Busy Weekend and Chair Envy

It's been a busy weekend, we've all been working to get the house ready for house guest v1.0. We got all of the "outside of the house" items taken care of in our 5-hour shopping trip Saturday (which, by the way, was the NICEST day we have had in Seattle so far this year - 75° and SUNNY SUNNY SUNNY). The house cleaning will continue through Thursday and my housemates friend Michelle will be arriving Friday night. I'm finding it difficult to stay focused on just one room - I haven't finished any of them yet... but, I guess all the dents I make in the mess will add up to clean one of these days.

In other news, I'm experiencing some chair envy. Just down the street at Area 51 they have the most amazing piece in the window right now.

(not the best picture ever)



I haven't even bothered to check the price, because I know it is too much $$ and also because I have nowhere in my house where that chair would work - nevertheless it is GORGEOUS and I will continue to drool every time I pass it by.

On the project front, I've been working on some Roman Shades for our bedroom. I'm going to guess that I've already sunk well over 5 hours into the project and only have 1 of 3 curtains finished (but not yet hung). I've been getting lots of help from L.O....



...and will be brushing all that "help" off the curtains before they go up.

I also got some curtains hung up over our closet yesterday, it's nowhere near cool enough to take a picture of but it is really nice to not have to look into the dark, messy, abyss anymore. Maybe I will get a picture up once I sew a center panel into place - it should look a little nicer then.

Also - just a quick note but I am loving ByeBye List these days. It's a site that lets you do your same Craiglist search in any category but only displays the first 20 or so characters of the title + price + PICTURE. I've found all sorts of things I'm sure I need.


If I only had the room, or a truck. The bar stool there looks like a perfect match (minus the color) to the 3 bar stools I have now. I probably don't need a fourth chair but it makes me sad to think about such a cool piece all on it's own like that. I'm sure I could save it but then I really would need to invest the $$ to have all 4 recovered, and actually at this point I don't have the room for a fourth chair. Someone else will have to snatch up that awesome find.