Saturday stuff

I put this together all by myself in about 30 minutes and I only cussed once:
Yay extra counter space!

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After years of searching we finally found a cast iron enamel cook pot that can be used on the stove top or in the oven for under $50 bucks.

We always see ones that size that routinely sell for anywhere between $150 to $300. We nearly plotzed when we saw this beauty for under $50, so we snapped it up.

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In the swag department, the queen of swag, Suzy the Quaker Vixen, sent me these two items plus a couple of full color copies of pages from a version of the classic kid's story Ten Little Monkeys.

Three cheers for Suzy!

Inside the monkey house

It's time to take a peek inside the new house!

Come on in and I'll show you the new furniture we got for the living/dining room. It's a long ass room, I was joking around with Sparky and I told her that we could have installed a bowling alley in it. At one end we have a sitting area with some new furniture. The chair on the left came today and the love seat we got last week. The trunk in the center Sparky has had for years. The other chair matches the love seat and we got it all in a deal at a locally owned furniture store. It's comfortable and stylish at the same time. Topping the room off is the new to us dining room table that was given to us by our friends from Knoxville, Todd and Donna. The table with all the leaves it is fecking huge, which is a good thing because we now have a house where we can have scads of people over at once, unlike our old condo where we could only have one couple at a time over.

The room is still a work in progress, we're on the hunt for a rug that will match the furniture and for some chairs for the table, but we're happy with everything so far.

This last picture is to show our friend Donna that she can stop her search for a set of acceptable glasses for us. I found this set at TJ Maxx for $12. They're heavy glasses Donna, just like I said I liked and they have a bit of style to them. That pattern is called "Window Pane." Stay tuned for more peeks inside the new Monkey Central as events warrant.

And we're back...

We're in the new place and we're still alive. Woo hoo! I'll tell you all more about it later. I promise. In the mean time here's a picture of my new blog station. (Yes that hideous valence will be going soon.)
Thank you Fran for sending me the first bit of swag to the new address!

It's sew easy

Okay you slackers, get to work. Those drapes for our new house won't make themselves. You've got a little over two weeks to make us some, so hop to it.