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Excursion to Home Depot

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Last night the sweetie and I paid the neighborhood Home Depot a visit. While there, I spied my favorite bathroom faucet, and get this, ON CLEARANCE!!! I was so excited I did a happy dance!! And my sweetie pretended not to know me. He does this quite frequently as I often do my happy dance in public. What can I say I’m happy, and when I’m happy I dance!

But I digress, the reason my precious was so heavily discounted, was because it was the display, and the only one left. And didn’t come with any of the fancy hoses you need to hook it up to a water line.  Apparently these are really important, but I know nothing about that sort of thing, yet. I have a feeling I will soon be getting a lesson from the sweetie.

Here she is, not mine of course, apparently I was too excited to take pictures of my actual faucet.

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The price on the website is $118 buck-a-roos, but I got mine for a cool $35 bucks! *Enter Happy Dance Here!*

And it’ll go great with my favorite bathroom vanity.

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I had taken pictures of the display in the store with a top on it, but some dummy who shall remain nameless, *ahem* forgot her camera today and will have to wait until she gets home to post more accurate pictures.

But for now here are some vanity tops I liked:

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And last week, I visited a local discount store and scored a lovely dark wood mirror to use as our bathroom primping mirror. Unfortunately, since dummy forgot her camera, pictures of that will have to wait.  But here’s one that has the same finish, and is very similar. Except my mirror has a design on top.

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Soon very soon, my bathroom will come together and I’ll FINALLY have some after photos to share! Y’all come back now!!!

Feeling squeezed

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Last night, as I struggled to get around my bedroom to change the sheets on my bed, I got to thinking about storage solutions for small spaces. Particularly, small bedrooms. I am unsure of the exact deminsions of my bedroom, but I do know that with a queen sized bed, and two small dressers in there I really don’t have a lot of space left over to work with. I purchased bed raisers in hopes that I would follow through, and actually use them, but alas, that has not yet happened.  But once,  I finally do get off my lazy blogging bum and do it that should provide some great space to store out of season clothing items.

However, I’ll still have to find a place to store shoes, in season clothes, accessories (because a girl must have her twenty gazilion vintage broaches and leaf pendents.) So, it got me to thinking about unique yet attractive storage solutions.

Here’s an idea I found on the HGTV website, the homeowners used shelving to create storage and visual interest. I have something similar in my junk room office. Except the version I have is a bit more industrial.

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Here’s another thing I’ve been really excited about, but not followed through with. I bought several really cool vintage looking mirrors at an estate sale a few weeks ago, and still haven’t put them up. Partly because I don’t know where to hang them, and mostly because I’m just a lazy blogging fool. I’m hoping this picture inspires me to hang my cute little mirrors.

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This one, I loved the idea, but I know it would never work for me. Since my house is so small none of the walls are thick enough for something like this. But a pretty picture none the less. Thanks to the writers of HGTV for providing such pretty pictures and great ideas.

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Light the way…

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A couple of months ago, the sweetie and I updated the porch light and the house numbers. Upon purchasing the house 2 years ago (!) we inherited a dirty old plastic porch light and faded house numbers that had been hammered onto a piece of old wood. The wood had been painted to match the faded trim around the porch and garage. Sooner rather than later, I would like to re-paint the trim, however, the sweetie and I just can’t come to an agreement on color. But that’s a whole other post in itself. Now back to the porch light and the house numbers. The old porch light and house numbers looked like this:

This is actually a picture I took right before we had the windows replaced. Someone whose name rhymes with Pearl forgot to take before pictures of the old light and numbers. But I digress, in the above picture you can see that the old porch light was an odd shape ,the picture doesn’t show quite how nasty this light really was. It was cracked and stained with years worth of dirt that wouldn’t come off even with lots of elbow grease. And you can see the ugly color  the house numbers were painted, even though I blurred them out a bit. The numbers themselves were pretty beat up too.  So, it was time for some updating.

