bedroom gallery wall

 Hello, friends!  I spent the weekend in Des Moines, Iowa.

I traveled with a friend whose college son was performing in the musical,

Next to Normal. I'm glad we had sunny, clear weather for travel as it was

snowing before we left and now it's snowing here once again. It's coming down

fast and furious with whipping winds. My son works for a pizza restaurant where

he's one of the delivery persons, and his manager was actually considerate enough

to call him and tell him that their restaurant was not doing deliveries tonight.

This mama is relieved!

Even though I plan on re-doing my entire bedroom, including the wall

color, I was tired of looking at the plain, boring walls ~ so I created a small

gallery wall above my grandma's secretary desk.

I simply shopped my house - went through my collection of pictures,

frames, and mirrors that I have stashed in my basement.

My grandma's desk is a beautiful piece, but it's missing the handles on the

front, which makes it really difficult to open. I think this piece would also benefit

from a re-do with paint.

 

I got this jewelry stand at World Market. I like how it can hold a variety of

jewelry...bracelets, rings, and earrings.

And, I used a cake stand (thrift shop!) to hold some perfumes.

I like using household items in unexpected ways.

Thanks for visiting with me today. I love and appreciate all your comments!

Linking up with Cozy Little House Tweak it Tuesday.

hit the thrifting jackpot ~ part one

I had cabin fever yesterday and was in the mood for thrifting.

I know ~ surprise, surprise.

Instead of hitting my usual Goodwill store, I went a little further up the road to check

 out a new Savers store. I was really impressed by the organization and cleanliness, 

though their prices were a little higher than Goodwill.

Found some fabulous stuff ~ and this is only part of it!

The colors on this vase are perfect for my living room - bright blue and, ta-da -

the lime green I've been looking for! The bottom of the vase says it's hand-painted in Thailand.

 I like this stainless steel utensil holder better than the plastic one I had.

The plastic one always seemed to get little crumbs and stuff caught in it.

Plus, this just looks better than the plastic one. Not that anyone is opening your

kitchen drawers and looking at your utensil holder. (Are they?)

Yay, more books!

Was especially excited about the Julia Child one, as I have a JC book collection going on. I already had As Always, Julia; Julia's Cats; and Appetite For Life.

I've had this little courtship thing with small vintage pictures

and thought this oil painting was quite unique with the raised flowers.

Displayed in my office...

I wore this Alfani cardigan (they carry this brand at Macys!) today with

a black shirt and light pink scarf.

Don't these Valentine chocolates look extra pretty in the

glass dish with sterling silver trim? The silver was tarnished, but it only

took a few swipes of my silver cloth to clean it up.

I'll be back in a couple more days to share the rest of my treasures with you!

Have you had any luck with thrifting lately?

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and a living space: The Nifty Thrifty 

 

a pretty new find ~ and more tweaking

Look what I found at Hobby Lobby!

The colors are perfect for my living room and you all know how

I love birds in my decor. It was also on clearance ~ bonus.

I took down the little pictures I had hanging on the wall by the front door

and hung the new bird picture there instead.

Then I tweaked the console table.

When I had hubby hang the gold mirror on the wall, I thought the placement

was going to be perfect. Turned out it was hung too high. Oops.

So, I try to fill in the wide gap between the bottom of the mirror and the top of the table

with taller items. I "shopped around the house" and took the two white candlesticks

and glass pedestal from the buffet area, and the white dome with the bird nest in it

from my office. I'm thinking for more of a permanent fix, of buying a long

floating shelf and putting it underneath the mirror.

The middle shelf of the console table was looking too boring and brown.

So I added a little blue dish (remember my previous post about me using touches of blue

in the living room?) and a pretty bird candle that I recently found on clearance

at TJ Maxx to brighten things up.

Here's the whole shebang ~

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