Feathering My Nest....

Hey there, chicks!... well, I've been busy around here....

feathering my nest (literally!) and preparing for some crazy days ahead.....

It's already been a busy start to the new year... with rehearsals and family getaways and concerts to sing... 

I didn't even have a chance to take down the Christmas tree until this past week. 

But I ended up having *the best time* doing it... 
I put on a new-to-me recording of some favorite holiday "fromage" 
(John Rutter, for my fellow cheese aficionados ;-}) 

the winter sun was beaming into my living room...

I got lost in the music..... and all pleasantly nostalgic for a bit

and finally got that tree out to the curb.....

I put away the lights, and even the seashells, which have been holding down that mantle, like, forever... and tried out my ironstone and some white-washed little pots and moss spheres for a white winter mantle... 

so clean & fresh.

 I even washed all my white slipcovers. It was about time :-}

 The dog makes a beeline everyday for the corner of the sofa that gets the midday sun.....

if I don't beat her to it and put her bed out there, she plops right down against that corner and pretty soon it's the color of her - orangey brown - which actually works with the color scheme... hmmm...


but, anyway, two kids, two adults, one dog, and we actually live in our living room... it was time...

So for a few days, my living room looked something like this... 

and now there are tinylittlefeathers everywhere from the 

down cushions... but I am not complaining..... 

This furniture is one of my greatest scores in the bargain department and one of my biggest "house joys". 
I could never in a billion years have bought this stuff new - it's Montauk, really good, expensive stuff - and I came across the two chairs at my (now!) favorite home consignment shop, marked down to rock bottom... don't ask me why, but they were waiting for me..... 


I snapped them up, not even realizing at the time what fine furniture they were. 
When I bought them, they mentioned that the seller was interested in selling the matching sofa as well, 
if I was interested (!!!!!!!!!!!). Uh, yeah, I was interested.


When I first got the chairs home, I wanted to dye the white slipcovers... they were so blindingly WHITE. 
And I *love* white, but this was a little hard to get used to...
Well, I am so very glad I didn't. Cuz now it's love.

This room is my peace and my rest. 
I start my day here with a cup of coffee, when I'm lucky :-)...
And those two chairs are where Mr. Shabby and I go when we need to unwind, reconnect, pow-wow, whatever's on the plate at the moment...


Inevitably Legos and other toys will get dragged in here...
I recently had an entire neighborhood arsenal of Nerf guns piled on that sofa... 


but I really try to keep it as serene a space as possible. 
I think we all need that somewhere in our lives.....


Which leads me to my next project...
Trip to Goodwill. This week. No ifs, ands or buts.
I can't fit the new stuff we got for Christmas into our petite cottage.
Something's gotta go......

Which really doesn't explain why I had this delivered to my doorstep today...
with something old and white and "fragile" inside... :-}


I guess I better get cracking on that Goodwill trip.


more soon...


oneshabbychick

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