New lamps

Linking to Leigh’s Thrifty Thursday at Bloggaritaville and Cindy at My Romantic Home's Show and Tell Friday. Thank you ladies for hosting these parties.

I went to the local Goodwill last week, it was a huge disappointment in the “home & furnishings” department. But I did find this lamp for $4.99.

It needed a harp and a shade, it’s sitting here now. Not sure if it will stay here.

Finished the oyster shell lamp. This was fun and easy to do. I used an old lamp that I've had for years and my free oyster shells.

No right or wrong way to put the shells on.

Not sure this lamp will stay here, I’m sure I’ll move it many times.

I think it’s fun and it was thrifty for sure!

You can see my Tracy Glover lamp that I won sitting on the dining room table. She’s a beauty! Hand blown! I’m moving them all around!

CHANDELIER MAKEOVER

I'm hooked on this easy makeover... just finished it yesterday and every time I walk by it I smile!

This was a long over due project. Instead of buying a new one....

I ordered these for $50 from Cristalier

a little paint and a few hours of stringing and hanging

a whole new look!

Check out Julia' s Hooked on Fridays party!

Look what I won!!!!

Back on January 1st, I found Linda Merrill's beautiful interior design blog. She was having an awesome giveaway for RESOLUTION Ought Nine. The drawing was held this past Monday. I'm so excited, speechless, and grateful to both Linda and artist Tracy Glover.
This is one of many exquisite creations of artist Tracy Glover. She blows the glass using Venetian techniques.

Veronese Lamp

With it’s inspiration drawn from 16th century Italian paintings, this lamp is an homage to the Veronese vase manufactured by the Venini company in the early 1920’s. Ribbon-like latticino canes co-mingle with solid striped canes in shades of white and opaline.Hand-blown in Rhode Island with traditional Italian cane techniques.
6 inch round, acrylic base
26 inches tall from base to top of finial
White dupioni silk shade, 8.5 inches tall by 14 inches at bottom and 9 inches at top
Nickel dimmer switch socket, 100 watt max
All nickel hardware
Striped glass finial

This beautiful creation makes me drool. What a lucky Lamp Tramp I am! Just to behold this vision of loveliness cheers me up. To actually possess this lamp, to wake up to it each day, and to lovingly dust it's dupioni silk, takes my breath away!

Thank you Linda and Tracy!

Turquoise Chest for my bedroom

Yea, my turquoise chest came. I love it. 4 big roomy drawers to store things. I like the silvery/goldish details and the fluid look. It contrasts well with my other somewhat stuffy chests and simple pencil post bed.

See the oil painting above chest....my own oil on canvas....when I was in my Impressionist Period, studying artists from that time and admiring their work. The picture is really too small for the chest. Need to find a large round mirror that I can treat the wood finish to look like the silvery/gold on the chest.

The lamp bases look perfect. Back to my painting...room painting that is. Starting on daughter's bath and bedroom. I'm getting very tired of sanding & painting but the results are worth it!

Turquoise Chest - Horchow

FEELING BETTER

I feel 10 years younger and ready to start where I left off in 8/2005. Thanks to Posh Daisy. They were super to work with and I recommend them highly. Hope you like the me I'm trying to get back to be....

I've been shopping

I had to go pick up my new glasses in Gulfport and had to pass by my "new favorite" store": Home Decor & Gifts. This is one of those little shops that is so chock full of Fabulous Fluff Stuff that your head spins, your heart races and you get weak in the knees. It takes at least 2 hours to look at all the treasures. And, oh, the LAMPS. The owner or whoever goes to Market to buy for this store is torturing me. I asked today for them to please call me when they decide to put the LAMPS on sale. It will only be 15% but it will help. I picked out the pair I just have to have.

I knew that they might have their beautiful Christmas ornaments on sale.

They were 50 % off and I had to buy all the aqua goodies that were left. They had 9 of each of these 3 ornaments. The tassels are beautiful.

I pick up these cute pink and brown soft items for gifts. Luggage tags for moi and daughter.

This salad set is from WILD EYE DESIGNS and it is perfect for my "Dine on the Bayou" dishes by artist Susan Lumpkin. While talking with the girls that wrapped up my treasures, they told me the owner just opened up a new store in Pass Christian that has furniture, LAMPS, and other temptations. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I was driving my 2 seater and couldn't bear to stop at the new store just in case something had my name on it. But I will soon.

Still working the holly jolly...

Two more stockings down, one left to make. We have a new addition to our family this Christmas.

I've got to find those new stick up hooks advertised on TV this year. Claim not to damage the paint and come off easily. See the lovely Scotch tape?

Why do my pictures come out all different, weird colors? Time for a new camera?

That was easy, now I've got to do the outside decorations.

EVEN IF YOU ARE 20 A BOY STILL NEEDS HIS BATMAN CAPE

Cappie slept in this bed for 16 years after doing super hero duty. Son left for freshman year at Ole Miss. Katrina hit the next week. Cappie accidently was tossed in the trash pile. One month later the trash piled had to be dismantled to find Cappie at the bottom. Cappie's been at Ole Miss ever since.

I miss you, Son.

A PRINCESS STILL NEEDS HER PAD EVEN THOUGH SHE'S MOVED AWAY

The Princess bed complete with down feather bed.

and her bath.

Back from a mound of paperwork

Had to catch up on bills and all that paper junk that accumulates faster than I can get rid of it. I was behind on my part of the wedding planning process, so I caught up on that...just for you, Princess.

My kitchen looks just like it did BK. Had to rip out all bottom cabinets and replace.

