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My wedding anniversary.

This Halloween will be 6 years of wedded bliss for me. And no, I’m not being sarcastic! I have to say I am really happy in my marriage. My first marriage was a disaster. I was too young and my ex- wife was even younger than I was by 4 years.  Age differences never bothered me but at 20 my ex-wife hadn’t had enough of a life yet to settle down. She was 20, I was 24. I’m not sure where she is but I wish her all the best and hope things have turned out for her as well as they have for me.

Six years, it just flew by. It seems like only yesterday my wife and I deiced to get married. Well I guess it’s true when they say time flies when you are having fun.  Our wedding night we spent in a romantic little place in the Colorado mountains. It snowed over a foot the night we got married. It was a wonderful night.

So what I wanted to talk about was what I was gonna get her for our anniversary. I decided on the Esse. It’s furniture for the bedroom. Wink, Wink! I’m ordering it from our favorite online adult store Holistic Wisdom. My wife likes it because it’s a woman owned business, I like it because it sells sex toys! Yeah I’m a perv.

Anyway, this Esse is pretty cool. It’s like making love on some furniture you’d see in A Clockwork Orange or Barbarella. You know that stuff from the 60’s that was supposed to look all futuristic. I think I will go with the pattern sage color, it looks most like a real piece of furniture. “Um, no mom, that’s just a weird chair I picked up at a garage sale. Don’t sit on it there may be spiders. “
I’ll be sure to report on it after we get a chance to use it.

I won’t buy my wife flowers. It’s like handing her a bunch of decapitated heads. If I’m gonna get her a plant it’s gotta be a whole live plant. I’m not about to be all “Look what I killed for you sweetie!” That’s just not my bag baby.

Oh yeah, speaking of Barbarella.  I hear they are thinking of remaking it. Jeez I hope they do a better job at it than they do on most remakes. The original wasn’t a good movie but Jane Fonda was hot as hell in it. It came out 2 years before I was born, but I was just the right age when it came out on video, if ya know what I mean. Too bad the only VHS machine was in the living room. Yeah… Yeah that wasn’t good. I still remember my mom’s face. Sorry mom, but I didn’t expect you to come down stairs at 3:00 in the morning.

Buying furniture for Thanksgiving guests or Christmas guests that will be visiting or staying with you this year? Something to start thinking about is how long will it take to get some of the products you want. Too early to start thinking about the holidays? Oh, it’s never too early! :)

Many products, furniture products in particular that are shown in stores are often special order. This means you’ll need to allow anywhere from 4-8 weeks for various brands of furniture that are made to order. Now is the time to start looking and figuring out what you need for your home if you’re entertaining or having holiday visitors from out of town who will be staying with you.

Planning early will help you get what you need before the holidays sneak up on us.  They always do. ;)
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Hand-made by enPieza! studio from corrosion-resistant iron, this lamp makes light of a gloomy subject. Once again, it’s a one-off you can’t actually purchase: doubtless a sanitized knockoff will appear in the Hammacher-Schlemmer or SkyMall catalogs soon enough!

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Photo courtesy: Lane Company

The wonderfully dear “sumthought” (heyyyyyy! Me waving profusely, of course) recently inquired about the source of my $850 savings (retail price was $900) on the “buffet” (Truth be told, it’s really a console  but whatever!) on which my chic antler lamps rest.

Remember when I stumbled upon the Designer Tag Sale about six weeks ago and bought the fabulous pillows? Yes?  Well, this “buffet” (Dimensions (W x D x H in inches):60 x 19 1/4 x 34) caught my eye.  I lurked around it; peered at it from a few diffferent angles and knew I had to have it.  The piece was originally marked $400 on Thursday night, $250 on my Saturday morning return and, finally, I convinced the owner to let me rescue it for $50.

Mostly structurally sound, the dark wood Lane “buffet” needed a bit of TLC. You see, there is a small crack (you’d really never know it, though) on the top corner.  It’s nothing that a bit of sanding and staining can’t correct.  As soon as Daddy TBS (my father, of course) can squeeze in a trip between his bass fishing, it will be perfect.  You see, Daddy TBS is very handy when it comes to refinishing and reupholstering. If I sweet talk him, he might even buy the supplies.  TBS is a Daddy’s Girl, y’all—through and through.

Sometimes a bargain needs the benefit of sweat equity to increase it’s value AND level of fabulosity. If there’s a ding or nick someplace, be ecstatic.  There might be room for negotiation.  Don’t be afraid or embarrassed to tastefully make an offer at a yard sale or liquidation sale.  TBS has a rule in these environs: never pay the sticker price without proposing an offer first!

I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to another Designer Liquidation sale on Nov. 5-7. If you’re in Atlanta, do let me know and I’ll share details.

Until next time (when I’ll share my candleholders from eBay. I’m not sure what to do with them now and want your advice),

TBS

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Half MAME cabinet, half pretentious furniture, this new coffee table by Surface Tension mixes worlds to adultize your gaming habit. Available in walnut or oak, the table features a 19-inch LCD, Shuttle PC with dual core CPU, integrated USB and HDMI outputs, 100W of speakers and two sets of high quality buttons and joysticks. With this hardware configuration, you can play games on the table or output the experience to your HDTV.

For those who already have a PC of their own to stick inside, the table is a available gutted of its computer components but still packing all of the joysticks and handy ports. In this bare bones configuration, the table runs about $4,000. Fully loaded with the PC and two packs of games, the system is priced at $4,900. (Those prices include delivery and VAT in the UK.)

Of course, there are other options if your cheap or like your MAME furniture in black. But this Surface Tension table is the most stylish tabletop arcade setup we’ve seen yet.