goodwill hunting.
August 21, 2010
on sunday, my mom + mike were in town to move all mike’s stuff into his new place… the dorm.
being there brought back such fun memories from my dorm experience (it didn’t hurt that my “potluck” roommate, katie, who i lived with for 5 years- was coming to tallahassee for the night on monday). i was telling mike stories of will the thrill, being best friends with your RA, all the wonderful things that came with my freshman year. southgate 410. oh the love. it was awesome.
anyway, enough reminiscing. we went to goodwill to hunt for a desk chair for mike. of course they didn’t find it OR anything that mike needed for that matter. and me, well i found a lamp. it was only $5 to start with, but it was in the 50% off bin… couldn’t beat it.
you see, i recently got the itch to repaint our downstairs living area. the reality of having to get paint, actually paint, and then clean set in pretty fast… but that didn’t help the itch for something new in our living area. so i’ve kept my eyes open all week for good deals and cheap + easy fixes on DIY blogs this week. in hopes of finding some fun ways to change the look of our house without too much cash money without painting.
so the lamp was step 2 (step one was painting some old frames putting together some flowers in a tin canister i punched our monogram into at trail west and arranging them in a cute corner). it was obviously only $5 and in the 50% off bin for a reason, but i thought with a coat of paint, it might be just right.
wease wanted to help pull off the protective painting tape.
so i got some spray paint the same color as our awesome red couch (shout out to erin bushey for that lovely+comfortable addition) and went to spray painting town.
here’s the lamp in it’s new functional home.
i’m a fan. it is helping to have some red in other places downstairs instead of just on the couch. and i think it’s starting to satisfy my need for downstairs change. i have another item that is in the works as we speak. details on that probably tomorrow.
for now, i leave you with a picture of the wease… back where he likes to be too 
