Hardware 'O Plenty

We've been slowly working on making shelving for the kitchen out of old palette wood, recycled and then planed down to smooth, workable wood. The shelving needs to sit on top of corbels (the pretty triangle looking things) of course, and I have not been able to find any that are my style at local hardware stores. We recently went to Oklahoma City's fantastic Architectural Antique and Dead People's Stuff Store (that's actually the real name, folks) to look for antique corbels, but found none that suited me. Anthropologie has some that are perfect. Well, perfect, besides about 3 times the price I would like to pay for them. I need 9 of them, so paying more than $10 a piece is lookin' a bit high for me. But look at these corbels...I'm planning on checking in on them occasionally and looking for sales.

They've also got some AMAZING knobs that I am seriously considering spending about 14 paychecks on. I need them. Oh... right... and these house numbers as well. Here, Anthropologie...just take my entire savings.

I Miss the Internet!!!

Before we moved into the house, we decided to wait to have the internet and cable hooked up for awhile, thinking that it would help us stay focused on getting things finished. Turns out the joke was on us. Now when we get home from work, we are simply too exhausted and we make the mistake of sitting down our very comfy couch and falling into each other. Then we get little to nothing done. Even without the distractions of television and internet, we are fairly useless in the evening. ...and my blog is suffering because of the lack on internet. But, things could be worse. We got the washing machine hooked up today, so I can finally do a load of laundry without having to drive 40 miles to my mother's house. That is seriously exciting for me! I have always liked doing laundry, and having the capability to do so without travel expenses/time added in is very nice! Everything is coming together, slowly but surely.