What A Deal!!

Progress on the nursery is being made. Justin is doing a great job painting. All that's left to buy is the glider, furniture-wise. We know where we want to get it and are just waiting for me to decide on the bedding. I thought I knew what I wanted, but it's changed. We had already painted the room a very light blue, so I've got to find bedding to match the color. That's hard. I think I'm going to get something from Pottery Barn. So, once I get the bedding in, I'll be able to begin decorating. Our living room and dining room is still filled with Juliet's gifts! It's going to be good when we can sequester all baby things in one room. Of course, once she gets here, that will be impossible. Oh, well. One can dream.

We got the deal of the century last weekend. I was out running errands (I use running very figuratively) and decided to stop by Haverty's because they were having a warehouse sale. I was looking for an armoire. We found one we liked at an antique store, but we didn't know if the finish would take paint and it had a few small hangups. We waited long enough to make a decision, that it was gone. So it was back to the drawing board. Since the antique stores in the area didn't have what we needed, I thought we might have to go with a real furniture store. Which automatically registered as a lot more money. I walk around the clearance furniture and at the very end of my journey, there it is. It's perfect, white, and girly, but not in our price range. It wasn't too far out, so I chatted with the sales lady. She chuckled at what I wanted to spend, but I thought, it's on clearance, they are ready to get rid of it, so I'm not showing all my cards. She said she would call me Monday when she talked to her manager and give me the best price. Once I got home I told Justin about it and we began to get furniture fever. What if the perfect piece was gone? It's a hard piece to find and we've found it! We talked ourselves out of the urge, thanks to Dave Ramsey, and we decided Justin would go back later that night, with a set amount of cash, not too much below the asking price and see if they would sell it to him. He managed to avoid the same sales lady I had and began working his mojo. The sales lady said it was a no go and she would call him with the best price the manager could offer later...Sunday afternoon we're shopping in WalMart (the place of death). Justin gets a call from the sales lady at 3:30. She's going to let us have it at 50% of the sales price! What?!!! SOLD!!!!!!!! The manager had given the sales associates a one day 50% off coupon to use on any one customer that day. Evidently the sales lady had not made any sales and she knew we would be a sure fire sale. She gave us an hour to get there. We did all of our grocery shopping in 20 minutes. I was behind the buggy limping as we sped through the rows. We made it in time and became the proud owners of this sweet armoire...the best deal we've ever made!

Doors open to a hanging area.

Sweet little details

The swags are also the drawer pulls