Surprises in the toilet paper

Sometimes I leave little surprises for myself, like extra chocolate in my lunch bag or a note written on the coffee table covered by a book, just to keep life interesting. When you live with other people you frequently come home to find things different than when you left, but that doesn't really happen for people who live alone. Unfortunately, sometimes my surprises get other people.

Lovely thing to leave a house guest, right? 

I used to do this when I shared a bathroom with 4 women, and they never knew who would get stuck with it. 

All you do is cut a slit in the paper tube and drop food coloring into the toilet paper from the inside. You won't notice anything until the last 3rd or so. 

Do you ever leave surprises around the house? Are they funny or mean?

Shower curtain adjustments

One of my favorite things about this house is the claw foot bathtub. But one of the quirks of claw foot tubs is that you end up surrounded by shower curtain, which tends to billow in humid conditions. After getting the curtain liner stuck to my body one too many times, I decided to grab a scissors and go to town.

It's a little hard to tell in this picture, but originally the curtain liner fell all the way to the bottom of the tub. It would have been fine in a normal tub, but the claw feet raise the tub by quite a bit. I was worried about the bottom hem being wet all the time and possibly getting mildew, so I trimmed it up.

Black and white and feathered all over

I have a rather small bathroom. It's beautiful, though, and contains some of my favorite pieces in the house. I have a lovely white clawfoot tub, black and white flooring, and an oval vintage mirror.

Growing up I was really lanky and awkwardly tall and skinny. Eventually the rest of me filled out, but for several years I had bizarrely long, stick-shaped legs. It wasn't long before I realized I could identify with flamingos and their logic-defying legs.