So I scoured some antique stores, went to a craft fair and spent endless hours on my computer looking at furniture on craiglist this weekend ( I was on a mini-getaway with hubby so I wasn't ignoring my children during these endless hours). Oh and I also visited a delightful shop called Blue Dahlia's in Clearwater. She has the most incredible things, and is a very sweet lady. Besides many fabulous furniture pieces she sells all kinds of interesting jewelry-most handmade by designers, a line of dresses and clothing with the most amazing lace dresses I have ever seen! Oh to be young and/or thin again! I would snatch up one of those dresses for sure! Anyway, an interesting thing I noticed was that a lot of the stores I visited had distressed, antiqued and handpainted furniture as their displays--not necessarily for sale--but as part of the decor of the stores. It is a very popular and useful thing! I only wish I could figure out how to get people to buy my furniture for displays! Hmmm, that's something to explore.
I am also MADLY on the search for a french daybed/settee/couch like this one:
This is for sale at the Blue Dahlia in Clearwater...
OMG if I can be head-over-heels in love with a piece of furniture, this would be it!!! It makes my heart go pitty-pat (much as a 5 carat flawless diamond ring would do)
If I had the $$ I would buy it and chuck out all of my living room furniture and have that as my couch. Or maybe even chuck my guest bed for this...WOW. So now I can only hope I can find one somewhere to make my own. Of course I would have to have that luxuriously insanely beautiful cover/upholstry on it too!!! It is kind of gauzy and off white.
OK, back to reality...whew..I did actually have an out of body experience just thinking about it...
These are a few of my finds this weekend:
I can't wait to get started! And Marley is excited too!!!
Ta-Ta!
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