Snow Day Obsessions

As a result of another snow day, I got to tackle my stack of unread magazines. Guess what I get to be obsessed with now?

Ballard Designs

Yep, a pom pom quilt. Tell me, even when my house is finished (yes, I know that never happens) will I stop wanting everything? No, I didn't think so. Because it doesn't work like that in terms of my closet. 

Also, this snow storm has delayed a living room delivery. And I'm STILL waiting on my cabinet hardware. I ordered it on December 28. They said the package should ship out the last week of January due to back-order but I checked this morning and they still haven't shipped. I'm a patient person now so I'm coping okay. 

So my actual plan for the day is to paint my new coffee table that I showed you yesterday. This will be an experiment between paints that I already own. Could be a good thing, could be a complete disaster. When I was looking for inspiration pictures (and still thinking about painting my hallway wall navy) this image hit me in the face. How cool is that?

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Hopefully I'm back with a successful coffee table paint job for you soon. As in tomorrow, because after all, I am a patient person these days. 

Stay safe and warm!

Monday fun

So rewind to last Friday. Snow day! Since I have a job in a school, I was off! However, J had work. With the beauty of old houses, I could hear that after about 20 minutes the car hadn't left yet. So I rolled out of bed and peeked out of the bathroom window. This is what I see. Scraping ice with a credit card. Definition of southerners' unpreparedness for "snow days"! 

Friday night rolls around and I'm already stir crazy. And technically, I could've gone outside if I wanted to. On a serious note though, we had over 200 accidents Friday. Interstates were shut down and bridges were closed. The interstate looked like a scene from walking dead. Minus the zombies. Anyway, we decided to get out and have a lemon drop or two and some tapas. Fried jambalaya ball, anyone? 

Saturday we got to SHOP! Is this what people do on weekends? We browsed lots of furniture and nick knacks. Next up we have a little inspiration piece. I love X furniture. Is there a name for it? 

And here I am fussing because the store workers are staring at us J for taking too many pictures. 

Well, it wasn't all house shopping... You can never have too many bracelets.

Remember that X piece? J made this for me out of wood scraps from the ceiling and built ins. Love how it turned out. Love even more that it only took a few hours to build on Saturday and it's free... In a sense. What color are we thinking for paint? Jury is still out. 

Our weekend ended with some family time on Sunday and a king cake. Ohhh king cake. Crossing my fingers for another snow day this week. Crossing my toes that we don't have to make up the school days we miss! Did anyone watch The Bachelor wedding last night? How many times did they show the honeymoon suite?!? Geez. Anyway, my plan for this afternoon is to go buy some art supplies to do a couple paintings for the living room - and maybe even go buy some paint for the hallway. Time to start on that project! Hope everyone has a fab Monday!