Every little project in my house, gets a lot of thought before it actually gets done. So it took the sweetie and I a year and a half to decide upon what sort of house numbers we wanted, and what type of porch light to buy.  Honestly, we went through so many different options I can’t remember all of them. But I do know that the finalist really was the best suited for Casa de Yellow. (How’s that for some good Spanglish?)

In the above picture you will see that we chose a pretty shaped wooden background for the letters. I spray painted it with black lacquer paint, so it would have some shine to it and match the numbers better. Which brings me to the numbers, for those I ended up with a brushed nickel finish. I blurred out the other numbers for privacy sake, but left one of them so that you could get a better idea of the overall look.

Here is a closer view of the house numbers, of course most of them are blurred out, again for privacy sake:

And the porch light, which I love. It’s not too big or too small for our little casa. And it’s so much brighter than the old light.

The stucco does need to be repaired around the new light, but we are procrastinating holding off on repairing it since we will be getting the entire house re-stuccoed. Hopefully, very soon. *keeping fingers crossed*

There are so many mini and not so mini projects around the casa that are either in progress or need to be done it’s overwhelming. It could drive a girl to eat an entire carton of Pecan Praline ice cream! But instead I’ll leave you with some pretty pictures of porches.

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July Flowers

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Last night, the sweetie and I got to work on the front flower bed. If you remember, a couple months back I planted some seeds in the front, I talked about that here. Well, my poor little seedlings didn’t stand a chance against the birds, the wind, and the heat. Hardly, any of them came up, and the ones that did come up, came up in a huge clump of green weeds flowers in the middle of my flower bed. I’m not even gonna talk about the poor baby flowers under the tree. I guess the soil under my majestic Pinion tree still isn’t up to par. So, maybe this year I will baby the soil a bit more with some good ol’ cow poop and the “good dirt” that comes in a bag. Then maybe next year I can have some color in that corner of the yard.

Well, since the seeds didn’t come up I gave in and bought some plants to place in my barren flower beds. Saturday my mom came over and we had a blast going through all of the plants in the garden section of Home Depot.

O.K. we may have gone a little overboard, but aren’t all those colors just fabulous!! I hope they look that fabulous after a couple of weeks in my yard.

Most of the plants I picked up were prennials, meaning that theoretically, they should come back year after year.

So here’s what I ended up with:

Moonshine Yarrow, it’s supposed to be very hardy, and I’ve seen several other yards around town with globs of them.

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Some Black Eyed Susans, because who doesn’t like a Black Eyed Susan, unless you’re Susan.

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And some Yellow Tickseed. No, there are not ticks on them, contrary to what the sweetie thought when I brought them home. They are called tickseed, because their sprouts almost look like ticks. But aren’t they cute?

And some Yellow Daisy’s, because everyone likes Daisy’s right?

Here are some more pictures of what we planted:

I have a few more to plant tonight, so I’ll be adding more photos later. Hopefully my July flowers will turn out much better than my May flower experience.

Sleeping Beauty

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You may remember my post entitled Bring on the Guests, which was about backyard guest houses. Boy, do I wish I had one of those right about now!  I’ve got some company coming in and have absolutely no where to put them but my tiny spare bedroom/office and living room on…wait for it… airbeds. Not exactly what I envisioned my future house guests sleeping on when I bought my house two years ago.

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So while I’m taking a break from manically cleaning the house, I thought I would share some “guest bed” ideas that I’ve been considering for my teeny tiny spare room/office.  Here is a sleeper chair from JCPenney’s Home Store, it opens up to a twin size sleeper:

I like the idea of a small sleeper chair, but what if I have a couple visiting. They certainly won’t be comfortable in a twin size bed. Enter this little guy:

This guy opens up to a queen size sleeper, which would be perfect for a couple. But might be slightly too big for my teeny tiny spare room/office.   They have a full size version, that might be just what I’m looking for:

All of these options come with your choice of color and fabric, and they’re on clearance right now! Bonus!!

So, maybe after the drama of franticlly hiding clutter cleaning and organizing the yellow casa I will have the opportunity to go sleeper shopping. Maybe the next time I get a random email or phone call from a loved one, I won’t be in panic mode when they ask to stay the night.