Yay!

I got my MD refund cheque today in the mail so the second I got home, I turned right out and went to the bank. The bank happens to be right next to a Michaels that just happened to have a sale on shadowboxes today...which means...I finally got to do this!

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I've been wanting to put all those items together -even the stripy background is 18th century fabric- for a while but I was not going to pay $50 for a Shadowbox! $20 is fine. :-)

Now, to see if I can redecorate the entire living room for under $200....

Anyone need a solid wood futon? Or a couple of papasan chairs?

Redecorating

I won the loveseat I was bidding on. It's up past Lancaster in PA but it's not hard to rent a U-Haul and you can't beat $20 for a velvet neo-regency style loveseat. I am getting rid of all the furniture I currently have in the living room hopefully next weekend. I decided how the living room *should* be decorated and the big old futon and two papasan chairs are just too big for my house. I want to get a couple of wing back chairs (I did see a guy selling the ones I want but he won't put up pictures of the actual chairs, just the stock photo so I'm not bidding. I'm hoping something pops up on craigslist...) and have those to compliment the loveseat. I have the perfect little endtable that will work between the chairs and the loveseat I just bought should fit against the wall.

I do need to buy the fabric for the new curtains I want to make. And sell the old curtains as well. The yard sale I'm going to have in another week and a half (hopefully!) is going to be crazy....