OK, it was hard as hell taking pictures with this damn built in webcam in the laptop. Turning the damn thing backwards and trying to see the image and push the button. It took a while but I did it.

I'll show the den in this first post and then I'll show the kitchen and bedroom in other posts....

like the wavy mirror

And now for the kitchen which is on the other side of that oriental screen that I have separating the kitchen and den.....

And the bedroom....

You have great taste! I really like your apartment.

You need to invest in a camera, though. Or at least a cell phone that can take pics.

very nice on all counts!!

you have great taste! I think something's wrong with your laptop camera though, the pictures of your living room...well the wall with the mirrors is all wavy, innit..

Very nice!

Very nicely decorated, I like it a lot. I love your "Handsome Devil" coffee mug.

Looks great!

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I like it

Nice place Andy, and your mom is lovely.

Today on Lifestyles of the Bitch and Famous, we visit vainandy's Gay-sha inspired retreat.

Very nice Andy.

johnart said:

Today on Lifestyles of the Bitch and Famous, we visit vainandy's Gay-sha inspired retreat.

Very nice Andy.

Verruh nice.

That's hot.

I love the pic of your mom.

I adore the Asian theme. My entire bedroom and kitchen is Asian themed. Very nice, Andy.

Thanks all of y'all. The whole place is a mixture of some of both mine and my mother's stuff. The two of us had similar tastes. She was my best friend and we loved to go shopping together looking for interesting things. She bought the San Francisco house cookie jar on the kitchen table and the San Francisco pictures above it when her job sent her on a business trip to San Francisco back in 1981. It was the furthest she had ever been from Mississippi and she absolutely loved it.

Some of the items such as the two oriental ladies upstairs in the bedroom, I had bought for her on various birthdays, Mother's Days, and Christmases. I never knew I would be getting them back one day. I never have been one to put family pictures all over the walls because it always looked so old fashioned to me so I just put one picture of her above the kitchen sink which is appropriate because she loved to eat...as we all do. With such an even mixture of her stuff and my stuff throughout the entire place, her presence is all over the place.

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johnart said:

Today on Lifestyles of the Bitch and Famous, we visit vainandy's Gay-sha inspired retreat.

Very nice Andy.

vainandy said:

Thanks all of y'all. The whole place is a mixture of some of both mine and my mother's stuff. The two of us had similar tastes. She was my best friend and we loved to go shopping together looking for interesting things. She bought the San Francisco house cookie jar on the kitchen table and the San Francisco pictures above it when her job sent her on a business trip to San Francisco back in 1981. It was the furthest she had ever been from Mississippi and she absolutely loved it.

Some of the items such as the two oriental ladies upstairs in the bedroom, I had bought for her on various birthdays, Mother's Days, and Christmases. I never knew I would be getting them back one day. I never have been one to put family pictures all over the walls because it always looked so old fashioned to me so I just put one picture of her above the kitchen sink which is appropriate because she loved to eat...as we all do. With such an even mixture of her stuff and my stuff throughout the entire place, her presence is all over the place.

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Wow, first we get to see Andy and now a peak into his inner sanctum...We're not worthy!!

Nice pics......but you should buy a better camera

vainandy said:

Thanks all of y'all. The whole place is a mixture of some of both mine and my mother's stuff. The two of us had similar tastes. She was my best friend and we loved to go shopping together looking for interesting things. She bought the San Francisco house cookie jar on the kitchen table and the San Francisco pictures above it when her job sent her on a business trip to San Francisco back in 1981. It was the furthest she had ever been from Mississippi and she absolutely loved it.

Some of the items such as the two oriental ladies upstairs in the bedroom, I had bought for her on various birthdays, Mother's Days, and Christmases. I never knew I would be getting them back one day. I never have been one to put family pictures all over the walls because it always looked so old fashioned to me so I just put one picture of her above the kitchen sink which is appropriate because she loved to eat...as we all do. With such an even mixture of her stuff and my stuff throughout the entire place, her presence is all over the place.

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Awww, my mom was my best friend too...

I too love your mom's pic. There's a very warm and calming quality to it that keeps me scrolling back up to have another look.

I also wanna know more about the picture itself. I'm guessing its an Easter pic because of the bunny. But I know you damn well ain't one of those three children. If you've told the story I've somehow missed it. You know I drink.

Please regale me/us with one of your stories.

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johnart said:

I too love your mom's pic. There's a very warm and calming quality to it that keeps me scrolling back up to have another look.

I also wanna know more about the picture itself. I'm guessing its an Easter pic because of the bunny. But I know you damn well ain't one of those three children. If you've told the story I've somehow missed it. You know I drink.

Please regale me/us with one of your stories.

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That's me standing up on the left. With all this cold weather lately, I've lost all of my tan.

Honey, for me to be that young in a picture, I would probably be wearing bellbottoms. Those are three of my four nephews. That picture was taken in probably 1999 or 2000 around Easter time. Both my sisters were married to black men and one of them still is. They each have two sons.

My mother loved the hell out of her grandchildren. The funny thing is how she didn't take no shit off my bad ass when I was growing up and used to not understand why my grandmother (her mother) would let me run all over her and still continue to spoil my ass. But when she became a grandmother herself, she did the same exact same thing with her grandchildren.

vainandy said:

johnart said:

I too love your mom's pic. There's a very warm and calming quality to it that keeps me scrolling back up to have another look.

I also wanna know more about the picture itself. I'm guessing its an Easter pic because of the bunny. But I know you damn well ain't one of those three children. If you've told the story I've somehow missed it. You know I drink.

Please regale me/us with one of your stories.

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That's me standing up on the left. With all this cold weather lately, I've lost all of my tan.

Honey, for me to be that young in a picture, I would probably be wearing bellbottoms. Those are three of my four nephews. That picture was taken in probably 1999 or 2000 around Easter time. Both my sisters were married to black men and one of them still is. They each have two sons.

My mother loved the hell out of her grandchildren. The funny thing is how she didn't take no shit off my bad ass when I was growing up and used to not understand why my grandmother (her mother) would let me run all over her and still continue to spoil my ass. But when she became a grandmother herself, she did the same exact same thing with her grandchildren.

And re: bellbottoms, I didn't wanna be callin you an old bitch or nuthin.

It is very clear from their faces that her grandchildren loved the hell out of their grandmama too.