and bon weekend!

Hi, I posted here about 2 years ago when I lived at home with my parents, now I'm 19 yr old college student living in Savannah GA with my roommate in a two bedroom apartment.

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My boyfriend and I will be moving into a 600sq. ft. shotgun house.




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How do you separate your kitchen from your living room in your studio?
How do you hide ugly ugly carpet in your rental?
Does anyone else live in a shotgun house? How do you decorate such narrow rooms?



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The Scottish filming is done, and cast and crew are packing up today for the big move to Belfast and its Paint Hall, where the shoot will resume. So far, so good.

Parris and I are moving on as well. She'll be headed over to Ireland tomorrow to spend Samhaim with friends, while I linger here in Scotland a few more days to visit with Lisa Tuttle. We converge again in Belfast in November. Today we swung by the HarperCollins warehouse outside Glasgow, where I signed five hundred hardcovers of SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH. Ask for one at your favorite UK bookstore, they will be going all over the country.

Things are shaping up for the signing at Eason's in Belfast. Last night after the filming wrapped we stayed up late drinking with the cast, and I think we convinced a number of them to join us at Eason's. Should be a hoot and a half, assuming they don't come to their senses in the cold grey light of morning. I told them my readers were essentially harmless. Hah.

The cast is sensational, by the way.

NEW!
Ameba STAFF 

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Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?



You can show it here... have fun!

I finally finished my son's room and wanted to post it on here. I think I have posted bits and pieces before but not the entire room.




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So I finally decided on a color for my walls (a nice tan/beige to offset the blue carpet and bedding) but my next problem lies in the filth in the carpet.

As we cannot afford to rip it up and relay something darker and nicer, we'll be attacking it with some serious cleaning and I was looking for the best advice here. It's a lighter blue carpet, but from not having been cleaned in...I wanna say almost 10 years give or take, the dirt has gotten seriously bad in that some places look to be a dark brown and/or oatmeal color. I had mice over the winter and they also left some hardcore stains.

We're most likely going to rent a rug doctor as that's the only thing in town, but as far as other cleaning products to help get some of the oil/grease stains from my computer chair (don't ask), the mess from the mice and the impacted dirt out would be wonderful. Even if it doesn't get it all, something that would make a HUGE improvement is what I want.

Thanks, if needed I'll take pictures later and edit them into the post to show you how bad it is in some placed.