A slow, yet steady shopper

I have continued shopping and watching articles that would fit in my soon-to-be new home in several stores. On Sunday May 7th, I went with José Manuel to Punto de Fábrica, a furniture and decoration store specialized in stuff from Asia. So, some thing could work for me, since there is some sort of the same culture and style from Morocco to Bombay and from Istanbul to Jakarta.



So I bought this hand-carved mirror and this henna lamp

Moroccan overloaded decoration ויותר...

I have decided to finally move to a place of my own, being it an annex or a small apartment. I feel the moment of having my own space has come; I don't want to make parties at home, nothing like that. I just want to roam around the place in my undies, and scratch my balls if I feel like doing it without having to do so in my bedroom. Besides, Having the shabbat dinner, lighting the candles and all that stuff seems to be SO weird to my landlords that they don't understand why I do such things. During Pesach, they were constantly wondering why I didn't dare to have a bite of a piece of bread and focused on eating what they said were "tasteless crackers" (matza)

So, I have started officially looking for either an annex, or a small studio downtown, so I can hit two birds with the same stone: fulfill the mitzva of living close to the synagogue and have a place I can call mine. And that search has not been successful though, but it will come, I'm pretty sure of that. In the meantime, I have started to buy and gather stuff that will be greatly needed in my future home, which will definitely have a certain moroccan decoration, but NOT overloaded! I'm just joking about moroccan (jews and arabs alike) being overloaded, overexaggerated, overnoisy, overdramatic .. well, in what kind of human being I'm evolving into? a moroccan with a definite ashkenazic taste. Anyway, I have already bought some cushion pillows, a set of water glasses, a set of 2 curtains, one of toasted orange gauze, and the other one of raw cotton, making a pair in order to make it look warm, cozy and rustic, yet a bit modern; I am looking also for a computer desk since I can't take the one in the apartment with me. I also need cooking and china sets, which I expect to buy before I go the US and well... lots of good stuff that need to be done and bought, like tea glasses, lamps, henna tent lamps, a shelf, a cabinet or an armoire, a night stand, a pouff, a nargilah, a mirror, I wish I could get an annex with a garden so I can kinda modify it like this. I also need to buy my mezuzot, a menorah, a hamsa blessing, a decent kiddush cup and maybe some armenian ceramics to match with. I already have some small hand made rugs and also a big turkish wall rug mom gave me ages ago and some small syrian-made coffers with nacre. I feel this is a step in the right direction but I need more money!



Oh, there's so much to be done! *sigh*