Who remembers this

I just started watching the Mary Tyler Moore show again.  I remember watching this when I was little.  I just love the windows with the balcony outside.I love the apartment that she had in the beginning of the series of course minus the shag carpet.  I could see myself living there if I was single.  Who really needs that much room.   I just love the windows with the balcony outside.  Now I see why Rhoda wanted this apartment so bad in the first episode.  I found these photos on google. Did you know that the man on the right of the picture was Valerie Harpers husband at the time?

And this kitchen is so cute.  When you're single you don't need much room for cooking.

I found this great outside picture at night.  It looks like it is decorated for Christmas.  Now this is my type of house.

New furniture update

Yea, my new furniture is finally going to be delivered Saturday.  I have been waiting so long that I almost forgot about it.  Tonight we have to move all the old furniture into the dining room so that I can clean the carpet before it arrives.  Now I am going to have to search for some new curtains that will go with the furniture.

We are getting three of the chairs and the ottomans.  One set will be going in my sitting room that is on the other side of the living room.  I am not so sure if they will go with my end tables and coffee table as they are more rustic and have square legs.

Isn't it romantic

I thought that I would get my romantic Valentine's Day tablescape by the fireplace done today.  I went very simple with this by not using any centerpiece.  I think that the fireplace serves that purpose well.

I only used red, white and gold for this tablescape.  I know that the leaf tablecloth doesn't scream Valentine but it is the only tablecloth that I have in this color.  I have been meaning to get a plain one.

So this Valentine's Day we will be staying home and having fondue by the fireplace.  Of course the table stay like this since I need room for the fondue pot.  I didn't think it would look good in the pictures so I didn't make room for it.  It's amazing what you can get done at 7:00 AM.

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Spring Fever

Boy do I have Spring Fever.  This morning I woke up to snow.  Not much but just enough to cover the roads.  It has quit snowing and the roads are clear now but the sky is gray.  Days like this I sit in my office with nothing to do but look at snow, bare trees and traffic driving by.  Luckily I have my new Pier 1 catalog to look at and perk me up a bit. 

I just had to go there yesterday and by some new items for Spring.  I got the two different garden tins, the urn and some of the hydrangeas.  I also had to get some of their new bunnies.  Boy I sure do have a hard time getting out of there without buying something.  Just look at this adorable bunny that I got.

The two pictures above are from the Pier 1 website.  I thought that he would go well with the new bunny plates that I got.  He sure looks like a combo of these two.  I can't wait to get started on the Spring decor.

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Bookcases and napkin storage

This weekend I decided to go ahead and redo the bookcases in the living room.  I was going to wait until after the new furniture was delivered but that probably won't be for a few more weeks.  I want to apologize ahead of time for the quality of the photos.  This room is at the back of the house which faces North and the wall of windows for this room has the covered deck on the other side so we don't get much light in this room.  Please excuse all the shadows.  This is the before picture.

I kept a few of the same items and added some from the bookcases in the sitting room.  This is my no cost makeover.  First I started by taking everything down except for the books.  I decided to keep them the way they are.

Now the after pictures and sorry for all the shadows as I had to take these pictures at night with all the lights on.

It is not easy to decorate around electronic components.  They have to be on the shelves in order to use them.

Once the room has the new furniture I will retake the pictures and hopefully they will look better.

Now onto the napkin storage.  A couple of weekends ago I washed and ironed over 100 napkins and found them a new home.  The bookcases in the living room has three large drawers so I used the middle drawer underneath the television to store the napkins.  I thought that rolling them up instead of folding would be better and it is working so far.

Yes, all of the napkins fit.  They are in layers so it doesn't look like many but trust me they are there.  I was able to get three layers in here.  This is the perfect spot for them since it is the same distance from the dining room and the kitchen where I use them.  Now all I have left is to find the perfect home for the tablecloths.

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Top 5 for January

Today I thought I would share my top 5 posts for the month of January.  I can't believe we are at the end of this month already.  It seems like the older I get the faster it goes. 

Coming in at number 5 is Fun in the foyer

at number 4 is Changes in the kitchen are complete

number 3 is French country tablescape

for number 2 is Getting organized update

at finally at number 1 is Little changes in the kitchen

My funny Valentine

This year I thought I would try a fun tablescape in the kitchen for Valentine's Day.  I will still do a romantic one by the fireplace but I thought this would look nice in the kitchen.  The last few years we have been staying home and doing a fondue by the fireplace. I will be working on that tablescape next week.

I got this little dog for my hubby on Valentine's Day a few years ago and I thought he would work perfect with the setting.

 The plates say "you are one in a million".   I found them at our local grocery store.  It's amazing what you can find there.

The last Valentine's Day we went out it was anything but romantic.  When we used to go out we would go somewhere with a romantic atmosphere. One of our customers suggested it to my hubby and he made the reservations.  The place was called The Fort. Does that sound romantic?  Yes it looks like a fort and it was not romantic to me at all.  Here are some photos I found on the internet.

This is the room that we were seated in.  The chairs were like sitting on rocks.  The place was packed but I am sorry this was not my idea of romance.  The food was alright but it was a bit pricey.  I would rather stay home where it is more comfortable.

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