ruffles

when you don't have a lot to do, you have to rejoice in small victories.
yesterday, i went with my mutti to her interior decorator. afterwards, i am not sure whether surviving this meeting should count as a small or significant victory, because in iowa, RUFFLES are all the rage.
i cannot allow my mom to have ruffles in her house. so beforehand, we developed a united front. we were going to go with the simple stagecoach valance. no ruffles, just some simply, clean fabric with a ribbon accent (no bow).
we drove and met the decorator. she immediately had ideas of her own.
(an aside--my mom actually has really good taste--i could never figure out why she went to a decorator. i think it is because she doesn't trust herself. that is my role--make her go with her gut.)
of course, these ideas included ruffles--LOTS of them. curtains, pillows, chairpads, placemats--all with different ruffles.
this is where i would like to introduce "interior decorator fritz." if you thought business fritz was bad ass, you haven't met decorator fritz. while there may be room for discussion or negotiation with business fritz, decorator fritz is all about "yes" or "no" and perhaps "we don't like that."
so decorator fritz was determined to save his mom's house from ruffles.
"we don't like ruffles, at all"
"but...the fabric needs movement"
"no, the fabric has enough movement in the pattern, we do not want any ruffles. it is not her style."
after repeating this sequence about 5 times with different elements of the room, we successfully left the decorate sans ruffles.
mission accomplished.