Mirrored Furniture

For quite some time I have been in love with mirrored furniture. 

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I was unsure exactly where I wanted to add it into my home.

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Then I found this gorgeous buffet at Pier 1. {not featured on their website}

Which got me thinking, mirrored in my dining room.... yeah, i could totally make it work!!

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{via pier 1}this piece about $500

buffet similiar to this piece. $799.00

I knew this piece was decent quality but continued to look for something that might be a better deal. 

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Then I remembered a place on Front Street my mom told me about. 

this company sells alot of their items to Horchow. 

After perusing Horchow's site I found a piece I loved and set off to Worlds Away's scratch and dent warehouse and found this piece almost exactly. 

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price $759.90

the detailing is so beautiful.

My piece $350.00

so how did I get it for this price??

small ding that can easily be replaced thanks to my super handy friend.

{she has experience working with mirrors and can help me fix it in no time flat!!}

did I mention they threw in a solid wood floor lamp for $45.00??

it was orange and needed a fresh coat of paint, but i didn't care!!

Spring Break Recap

This week ended up being the most jam packed week of my life!!

We went to the Botanic Gardens and I snapped a quick picture.

We also spent some time at the zoo.

{checking out the monkeys with her Jordy}

{laughing at some more monkeys}

attempting to pose for pictures with friends

and of course some play time at the park.

she is getting sooo big!!

You know I was wanting a new pair of shoes for my birthday, and one bulky orthodic boot was not on my list, haha oh well... what can you do.

Crazy crazy week.

Here I sit not believing another week in march has passed!!

In four short days is my birthday and I am really looking forward to it!

Now before this week can officially begin I need to recap this past week for y'all.

1. I got a quote on having a chair reupholstered. This particular individual came highly recommended and I have seen her work. But with a quote on a club chair totaling $586.00 I screamed!! Thus y'all may be seeing some chair upholstery in the near future. ( Monday)

2. I have been slow moving this week. Why?? You ask, well on Tuesday I did something way dumb and banged my foot into the foot of our master bed. AWESOME!! I toughed it out all week long until going to the dr. Friday and come to find out I broke 2 bones in my foot and the fourth and fifth toes on the left foot!!

3. While staining the floor of our almost finished screened in porch, a ladder fell over which knocked over the can of stain leaving a massive massive mess I will now have to go
Back and sand then re-stain!! (Wednesday)

4. This week would not be complete if our crazy beagle didn't get into some sort of trouble so on Thursday while I was happily planting some new prettiest our little pup found the gate wide open and dashed off on another puppy adventure. I found him an hour later 4 doors down from the house, he calmly walked up to me and I was glad to have him back.... Until that night when my husband noticed him acting funny.




Fastforward to Friday we take him to the doctor they do some crags and bloodwork and determine my dog had a bulging disc in his spine so they do some steroid shots and send us home with meds.

Later that night he goes from limping (drunk walking the dr called it) to unable to walk at all.




For two weeks we help him eat/ drink water and use a towel to hold up his back legs so he can try to use the restroom.

So all in all spring break was more than hectic and I gladly welcome the boring mundaneness of our everyday lives!!





We did make a quick trip to our local botanic gardens!!

And yesterday we broke down and got a membership to the zoo!! Be back later with pics of those trips!!

For sale

Soo my sister is nuts! She wants to give all this great stuff she has away to goodwill and I won't let her. Soo, I think a blog sale is in order.

First up. A pair of Joe's jeans size 27 waist. They are a trouser cut vintage series. Purchased at a local upscale boutique.
Price $20.00







Next up is a Lilly Pulitzer Tote (style name is hotty toddy tote) asking $30.00









Minor ink stain on inside right pocket.

Here is a lovely turn lock Vera Bradley wallet. Retails for $48.00 slightly used asking $10.00








Another Vera Bradley item. This is the Mediterranean white resort pattern in the large cosmetic bag retails for $25.00 asking $9.00

Last up is a coach keychain wallet retails for $48.00 bnwt. Purchased at Macy's. Never used asking $10.00!

Leave a comment with what item you would like to purchase items are first come first serve I will email you a paypal invoice or list in my etsy shop.

Make sure to leave me your email.

To buy or not to buy..

That is the question.
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I have found myself lately DROOLING over this CB2 coffee table.

 

I love it's round shape, marbly-goodness, and the fact it doesnt hold much visual weight.

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Only down side... it's only 12' tall.

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Dare I with a 2.5 yr. old??

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I mean it is marble....

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thoughts greatly appreciated.

Spring Fling

When I think spring I go CRAZY!!

Grass grows, tulips bloom, people's spirits begin to rise, this is when I feel the heavens sing!

I have been wanting to finish up our screened in porch for quite some time.

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Walk down memory lane, shall we??

Our house came with a hot tub, which we removed...

And a really unstable deck, which we removed...

And a coy pond, which we had already removed in this picture and were waiting to fill in...

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Now that the hot tub area is filled in, the pond area leveled and sodded its time to wrap this project up.

We need install the beadboard ceiling, stain the porch floor, paint a few more boards, add some fresh screen, and ... my fave... accessorize!!!

{I am really letting it "all hang out" for yall ps, this work was completed in June 10' and I am just now sharing... ashamed?? maybe... but we are so close to the end now.}

{notice in the middle we were laying out the ground work for a fire pit. this will be removed, great idea in theory but with a 2 yr old chasing your dog... not so much. I dont want to go to the emergency room}

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ps.... see how much shade this back yard has.. thats due to no tree trimming for at least the last 10 years. 

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well that was taken care of on friday by my new hero.... our mr. fix it my mom went to high school with.

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before photos.

{yes we back up to the interstate, no I don't hate it, no its not loud, how do I plan to disguise it?? guess you will have to wait and see}

{we have already removed 6 baby trees on our own previous to this picture... I live in pine needle land!}

mr. bradford pear, I love your shape... hate your droppings and hate your spring smell.

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plus you were a mere 18' from my house so you had to go.

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disclaimer: I am very well aware only a small portion of my porch is white, I am only sooo tall and felt unstable on a old shaky ladder so we hope to take care of all of that ugly brown withing the next 2 weeks!!! I promise we are not "in the ghetto/ white trash" 

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please don't judge my abrupt halting of project... I am waiting on muscles and manpower to help me wrap this up.

all my limbs piled out at the street.

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I went to grab my recycling bin this morning and a nice man was collecting the neighbors trimmings{city sanitation worker, he informed me he would move my heaping pile to the top of the list!! U ROCK MISTER and deserve a city employee of the day award!!!!!}

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Within 2 hours this is what baby and I watched for a good 20 minutes.

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see, all government workers aren't bad!!

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Now, back onto the porch...

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Here is something we found hanging from one of our pine trees when we purchased the home.

{this is the chandy taped off and ready for spray paint}

Our plan for our screened in porch is to have a very "Key West" feel. 

We are wanting to white wash all the flooring, ceiling, spindles and bring our colors in through our furniture and accessories.

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Think turqouise, yellow, orange; very bright and tropical!!

So a turqouise chandelier was step one to put some pep in my step and get me ready for spring!!

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I hope to have this hanging for the reveal, but I am finally seeing some headway on this project and it feels good!!!!

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Time for some inspiration photos...
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Shall we?

artwork for outdoors?

holy dream house... you make my knees weak.

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Hopefully we will have this spring bug stay with us so we can get our space looking like this in no time. 

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What are you working on this spring??

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spring cleaning anyone??