I think I'm ready for a change. My problem is I just love every decorating style, sooo many colors, and every new thing that comes out. Just when Mr. thinks a room is done, I'm ready for something new.

Undies Matter

This nice little cherry chest survived Katrina. Obviously, all parts were solid wood. Funny story, this came from that Clock Company in Fairhope, AL. It was a kit and we purchased that kit I think maybe 28 years ago. We paid a lot of money for us at that time. Maybe $400.00 I've painted it different colors through the years to match where ever I thought it needed to be. Then I've stripped it back to the beautiful cherry wood. Like a tried and true friend, it looks beautiful today, and everything it held within it's drawers was taken out and salvaged. Word to the wise, be careful when buying new furniture.

This is my most favorite purchase after Katrina. It is a Gentlemen's Chest on Chest from

http://www.johnrichard.com/. I bought it from a great new furniture store that opened up after Katrina. It is a George II style, burl walnut chest on chest, with heavy cornise mould and ogee bracket feet. The lights and darks in the wood are beautiful. It is very tall, I have to get my step ladder out to get to the 2 top drawers. Johnrichard makes beautiful things, I would like to special order some more items. They have a factory in Greenwood MS, which is about 5-6 hours from us. But they only sell their items through design shops, furniture showrooms, or interior designers.

This armoire belongs to the Princess. When her fiance gets back from Iraq, they'll move it as well as her High Boy. I had a beautiful Yew wood chest from Drexel Heritage that sat in that spot. I paid good money for it, assumed it was all solid wood. Well, low and behold, it had particle board parts in the drawers. It held my unmentionables. By the time we came to open the drawers, they were so swelled up with my undies that we couldn't budge the drawers. The chest was thrown into one of our many Katrina trash piles with my unmentionables inside. .. .The worst thing was that I had only packed enough undies for 3 days when we evacuated. We were living at Mr's work, traveling back to flooded house every day to throw things out. Mr's company sent tractor trailor loads of every possible item that we could use. It was in a huge warehouse, mostly on pallettes or in boxes. Sorta like Costco or Sam's but worse. But thank God, it was free, no one had money for weeks. Even if you had cash, there was no where to spend it for many weeks. So I "shopped" for donated undies, so greatful to everyone all over our great USA for the donations of the much needed items so we could live. There was no way to wash any of these clothes for at least 3 weeks, I prayed that they were clean before I wore them. But guess what, at that time it did not matter. I've realized that when your every day life is a moment to moment, no-control situation....get down on your knees and thank God for your blessings!!!!! Lesson learned...undies matter, what you think are your most prized possesions for your beautiful home...DO NOT.

I bought this "Accents Beyond" cherry chest in Mobile, AL last year. On it sits 1 of a beautiful pair of lamps that I bought from Up Town, a new shop in Bay St Louis, MS that opened up after Katrina.
These silk duponi drapes are really a wash of pale aqua/goldish-green. Not sure why they look so dark in pics. I had run the pic/fix from Adobe when I added pics, but maybe that was a mistake. Even my bedroom looks blueishhh.....which it is not. I need to work on this.

With an attempt to be a better blogger while learning how to, I hope I can take you on this tour. As you all know, with 4 feet of water certain things like mattresses, bedding, and chests of drawers filled with clothes had to be thrown out. 2 years ago, I never thought I would have what we do now. The pencil post bed survived. Any quality wood especially things with legs made it. I love this bed, we bought it 20 years ago. It is from Hickory Chair, still looks good despite Katrina and Son who at 2 years of age took a nail file and left his mark on the post that is on my side. Now, when I see those lines, that made me see RED 18 years ago, I see wonderful Son that now makes me PROUD. The new duvet cover is from Restoration Hardware.

3 Dining Room peices waiting to be refinished

This is the highboy and lowboy from Great Grammie. She lived in Longmeadow, MA and enjoyed 104 years of life. Our house flooded with 4 feet of Katrina water. Most solid wood peices of furniture could be saved. I tried stripping the lowboy. Decided I needed to leave this job to a professional. This cherry hutch was my MIL's. We inherited when she left Clinton, CN to move here to community we live in.

My 3 new chairs arrived yesterday. Had them made at Hunt Galleries in North Carolina. 2 Hostess chairs are easy to move to dining table when needed. The Alexandra arm chair has such pretty wood ball and claw feet.

More Lamp Pairs

This is a new Drexel Heritage piece that sits in front hall. It replaced a beautiful antique French yew wood chest. We held on to the Yew wood chest for a year. Finally gave it away, there was no hope to get to professionally refinished from the flooding it took on. Because I kept I my paper goods, stationary wrapping paper, ribbons and what not, everything swelled to huge proportions. Not a pretty site. The mirror and lamps are new

Post Options	Labels for this post: e.g. scooters, vacation, fall	Show all Hide all
	All Labels: Looks green again. We had a pond and waterfall put in after the 25 trees were blown down. I have 4 Koi in my pond. Silk duponi drapes

since Katrina.

The poor lowboy is waiting to be refinsihed. Finally found someone to refinish furniture. He took 4 dining room chairs and a mahogany pie crust top table that we accidentally threw the draw front out into the huge trash pile. He can replace and make beautiful again. This lowboy and matching highboy comes from Great Grammie of Longmeadow, MA. They sit in my dinning room along with a beautiful cherry hutch that we inherited from MIL. All of these pieces are waiting patiently for a wonderful furniture doctor. I think I've found him after 2 years. I'll update.

Lamp Pairs

This is a pair of lamps in guest room/daughter's room. Curtains and bedding new since Katrina.