Buy now, no regrets later...

Read a sign at Todd's Farm this past weekend.   I wish I had followed it.  There were two Witney Point wool blankets, a mint green and pink one, in excellent condition.  I saw them as soon as we drove in and knew I had to stop to  see how much they were.   The woman was selling them for $125 for the pair (she wouldn't split them up, "they belong together" as she put it).   My husband didn't quite understand why I was so obsessed with the blankets and didn't think it was worth spending the money.   Until later when I was showing him Witney Point blankets online for $150-200 a piece.   By the time we were ready to leave I had convinced him we should buy them... and sadly they had sold.    So here I sit regretting not buying the blankets.

Here is the same pink one for sale on ebay...sigh.

The day wasn't completely filled with regrets.  We did find buy a few items inspired by a bird bath we bought at a craft fair over the weekend.  Here is a little preview of our project.    

Nick had bought some vintage car advertisements from LIFE and LOOK magazine as well as a very cool Christmas themed Master Charge ad.

We also bought an oil painting by an artist named Jacallo, all I can find on him is that he was a German Expressionist painter.   I loved it and my husband thought it was "cool".  He told me that it reminded him of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, which I'm not sure is good or bad.  Its a little dark but I really like the colors in it and the subject matter.  We saw it originally the day before but decided to think about it.  Luckily it was still there today (I really need to learn my lesson to "buy now").   We might hang it in our foyer or in the hallway heading into the "man cave". 

Last Two Chairs

We finally found 2 more chairs for our new dining room table about a month ago.  My husband found them on the side of the road for free on his ride home from work.   Although they do not match the style of the other 4 chairs they are a similar size.  We also liked how they were a bit more modern to off set the ornate style of the other 4 chairs.

We knew we didn't want to paint them blue like the others.  We thought about yellow however I thought I was starting to copy the Country Living cover a bit too much!  Instead we went with an almost hunter green color (its darker shade than it looks in the pictures.  We are upholstering the seats in the same striped fabric as the blue chairs.  Pictures of the whole table set up with the chairs will be coming soon.

On another note... our garage is starting to look a bit scary with all our projects we have going, eek!  Definitely need to tackle that before fall!