Weekend Musings

Overall, it was a rather successful weekend. This is going to be a picture post of my great finds...

Awesome nightstand from DanaLee's...now I just need to find a 2nd one of similar style and paint it to match

A cool old toolbox painted aqua...it will be used to store fabric in my sewing room :)

Sweet lamp. Like the color, but it won't match my room, so it's going to get a makeover.

LOVED the shape of this lamp, but not the brass. It too is getting a makeover (before & after pics to come)

A couple chairs from a moving sale...$40 for both! Need to be badly reupholstered.

New sheets to match the nighstand...$20 at Macy's (50% plus a 25% off coupon!)

A close-up of the new sheets

Initially, I wasn't huge on the color of the nightstand...until I put it in my room. It brightened the place right up! And now I love it! I just need to come up with a new color scheme for our bedroom (which is fine because I was planning to redecorate anyway). I think the sheets match rather nicely and will go well with my ivory duvet cover. Busy sheets but a plain duvet cover...still need to put them on the bed.

The toolbox was just too cool and only $5. I'm always looking for unique ways to store fabric because I just have WAY too much! Why not store it in something super awesome? I need to clean the inside out first, but it'll look great in my sewing room next to the briefcase I'm also using to store fabric. :)

The lamps...the first one was a find at an antique store. I actually like the color of it, but it's not going to match anything in my house...except the kitchen. But I have no place for a lamp in my kitchen. So it'll get a makeover and will sit atop a green nightstand in our bedroom. I'm thinking of painting it a darker dusty blue (the blue of the darker flowers from the sheets) and finding a cool linen shade to match. I'll paint the brass one (a $2.99 score at Value Village...loved the shape but not the color) to match.

Aaand the chairs...found them by accident on my way to church at a moving sale. Aren't they amazing?? It was only $35 for both! I'm taking an upholstery class this summer and will use these as my first subjects. Unfortunately, they're sitting in my garage for the time being both because the fabric on back is falling apart and because they smell like cigarette smoke (something I didn't realize until I was driving off with them in my car). Hopefully reupholstering them will be enough to get rid of the smell. If not, I'll have to rent an ozone oxidizer and let them de-stink for a day.

I've got all the fabrics for my new quilt! I think...I'm not entirely sure about the greens. I think they may be a little too yellow, although I love the pattern. What do you think of the color combo? That glacier colored Kona Cotton (2nd from the left) is also a bit dark. Not what I thought it would be online...I'm trying to find something lighter and less green.

And I'm off to do some cleaning and chores. Time to put my house back together after a crazy weekend!