Hello!

It’s 8:28 PM right now. Monday. I’m looking forward to a long weekend coming up so this week might drag a bit. I’m taking a vacation day Monday for no particular reason.

I never posted my outfit from Friday so here you go:

- purple dress (Gap last year)

- black wrap sweater (H&M)

- floral shoes (really cheap and can’t remember but I love them)

- pearl necklace (Grandma)

The black purse has a little story and I really didn’t take it to work Friday. I just grabbed in for the picture. In truth, I carry about three giant tote bags of stuff to work. Anyway, last weekend as I was biking home from the gym, I saw estate sale signs in my neighborhood so I followed them until I found the sale. I had $1 cash with them. Well I found this little purse and it was $5 plus I found a $1 cookie sheet and a $4 painting. So I asked the ladies if they would hold my stuff while I went to an ATM and got some cash. Hopped back on the bike, got $20 out of the ATM and came back over and got my stuff. Plus they sold me the purse for $3!

It’s a Dooney & Bourke all-weather leather purse that I am in love with and call it my little brief case. Sometimes I let Aaron hold it.

This weekend was full of a whole bunch of DIY projects including another trip to Construction Junction where we bought the parts to construct a kitchen island! I’m excited for this one! Should be interesting.

I also purchased two more bottles of spray paint at Lowe’s, and this lamp (free from old coworker)…

Became this one:

I love it!! Here is another before and after:

I used Valspar gloss spray paint from Lowe’s and just cleaned the lamp and sprayed it right on with no primer or anything. It came out perfectly though it doesn’t match our green trunk coffee table at all. Still I’m beginning to love spray paint. I also spray painted a mason jar but didn’t take a picture yet.

We also worked on the dining room some more and we’re THIS close to being finished. Here’s a little preview of the new paint and trim color:

And last but not least, my super conservative bank outfit for today:

- Blue no-iron shirt that you really do have to iron.. (Banana Republic)

- Grey skirt (Calvin Klein via Marshalls [part of a suit, I have the jacket also])

- Black ruffle flats (super old and falling apart but from DSW)

Aaron told me to curtsy here….

Well it’s 8:46 right now. This is Aaron’s last week of class!!!!!!! Wooo! Yay! Then we might just start tearing apart the kitchen! Dishwasher in 2011 for the win!

‘night friends!