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I found a few great deals today that I thought that I'd pass on!

Bath & Body Work Groupon : You can either get $20 worth of product for $10 or $30 worth of product for $15 at their online store.  I jumped on this one, as I love their True Blue Spa Foot Cream.  It is the best for dry winter feet & hands!

J.Crew : An extra 40% off sale items!  Use the code MUSTSHOP online.  I treated myself to a few tops for my birthday at the in store sale, which I got for a fraction of their orginal prices!

Old Navy : An extra 25% off clearance.  Use the code ONEXTRA25.

Hanna Anderson : Their clearance section has some beautiful children's clothes on sale, most at 50% or more off.

I don't have any association with these stores, I just love to share a good deal!

 

Pinterest

Do you remember how, about a year ago, I asked if anyone knew of an online style file?  A place to keep all of those ideas, photos & links that catch my eye.  Well, glory alleluhia, I've finally found the place!  Pinterest.  Have you heard of this place yet?  It is so, so fabulous.  You can "pin" ideas that you find on the web to your "boards".

Currently, I have boards for each room, to keep ideas for our new house.  For instance, this amazing laundry room made it onto my laundry room board:

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Yes, I have a laundry room inspiration board.  You would too if your current "laundry room" was a nasty corner of your basement.

Bathrooms that make me drool are another favorite for my boards:

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I have boards for kitchens, baths, living rooms, and playrooms currently.  You can also use Pinterest to make wishlists of things that you want, books that you want to read, art & photos that catch your eye, recipes, fashion, really anything.  As you might guess, I've spent far too much time there recently :)

If you join Pinterest (it's free!), you can check out my boards: http://pinterest.com/kfleming/.

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Wine Display

Remember how I posted yesterday that I went to Michaels to get a picture frame & mat?  It was to finish up my latest staging project, the wall above the dresser in our kitchen.

I've been trying, as much as possible, to do my staging with things that I already have around the house.  Since I'm normally drawn to to things that are unique, vintage & have personal meaning, coming up with "neutral" staging items has been a challenge!

I'm really happy with how this turned out.  Pulled together, interesting but not cluttered. I pulled the wine rack from the top of the fridge, where I didn't think that it looked good and found the picture on the bottom right in my stash.

Reproduction vintage sales slip from a french wine store & reproduction wine lables, pressed between glass.  Along with this, I also found a framed photo that I'd had up several years ago, but has been in storage since.

One of my favorite pictures of my Grandparents, at the party after my dad's bar mitzva in 1959. Apparently, they are offering a drink to the photographer.  Love it! I know that you are supposed to avoid family photos when selling your house, but this is literally the only one that I'm leaving out and it really fits in with the rest of the items.

That left me with an open spot, so I went to my favorite source for free, fabulous images, The Graphics Fairy.  As usual, she had exactly what I needed -- a drawing of a corkscrew, taken from an antique dictionary.  I printed it on cardstock, got the aforementioned frame & mat at Michaels, and had framed artwork for less than $6!

I need to move on to other rooms in the house, but I'm currently lacking motivation.  One day off is OK, right???

Deals of the Day

I found some great deals today, which I thought that I'd share with you.

If you haven't been to your local Michaels recently, get over there & check out their clearance! I went there today, looking for a picture frame & mat.  I found a mother load of Christmas clearance, most at 80% off!

100 piece puzzle (for next year's stocking): 20 cents

Color your own puzzle

Sponge Stamps

Snowman Activity Kit

(all for entertaining a little girl who has been getting pretty bored on snow days): 20 cents each = 80 cents

2 tubes of bubble bath for me: 40 cents each = 80 cents

Gingerbread house kit for next year (we never eat the ingredients, so it doesn't matter if they are old) : $1.99

Grand Total: $3.79 for everything pictured!

Another great deal that has been all over the web, but you might have missed, is today's Living Social deal. 50% off a $20 Amazon gift card!  Personally, we buy everything from Amazon, from books to a TV, so we are all over this one.  Here is the link: http://livingsocial.com/deals/21336-20-amazon-com-gift-card.  Hurry, it's only good today!

 

Getting Ready To Sell

I'm in the middle of getting our house ready to sell.  It has become a full time project.  All of those things that you get used to living with?  Yep, they've gotta get fixed, cleaned up, painted or tossed.  I've decided to go room by room, as much as possible, and tackle it that way.  I started with our bedroom.  Painted the scuffed trim, cleaned the curtains and took down all of the art work, and generally "staged it".

The clean, spare version of my dresser.

I'm learning a lesson in this exercise.  I'm liking the low clutter look.  I'm thinking that I'm going to continue this style in our new home.

Another thing that I've had to work on is cleaning up little scuffs on our furniture.  While we aren't selling the furniture with house, I think that if everything in the house looks well cared for, the general impression is that we've done a good job taking care of the house.  Here's a little trick that I've discovered to fix up scratches in dark wood furniture.

Take a little can of dark wood stain and a rag and just wipe the surface of your furniture with the stain, concentrating on the scratches.  Don't sand or prepare the wood in any way -- you aren't trying to re-finish anything. It will take a few days for the stain to totally dry & not feel "tacky". Your furniture will look amazing -- much richer & the scratches will be barely noticeable. Of course, you don't want to try this on any truly valuable pieces, but if you've got something that is worse for the wear & it won't break your heart if it doesn't look perfect after the project is done, give it a try.  Also, I haven't tried this on light colored wood, so I'm not sure if it would work.

 

Free To a Good Home

I've been going through my closets & shelves and clearing out things that I no longer need.  Among the things that I found are these 3 vintage children's books that are falling apart but have wonderful illustrations inside. 

Since I know that many of you enjoy vintage images & work in paper arts, I thought that one of you might like to have them. First person to email me at [email protected] gets them! All that I ask is that you pay for shipping, which should be between $3 & $4 via Media Mail, depending upon where you live.  They have been claimed by Jen @ The Cottage Nest!

Master Bathroom Before & After

After a year, we have finally finished our master bathroom!

You may remember the before:

And more of the after:

We took down the wallpaper, painted the walls, had the shower stall replaced with a shower, all new faucets & fixtures, replaced the mirror & the medicine cabinet, painted the vanity cabinet, replaced the vanity top with granite, replaced the light, and got a new shower curtain.

I love the entire room, especially the tub.  It's been bubble baths almost every night!