Thrifted!

I have officially decided that Pinterest has saved my decorating life as we know it.

I rummage through other people's genius ideas.  I find new websites full of images of great design.  I don't know why they're great.  I don't really know why I like them.  But I keep track of them.  And I copy them.

Yesterday we found this sweet mirror at Goodwill.  Two bucks.  Yes, that's a 2... I saw it and immediately knew it would be great in our bathroom.  (This whole "immediately knowing" thing is new... thank you Pinterest).

I'm digging the girly-lacy feel around the edges.  I want to find some cool apothecary-like jars to put on here as well.  I also need to fill those vases with something... any ideas?

Yay for small successes!

Our Mattress Adventure

Say HELLO to our new mattress. It's is very comfy. It's a Sealy Posturepedic Candle Glow Premier Ultra Plush Queen Mattress (see below).

*Note: unfortunately, this is not really our bedroom nor is it our furniture.

Months ago (approximately 11), I decided that we needed a new mattress. It was time to upgrade from the mattress we inherited from Mike and Beth when we got married. After months and months of procrastination, and now that I have a new job, I finally bought an $1800 mattress for $618.47 after delivery. Pretty good eh? Some of you may be wondering how I did it? Other of you may not. Well, I'll tell you anyways, because I want to.

After testing many mattresses in retail stores and dealing with way too many overweight, I mean overbearing, salesmen, I found this mattress on sears.com They happened to be having a very nice sale. So I got 50% off, and then another 10% off for a weekend sale and then yet another 10% off for another special mattress sale. Then I used bing.com to get to sears.com for another 8% off (sweet). We now have a new, comfy queen mattress on the way. Now I'll be sleeping for 17 cents a night assuming we keep this thing for a while. But hopefully, we'll be upgrading to a california king in no time.