Craigs List

I love Craigs List.  Last night Josh listed our old dining room chairs (I did mention the new dining room table and chairs we got from Josh's aunt and uncle, right?) on Craigs List.  This morning a nice lady came by and paid us to haul them away.  She was super excited too... says she's been looking for 2 months for a set of chairs to match her grandmother's old table she was recently given, and she thinks ours are just perfect and she plans to refinish them and replace the fabric.  Well, I'm glad she's so happy.  And I'm glad they'll be given new life.  And I'm especially glad that they are out of our living room! 

We decided to keep the old table.  Stored with the legs off, it takes up about as much space as a card table.  The chairs,  not so much.  If we ever have cause to use both tables at once, we'll probably need to buy some folding chairs to go with, but those will store much better. 

ETA: I guess we should have asked for more for the chairs.  I mean, we would have gladly given them away and they really weren't even worth the $40 to us, but now that Josh has gotten on his computer this morning to take down the listing, he's gotten emails from 3 more people interested in them...  Now if only someone was interested in my old desk. 

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Like I posted before, we sold our old dining room chairs this morning, and were so glad to have them out of the house.

Also, as I think I posted yesterday, I finished varnishing my desk and took it inside today (post with pictures will be coming sometime).  It still needs handles.  I will probably buy these online as neither Ace nor Home Depot seem to carry drawer handles with 2.5 inches between centers.  Blah.  I'm also trying my hand at stripping the paint off the handles it came with because I like them and I had leftover stripper.  Results are not promising so far.

We also rearranged the bedroom furniture and are discussing the other rooms as well.  This townhouse isn't significantly smaller than our last place, but with the baseboard heat and different arrangement, we still feel like we haven't quite figured out how to make everything fit the way we want.  Slowly but surely I think we're making progress though.  We'll probably get this place feeling like a proper home before we move again...

I also repaired the giant ding our china cabinet got when we moved.  When I was at Ace looking at handles, I found a wood touch up product I'd never heard of before: Wood Scratch Repair Kit.  I didn't have high hopes for a repair kit that looked like it consisted of 4 crayons and cost only $3, but my attempts to fix it with the little touch up pens had totally failed since the gouge was kind of deep and didn't take the color evenly at all.  This repair kit at least claimed to be somewhat space filling.  Anyhow, it actually worked really well.  I wish I'd taken a picture of it before I started because the quality of the repair is pretty impressive.  Had I not used the pens in the first place, I think it'd be practically impossible to find the problem without feeling it, and even as it is now one could easily mistake it for a feature of the wood grain.  I'm pretty pleased.

Also went through part of my closet (the easy half), and pulled out some clothes I don't think I'm ever going to wear (or wear again) to get rid of.  I should do the second half at some point.  I don't think I have yet gotten rid of enough stuff to alleviate the hanger shortage crisis in our household. 

Other than that, it's been a pretty lazy day and I have precious little to show for myself.  I think we're going to go contra dancing in a few minutes here though.  Hopefully I will manage to stay awake.