one day at a time: yard sale-ing

Saturday, April 10, 2010

yard sale-ing

a couple of lovely treasures found yard sale-ing this morning with the family:

$5 bar stools for nana and poppy's new kitchen.
they can keep them the distressed off-white or maybe paint them black or a dark green.

and an awesome $10 beachy table for the living room

this sucker is sturdy and HEAVY! some distressed vanilla paint? we'll see. i kinda like the green.

this afternoon's plan?
naps, baseball, planning two very special birthday parties and grilling out steaks for supper.

sounds heavenly, doesn't it?

2 comments:

nana said...: Love the bar stools!!!! Think i would like them in black!!! Love to all Nana; April 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM
meg duerksen said...: i think you need to send the stools to me!! they are my kitchen chairs! then i wouldn't have to stand when we have a guest. :) that is an AWESOME garage sale find.; April 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM

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