I likey!

I LOVE it!!!

So mid-century modern retro-y looking!

And it will match the cats perfectly.

It's gorgeous! The fun will start when one cat is underneath the glass and the other over. I just love watching cats figure out how stuff works!!

Watch your legs! Maybe it's just me (probably)but new furniture always trips me for a while before I get used to it. By a while I mean YEARS!

Purty! Enjoy it!

Yup--The tripping *and* the kitties under/over glass.....

Wasn't what I popped in to say, but somebody had to second Liz's truths!!

Love the oh so elegant, look at my long lovely legs, don't they hang over so Bee-you-tifully pose that Frankie is in. She's gotta work on her face though; she looks like she thinks she's gonna get in trouble......

Perhaps too much project runway? Hmmm? Nah!

I get so much from your blog: knitting, cooking, life and now art. Thanks and congratulations on your table.

Lovely coffee table. Yanno, my current coffee table is 25 years old. Hmmmmm.

;-)

Gor. Geous.

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis

I like! But you LOVE--that's all that really matters. Enjoy!

I love it! It matches Frankie very well.

I like it! All my furniture is give-aways, so I anticipate reacting the same way when I finally buy a piece of furniture especially for me!

Still life with Frankie - both gorgeous! Nothing makes my day like gratuitous cat photos!

Congratulations, it IS a wonderful coffee table! (And you may have to use treats, but I think Frankie makes the perfect adornment and should be persuaded to stay there). FURTHERMORE! "Vintage"! yes, that IS the word for my early-student-housingp-middle-period-good-will decor! "Vintage Eclectic." That's it! A thousand thanks (sounds so much better than "junk shop").

Miss Frankie, that is a fabulous lounge you've got going on!

Super cute coffee table! Very fun!

The table has beautiful lines; great find.

And "At Last" is such a wonderful song- now Etta James will be in my head singing it all day- not a bad thing.

I need me a Faithcar. Care to dish some deets?

That table looks justlike the one my Aunt used to have way back in teh 60's. Big THICK glass top, perfectfor gathering around on Thanksgiving and eating crudite.

Wonderful coffee table.

Wonderful Frankie kitty cat.

Wonderful song.

:)

holy cow that is a gorgeous table! must wipe drool off screen now. really really beautiful. esp with the cat on it, looking rather startled. Is she spending too much time with Bob? ;-)

And because you sang that song, I love you more.
Watch your shins.

It's gorgeous!

Only thing that concerns me is if the glass is actually attached to the base or if it's just laying on it. If it's just laying on it I'd be worried that it could be tipped off by one of the cats and hurt them on the way down. That would be a bad thing.

Congrats!
I finally got the coffee table of my dreams at Christmas... an old wooden trunk.

I love the coffee table AND that song. On I-75 going up toward Flint (north of Detroit) right now there is a billboard that says something like "AT LAST...Etta James is performing at the Whiting, April 4" I thought that was such a cute way to put it.

I wish I could go!

It goes so nicely with Frankie, and with the antique couch! All right, I don't know the couch is an antique, but my folks have one with wood trim like that, which I really like and have not seen in furniture stores. Not that I am in them much: our decorating style is Early American Graduate Student. Our stereo is elegantly displayed on shelving we rescued from the trash about 20 years ago.

We do have a nice coffee table, though, a butcher-block one that we bought circa 1985 at an actual store, and of which one can catch occasional glimpses through the surface clutter. We used to have people over for bridge every Friday, and I would say "we need to clean this place up, they'll be here in half an hour," and Grant would say "it's just surface clutter," and I would say "I KNOW it's surface clutter, we need to REMOVE it." After years of having this same fight every week, it became a running joke, and when we got to our new house and started unpacking boxes (we packed ourselves, of course, since we weren't being relocated by a beneficent employer and weren't about to pay someone else to do it), I found one Grant had packed and neatly labeled "surface clutter." All the comforts of home.

THAT was my wedding song. We danced our first dance as husband and wife to that song. Love Etta James!

And now you have something else to dust..........and to collect cathair.

My cats are my loves..........

A friend of mine suggested I check out your blog. So I did. And I heart you. Anyway- I saw this on Etsy.com and thought you might try to make yourself an apple sweater, you know to keep them cozy (and unbruised)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10361383

bee u t ee fULL!

