Our Antique Finds

So Sunday morning came around and Dwight has kinda started a “thing” where he makes us breakfast and usually brings it to me in bed on Sunday mornings. This morning I got out of bed and was picking out my clothes for the day when all of the sudden I hear BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ…he set off the smoke detector this time!  He yelled that he was sorry and I told him I was already awake so don’t feel bad!  Here are the culprits…the two that made it smokie!  ….And also the yummy beignets that we ate! …. He ALSO got my tulips that morning when he went to the store to get supplies for breakfast! He got a “you left the house without telling me” talk from me…for like 2 seconds!…annnnd then he also showed me what else he did that morning… powdered sugar got a little excited and exploded all over the floor and the curtain! It all tasted good though! I am blessed with a sweet man.

After breakfast we head to church. It was a great service with a really kewl video for I heart my city! … After church we went back to the antiques mall after church.

The blue bench was her first sale of the day… and not to us.so..oh well. Moving on! ha. We walk to the back of the store where the blue buffet was that we found yesterday. It is still there… but the bottom is LOCKED again!!! So while dwight goes to get the keys from the lady…I measure. It seems that it may fit our stuff. Buuuut it will be a TIGHT fit! We finally get it open (after dwight was literally on the floor picking the lock!)

…and the inside shelf is messed up. The bottom of the cabinet is also warped and would probably need replacing. So I am still trying to decide if I want it still. And Dwight asked me if I Loved it. I said yes. Then he used a line from our friend Steven…”What my baby wants…my baby gets!” He said if I really wanted it we would make it work. We talked about it for awhile and how we could fit stuff on it…and I told him it was silly just to get it cause I liked it if it wouldn’t work! …sooo he suggested looking around some more…so we did that….we to 2 stores and found some…but none that had the same storage or was as cute…or same price range! I never like to spend more than we have to! Here are some others we found…

So we decided to go back to the first place with the light blue buffet and get it and make it work! At one of the stores on our way out to go buy the hutch Dwight came across a sun dial…We were going to put a bird bath that sits out in the back yard in a spot in the redone garden by the pool… he liked this a lot more and I did too! So…we got the price down a little and then bought it! Well…. on the way to put the sun dial in the truck Dwight noticed a sign in a store window that said “Furniture Marked Down”…so we decided I would go look in there while he put up the sun dial. Boy and I glad we did that!!! RIGHT when I walked in I fell in Love with the FIRST piece I saw on the right:I didn’t want to influence Dwight so I went to another piece and waited for him to come in the store… he walked in and was drawn to the same piece I was and said “This is perfect!”… and he was right. The price was lower than the first blue piece we found! Before I had even measured it to make sure it would fit our stuff…we had bought it!  So we loaded it up and took it home!!!It fits perfectly in the spot we had in mind for it! Here it is…empty… but it will be full of our stuff soon enough! :

Here is the sun dial in its new home: My favorite part: