Craig's List Tables

Sometimes I look through Craig's List to see if there's anything I want. I have a whole apartment crammed with furniture but I still like to look. I saw an ad for these two nightstands.

 The top of one (the one on the right) has some bad water damage. I only paid $30.00 for both of these. I am going to use them as end tables in my new living room. At first I thought about painting these white and maybe distressing them but the wood is actually really pretty. It just needs some stain touch ups.

I copied this picture to my files off of flickr. I don't know who it belongs to. Please let me know if you do!

I really like the living room in the picture above. Josh likes dark colors. I don't mind some dark colors but I am more into lighter colors. I really like their white coffee table with the dark leather. 

Last week Sherri gave me an awesome tip on where to buy a cheaper bulb for my OTT lamp. Does anyone know this week how to remove watermarks from wood? I have no clue!

I am linking up with House of Grace for Twice Owned Tuesday!

Announcement- Wild Wednesday

Hi! I am going to start doing a weekly post on Wednesdays about my pets, pet crafts or anything else related to animals. I will post a linky so you can feel free to upload anything animal related that you would like! I would love to meet your pets or see what clever crafts you have made for them! See you back on Wednesday!


 

What happened this weekend!

I had planned on finishing my lamp project this weekend but that didn't happen. I went and had awesome Mexican food with some friends who moved to Northern Virginia on Friday, went to the Central Michigan University v. VT football game, went out for dinner again, went to bed really early on Saturday, woke up, did laundry, went to a really neat antique store, had dinner with Josh, went to bed! Here's the pictures that show it all.

This is the only picture I took from the tailgate.

The Corp of Cadets with the canon.

Only picture I got of the fly over!

Hokie Bird was dressed in Pink for breast cancer awareness month.

View of Lane Stadium

A little sneak peak of the cute antique store that Holly and I visited today. We meet two really fun ladies and saw a lot of great items at awesome prices. Holly took really great pictures while I talked and shopped. You can check out more of Holly's photography on her photography blog.

I'll be back later with all the pictures and the whole story on this fun shop!

Kelly's Korner- Show Us Your Kitchen!

I have had so much fun with Kelly's Show Us Where You Live Link Ups!  So many people let such nice compliments. It's a lot of fun looking at what everyone else has going on at their homes!

So here's my kitchen!

My kitchen has a good amount on pink in it. I love the color pink. This apartment is special to me because I picked it out all by myself after my divorce. At 29, I had never lived all by myself. I had a lot of fun picking out whatever I wanted and not having to worry about compromising with another person.

11th month anniversary flowers from Josh.

Dark pic on a really sunny day. Doggie bowls.



I can't wait for the glass top stove at the new house. The burners  on my stove are all wonky and I have to prop up the panhandles so things like pancakes will cook evenly!



This is a piece of Laura Ashley fabric tacked up with some push pins and gathered with some safety pins.

I don't like a lot of junk on the front of the fridge but I'll pile it on, on the side. I have my undergraduate school, Old Dominion University and my graduate school Virginia Tech represented on my fridge!

I bought this coffee maker just for me! It only makes 4 cups but that's enough for a single girl like me!

The top shelf is bad news! I am afraid of something falling on me every time I open the pantry!

Thanks for dropping by this week! I can't wait to see other kitchens and get ideas for my new house!

We have been reblogged!

This morning I got a link that my pictures of the dogs and I had been reblogged on a cute Jack Russell Tumblr site. I hope that the title of the blog doesn't offend anyone. If you like Jack Russells, this is a fun site to look at.

Tiamia is an up and coming fly ball phenom!  She has been doing really well at her lessons. Last night she snagged her toenail on something and it was bleeding all over the place. Poor thing is a trooper, she got her foot wrapped and kept going. She was limping this morning when I put her outside. Hope she makes a speedy recovery!

Tia at the dog swim at the Blacksburg Frog Pond pool. Look at those legs!

Deal or No Deal?

So on Saturday morning (11:30 ish) I was driving by the Blacksburg United Methodist Church. They were having a yard sale at ended at noon. I went in to see what "treasures" they had left. When I walked in the church ladies told me that everything was half off because they were shutting down. They had a lot of junk but then I saw the lamp that I had been searching for! I thought that it had to be this Pottery Barn lamp. It had the price tag of $25.00 on it but it was 1/2 price!

image: Pottery Barn

I flipped the lamp over and it said Ott lamp. I had seen these to Joann's. They're a fancy kind of sewing/crafting lamp. I thought it's even better if it's a fancy crafting lamp. It happens to be this lamp on the Joann's website.

image: Joann's

I did notice when I looked into the lamp shade that the light bulb socket was really odd looking. I didn't think that it was an issue that it took different bulbs. I bought the lamp home and googled OTT light bulbs. So my $139.00 lamp on sale, that I bought for $12.50 only takes $30.00 bulbs! Josh and I went to Lowe's to see if we could find an off brand bulb that would work. We tried 2 that looked like they work but no luck! It all suddenly became clear why someone would give away such a pretty lamp! Does anyone have a source for light bulbs that work with these lamps?

Have you ever seen such a thing?

In my apartment. Please excuse the naked couch! The slipcover was in the wash!

I am linking up to House of Grace's Twice Owned Tuesday. Check it out!



Kelly's Korner- Show us your Dining Room

I really enjoyed linking up last week with my bedroom. My diningroom is

 kind of an after thought in my apartment. Its more of a hallway than an actual room. This area gets a lot of use though. I do homework here, do crafts and eat here when Josh is over.

Close up of top of the desk

The Litte Shepherdess is one of my favorite prints of all time. It's so serene. I keep all of my gift wrapping and misc craft supplies in this desk.

Coocko Clock from Germany. I never wind it up because it's a pain but it's pretty.

Thanks for coming by my blog! Can't wait to click on all of the links!