A FEW SMALL THINGS...

Here we are today,

 sitting at my desk

 in the office car,

composing this post,

 as the poor souls 

are out in the weather 

walking the dogs,

 and the

 Secretary of the Interior 

looks on.

It's a hard job,

 but somebody

 has to do it!

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You've seen this photo before...

...are you sure?

Look again,

 closely...

Do you see: 

 One photo has

 four shelves

and one 

has three?

The fourth shelf 

is actually a photograph

 stretched on a piece of canvas.

 I ordered it from EBay 

and when it arrived 

I was pleasantly surprised 

at how realistic it looked.

 If you didn't notice it 

right away 

don't feel bad,

 a person who lives in this house,

and who shall remain nameless,

 didn't either!

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Remember

 when I shared this cabinet

 in my last post

 and mentioned 

we had planned on using it, 

and another just like it, 

in a project in the kitchen 

that had since been scrapped.

We have had our eyes open 

for an end table in the sitting room

 to replace this cute little table 

that we have been using.

 I love this little table

but it was really too small

to carry the heavy load 

that was assigned to it 

so when the kitchen project 

was decided against,

 we put our heads together,

not to mention the chests, 

and came up with this...

I painted the two chests black,

 pushed them together,

 and we added a piece of old marble,

 that we had, on the top.

 We were amazed 

the marble was

 the exact size 

that we needed.

My first thought 

was to add baskets in the openings 

for small storage, 

but I wasn't able to find

 four alike 

so decided to use the book boxes

that I found at Hobby Lobby.

  They didn't have

 the best selection at the time, 

so I got what I could 

and added some actual books to the mix,

 and will add more 

of the book boxes

as I find them.

The room is 

slowly coming together 

and when I get

 the two chairs replaced 

that will be

 a happy day.

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I told you

 I would let you know 

where I ordered

 the old patriotic crow from.

 I found it at www.oldfarmhouseprimitives.com, 

and I want to thank

 Bernideen at Bernideens

 for featuring my post 

from last week 

on her BTTCG party.

 Thank you so much, Bernideen,

 I am happily honored.

Well,

 that's a few small things 

going on around here

 and 

I will leave you 

as the "navigator" 

shows us the way home.

Hope everyone 

is staying 

dry and warm.

...Judy...

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