Finding a home...Part 2

One thing I always get asked

by friends, family and even the

people I buy from...is....

Where are you going to put that?

or

What are you going to do with that?

And I usually answer...

ummm I have no idea!

I just buy what I love

 (if it's in my budget)

and it somehow always fits

right in somewhere....

HOWEVER,

I bought this piece knowing exactly

what I wanted to do with it and where I wanted to put it..

That was my first mistake!

Isn't it beautiful sitting so pretty on the middle of my table...

Well.....to bad it stinks to high heaven...

It smells like a campfire/burnt wood

And i'll be honest, I knew when I bought it that

it had an odor...but I thought a couple of weeks

on the back porch airing out would fix it.

NOT!!!

So if any of you know how I can get the odor

to disappear please let me know.

Until then...I guess it will just have

to go on the back porch....boo hoo

Soni and I found these pretty corbels with just

the perfect amount of shabbiness to them.

So I hung them going into my kitchen....

Thanks to Kerri for the idea.. 

I've wanted a french bottle drying rack forever!

And i'm so excited that I found one in my budget,

it's a reproduction...but that's okay with me...

I love it!

Cute little planters...just right for silverware!

We found 3 of these wooden trays...what do

you suppose they were used for? 

They had shipping tags on them from France...

do you think they dried herbs or something on it?

I placed one on each top shelf of the bookcases in

the dining area....just to bring in the browns

and a bit of texture

I took out the over sized to big for this space

brown bookcase that I had found at Goodwill

and brought back in a piece I had stored in the

garage...I think it fits much better...

and I placed the metal letter "d" on it

that I purchased from

The Paris Market in Savannah, GA

Sweet Shadow Box....

thought it would be neat for

the kids to place their weekly

seashell finds from the beach in it...

Love the quote...

And last but not least....

Kerri and I found 2 metal letters

at Scott's Antique Market...

One for my son and one for hers...

just doesn't get any more meant to be than that..

The reason that i've shown you all of this

is not to brag or boast about what I found

on my summer adventures....

But to show you that if you buy only things

that speak to you and that

you truly love....you can always find

a special spot in your home for it....

no matter how small or how big it is!

Unless of course it stinks to high heaven...

then you need to put it outside...

Ha Ha