I need 3 dollas

Craigslist is an amazing resource

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Little girl wants her wall to be purple.  Her headboard is a soft aqua (but UPDATE, the bed is turned sideways now, in a daybed fashion)  and the other large piece with color in her room is her kitchen (which I was gonna link to my blog post about, until I realized I never posted it! oops, next up DIY play kitchen), which is kind of a bright peachy, pinky, slightly coraly color.  So I did not want to paint bright purple walls and end up looking like a mish mosh out of one of those dated “How to decorate a Kid’s room” books.  The plan evolved to this, use a lilac paint with a Moroccan tile stencil.  This post is getting too long, I am boring myself.  Looked everywhere, couldn’t find stencil, then thought of Etsy, stencils found.

How to steal this idea, while being totally lazy.

Lauren, from Pure Style Home clearly has much more energy than I do, probably from still being “20-something”, and she is putting it to good use!  I love her kids nursery.   
purestylehome via design*sponge

Specifically the “canopy”.  So here’s what I figure.  If you are lazy like me, and don’t mind black vs blue (which could be a deal breaker in a nursery, but maybe not in an older kids room), I think you could fake it with this…
paisley black table cloth

It comes in a 60” x 110” for only $70.  Of course if you have more energy bubbling up inside (or don’t want black) you could do it with this…
Cutting Edge Stencil

From Cutting Edge Stencil on Etsy.  Not exactly the same, but close enough.

Somebody, please tell me why I don’t live…

HERE.  no, not you.  Only people that get it.

A Quickie…

We gave the facade of the store a little makeover today.  It seems to have worked.  We more than doubled foot traffic!  Hooray!  And all for under $20!
Just 2 of these in black and white, folded in half, and a staple gun.
What do you think?

Scavenger Home – Vintage Dealer to the Stars!!

We got an order the other day from a customer by the name of Catherine Bell.  I thought, surely it can’t be THE Catherine Bell.  But it was!!!

She bought  these lovelies.  Can’t wait to see pictures…

I love bad ass, hardcore women (especially ones that buy stuff from us), and trust me, she is!  She’s got a resume of television series (Jag, Army Wives), a movie career, she rides motorcycles and she’s a mom!  I only do one of those things (guess which one), might be time to get my act together, huh?

The NEW section at IKEA makes me smile…

Whuck?

I don’t know if you can tell that it is pouring ice from the sky with total abandon.  This has been going on, off and on, for 2 days.  In between the slush and hail sessions, we have periods of the bluest sky and bright warm sunshine.  The weather is so bizarre, I would not be surprised if it rained meatballs next.  Pacific Northwest is going through an identity crisis.

Oh, and how’s this for hard working… In an effort to make my chimney FABULOUS, he worked until the scaffold was covered in a treacherous layer of hail, and then called it a day.   The outside of my house almost looks finished, after merely 3 years.  Mother Nature, don’t screw this up for me, or else!

How many bars is too many bars?

It would be inappropriate to have a bar setup in every room of your house, right?  I mean, it would suggest something about your priorities, I think.  But still, would this not make the most amazing bar?!

I have a moral opposition to paying retail on craigslist, but still, it’s not a bad price…here