Desk...$20 (click on photo to enlarge)
Sometimes I wish I had a yard. It's not that I feel the urge to return to nature by sinking my hands into the earth, instead sometimes I'd like to have a yard sale. Last weekend, instead of going to Boston Pride, I helped the boyfriend pick up furniture from his parents' home (and scored a few pieces for myself as well). My old furniture (there are a few more things besides the desk) is in good condition and perfect for a yard sale. The internet and word-of-mouth, of course, are my resources for getting rid of things; but now that it's warm and sunny again, there's something about a yard sale which sounds like it'd be more fun. Maybe I'm just recalling childhood memories of yard sales and how much I enjoyed looking through other people's stuff, although my experience as the seller might not be as much fun. I suppose I could just do to the desk what I did with the old TV: leave it on the street. That was picked up before I even knew anyone had passed by. But I'd also have neighbors to answer to if it sat outside my building until garbage day and I'm fairly positive that the nosy lady next door would find some way to weasel her way into my business if the desk stood guard outside for a while.
In any event, I'm enjoying my new desk (seen here with all the other stuff I haven't put away yet) and I'm happy to say that the fireplace project is slowly moving forward. I've chosen a style and color of tile and am now tying to narrow down the size of the blocks. My tile guy dropped off two samples earlier this morning. One size is 2x2, the other is 3/4x3/4. Right now I'm leaning toward the larger tiles, but I'm open to the smaller ones, too. The more immediate problem, however, is learning how to lay and grout tile. The boyfriend says it'll be a fairly easy weekend project. I guess this will be one of those I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it things.
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