Living Room Progress

I just wanted to take a minute to share with you some of my finds. I've been scoring big time at Ross lately. It's very hit or miss usually, but this past week was good for me. Here is what my living room looked like on Thanksgiving Day.

Granted, I had just scored the picture above my fireplace for $25 bucks.

I absolutely love it, a little taste of big city in a vintage room.

The rug I picked up for $30.  Once I get the furniture painted it will all make sense.

Curtains were $13 each with a $17 dollar rod, grand total $69.

I'm still looking for the perfect chair and ottoman and another bookcase, then I will start painting furniture.

As this room is starting to semi evolve, I'm already thinking about the adjoining room, which currently host my computer.

Music Room?

xo,

mONICa

Pasadena Wind Storm

I don't know how many of you know that we live in Pasadena, CA. Well, the other night we got hit with some crazy winds. Talk about insanity. Too see the video click here.

When the winds started we thought this was just another case of the Santa Ana winds, we get them every year, but nothing could've prepared us for what actually occurred.  By 10pm we new this was not an average wind storm, by 12am we were scared, by 2am we saying, are we in Kansas toto, and by 3am we were hoping this was not going to be a three little pigs situation, because we don't have brick houses and basements.  Needless to say, we got through it minus some power and cable outages, but in the morning when we went outside, we could'nt believe our eyes.

Here is some footage from our morning walk.

Power lines split 

A tree blocking the street

Another tree (hundreds went down)

and the  infamous gas station, just a few blocks from our house.

Needless to say, things are looking better today (it's actually a gorgeous clear day), but still many don't have power and we are still driving through obstacle courses to get around the trees we lost : (

xo,

mONICa & eLAINe

Mini Kitchen Island

I'm still working on getting my old blog onto blogger, but until then I thought I'd share with you a little kitchen island I made in my desperation for counter top space.   This is what I started with.

I can't even tell you that I know what it was originally used for.  It looks like it could've been a bookshelf a built in, something.  It may have also had sliding doors at one time.  Either way, all I know is that I picked this baby up for $5 bucks.  Wasn't exactly sure why at the time, but I'm glad I did because when I moved into my new house I needed some extra prep space.  Drum roll please....

Here is is now...

I painted it in a turquoise distressed finish, added ball feet to get it to be counter height, and added a butcher block to the top.

I also added a wine rack that I have had forever stained in an espresso and a shelf.  I had two of these things originally in my old old apartment, you can see what I did with the other one in my old house here.

The side of the wine rack is a great place to store trays and the shelf on top cookbooks as well as a power strip for appliances.  I also decoupaged a thick wrapping paper in the back and insides to give it a fun decorative tin feel and to disguise imperfections.

and my favorite part is this cute little iron butterfly gifted to me by my good friend Tasha when we visited the 127 sale this summer.

xo,


mONICa

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mONICa & eLAINe

Small Kitchen Island

Hello there all,

I am having trouble with exporting my blog to blogger, so in the mean time I will send you all a link to my post over there.  Click here  to see how I turned this:

Into this

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xo,

mONICa