We had to take Sunday off to go to the local agricultural fair. Then we came back and I had to make an emergency antique store run. I hadn't been in a long time and just knew something there might need me to take it home. Turns out it was this vintage fabric. Two yellow barkcloth drapes and a chunk of vintage fabric that I'm going to make mushy throw pillows out of. And two little bits of vintage fabric I hope to use in a quilt one day.
This is a light switch plate we made a few years ago by color copying a photo from an old children's book, glueing it to the front of the switch plate and then sealing it with clear gloss. It controls the piano room lights.
I took down the mirror over the fireplace and instead put up all my e-bay Ocean views pictures. I've just got a little fetish going for those things.
The piano is tidied up and looking nice at least. The picture over it is by a Canadian artist and I got it for about $50 off E-bay. It is one of my favorites. The piano lamp is $5 from Salvation Army. We have a piece of fabric on top, but I'm looking for a really wonderful old dresser scarf or runner to go there.
The last dahlias of the season in a vase on the piano. I love dahlias. I just wish they smelled like roses and didn't have to be dug up ever year.
These are the pictures with black frames that I moved various areas and now have along the wall by the stairs (well, I call them stairs, but actually they are the 5 steps leading to the bedrooms). Four of the prints are ones I made when I was in art classes and the other three pictures are photos by Sally Mann that I cut out of her book (I bought it just for that purpose! Totally for the picture called "The Last Time Emmett posed nude" which I really love!) I think arranging the pictures that way makes the celing look higher. I don't quite know why. The plan is to paint next spring. I'm thinking the piano room should be a sunny yellow or an apricot. I'm leaning towards yellow.
So on Monday--Discover's Day Holiday--we continued with our "fixing up." This is the place where you walk in the front door and hang your keys. I had a cabinet leftover from the kitchen remodel and I bought 5 parson coffee table legs from Home Depot. I screwed them in to the bottom of the cabinet and now it is a bookcase with doors. On top, I have a lamp and knickknacks. The painting is from E-baby. The plaque says, "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." It was a gift from my friend Andrea. And the clock is above the painting so we can see when we need to leave in the morning!
Today we all piled in the car and rushed to the Goodwill to buy a 50's credenza I had seen yesterday. It was $34 and last night I decided I desperately needed it for the front entry under my Black portrait that I had bought years ago from a student artist at AZ State University. There was a great gallery in Scottsdale, AZ that sold just student work from the surrounding colleges. I loved it. It had lots of funky stuff you didn't see in the more traditional galleries. Plus it was affordable. Anyway, I fell in love with this painting and paid $500 for it which seemed like a fortune to me at the time. But I've never regretted it.
The cow skull I've had since the 1980's when a professor had in graduate skull got it for me. He'd seen it in his wanderings and got it for me. The African masks are from E-bay (I said I was addicted, didn't I?) The lamp was a sale deal from Pier One imports. I was sucked in by that color combination of brown and turquoise. The aloe vera spent the summer in the yard and recovered from my neglect the previous year.
We worked a little on the mantelpiece still life. The truck is a color I love. It's as close as we'll probably ever get to buying a camper. We all lust for one, but can't really justify the expense. So I broke down and bought this at the Goodwill for $35.00 which is fairly ridiculous considering normal Goodwill prices. Goodwill has gotten savvy though when it comes to stuff that will bring a good price and is collectible. It's hard to get a good deal on some things. I may be forced to visit yardsales in the future. Goodwill is still great for furniture, though!
Sadie worked with me to re-do the piano. We decided our Thailand Goddess should go up there and two pictures from their younger years.
No comments:
Post a Comment