Fabulous ebay headboard!

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Fabulous ebay headboard!

Picked up my fabulous £5 headboard today!!! It is shabby chic'd already- Pine painted an antique matt cream with gold scuffed inlaid bits - a bit french I think. Picked it up form a lovely chief air steward who is moving house and does not have the space for it. Considering the cheapest in Argos is Forty quid and nasty looking I have a find!!!

Weeny girl still wearing boots. We have made cards, drawn spiders oh and had chips and a sausage sandwich and drinks at her cafe in town on the way home. She was very good being dragged all the way to Dunstan for the Headboard this morning so deserved a treat. She loves to sit in the window of the cafe on the window seats and eat her chips like a grown up. We made up for the naff food with a yogurt, kiwi and apple when we came home.

Another interview tomorrow - so am doing prep on internet while Cinderella DVD is on ( thats after I have written this) Cheap sweet and sour pork with peppers and rice this evening. Biggles is coming with me tomorrow and will take the weeny girl to a soft play place and then for lunch and we will have tea later. NB need to pack the buggy for him just in case. That man is a diamond and a life saver- literally!!!

The headboard may inspire me to paint the horrid bland pine and distress it. May even look to change the handles if I can find some cheap enough!!!

3 comments:

Sarcastic Bastard29 March 2011 at 09:01
Thanks for visiting over at mine. I really appreciate it.

Best,

SB
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Scarlett29 March 2011 at 09:09
I love it when ebay comes up trumps - when i moved in to my house i got loads from ebay. Its become a habit now to always do a postcode search for whats selling near me! Scarlett x
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Vix30 March 2011 at 00:28
I love an eBay bargain! xxx
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Well primarily for me its a cathartic get it off my chest / a means to organise thoughts / to take stock. A journal that in 2012 has an interactive ' Dear diary' that is vast.

I don't write to share wisdom. Have very little of that. I don't claim to have an aspirational lifestyle of any kind. I dont write for it to be read even. If it is and my mad mixed up life interests people, makes them laugh, is a bit of a soap opera, whatever then that's great. Blogging - a bit of an affirmation of real life life choices maybe....

Sometimes my blog brings order and reflection to the real world. Sometimes Blogland folks share pearls of wisdom which is very very cool! :-)

I ve gained a great deal from reading other peoples blogs. Different ways of life are always interesting. I don't get involved in giveaways or stuff like that. I think its lovely though. Am pants at choosing gifts and it would give me no end of nightmares.

I read blogs before I blogged. Some people share so much and through reading I have learnt a great deal.Practical and otherwise.The tips are fantastic for frugal stuff. As are the stories of strangers lives. INSPIRATIONAL and all wonderfully different.

I m a bit of a roller coaster girl up and down. The blog keeps me more train like. Also an outlet for the negative stuff. A bit like wind. And by that I mean the gaseous stuff. BETTER OUT THAN IN. My blog is then a load of old fart.....this amuses me greatly.

Thanks Dave!!!

Once upon a time the end was in sight and financial freedom from my little debt of under 5k was nearly within my grasp! December 2012 if not before with the benefits of frugality however our friend Dave had other plans!!!!

I was made redundant from my job with a pish package I took what I could find till a full time position. Finally taking a 10k salary drop.

In 2009 I invested in property buying my house with a 15% deposit. n 2011 after three years of home owning and negative equity to the tune of 12k I have finally sold and now have jack bloody buggery shite. What smarts is that I gave up time with my small child in favour of seeking security for us. If only I had done the opposite....... rented, claimed top up benefits and saved my hard earned cash .... quality of life for me and weeny girl for three years would have been be better and we would have a cash sum in the bank and no debt.

You play frugal, play independent, watch your consumption, don't do frivalous sofas or new cars, no nights out at the pub type debt just what you have to! After a double whammy from the government - house market slump and Local Authority redundancy compounded by rural living what is a single mum supposed to do???? = Suck it up, Keep smiling, and use a brush instead of a hoover.