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Post by shabbychick on Feb 16, 2014 19:19:07 GMT -8
I had a birthday this month and got a darling rooster stool from my sister. I'll attach a picture. The cat loves the stool. He thinks it's his. I also pinked up the fireplace mantel but didn't do anything overtly Valentines Day with it. Not really my holiday. --Shabbychick Attachments:
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Post by Mac78 on Feb 17, 2014 2:53:15 GMT -8
The footstool is really cute, and I love the fireplace mantel. I really like the "white" look of things vs wood look. I think because everything I own is wood, and when I mention painting it, Dave is like NOOOO!
Looks very nice. I am happy the kitty has found his new palace.
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Post by allen820 on Feb 21, 2014 17:41:55 GMT -8
Must be a man thing, but I agree with Dave. Nice wood is meant to be appreciated! (Although wife Libby would go for the paint. You remember my home -- I was able to rescue but one original room from the paint bucket!)
Allen
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Post by Mac78 on Feb 24, 2014 3:17:55 GMT -8
Yes Allen, your home was very nice and very welcoming and homey. After we moved into our home over 25 years ago, I stripped and refinished all the woodwork and doors. Never again. The paint bucket would have been so much easier. I will say if I had nice woodwork, instead of the cheap teardrop style that is in our home, I would probably think differently.
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Post by Rose-mary on Feb 24, 2014 6:59:23 GMT -8
Happy 'late' Birthday, Shabby! What a nice gift from your sister! Very cute and I bet the cat thinks it is for him!
I've painted a lot of wood in my house. It was just too dark with all that wood. I think maybe women tend to like to 'cheer' things up around the house and wood, while beautiful, just does not do that. At least for me! I can really appreciate it in someone's else's house, but I've never wished I hadn't painted mine.
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Post by Vintage Girl on Feb 24, 2014 17:33:16 GMT -8
Very very cute. And Happy Belated Birthday:)
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Post by Linn on Feb 28, 2014 18:24:22 GMT -8
Wishing you a happy belated birthday if I missed it Shabby! The stool is such a sweet gift and the entire room is so cozy and inviting. Well done!  |
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Post by shabbychick on Mar 1, 2014 7:28:11 GMT -8
Thanks for the birthday wishes and compliments! Now that February is over, I'm going to do the mantel over. I don't really do St. Patrick's Day stuff anymore except at school, but I think it's time to move toward the spring decorations. I keep looking at mantels in pictures online that have a lot of empty space and only a couple of largish things to anchor the ends, and think how nice and crisp that looks, but when I try it myself, all that empty space just bothers me and cries out to be filled!! I have a few pieces that I've never painted. One is small wooden cabinet that my mom bought toward the end of her life at some discount store where I'd never have expected them to have nice furniture. The other is my mom's maple dining room table. I'm tempted to paint it and the chairs because I'd prefer color, but my dad refinished the table and chairs (using one of those wood-graining kits from the 70s), and part of me hates to cover up his work. I'm kind of hoping that in a couple of years one of my nephews will move to an apartment, and I can give him the table. My parents got this table before I was born, so it's moving its way toward antique status. I'd like to at least keep it in the family. For the most part, though, I love color and bright, happy finishes. It's my shabby bohemian taste, I guess. I just bought a copy of a magazine called "Paint It," which I think is a special publication, and it's full of ways to paint up furniture. I'm here this weekend with no papers to grade and no planning to do, so as soon as I'm done with my taxes, I'm going to find something to paint. |
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Post by allen820 on Mar 3, 2014 18:13:43 GMT -8
Agree on the empty space! My wife says I tend to clutter stuff up, but heck, I've been collecting for years. Why keep all your treasures hidden away in a box? I can walk through the room where I am sitting presently, pick up almost any object, and be taken immediately to another person or place. Whether it be my grandmother's old bill spike she used in her job at Miller's Department store, an antique beer can my psychology professor gave me 40 years ago, an old alarm clock my parents gave my mom's grandparents on their 50th anniversary (in 1936!), or a glass encased Magnavox medallion paperweight my father used while he worked for that company when I was a child -- all these things have meaning to me and I want to have them around to greet me everyday. Empty space on the mantel just can't do that for me!
Allen
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Post by Vintage Girl on Mar 4, 2014 14:33:25 GMT -8
Allen, I am with you! I love each and every one of my "treasures"! That is why I love vintage and antiques. They have a history and I love to think about who owned and cherished them before they came to me. My hubs and I love to play a game where we pick up one our treasures and ask the other one if they remember where we got it or the family history behind it. My hubs has almost all of his grandfathers tools and everytime he handles one, he tells me another story about watching his Grampa use it. He has a fold out wood measuring stick, that his Grampa used to help him build and measure a chicken coop. He also used it to paddle him with when he set off some firecrackers and scared the chickens  Memories like that are worth millions to me and the things that fill up our spaces also fill up our hearts. |
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Post by richardg on Dec 18, 2020 9:55:32 GMT -8
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Memories like that are worth millions to me and the things that fill up our spaces also fill up our hearts.