Observations from Day One of (Totally Not) My Trading Spaces Experience:
Paige Davis isn't as friendly as I thought she would be. (She was not happy when I said hello to her. In fact, she refused to make eye contact. But, I give her a pass. I'm sure nosy neighbors are All Up In Her Snatch when she's filming and she probably has to implement the Asshole Defense System to avoid engaging people and get work done. I totally get that, however, I can't lie-- I was a bit shocked.) That said. She is ADORABLE.
Sadly, I only got one picture of her and it was from far away and also of her back. Once again, my fear of Breaking the Law overwhelmed me and I was too chicken shit to just stand in my yard and take pictures. Instead, I stood in my garage, waited until no one was watching and snapped as fast as I could. Luckily, I'm huge so when people did look it was easy to hide the camera by holding it against my side. I honestly don't know what I'm afraid of. Oh, wait, yes I do. I'm afraid Some Dude from production will come over and ask me to please stop taking pictures and I'll be all "Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean any harm sir. I'M JUST A WRITER, SIR. A writer who loves taking pictures for my blog, sir."
The Carpenter is HOT. And think I'll set up a chair in the front yard and work from there tomorrow just so that I can watch him hit stuff with his hammer.
That's really all I've got so far. I still don't know who the designer will be. I'll find that out sometime tomorrow morning when I'm just "watering the flowers" for the 38th time in 2 days.
Question: Why the candy canes? Why the Christmas frock? Are your neighbors Christmas freaks...you know those people who have decorations up all year.
Please keep us posted. Can you take photos from an upstairs window? Over the garden fence?