I found this amazing pink and blue dresser on trash day in Oak Park - just set out on the curb (I am constantly amazed at what people will throw out!). I've learned by now that you have to grab it when you see it, so even though the kids were totally complaining, I stopped and loaded it up in the back of my car. I thought about repainting it for about one second before I realized what a mistake that would be. And I love the drawer pulls...
I found the lamp at my fave resale shop of all time, The Brown Elephant, or as we jokingly call it, L'Éléphant Marron. I had it rewired at Dressel's - I later found out it's a Mogul lamp and it takes these giganto light bulbs - it also gets bright enough that you probably do surgery with it. My friend Holly was checking it out when she realized that it had all these little holes in the scroll-y parts - she was sure it used to have prisms - I would never have realized that (thanks, Holly!).
This is one of my all-time favorite things, slightly creepy as it may be. It's a Perma-Vue - an old-fashioned grave decoration that you would put on someone's grave, and the heart and flowers inside were protected in the glass block (it also used to have big, folding metal spikes on the bottom to hold it in the ground, but I took those off). I've never seen another one anywhere. It was a wedding present (um, the first one, not the recent one) from very good friends, and even though my mom was thoroughly horrified, I have treasured it ever since. I love anything with hearts on it...
