Tweeking....

Before a little tweeking....my dining room with the round table. I so desperately want this table to work in here........but it is just "off." Maybe it's the hutch that is "off." But it has to stay. As long as Chuck does....as he stained this pine piece to match our furniture.

(In my next life, I will have a house full of pine furniture....but this life is full of the dark stuff.)

After......found a really cute print of desserts...poster size, so a Hobby Lobby poster frame on sale later and I have some new art which takes up a little more of the vast wall space. Move the fake topiary to the corner.....dust and all.....and it's wanting to work.

Close-up of the cute desserts.....

Here's a screen I bought at Hobby Lobby for the dining room. If you click on the photo below you can see how it creates a much needed wall. This house is open to a fault. Sometimes I wonder what's holding up the second floor.

Below are the corbels I found in Omaha, NE....at Second Chance. I finally took a picture of them. They fit perfectly on the ledge above our front door. They have a lot of character......and I love architectural pieces. I would like to believe these came off of an old farmhouse somewhere in Nebraska....where a little girl used to twirl around the posts held up by these on her front porch.

I sometimes feel like I have been cursed with liking pretty things. I have all that I need....until......

As I sit here and type this, I am also watching Intervention (which I am addicted to...on A&E, Monday nights....I have to decide at 8:00 if I am going to switch over to Jon & Kate Plus 8....depending on reruns) One girl's pretty things addiction is another girl's heroin addiction. See, Chuck? It could be way worse.