Frankie makes a lovely objet for your gorgeous new table!

Nice choice! It's gorgeous. And Frankie looks DIVINE on there!
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Tiff - I don't know how it happens. Every car of mine has had these properties. I once carried a bathroom vanity in the front seat of my Honda civic. Now I have a PT Cruiser. I imagine it could probably hold a hot tub if I asked it to.

I am imagining a series of hover kitty pictures. The glass top will provide lots of entertainment, I am sure. It is a lovely table.

I love the look of your new table! I too have a glass topped table. Our living room is so super tiny that anything "solid" looking would just be over whelming. I really like that the glass table is functional yet doesn't really appear to be "there". Very beautiful!

Beautiful and cat supportive, what's not to love?

Love the table. Got one similar at Scan and my big cat Fearghus also loves to adorn the surface! He knows I bought it just for him as a
high-class kitty perch.

Love the new cat bed, I mean the new coffee table...

Jill in Florida

And are we sure that glass is solidly attached? Because your orange guy looks like he has the heft to knock that glass top right off if he heaves himself up in the right place. Not hatin on the table, not hatin on the cat. Just saying.

Of COURSE Frankie isn't surface clutter. Frankie is, quite obviously, objet d'art.

Frankie is beautiful! The coffee table is a nice 'accessory' for her!

Do I spy a TIVO remote! Cannot knit without tivo!

rb, Frankie is a she. (Also an objet d'art.) The feline black/orange color gene rides on the X chromosome, so any cat with both black and orange fur must be female. (The white is controlled by another gene entirely.)

Gorgeous table, gorgeous cat!

What is it about getting that "just right" piece of furniture that makes you wanna' do the Happy Dance of Bliss? Well, whatever it is, I'm glad you got it! Enjoy!

Lucia, I know. I was talking about the orange cat from yesterday. He looks... bigger.. .than this one.

What a great table. It looks like the gang will be using it for posing, rather than mine who use one as a step to the window, and as a receptacle for cat hair - but then so is the rest of the house ;-)

How do you manage keeping a white carpet and cats at the same time? (It looks great.) My white carpet and my cat's fur didn't go together as well as your carpet and cats do. It can't just be the Dyson!

Ah, the pretty glass table top in the early stages without the little sweaty paw prints all over it... deevine!

H.D. Buttercup is housed in what used to be Helms Bakery, an L.A. institution of the 1940s and 50s. Just saying Helms conjures up the smell of fresh-baked squishy bread, small chewy chocolate chip cookies, and the distinctive toot of the Helms Bakery truck whistle as it pulled up in front of my house. Yes... cute little bakery trucks had neighborhood routes and a few times a week, every mom and kid on my block would rush out at the sound of the Helms toot and watch the bakery guy in his cute white uniform pull out long drawers from the back of the truck loaded with goodies. I want it to be 1955 for just one more day so I could eat a stack of Helms cookies with my best friend Becky. 53 years later and she's still a best friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Bakery

"At Last"....that's our song! Me and Larry! It took a long time for us to meet, y'know.

LOVE the Noguchi. My boss has one in his office. It's solid, but because it's glass, it kinda' disappears. The base is like beautiful sculpture. Enjoy it!

Beyond cool!!!! And the table's not bad, either.

That table looks so much like the one my parents had when I was a kid in the 60's. I seem to remember some kind of cat ornament, too, only it was ceramic, probably a panther. Panthers were way cool in the 60's, I guess. My aunt had a set of kitties with tufts of marabou on their heads and they were connected by a little chain. We really wanted to pet them and play with them but that was NOT ALLOWED.Ah yes, memories!

Oooo....! Love the table. But hate myself, 'cause the first thing I thought of was: "Hope she has lots of Windex to keep up with the perennial paw prints that table is gonna accumulate." Can't believe that someone with two cats and two hairy dogs would even bother to worry about paw prints on a glass-topped table. Sorry! I'm sure you aren't worried at all!

I have a 20 year old glass topped coffee table -- I love how the glass fits in with every style of furniture. Plus, the cats look so pretty both on them and below them.

I love the coffee table (and the idea of coffee tables - somewhere to put your wine and feet.) And that song! I used to sing it to my son - channeling Etta James as best I could - when he was a baby. Thanks for making me think of that.

