My chairs! Remember all that moaning I did about my love of Xavier Pauchard’s Marais Chairs? Priscilla found some dude in the village that had 11 of them. I was able to score 5 of them and will forever be in Priscilla’s debt. Having the real deal instead of the DWR ones…and at 1/5 the price…priceless! Course, Upstate Mom had to find a way to torture me. See her there all giggling and sticking magnets to them!?!?!

So let’s move on to the lighting “situation” in the dining room. Yum, another fug Hampton Bays-ish chandelier. I want to replace it with this big drum shade. I’m just not sure on where/how to get the kit to turn the drum shade into a hanging pendant-like lamp that WON’T have a big ugly exposed light bulb dangling within, over our heads as we dine. Assume a frosted globe goes inside? Anyone? Anyone? Am I smokin’ something here? Doesn’t Joe make a nice Vanna White? Also in this set is the fireplace in the dining room. What? You don’t see it? That’s cause the previous owners faux-bricked it over and then put baseboard heat across the front of it. Nice. Yeah, that’s on Matt’s list of things to rectify. Thinking I will harvest the mantle from the living room and put it in the dining room. I mentioned harvesting the mantle from Upstate Mom’s bedroom and that was met with a pout. Ok! Ok! Keep the mantle in your bedroom. LOL

I got my roast chicken with broccoli and mashed potatoes dinner. Course, no one got much to eat since the Fiance decided that the plate the chicken was on was his personal plate. Keep your fork to yourself buddy! Kidding. We all pigged out. I need to move the cat painting (painted by Upstate Mom!) and the mirror down. I just lobbed them up there on existing nails from a previous big japanese painting that used to be there till we moved the sideboard/cabinet from the city to the house. Put it on the never-ending to do list…

On to Zaborski’s Emporium. What did I get there? Well, not much frankly. It was my first time there and I was completely overwhelmed with all the options. I did snag a Steelcase chair for $50, a Hollywood Regency-ish umbrella stand for $5 and a sign that says “Fresh Baked Pastries” for $4. The sign is a real sign, not one of the fake looking TJ Maxx deals (personally…I hate those!). Being the putz that I am, I grabbed the one chair that was missing the up/down lever. Oops. Hoping I can find a replacement lever somewhere.

Last but not least…Fall Flowers and A Cute Baby.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention…my sister has a new blog. It’s called “I Gotta Headache”. Guess who gets lots of migraines? LINKY. We should talk her into getting a new username though. I don’t think “kakapants” really rolls off the tongue, know what I mean?

EDIT 2:

My sister posted a hideous picture of her kids on her blog. Good lord. Just to clarify, Josh does NOT look like Eric Stolz in ‘Mask’ in real life…he looks like this…

Oh wait. That’s bad too. He’s not really cross-eyed. That damn kid.

My chairs! Remember all that moaning I did about my love of Xavier Pauchard’s Marais Chairs? Priscilla found some dude in the village that had 11 of them. I was able to score 5 of them and will forever be in Priscilla’s debt. Having the real deal instead of the DWR ones…and at 1/5 the price…priceless! Course, Upstate Mom had to find a way to torture me. See her there all giggling and sticking magnets to them!?!?!

So let’s move on to the lighting “situation” in the dining room. Yum, another fug Hampton Bays-ish chandelier. I want to replace it with this big drum shade. I’m just not sure on where/how to get the kit to turn the drum shade into a hanging pendant-like lamp that WON’T have a big ugly exposed light bulb dangling within, over our heads as we dine. Assume a frosted globe goes inside? Anyone? Anyone? Am I smokin’ something here? Doesn’t Joe make a nice Vanna White? Also in this set is the fireplace in the dining room. What? You don’t see it? That’s cause the previous owners faux-bricked it over and then put baseboard heat across the front of it. Nice. Yeah, that’s on Matt’s list of things to rectify. Thinking I will harvest the mantle from the living room and put it in the dining room. I mentioned harvesting the mantle from Upstate Mom’s bedroom and that was met with a pout. Ok! Ok! Keep the mantle in your bedroom. LOL

I got my roast chicken with broccoli and mashed potatoes dinner. Course, no one got much to eat since the Fiance decided that the plate the chicken was on was his personal plate. Keep your fork to yourself buddy! Kidding. We all pigged out. I need to move the cat painting (painted by Upstate Mom!) and the mirror down. I just lobbed them up there on existing nails from a previous big japanese painting that used to be there till we moved the sideboard/cabinet from the city to the house. Put it on the never-ending to do list…

On to Zaborski’s Emporium. What did I get there? Well, not much frankly. It was my first time there and I was completely overwhelmed with all the options. I did snag a Steelcase chair for $50, a Hollywood Regency-ish umbrella stand for $5 and a sign that says “Fresh Baked Pastries” for $4. The sign is a real sign, not one of the fake looking TJ Maxx deals (personally…I hate those!). Being the putz that I am, I grabbed the one chair that was missing the up/down lever. Oops. Hoping I can find a replacement lever somewhere.

Last but not least…Fall Flowers and A Cute Baby.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention…my sister has a new blog. It’s called “I Gotta Headache”. Guess who gets lots of migraines? LINKY. We should talk her into getting a new username though. I don’t think “kakapants” really rolls off the tongue, know what I mean?

EDIT 2:

My sister posted a hideous picture of her kids on her blog. Good lord. Just to clarify, Josh does NOT look like Eric Stolz in ‘Mask’ in real life…he looks like this…

Oh wait. That’s bad too. He’s not really cross-eyed. That damn kid.