u/Para_Regal

I had a great time finding random cats

$200 which is a fair price for a rare (and huge!) piece but still a bit too spendy for my budget right now. I hope someone gives them a good home!

No way can you do this in 16 moves. It’s been over a week and the moves haven’t doubled, either.

A couple months ago I came across this fabulous 1967 lamp by Fortune Lamp Company (the date is helpfully stamped in the base of the column) at my local Goodwill. Even though it was lacking a lampshade, I took it home with me because it was only $7.99 and I happen to love what my friends and I jokingly refer to as “Mod-eival” decor (the funky mashup of medieval and mid century modern that was a thing in the late-1960s). Once I got it home I realized I had no clue what kind of lampshade it would have had originally. I figured it would probably be a drum shape considering the era, but past that… I dunno!

After letting it sit in my office, naked, for several weeks, I set about trying to figure out the lampshade situation and quickly discovered that lampshades are expensive! A large drum in a basic af white runs $60-70, not including shipping! So, back to the GW I went and got lucky, finding a basic af white drum lampshade for $4.99. Pleased at my savings, I now realized I had a new problem — basic af white was not going to work with this lamp. This caused about a week long existential crisis wherein I debated the pros and cons of painting, stenciling, or somehow recovering the lampshade in some way that was more appropriate.

Ultimately, I decided on recovering the lampshade with peel & stick wallpaper, finding a cool distressed metallic gold wallpaper that I thought would compliment the lamp base. I then mixed up a weird dark-purple-gray-black color out of acrylic paints raided from my husband’s paint stash and painted the binding. And I finished it off by glueing some vintage gold lace I had laying around to hide the crappy job I did cutting the edge of the peel & stick wallpaper against the binding edge.

All in all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! The most expensive part of this little project was the peel & stick wallpaper.

Cost breakdown for anyone who is into that kind of thing:

Fortune Lamp Co. lamp: $7.99

Basic af white drum lampshade: $4.99

Peel & stick wallpaper: $28

Fabric glue: $7

Lace: from stash

Paint: from stash

Total cost: $47.98

A couple months ago I came across this fabulous 1967 lamp by Fortune Lamp Company (the date is helpfully stamped in the base of the column). Even though it was lacking a lampshade, I took it home with me because it was only $7.99 and I happen to love what we jokingly refer to as “Mod-eival” decor (the funky mashup of medieval and mid century modern). Once I got it home I realized I had no clue what kind of lampshade it would have had originally. I figured it would probably be a drum shape considering the era, but past that… I dunno!

After letting it sit in my office, naked, for several weeks, I set about trying to figure out the lampshade situation and quickly discovered that lampshades are expensive! A large drum in a basic af white runs $60-70, not including shipping! So, back to the GW I went and got lucky, finding a basic af white drum lampshade for $4.99. Pleased at my savings, I now realized I had a new problem — basic af white was not going to work with this lamp. This caused about a week long existential crisis wherein I debated the pros and cons of painting, stenciling, or somehow recovering the lampshade in some way that was more appropriate.

Ultimately, I decided on recovering the lampshade with peel & stick wallpaper, finding a cool distressed metallic gold wallpaper that I thought would compliment the lamp base. I then mixed up a weird dark-purple-gray-black color out of acrylic paints raided from my husband’s paint stash and painted the binding. And I finished it off by glueing some vintage gold lace I had laying around to hide the crappy job I did cutting the edge of the peel & stick wallpaper against the binding edge.

All in all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

Sept 1st and we have our first sorta break from the 100° hell that is our summer, and it never fails. “Is it fall????” NO. IT IS A LIE. IT IS DESIGNED TO LULL YOU INTO A FALSE SENSE OF COZY FALL VIBES. PREPARE THYSELF FOR THE COMING INFERNO THAT WILL LAST UNTIL HALLOWEEN, FOR TO LIVE IN SACRAMENTO IS TO LIVE IN THE SIZZLING EMBRACE OF SATAN’S HELLISH ARMPITS UNTIL AROUND MID-NOVEMBER. \ [T] /

I happened to find a pair exactly like this online (for a ridiculously unrealistic price, imho) but there was no info about the brand. I looked for a maker mark/brand, but there’s none that I can find. I’m guessing it’s 1960s-1970s. I am absolutely stumped as to what kind of lamp shade to put on it! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

(Bonus cats are unimpressed.)

The wall art is pretty common, probably 1970s-1990s, but I just thought it was such a random coincidence to see it in the first ep of Lanterns the same day that I finally got around to putting it up. 😆

This has been on my wish list for ages. I have a 25-year-old Dyson vacuum that is still trucking along, but I’ve yearned to have a stick vacuum for all the kitty litter and cat food my 3 little gremlins like to kick around. Finally found it today at a GW on the other side of town that I had never been to, buried in a stock bin under a couple of ugly 1980s lamps. I recognized it immediately and carefully excavated it. Tested it and it seemed to work, so came home and gave it a full charge and I’ve now spent half the day vacuuming every conceivable surface I can manage to get to with it. 😆

ISTG everyone out there scoring Le Crueset at thrift stores except me. Every time I see an enameled cast iron Dutch oven my hopes raise, only to be dashed with yet another knock off.

Found this funny little 1 oz tasting cup at GW today and walked all around the store with it before deciding to put it back on the shelf. I’m of half a mind to go back and get him tomorrow.

Mercifully, the adjuster gave me the wrong year by accident and it was quickly cleared up, but not before my Apple Watch captured this jolt of panic that blasted through me like several thousand volts of electricity. ⚡️

Pippin is 10 months old and already absolutely massive. He’s taller and longer than our older “big boy” cat, and I’m a little worried about how big he’s going to be by the time he’s finished growing, tbh. He’s a solid 13 lbs and still growing.

Left photo is the day I brought him home, around 3-4 weeks old and still needing round the clock bottle feeding. Photo on the right is him now, staring into my soul and plotting to steal every last scrunchie I own.

This ceramic mushroom terrine was a catch and release last weekend at the antique mall. I’m not a huge mushroom person, and tbf the price wasn’t tempting enough. But I did snap a pic to send to my friend who IS a lover of quirky mid century mushroom things and forgot about it until now. Figured you all would get a kick out it!

I found this new in box Singer serger at GW a couple of weeks ago, for a whopping $25. Snagged it, even though I already have a perfectly good serger at home, but figured I’d keep it as a back up or give it away at some point.

Well, today I gave it to a friend who is just starting out on her sewing journey. Feels good, man!