Hello! How are you?  I hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day and are enjoying your week.  I have been busy!  It still amazes me how full my days are and how quickly they pass sans full-time corporate job.  But, I’m loving it.  Seriously, I’ve adjusted even more quickly than I thought I would. I put a palette together for my husband’s office, and have been dealing with the wallpaper fallout in trying to get this space painted.  Ridiculousness!  Don’t you hate it when you have a project that you really work on, but at the end of the day, don’t have a whole lot to show for it?  Yeah, that’s been this room so far. The amount of patching and sanding was maddening.  But at the end of the day on Monday, the office was primed.  Can I get a “Halleluiah”? So, it went from this: To the walls looking like this: To this: And finally, the back wall – primed!  Thank goodness only two walls were wallpapered.  And really, the window wall wasn’t even a full wall.   After painting the two non-wallpaper walls, you can imagine how anxious I was to pretty up the ugliness.   Pictures of […]

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Hello! One of the perks of my new at-home status is that I can shop around at different stores that I normally don’t have the time to peruse.  In doing so, I’m finding that it pays to shop around.  Literally. Let me explain.  I stopped into a “designer’s consignment store” the other day, and it was filled with all sorts of unique (and overpriced) pieces.  While these pieces are both interesting, they’re both priced at upwards of $1500 each.  Interesting, but not that interesting, if you ask me. I saw a dresser similar to this second one on Craigslist for $100.  (Of course, it’s not there now – it must have sold!).  Granted, it wasn’t an exact match, but definitely similar, and I’ll take similar with a price difference like that! Like I said, this “Designer’s Consignment” store was filled with some weird one-of-a-kind pieces. Duck sled anyone? This rainbow dresser was priced at $100.  For real?  I suspect prices like this is why this store was jam packed with inventory. I did like these vintage baseball glove and catcher’s mask though. What’s interesting, is that I found virtually the same table, in three different places, with three very different prices.  The […]

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