the Cure is moving a little slower.
I had hoped by now to show you a picture of my new desk; the desk I wrote about when I started this blog; the one that I have waited more than two years to actually purchase.
This desk, in white.
Well, I ordered it online the second week of September and I still do not have it. It was originally put on backorder and I was given a order number. However, when I went to check on the status a few days ago, I was told that the order had been dropped from the system. Fortunately, the trestle legs that were not available before were now available and they took my information again. I received a delivery date of
December 1. Let's see if the 3rd time is a charm?
Besides the desk, there is also:
The newly improved headboard. I finally added the extra layers of batting. It looks so much better that it's more solid looking.
I still have to paint the dresser. The color is giving me a hard time. I am thinking of a slightly darker shade of blue that works with the bedside table or a great Black Cherry or pomegranate color. So back to the paint swatches with me.
I really want to use the same paint,
Rust-Oleum, but I refuse to use a spray paint. Earlier this year, I went into a Lowe's that had a R-U flyer with info on how the store could use and mix their color formulas with R-U's base coat. I either can't find the same store (how many Lowe's can Richmond have that I've been to?) or they took it down. It's always hit and miss asking someone there who really knows the paint department. Wish me luck. Of course, I will also contact the company, if I can get a hold of that info and have any of their shades mixed in canned paint I will be such a lucky camper!
I AM going to paint the bedroom. I'm not really eager to repaint when I move out so I'm looking at those very pale tinted colors that some paint companies try to pass off as "white". If I can claim that
Behr, Benjamin Moore, and Ralph Lauren consider it
White, perhaps it will be harder for them to force me to repaint. Choosing a color has been made harder by the hideous trim "they" put throughout the apartment, very similar to a lite almond color. Blech!
Two colors that I am looking at are Behr's
Polar White and
Glacial Tint. And if I'm feeling risky, I might paint the wall behind my bed the slightly darker shade of
Country Mist. I swear it looks darker in my room and that they also come off more blue than green. So, after one more run to Lowe's today, I will be narrowing down choices and
ordering 8 oz. samples of the winners from the website. They are so
cute, each sample comes with a wee paint tray and a mini roller.
I am ordering one (or two) of these lamps. Yes, I could wait until the perfect cool vintage lamp shows up at a yard sale, but I think I'll take my changes with this one from JCPenney, on sale for $40. How can you not love that womanly shape in pear, lemon, or orange?
Next, I will hang some more art on the walls and buy a small rug for next to the bed and that will be all for the bedroom.
That I can think of now. :)
I found out that the Hancock Fabric's on Midlothian Turnpike had more of the now discontinued Laurie Smith Collection on sale. (Thank you Helen!) So of course, I had to buy the missing pieces.
I bought enough of these two on the left to make the bolster(s) for the sofa. I'm not so sure about the Denyse Schmidt now because it is such a small-scale print. I didn't realize until I got the dark green print home that it was the outdoor weight and not the upholstery weight.
So, I think I will use it for the door draft stoppers instead, which is what Not Martha did with the orange print. Yesterday, I also bought some aquarium stones to weigh them down.
So the choice is now between the chartreuse and the print for the bolsters on the purple couch.
For some reason in this picture, the couch is true-to-life color but not the fabrics. See pic at top for real color representation of the bolster fabrics. Of course, there is also the possibility of using them back to back for versatility.
I also picked up 1 1/2 yards of this great tablecloth vinyl to make my sewing machine cover. I just became impatient waiting to find just the right print in oilcloth.
Okay, so no more fabric for a while. But the sale was so good that I bought all of this, a Vintage Vogue dress pattern on sale, and enough fabric for quite a few holiday gifts for under $25 dollars!
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