Friday fave...

I loved the show Bosom Buddies when I was a kid. 

This is a great side by side reenactment of the opening credits done by Paul Rudd and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation). 

Happy Friday! 

Friday favorite...

Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland released her first solo album today. The first single, "That Girl" is steadily on repeat on my iPod. I just love the sound, it's pretty different than the country pop out there right now. It definitely has some retro-country flavor. I can't wait to hear what the rest of the CD sounds like.

Check out the song and video right here. 

favorite Friday find...

hitting up the local garage sales is one of my favorite things to do on a Friday morning. I work out, grab coffee then hit the sales. This morning I scored one of my favorite finds ever....

Two round wooden side tables for a whopping total of $20. No, not each. For. The. Pair. They have glass tops too. Very heavy ones. The glass alone would cost more than $20. 

I am so digging the swirl pattern on them. They are just so different. I don't have a place for them yet. I am debating splitting them up or keeping them as a pair. But they are so visually interesting, I know they'll be amazing wherever they go. 

Have you found any exciting garage sale or flea market finds recently? 

40 days of joy and a Friday Fave....

I should just stop the 40 Days of Joy right now because this about 1,000,000 days of joy all wrapped up into one awesome video. A fun song,  5 suited-up hotties and Donnie dancing... what more could you ask for? 

I present to you the video for New Kids on the Block's new single, Remix. 

I hope it gets you moving in your chair on this fabulous Friday! Have a great weekend!! 

nice rack! black and gold magazine rack...

black and gold is my latest design obsession. I may or may not have spent $40 on 9 clearance vases at Target and 5 of them may have been black and gold. OB-SESSED. I'd been looking for a magazine rack for a while and when I found this one at a local vintage store for $12, I knew I could restore it to some black and gold loveliness.

I loved the detail. It was a little beat up but nothing a little spray paint couldn't bring back to life.

First I taped off all of the areas that will eventually be gold. 

Then I sprayed the exposed metal with semi-gloss Rusto-leum black spray paint. 

I let it dry for 24 hours then removed the tape. After another 24 hours, I taped off the freshly painted black areas. If you're doing a similar project, make sure to let the paint dry for a couple of days before taping it off so that the tape does pull off any paint that hasn't set yet. 

I thought maybe the frame was tarnished brass, but some scrubbing with a good brass cleaner revealed it was not. It was beat up and rusted so I grabbed my gold spray paint, Rusto-leum again. 

After letting it dry for 24 hours, I removed the tape. There were a couple of areas where the gold had leaked onto the black so I just grabbed a small craft paintbrush, sprayed it with some of the black paint and touched up any gold overspray. 

The result was better than I imagined. 

Retro, glam and totally unique. I'm so in love with it. 

tuesday tunes...

earlier this year I discovered The Civil Wars, a duo comprised of Joy Williams and John Paul White, who make some of the most beautiful and haunting music I have ever heard. It's sort of a blend of country, folk, and rock but has a sound all it's own.

Last week I was watching the show Nashville and at the end of the pilot, two of the characters sing this amazing song I could not get out of my head. After some online sleuthing, to my surprise, I learned it was a cover of a Civil Wars song.

It wasn't on my Barton Hollow CD so I scoured the interwebs for it and found out it was on a Live album they did in 2009. Lucky for me – and for you – it's available FREE on their site.

Just go to follow this link to their music page and click on the Live from Eddie's Attic album. You'll get 10 great songs for zero dollars. Try it, I thing you'll dig it.