Favorite Things Friday!!!

You know what I've decided?

I've decided that life is 

too dang short

to have to look at ugly things.

Yep.

That's my new mantra.

One of the ugly things in my life that I have

held on to for 

far

too 

long

is this:

Not that I have anything against

wine racks. 

They serve their purpose.

But, when you can't stand 

the taste of wine,

then you don't have much of a need

for a wine rack.

Ironically, the wine rack was one of the

things I loved about the house

when we bought it.

Chris and I have never been drinkers, but

always aspired to be wine

connoisseurs.

Doesn't that sound like fun?

One problem...each and every bottle of

wine that we've ever bought has been 

a complete waste of money.

A few sips and we both were ready

to toss the whole bottle.

So, here's what I imagined our

wine rack to look like:

And guests would come over for dinner and

we would say,

"Oh, I have the perfect wine for 

this meal"

and they would think it was so cool that we

had our very own wine rack.

(except my drawing looks more

like bottles of milk, rather than wine.

Use your imagination.)

So.

The other day I just couldn't 

take looking at that vast emptiness that

was my wine rack.

I said to myself.

"Life is too dang short

  to have to look 

at that every single day."

So.

You know what I did?

I did a little demolition.

That's what I did.

I did not pass Go,

I did not collect $200.

 

I just WENT for it...
after a short hesitation and a
5 minute pep talk!

And you know what?

I'm so glad I did!!!!

I have a cute little nook to display my treasures.

Another favorite this week is 

this set of canisters that I found at Goodwill

and painted with chalkboard paint.

I {heart} how they turned out.

And these little cuties I found at the same time.

I'm really into white dishes right now.

Particularly milk glass! 

I can't get enough of it!

Eventually I would like to install

one of these

in the vast emptiness.

But for now, I'm enjoying looking

at pretty things!

My favorite thing!

Happy Friday! 

* Homework*

Okay, kids!

Look around your house...

what ugly things are you living with,

but don't have to???

There's always a way to make it 

prettier.

And if you can't?

Get RID of it!