windmill floor lamp #2

Yep, we made another windmill floor lamp

...for the new office this time.

You may remember last year when we made this one.

 It's one of my favorite lamps.

 We started with this old windmill base.

We used a lamp kit (about 10 bucks) 

we picked up from Home Depot. 

 We added a shade and in just a few minutes 

we had this super cool unique floor lamp.

When we came across another super cool

windmill base, this time in a perfect shade of green,

we just had to make another one.

 This base is a little bigger than the other one.

It also has that great shelf like base at the top.

That made it a little more difficult to figure out

where to put a shade.  Adding it to the very top

would make the entire lamp soooooo tall.

 So, we decided to use an Edison bulb 

and let the bulb show; no shade.

The top of this windmill looks a little like a cage already

so that cage would be the "shade."

sorry this is a little blurry. bad time of day for pic.

You can see from the side at the very top

how we just dropped the bulb down.

You can't see it but the four top "prongs"

were secured together with wire

so they created the perfect size opening to hold the bulb.

Now we have another interesting floor lamp.

It looks sort of like a piece of industrial art

during the day and its a functional lamp at night.

The bottom half of this lamp could also be used

to clip pictures, photos or papers to with some vintage clips.

The rest of the new office is coming along.

I hope to have it finished later today or next weekend.

I'm just working on the fun part, decorating!

I just can't decide exactly where I want things to be.

Its the Simple Things

If you are ever in the north Texas area, you must visit 

Simple Things Furniture Company.

They are re-opening their store this week

in a brand new location and it is amazing!

I asked them if I could share the news and

some of the pictures here on my blog because 

you just have to see this place.

This isn't just a regular furniture and home decor store 

where you walk in to see the merchandise.

It's an experience. 

   How many stores do you go into and actually marvel at the walls of the building or notice the ceiling and the floors.  

The place is a beautiful structure.  

You'll want to move right in. 

Can someone put these floors in my house please?

Once you get past the stunning architecture of the building

 (which they created from a generic warehouse space),

get ready for your jaw to drop.

Here are some pictures of inside Simple Things.

Those seltzer bottles are not just any bottles.

See the tag?  It says Joe T. Garcia's which 

is a restaurant icon around here. How cool.

This is so me.  Love the pop of red!

Not only will you want to buy everything,

but you will be inspired with decorating ideas.

I know.  Your jaw dropped.

Close your mouth before you drool.

Are you wanting more?

Get ready to blow up your Pinterest account.

Click here to visit their blog and see more pictures

of how they built this store and more of what is inside.

Better yet, visit them at 

7401 W Vickery

in Fort Worth, Texas.

What do you think?  Are you in love with this place?

What did you pin?

Maisy's new bed with a dilemma

Our little Maisy got a new bed.

It's cute little pale aqua metal bed on wheels.

Do you remember Maisy?

She's our little Morkie (maltese/yorkie).

She weighed 1.5  pounds when we got her 

and was about the same size as a soda can.

That was about 6 months ago.

Here she is at 4 months and weighing 2.5 pounds.

She doesn't like her hair bow.

Now she's all grown up weighing 3.5 pounds

and she's ready for a big girl bed.

Jennie and I went to a flea market a couple of weeks ago 

(an indoor flea market thank goodness; 

it was 107 degrees today by the way)

I picked up this cute little vintage metal pale aqua bed on wheels.

It's an old doll bed repurposed into a dog bed.  

One side even raises and lowers.

Maisy seemed to like it.

There's just one thing wrong.

I hate this old decal on it.  Hate it.

Okay, hate is a strong word.

I really, really strongly despise that decal.

This is a vintage Amsco doll crib made around the 1950s.

I love everything about it except that decal.  

I can't peel the decal off or remove it with out damaging the bed.

If I paint it, I take away the perfect blue color with just the right amount

of rust and wear.  

What do you think?

Leave it or paint it?

Reworked

Remember this?
I went a little bold for a change.

I wanted an impact wall in my second entry area and wanted to go

a little vintage industrial.  When I posted about this in June, I said

I kind of liked it but wasn't sure if I loved it.

I asked you for feedback and I got some great feedback 

and suggestions from you.  

I now know that I didn't love it.  

It looked like I slapped those on a wall and called it a day.

Maybe I did.

So, I reworked it a bit.

Some of you suggested I frame it in or paint the background a different color.

It needed some kind of perimeter to define it and finish it out.  

I have a piece of old moulding that has traveled around my house

and currently didn't have a home.  

So, I added it here to define and contain my collection of Gs and 3s.

I also add some smaller ones to fill in some of the big blank spaces.

There is still room to add more if I find just the right ones

but for now it looks more finished.

I like this a lot better.  

This is my favorite one.  It's an old thin metal stencil.

What do you think now?

Honestly.

You were all so kind last time when it really didn't look good.

By the way, they are all hanging straight.  

For some reason, some of them look a little crooked

in the picture but I assure you they are perfectly straight

in real life or it would drive me insane.

vintage, red and metal

A couple of weeks ago I hinted to you in this post that I had bought something vintage, red and metal.

I said it was bigger than a breadbox and asked if you had any guesses as to what it might be.

You all came up with some great guesses but nobody actually figured it out.

So what could it be?

How about an adorable vintage red metal bed?

I saw this in Ruby Grace's "red booth" at Lonestar Antique Mall.

Denis who owns the booth along with two other really cool booths 

let me have it for such a great deal that I couldn't say no.  

That cute bed was just begging me to give it a good home.

When I made over my sunroom into a project room,

I had this great bench in there for seating.

Then I decided to move that bench to the front porch

and when I did, I decided this was where it belonged.

Moving that bench to the porch created the cutest seating area but

left a huge void in the sunroom.

Enter cute vintage metal red bed.

It's going to be my new daybed/lounging sofa.

It has remnants of a sweet floral decal on the headboard

and awesome little wheels.

Those 3 little pots need some greenery, huh?

I added some bedding and pillows

and a comfy cotton throw

and presto, a daybed.

I am not a formal person.  I love the comfy slightly disheveled look.

What a great place for friends to hang out in the sunroom.

I guess it wouldn't be such a bad place to take a nap (if I took naps)

or even let a guest use if we need an extra bed.

Maybe I will go take a nap.  There's not much else we can do down here

in Texas right now.  We've had 3 straight weeks of 100+ temperatures, 

ridiculous humidity and not a drop of rain.  When you step outside,

you immediately start sweating...even before you feel really hot.

Hope others experiencing this heat wave are staying cool!