Ain't she pretty? Best part was that it was on sale for $6.95/yd!!! I was so super duper excited when the sample came in the mail that I set about getting the walls done before Christmas and figured I would order the fabric right after the New Year. Mistake. Anyway, we installed (our version of) board and batten on the bottom 2/3 of the wall and then I chose this glorious blue pulled from the fabric and painted the top 1/3.
Everything was coming together beautifully. Well FINALLY on Friday I decided to order the fabric. I go to Interiormall.com to place my order and find letdown number 1. It was no longer on sale. Yeah, I know, I couldn't expect the sale to last forever. My bad. Not so big a deal though. The regular price was $9.00/yd and I'm only ordering 10 yds so it was only $20 more. I happily go about placing my order and sit down to start sketching out the design for my curtains (I'm also using another fabric that I bought 2 years ago on sale at Hancock's for $5.00 yd). Well about 2 hours later I get a phone call with letdown number 2 from Interiormall.com that this fabric has been discontinued. Do what? NOOOOOOO!!!!!! I was livid to say the least. What really gets me is that this fabric is STILL listed on their site. Grrrr....
Here's where the score comes in. When I got the call I happened to be at Target getting some things for my kids bathroom that we just redid and for my LMSS's room that I'm also working on. I go down the curtain aisle and what do I see? The very rod that I had seen online and it was the only one on the aisle on clearance. 1/2 off! I definitely don't mind shelling out $17 for a rod, especially when the ones I normally sell to my clients usually START around $300. I had everything I had come for and was on my way to check out when the sign caught my eye. LIGHTING. Dare I? What the heck. Doesn't hurt to look, right? I turn down the aisle and there it is. Them. The ones. They were (almost) perfect. I've been desperate to find 2 gourd lamps for our night stands that I don't have to mortgage my house to pay for. Not an easy task I tell you. These gourd(ish) beauties:
were 1/2 off their already awesome price of $30/ea and the shades were 1/2 off, which means I paid a grand total of $45 for these delicious lamps. I know, they're different colors (neither of which is what I was going for), but I.DO.NOT.CARE! Nothing a little spray paint won't take care of:o)
Now onto the rebound...and then I promise to be done with this seriously uncalled for long post. Last night when the hubs and I got home from our date, he told me I should see if I couldn't find the fabric on another site. I had looked for it before to see if I could find it cheaper than the sale price with no luck. But I looked again and ended up finding it at warehousefabricsinc.com. Woo to the hoo! Now, it was $1.00 more per yard, but the shipping was half what it was at interiormall.com so it ended up being a wash. Yay! Now it looks like I've got some sewing and painting to do!