Here's another apartment update! I had been wanting a chippy door for a while, but thought my wish would never come true. They are, like, so expensive. Who the heck wants to pay 80 or more bucks for a old and beat up door someone pulled out of their barn for FREE? Well, my mom and I went junk store shopping one day and I prayed (I am not kidding) that the Lord would provide a cheap, chippy door. Mark said I could spend 30 dollars.
Fast forward. I looked and looked - all the chippy doors were way, way, way too expensive. Hours into the day, we looked in one of the basements of a junk store in Canton...(cue some sort of heroic John Williams music) and there she was in all her glory. A WHITE chippy door with a fantasticly interesting door handle...and she was exactly 30 dollars. I about had a heart attack. Just as I was saying in my head, "O Lord, You are just so, so good and kind and wonderful," my eye caught a sign next to the door that said that the entire section was 50 percent off. A chippy door for FIFTEEN dollars?! At that point, I had a second heart attack and yelled for my mom to come look. Since she is much more demonstrative than I am, I'm pretty sure I remember her shrieking a bit and saying something like "Hot DOG! It's yours, kid!"
The Lord is REALLY good and kind and wonderful. Isn't it so fun when He stuns us with His love for us? I certainly did not NEED a chippy door, but it was like He wanted to send a special little blessing to remind me that He does, in fact, know my heart.
The D's are for DeYounge, in case you didn't make the connection. They were under 2 bucks at Hobby Lobby and I painted them with cheap craft paint. The shelving was from a thrift store (a purchase from last year), and it houses my coffee shrine which includes many more garage sale and flea market treasures.
I still need (um...want, I mean) a little something to put in place of the wirey basket on the floor next to the shelves. I am keeping my eyes open for a cheapo deal.
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