Some photos to share

So, Friday ended up being a triple threat of money: payday, freelance job payment, and tax rebate. So, needless to say I spent entirely too much money this weekend. For one, on the chair in the last post, and two, on this nice vintage 1958 dresser from they same shop. It's fully restored, in excellent condition and now serves as my TV console.

Also, me and Cathy took a trip down to Ikea (a dangerous place when I have extra money laying around) and picked up a cool sputnik style mirror and some pillows for the couch to make things a bit more comfortable around here (shown with my rabbit enjoying them).

So that is it for now... I got so much stuff this weekend but I need to take good pictures of them to share... maybe I should stop taking all my pictures with my phone and dig out the ol' point and shoot huh?

And the chair goes to...

So, as you can see from the image above, I got the chair! As I had mentioned the other day on this blog I purchased a vintage 1958 dresser (pictures to come in the next post... I also got lots of goods to share with you at the local antique affair), and while picking up the dresser this past Friday evening I made a deal with the shop owner that brought the would be $350 chair down to $200. I could not resist, and as you can see it now sits nicely in my living room area :)

So, anyone in the market for a $120 Ikea chair?

Karlstad Ikea Swivel Chair

Some links and a weekend to look forward to.

So living in this new apartment has turned me furniture crazy. I've got to thinking... if I had all the money in the world, I would have no problem decorating my place. I would sign on to some site like Blu Dot, Design Within Reach, or Crate & Barrel and supply my place with all my dreams and hopes. But no, I don't have an unlimited reach in money, which is why I have spent the last few months struggling to get my hands on things I want in my apartment at an affordable price.

I think I'm finally getting there though, after many finds on good ol' craigslist and target.com, I'm almost set. Just this last weekend I put half the money down on a dresser from a downstairs shop that was built in 1958. I've prepped the apartment for this new find tonight and will post images when I get it up and in here tomorrow night, so look forward to that! (Also, I am SERIOUSLY considering selling my current orange chair for that great one I showed in my last post :)

So, to end this post I thought it would be nice to share some great links. One was provided by my good friend Mike just tonight which has some of the best displays of letterpress print design I have seen in a while, and the other is a link I have been going back to over and over and drooling over for the past month. 

Link Fun:

Graphic Exchange

Apartment Therapy

Enjoy!

I want this...

Anyone want to buy me this chair? It's a straight up 60's arm chair and makes me want to set fire to my current orange Ikea chair just to be able to have an excuse to buy this for $350 at my downstairs vintage shop.

Just saying... I like it.

A New Start

Hello.

So I used to have a blog on Blogspot... a place to post about my design life mainly, because that was my life then. I posted often, life was good. I eventually posted 160 times in that year, gathered a few thousand hits and convinced people to tell me how they felt 250 times in the comments. 

Then I graduated school, got all professional and stuff and ruined it. You see, it was hard to find time to post and now that I had my blog integrated into my professional design site I couldn't just post ANYTHING... and then the blog REALLY died. So here I am thinking, "Hey, I just moved into this neat apartment, this apartment that is bringing many new things into my life and giving me a new creative outlet... buying and putting things together to create my new apartment living." 

So here is my new blog, welcome.  Here's to hoping I can learn to write interesting things worth reading, pictures worth looking at, thoughts worth pondering over, and ideas worth listening to.

Have a happy Sunday and see you soon enough this week :)