Runaway October

I like to fre­quent thrift stores, espe­cially on 50% off days. I also like to read dec­o­rat­ing and home­mak­ing blogs.

Because of said blogs, I’ve real­ized that I need to pay more atten­tion to dec­o­rat­ing my own house.

Thrift stores are a great place for find­ing one of a kind items, espe­cially if you have an eye for refur­bish­ing or updat­ing things. You have to real­ize the poten­tial of things, I guess you could say. My hus­band doesn’t quite get it, so I often get ‘What are you going to do with it?’ or ‘What is it?” or ‘Why on earth did you buy that?’. In gen­eral I get kid­ded for alot of the “dec­o­rat­ing” I do.

Recently I had a tough pur­chas­ing dilemma. My mom, the boys, a friend and I were at Good­will, when Mom men­tioned there was a really cool green chair near the back but it had some rips in it. I didn’t think much of it. I mean, a green chair, right? As I strolled towards the back… Okay, so as I calmly walked to the back while my kids were fight­ing like wolver­ines in the cart, the chair caught my eye.

See what I mean? Would that not have made you look too?

I think I sat on it for a good 20 min­utes decid­ing what to do. It was $25 on half price. Prob­lem was it had rips, like mom men­tioned. I even sent a pic­ture to my hus­band and asked what to do. Some­times it’s eas­ier to let him decide. He told me sure as long as it was in good con­di­tion. Yikes.

This is the seat. It was two smaller rips before my boys noticed it. :S

I just couldn’t pass it up though. I bought it!

I was so upset and angry when they loaded it for me though. The guy load­ing it put it on a box dolly and drug it across the asphalt, doing even more dam­age to it around the bot­tom edges then it had before.

My mom thinks the chair is awe­some, but Matt still makes fun of me for it. He just has no sense, right?

The color above is more true to life, and it obvi­ously needs a real home, other than stuffed in my front sit­ting room. From what we can tell it’s real leather and some­one cov­ered it by hand, hence the slightly erratic nail­head trim. But that’s all part of the appeal for me.

I’ve looked into leather repair for it, but hon­estly I think the lit­tle lamb skin on it is per­fect. It also helps reduce the stick­i­ness of bare legs against leather that I dread.

So, what do you  think? I LOOVE it!

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Who is the black sheep in your family/group?

I think it would prob­a­bly be me, hon­estly. You do really stu­pid things when you’re young with­out think­ing about the effect it has on oth­ers. I don’t talk to much of my fam­ily now, and when I do I always feel an under­ly­ing ten­sion. Maybe that’s all in my head though.

If you were a char­ac­ter from a book, what char­ac­ter would you be?

Hmm… Any book? That’s alot to choose from. For some rea­son Alice from Alice in Won­der­land popped up first — Maybe because I’m lost and con­fused alot. If I could choose the char­ac­ter, maybe one of the elves from Tolkien’s World?

What’s your favorite accent?

I love just about any accent, except for Span­ish ones but I think that’s because I hear it alot here in Ari­zona. I espe­cially melt over Irish, British and Aus­tralian. Cana­dian accents are very nice too.

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