Happy Valentine's Day!

Hello all! Happy Valentine's Day to you all! We as a family celebrated over the weekend. I do not know if you all know that during the week I do no see my husband or daughter at all. That is unless there are the "snow days" that we have been having for the last 2-3 weeks here! My husband takes the little one to kindergarten and then he goes on to work, and of course I go to work before they get home. I return from work at night when they are fast asleep and I am asleep myself in the morning when they get up for work/school.....the process begins all over again each day! Which is why I LOVE my weekends with them!

I was spoiled rotten this weekend by them both! We went antique shopping Saturday and Sunday.....my husbands idea, which nearly made me have to sit down when he suggested it. He knows I have been searching all over the internet for a vintage/antique dress form. My daughter has been shopping at both our local antique malls before, but she was just a little baby being carried around in a baby sling at the time, so she obviously does not remember. She is officially hooked now and exclaimed ALL weekend how much she now LOVES antique malls. Although...some of the antique dolls "freaked her out" a little.....her words. In truth....they freak me out a little too!

We then went on, again at my husbands suggestion, to go and check out a furniture store that was going out of business. SIDEBAR: I feel bad for all of these little strip-malls on the sides of out local highway 67 because, I am assuming it was MODOT (Missouri Department of Transportation), closed all the side roads that lead from the highway to the malls, due to many accidents???? Again, assuming here....anyhoo, they have no direct highway access anymore and no one stops to shop at these little strip-malls because getting to them now is a PAIN!

I digress....we went to the furniture store to check prices on bedside tables that match our bedroom set. The set was a gift from my dad years ago. Well, we ended up with the two bedside tables......and a leather sectional and matching leather rocker/glider/swivel/recliner too! Woo hoo! To be delivered today.......

The above pictures, by the way, are terrible I know, but I took them with my husbands cell phone! They are of a vintage Hamilton Printer's Cabinet that was HUGE! Taller than chest high on me (I am 5' 7") and had double sets of drawers.....wider than my fireplace! The top was not original, but had been replaced with reclaimed pine. It was a HUGE workspace on top, if someone would wish to use it as such....like me! The price? $645!!!!!!! OH MY HEAVENS! I want it SOOOOOOOOO bad! I researched online and found some like it for $3000. My husband has informed me that we could never get it into the basement....... hmmm, so? Well, I will covet it and go visit it once in a while (if it is still there) and drool and love it and pet it and call it George.....