glutten for punishment

It all started while I was aimlessly searching our local Craigslist listings. I tend to do that fairly regularly. Over the past year I've found some great pieces of furniture from the listings....I've had to drive to a few questionable neighborhoods to retrieve the items...but hey...who doesn't love a good treasure hunt?? When I spied this bedroom set I fell in love immediately for my youngest princess. She doesn't really need bedroom furniture. We were looking for a sleeper couch. But this was so much more fun and it provided the extra bed we were needing for guests so my guilty conscience was at least partially relieved.

So I emailed the seller lickety-split. Only to find out it had already been sold. I was in agonizing pain. I NEEDED this furniture now and couldn't envision my little princess resting her weary head anywhere else. I fired back another quick email asking (read: BEGGING) the seller to please let me know if her other deal fell through. Then I spent the Thanksgiving holiday agonizing over my loss and talking about it as if there was a death in the family (insert an apology to my family for the incessant chatter about my sour deal here). When I returned home from our trip I had an email from the seller...WHAT'S THIS?? Fate. Her other buyer had turned into a "no-show" and the furniture was MINE! The heavens parted (I did a serious happy dance) and began planning. I have a SERIOUS amount of painting to do next week. Anyone want to help?

Which brings me to this:

I've spent the last two days knee deep in my fabric stash putting this quilt top together for J's new big girl bed. Don't think I wasn't tempted to buy this (ok, ok...I even had them holding one for me at my local store) But the budget policeman vetoed my idea. He suggested I make a quilt utilizing my vast supply of fabric and I agreed that the idea wasn't half bad. So I started planning and preparing...laid out every scrap in my stash that I thought might possibly work...and then ran to Marshall's just to double check that there weren't any amazing quilts on the clearance rack.

The top is finished! My sweet hubby and I have plans to watch a movie and tie it off tomorrow night (what a romantic date huh? Kind of like two old women on the prairie!) I'm fairly proud of myself as I am usually a "time is money" kind of gal. But this whole experience fit so tidily into my handmade Christmas theme that I went for it and I'm so glad that I did.

OK...enough talk. How about a couple of cute pictures of Sam with his little girlfriend? Miss A belongs to a good friend and we got the kiddos together for a baby play date today. If you have read this blog before you might remember her from here. Wow has she changed! She's about as cute as can be!


Sam was pretty enamored by this little gal!

Thanks for the fun morning guys!

And one more little piece of business. A number of you were intrigued by The Writer's pink house so I thought I would share (pardon the minivan!) It isn't ALL pink...but might as well be for the amount of pepto bismal pink the previous wanna-be-Victorian owners punished this Craftsman with! It is such a fantastic home though and the pink will be all but a distant memory some day.

And with that I'll wrap up this random post and hit the hay.

Stop back TOMORROW for the WINNER of the GIVE AWAY!!! (I must be seriously tired...I'm starting to rhyme!)