Next Up!!!!! My Armoire!!!!!

Let us continue the exciting exploration of my master bedroom.....

Here is my armoire.

I fell in love with this piece while I was still living in Watertown.

I would look at it in the antique store I visited,

 lust dripping from my eyes.....

But, woe was me.....

I had

no place to put it!!!!!

And then I moved.

AND THEN I HAD A PLACE TO PUT IT!!!!!

Life is funny that way.....

 When I first got it,

 it didn't have a curtain behind the glass door

I lived with it like this,

for a while,

didn't like the way it looked,

ignored it.

and ignored it.

and ignored it.

etc.

etc.

etc, 

I could lie, and say that I installed the gathered sheer curtain within the first year I had it.

Or the second year.....

Or third....

Or fourth.....

 But that would be a bad thing to do, 

I try not to lie.

soooooooo.......

I will admit, that I just made this curtain a couple of weeks ago.

Which is 8 years after I bought the armoire........

I figured it would take 1/2 an hour to make the curtain.

HA!!!!!

First I made it too short.....

Then I made it too long.....

So I crammed the extra fabric down behind the bottom rod, and figured,

 it would stay that way.

IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!!!

This is the great part of not having a client!!!!!

I can sort of tweak my mistakes, and live with the imperfection!!!!!

This piece is another example of my love of 1920's style furniture that has a Louis XVI flavor.

 There's just something about the details that sucks me in and won't let me goooooooo.......

Of course, since there is a top to an armoire.....

That creates a whole nother surface to place things

 of an unnecessary nature!!!!!

I found the Nantucket basket knock off at the Christmas Tree Shop.....

and flanked it with my carved wooden poodle candlesticks.....

 I'd like to say that these were a bargain too.....

But I paid a king's ransom for them when I bought them from 

John Rosselli's in Manhattan.
Because of their cost, 
I have allowed a really good protective covering of dust to accumulate.....

 To the right of all this prettiness, is the most important thing up there.....

I picked this up from the Christmas Tree Shop at the same time I bought the basket.

Since my ceiling in my bedroom is too low to have a ceiling fan.....

And ceiling fans are great for holding hot flashes at bay.....

I turn this baby on at night to create a soft cooling breeze.
Now that I look at this picture, I see this guy needs to be dusted also....
OY OY OY OY OY!!!!!

That's it for my armoire.

 ONE LAST NOTE!!!!!

I realized that my humor may be toooooooo subtle for some of you guys.

You may have missed one of my best quips!!!!!

In my last post I made a reference to 

Eau De Ban 

as my perfume of choice.

That was a joke you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was referring to Ban deodorant !!!!!

On that note.....

Latah, Gatah