It Took Eight Months, But Boy, Was It Worth It!

I've been looking for the perfect picture for my bathroom wall since we moved into our house the week before Thanksgiving. Last year.

It needed to be large since it would be on the wall above the bathtub. And not just large, but large in a rectangular way.

All the other pictures I found that I thought would be perfect were square, or too small, or they were part of a matching set that didn't really seem to go together quite right, or weren't the right colors, or were black and white...well, you get the picture.

Did I mention that daisies were extremely high on my list? Like of utmost importance.

So if the picture didn't include daisies it was probably not going to work, or it was going to have to be something really special. Pretty daisies were a given. Not the ones that are stemless on posters you see around that are often unusual not-normal daisy colors. They are cute, but not adult bathroom cute.

Well, today I took my mom (and Caboose and Chatty) to Garden Ridge on the way to Sam's Club. It was an unplanned stop, and not even for pictures. I just said, "Let's look at the pictures while we're here. I haven't been here since Christmastime."

Lo and behold, there was the perfect picture, and it was rectangular. Now, it was a little damaged on the black parts, and there was a little chip in the glazing on the front, and the paper on the back was gashed in about six places. So I did what anyone would do. I asked the check-out girl if I could get a little bit marked off. You know what she said?

"We don't give discounts."

Let me just say that this picture was $79.99. With a little damage. But perfect otherwise. And I could take a Sharpie marker to the black parts and you'd never know the difference. Plus I'd been looking eight months!!!

I also found out that if it went on sale later, they wouldn't do a price adjustment. And it was the only one in the store.

But you know what, she scanned it, and it must have been put in the wrong area. It was on sale for $19.99!

Please don't get too verklempt on me when you're looking at it. I'm still trying to get over it.

But it may take me a while. I keep walking in there just to stare at it.

My Favorite Color Combo

Of course it has nothing to do with my favorite color, blue.

You may or may not remember, and may or may not have even read, that I love orange and fuschia together.

My Bible:

My 'in-the-house' shoes:

My little zippered case I use to carry my blue iPod in my purse. It helps me keep the dust that escapes from my Altoid tin from getting all over it. I bought this from Joanne, The Simple Wife, and it's very well made, super cute, and I just love it.

So when I went to Sam's on Friday and found a fresh stock of Gerbera daisies, my favorite, in not only orange, but fuschia, I bought a bunch of both. I had just gotten a small bunch of five yellow ones at Wal-Mart the night before since Sam's had not been having any, but I just couldn't pass them up. I did pass up the salmon pink colored ones.

So here some of them are on my kitchen table (the orange didn't come out very well),

on the kitchen counter,

and in my bathroom.

Here are a couple of the fuschia ones mixed with the yellow ones.

It's a happy weekend at my house!