Two Posts in One Day!

One of my awesome college roomies (let's hear it for the Ruswood gang...woohoo), Erin, has embarked on a VERY cool new adventure. I present to you: Erin Shanks Interiors. I was reading through her site recently and realized how blah my entry was. I mean, it wasn't awful. Just needed a little sumptin'-sumptin'. Annnnnd, Erin mentioned these two lamps she had found at Goodwill. I thought, hmmmm, wonder if our Goodwill has anything cool like that. Well, what do you know...

Here's the before...

The table was my parents' old sofa table from their old house in Austin...I think it's almost as old as I am. I painted it black when we moved here.

The Goodwill lamps! Hello, 1990! Erin and I had a few email convos and decided red glossy paint would be perfect. Another awesome idea Erin had...drum lamp shades!

Almost done.....

I placed harlequin black & cream scrapbook paper under the glass of the table.

The End Result:

I know it's not absolutely perfect...I probably go overboard with chachkies and plant things. And I need to do something with the basket of the tree.

But, I am so, so happy with the change!! Thank you so much, Erin! You are so awesome! These lamps were less than $5 each and I already had the spray paint in the garage. I did splurge a bit on the drum shades, but I feel like I saved sooo much on the lamps that I sort of justified it that way. ; )

Look for some fun new ideas for your home on Erin's site!

THE SIDE STORY:

While at Goodwill, I had another interesting find. They have all of their wintery clothes out and on display. This big, puffy sweatshirt caught my eye that was hanging on the rack. Why? Because I designed it in 1999! It was a GATA sweatshirt from my college club at ACU! Not only was it from my senior year, it was from the time period that I did graphics for a local t-shirt shop, and it was one of my old designs!! I about fell over. I had to buy it just to show David! When I was going on and on about this sweatshirt to him and what a crazy coincidence it was that it ended up in a Goodwill in Killeen, he kind of had a weird look on his face. Then he informed me that he had donated a bunch of boxes of old clothes that were in our garage to that very Goodwill. Soooo....

I purchased back a sweatshirt that we donated to Goodwill. So, I'm out $4 and have my sweatshirt back. A sweatshirt I never knew I missed.