coffee table post:)

when we moved into our forever-dream-needs-a-lotta-work-but-we're-pumped-home we were lucky to find that a few gems were left behind!!

this table, which now serves as our coffee table, actually sat outside the house through an entire winter and spring. We roll all trailer-trash like that;) But once summer rolled around I was ready to try and salvage the little guy!

after tightening some screws on the legs, giving it a quick sand and then staining and varnishing...it was as good as new!!!:) And all that took only a good part of one afternoon! That's about all my attention span and patience has to give...so this was the perfect project for me!

as you can imagine...Homer was beyond helpful;) He mostly tested it's sturdiness:)

and here is the beautiful finished product!!! I really love how it turned out and it was completely free! My parents - RL - do custom cabinetry and so I used just a small amount of stain that they already had laying around and then my mom was nice enough to take a few minutes to varnish (which is why I didn't get any photos of that part of the project...oops:). 

SIDE NOTE: that area rug is also another freebie that came along with the house!!!:) AND that adorable yellow couch...another freebie that I found out on the curb while on one of our walks. The church was giving it away and Homer and I wanted it so badly that we sat on it until my mom came back with a truck;)

this place is coming together piece by piece:):)

etsy tuesday.

i love when I find stuff on Etsy for $1,200...

especially when I bought something SUPER similar off Craig's List only a year ago for about $75:) Mine does need to be recovered...but we'll get that done in time:) Neat O!!!

UP Select Modern

DOWN Honey Suckle Finds

a must-have for any awesome baby room. Alphabet blocks:)

and since we're going second hand for as MUCH as we can for our future/currently imaginary child...it will be a hippie who knows nothing but hand me downs, garage sale/flea market finds and Etsy:)

me daily plus a hole.

okay...just a few quick things...I love that brown and black are one in the same. I was told that by my VERY fashionable/worldly/beautiful/intelligent aunt, Vicki, from Chicago:) And she told me that 10 years ago while I was there visiting. Even then, when I thought black and brown were worst enemies...she knew better!

pants - Levis

feet - Aldo, no longer on the site:( Just a great boot to have (thanks Neen:). At the moment I have a 15% Off Coupon and chomping at the bit to buy something...what to do, what to do!!!

PS. Ok, just ran some figures and 15% isn't shit. Netermind!!!!

and here are a few pictures to add to my Our Hole collection:) This is a vanity I got for FREE. YES. FREE...Free me likes. A girlfriend of mine wasn't especially loving it and so I scooped it up.

unfortunately, for Jacob, I decided I HAD to/MUST/NO OTHER OPTION but to have both this vanity and the Craig's List couch up and in working order in one night. Needless to say...the wedding's...STILL ON;) Yes, we survived that night.

But...we have no lights in the living room. Yeah. While Jacob was putting our 'new' furniture together, I decided to change a bulb in our living room chandelier type delio and I decided to do this while the lights were still on AND with a bulb that was actually too small.

A few sparks later and some naughty words...and yes, 3 days later, we're still without lights. I have a feeling I'll be talking of our light outage situation till after the 1st of the year. Things like that just go...unfixed.:(

me being 20% cute and a lot more creepy:)

POINT: this is the vanity in it's new home - OUR Bedroom:) The plan isn't to keep it there forever. Eventually I'd like to have a walk-in closet and this puppy will be shoved in there. It needs a solid paint job and at the moment I'm thinking simple white or cream. Mmmm, cream...yep, that sounds about right.

but anything that gives me a stool and huge mirror to apply make-up in the morning is a step-up from being on my knees in dim lighting as I was for months...and monthsssss. I shocked myself when I got to work a few times. Yep. Nothing scarier than feeling like a rock star in dim lighting by your lonesome at home and then hitting those florescent ones in the work bathroom 5 hours later and realizing that the sparkle purple you picked out with the 'blue' eye liner, you could have WORN was black...is massive Don't and those looks you were getting from your coworkers weren't ones of envy. Boo:(

but all that's behind me now!!!!

Here's my new Pretty Face Station. Here's where the magic happens:)

our hole.

i'd like to welcome you to a new edition/chapter of this blog. It shall be called: Our Hole.

for those of you who aren't familiar with that term, it is what we call the place which me and Jacob call home. Our beloved abode:)

there is much to be done but it's cute and someday it'll be a gem!!

most recently I forced Jacob to waste a Sunday night traveling 45 minutes away to look at a couch that I'd found on Craig's List. It ended up being prettty close to what I had imagined and for $75, I thought why not.

jacob has made me sign a contract (in blood) that I will not buy ANY more cheap furniture. Boo:(

the plan is to not buy anymore furniture until we build a house and I'm able to get the sectional of my dreams. This may be a few more years from now so I've decided to start saving and then look into having this cutie recovered in the next year or so!