First, my husband said he was tired of having the desk shove up under the low ceiling in our bedroom - that he'd rather have it by a window. So we moved it to the toy room - excellent location, and the kids love using the big tabletop desk for playing too.
But that left a long low bank area in our room.
My friend was selling her couch (offered it to me for a lower price on Tuesday) but God didn't give the thumbs up for me (it wasn't fair to her and it wasn't God wanted me to spend $400). She sold it Wednesday and I was disappointed. Thursday a lady I'd never met called to see if I'd be interested in a yellow couch. She'd trade it for a photography session, and deliver it too. God's plans are always so much better than ours.
I found a clearance lampshade for $10, a wooden lamp at GoodWill for $6, and used my old end table and coffee table. I might change it up eventually, but for now, it's all set up happily.
Since the rest of my bedroom lacks yellow, I added some yellow ribbon to the headboard, and some felt flowers.
The pillows were $7 each on end of the season clearance (they're outdoor pillows) and the body pillow was $5 from Target. I already had the yellow placemats under the clock and lamp, so that worked out well.
I was all happy about my new couch when ANOTHER gift was added.
One of my friends lost her apartment in the tornado and was left with nothing. She'd mentioned before that she liked my bird couch, and I felt like it fit her personality well. I wanted to give it to her, as long as I could figure out a replacement. I'd always liked the HomeDecorators Gordan sofa - but they run about $1,500 with shipping. I was keeping my eye on it over Black Friday, but told myself that was silly, I had a budget too small for even a Black Friday price. So I asked God about it and looked on Craigslist in a 3 hour radius. (FYI I have looked on and off for the past two years and never found one that wasn't out of price range or already gone). I was a little shocked to find the EXACT Gordan sofa I wanted Brand New for $280. It was slightly damaged in shipping and missing some nail heads. Two to be exact.
My husband gave the thumbs up and I went and picked it up. It even fit perfectly in the van. And I sold my kids unused train table for $80 and won a $200 story-contest that week. So God totally dropped the whole thing into place - isn't He amazing?
Isn't it beautiful? And for $1.99 I bought a packet of nail heads and replaced the two missing ones.
I got the coffee table this summer at GoodWill. It was in our outside porch but I moved it in. The lines add some feminine to all the masculine. Even our dog matches our very manly black and brown house.
So God gave me two beautiful couches this week. It's been fun. Now I can move my special green chairs into the living room!
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