Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!--Shabby Apple, Decorating, Christmas Idea

So as promised I am announcing the winner of the gorgeous black Boogie Woogie dress from Shabby Apple!

The winner is lucky #42!

Congratulations to tmc480 who said...

I'm going to email you! I hope you enjoy your new dress! Thank you to everyone who entered! I was so excited to be able to offer the giveaway!

So Jim and I move very very very slowly. We moved in the week before Halloween and all my pictures are still in boxes. Most of my pretty china, my living room accessories, and I have yet to hang curtains in almost all the rooms. ACK! So I started doing a few things here and there and now I'm anxious to get going on the rest of the house.

I scored this lamp at Home Goods for $25. I love it. Jim thinks it's weird. But I have such traditional tastes that I felt like my living room was more like my grandma's so I wanted a little more contemporary style. The shade is a beautiful peacock in real life! It was a little short so I stuck some books under it and now it's the perfect height.

And I want to do 6 ft bead board in the breakfast nook of our kitchen sometime this fall. But until then I hung some plates. The black ones I bought in an antique store years ago and the other two toile ones were from Home Goods. I didn't think I'd like all the black against the dark brown but I really do!