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Thrifty!

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Well, first of all, thanks for all your ever so charming advice about our T.O.P situation. We did actually look at a stove this weekend, but at 36″ it was too small (which sealed the deal that we really need a 40″ – which in turn – is so much more a pain in the ass and costly).

So the whole convection oven thing is seeming like a really good idea…

Which means we are still undecided. Now I’m thinking using it for hardscaping the front yard might be a better solution. Awww, fickle fickle renovation.

But anywho. Ceramics!

I’ve found these little babies and the group of three larger pieces over the past few weeks. All I can find recently is ceramics…maybe it’s all I’m looking for.

Oh, and check it out, I got a log to stick in the fireplace. OOOOOOOOOOO, spooky – it looks like it’s floating.

Thrifty…

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Thrifting was terrible this weekend. This is it – a little shifty eyed bird blob. Sigh…

It’s probably a good thing since I finished up my first month at the consignment shop…and…well…it’s not a raging success.

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I tried switching up the coffee table in the living room to brighten things up…

Look at emo Iggy. He perfectly expresses my deflated and defeated mood.

The new coffee table arrangement lasted about a week and now I’m trying to sell it on Craigslist. That’s not working out so well either…

On the plus side a neighbor threw up in my backyard. Which means the next big house project is going to be a gate! Hooray!

Thrifty!

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Everything was sparse as well as red, brown and danish on the thrifty rounds this weekend. I picked up two pieces of Dansk – a Jens Quistgaard kobenstyle red enamel pot and a brown Gourmet Designs plastic pitcher with lid. I also picked up this red metal retractable lamp, I love a good retractable lamp!

Otherwise nothing too exciting happened on the thrifty rounds except for spotting Eddie Ross in some bright green shorts at the Estate Sale Company in Palm Springs.

As The Boy can attest – I can be horribly awkward in social situations. Like a feral child I tend to freeze up during routine human interaction, so instead of just being a normal design dork and saying hi and asking how Martha smells I just took a quick (and horrible) iphone pic at a distance to confirm this strange coincidence.

Oh man, I’m a creep. CREEP.