Three Things That I Never Followed Up On

1. Old, Chippy Corbels
 

 

Oh, yes. I still have those beautiful, chippy corbels. Except now they are beautiful, chippy, and extremely dusty from sitting on top of my dining room hutch for months. Or years. Yup, I think it's been years now. My plan was, and still is, to hang them in the doorway that leads from the living room into the sunroom. There are three reasons why I haven't done this yet: 

 

a) Some friends and family have hinted that they think corbels in the doorway will look.... how did they put it.... dumb. Okay, so my feelings might have been a little hurt.

 

b) My dearest husband doesn't want to screw into the nice, solid, freshly painted door trim.

 

c) I read a recent blog post over at The Lettered Cottage where they stripped a pair of old, chippy corbels. And they looked real good. 

 

So, that's that. Dusty corbels because I still can't decide what to do.

P.S. You can see a picture of how the corbels would sort of look here. Warning: there is a very unflattering picture of me without any makeup on. Shudder.

 

 

2. Master Bedroom Light Fixture
 

A very long time ago we started doing some fix-ups in our Master Bedroom. We painted, installed crown molding, refinished the floors, added some curtains and curtain rods, and purchased a new light fixture. We ended up choosing an inexpensive schoolhouse-type light fixture from Lowes. After we installed it we decided that it was a little on the flimsy side and a little on the small side.

 

And then we left it.

 

A few weeks ago my dearest husband decided to make the bed. Obviously he doesn't do it very often because somehow he managed to smash the shade into a billion little pieces all over our bed. Awesome. I love cuddling with glass shards after a long, hard day.

 

;)

 

So. We had a small, flimsy light. Now we have no light.

P.S. You can see the light fixture installed in our totally unfinished bedroom here.

 

3. Ikea Duvet Cover
 

 

A few months ago I bought a giant, king-sized duvet for our bed. (This is after my dearest husband and I had been fighting over the small queen-sized duvet for months.) I bought a Ralph Lauren duvet from Homesense thinking it was the best thing of life. Except I didn't realize at the time that it had little squares sewn all over it - making big poofy puffs in the middle of each square. Together with the new duvet cover over it - our bed looks like a giant, lumpy mess.

 

I am annoyed that I bought a lumpy duvet. I am annoyed that it looks extra lumpy inside it's awesome new cover. I am pretty much just annoyed.
 

 

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In other news:

 

• This post might be the first of a series. There are just so many things that I've never followed through on. Yay, me.
• I have two little Christmas craft ideas in the works. I'm excited. I'm a nerd.
• It snowed last night. When Cooper looked out the window in the morning he said, "Woah, woah, woooooah" in his deep drill-sergeant voice. It was adorable.