Gorgeous table! And I LOVE that song!!

Congrats on the purchase!

Lovely! It takes so little to make us really happy!!!

When I first started reading the post, and saw the lyrics and Frankie's picture - I thought that she was singing to the table. She just looks so comfy and at home on it.
And her pose is *so* sultry Etta James (minus the surprised look on her face!)

Lovely table - it looks like it fits right in!

Yay for new coffee tables! We just got a new one as well after looking in every thrift store we could think of. Finally we gave in and went to a "real" store and found the perfect one for us on sale! My husband and I laugh and say that it isn't the mortgage that makes us adults. It is having a brand new coffe table ;)

I love that coffee table!! My husband doesn't like mid-century retro, because he grew up in a house filled with big bulky dark heavy furniture that could crush you if it fell over (I have no idea where his parents got this stuff, but if they ever move to a new house they'll have to hire Paul Bunyan to move their furniture) and he thinks that's what furniture is supposed to be like. I'm weaning him off the big bulky etc, but he hasn't come so far as to enjoy the quirky loveliness of mid-century retro.

Sorry. Anyway: I love that coffee table! And Frankie complements it perfectly. Nothing better to have on a coffee table than a beautiful cat.

The table is gorgeous and Frankie is exquisite. Wow, I love how you wait for it...search for it and claim it. Simply love the table and I love glass because it is functional, but doesn't stop the visual. Yeah you!

Hey Laurie,
May you have many awesome years of coffee table bliss with it. It's pretty cool looking. Love retro-looking stuff. Mine is from IKEA, but I couldn't live without it's coffee holding, computer desking, foot resting greatness.

Nice cat, too.

You're the awesome-est!

Love Frankies' new dining table ;)

Now whenever Mommy's away,the cats can have dinner parties (at which much Secret Kitty Business is conducted.) Just be sure to keep their nails regularly clipped in order to avoid scratches!

I've been mostly lurking and not commenting for many weeks now, and when I checked in, here were the words to "At Last."

We had to put our beloved Tessie to sleep this morning. She was a calico, almost 20 years old, and her kidneys finally failed. She was so sweet and good.

I knew this was the right place to come.

Awww...love the kitty cat pictures. I'm starting to like cats more and more everytime I see cute Bob Of The Cute Pink Toes, and the Regal-looking Frankie.

My aunt is getting a cat (or two) today. The one she wants to get at the Humane Society looks just like the cat that's on the front of your book. The cat is a year old, and his name is Burt.

Hopefully Burt hasnt already been adopted before my aunt can get him. He looks like he has an interesting personality.

sadness...the kitty my aunt wanted to get was sold this morning before she got there.

:(....

I love interesting shapes like that. They don't fit in my home environment, but I love them anyway.

Nice table, but for goodness sakes, I thought at first that you had found TRUE LOVE! Well, if you found true love in the form of a table, who am I to stand in the way of your non-traditional relationship?

BTW, round these parts, we call it "Early American Furniture", as in-you gotta get up early in America to get that furniture (from someone's curb).

Why is it so hard to find a coffee table? My living room has been without one for almost a year, as we gave a way a tank of a table that I could no longer stand and live in our basement recroom so we had to bring the living room table downstairs and I cannot find one I want to buy for my living room. I have been in dozens of stores, searched online. Very very difficult. My husband has explained to several store sales people that I am looking for something that "hasn't been made yet". :)
Yours is gorgeous!! Congratulations. I hope I find mine soon!
FD cutiecat...hee hee

Ohhhh! I love the table! It is so sleek and modern. Perfect for clutter!

Faith - you have made me very happy indeed, for I love me some PT cruise and THIS is the reason I needed to get one.

But do they make them in a hybrid, I wonder??

such a cute cat! i wonder if his little wet nose makes prints on the glass on that table though. i shy away from glass, because of that.

Very chic. Looks like a nice place to eat dinner.

Hi - I was really trying to comment about the "Ghosts". I read all the comments and found them to be hillarious! I was laughing outloud all by myself. You people are very humorous. I think there is a book in there somewhere. Who knew there were so many solutions to ghost problems?? Are you so busy cuz you are writing a new book? Hope so.

Oh, yes, I love the coffee table - congrats. I couldn't post under ghosts cuz there must have been too many comments. Wouldn't let me.