We had a bit in Athens today, enough to make the ground ready for more, keep it coming! best ever weather site- http://www.wunderground.com/ Being a Yankee, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes make me a bit edgy. This site shows storms and where they are expected to go, rainfall totals and a bunch of stuff I like to look at just because the info is there (echo tops etc.). wishing you all wet weather! m

OA, I have to admit that not much thot went into this. It just kinda quickly evolved in a few minutes from what was close at hand. A warning about the transferware - once you find a few pieces you will likely want more! I started with a few plates to use on the wall and now I want sets of the stuff. I even find myself buying chipped and crazed pieces altho don't usually buy other damaged things. The right hand setting is where I sit so do hope that's the winner! Jeanne, sorry you have bad memories of this game, I can understand. We're late to discovering this game altho my parents always played and DH and I have played many card games. He's much better at cards than I am and I can't take card games very seriously unlike Scrabble. Luvs, my DH is a pretty laid back guy and could care less what I buy. His only concern is "where will you store it" as it sometimes means moving the furniture or getting more. LOL Karen, the turntable we use for Scrabble is one of the few things there that's not a YS find. I used to use it on the table for condiments but it's even more useful for the Scrabble board. Lynn, I didn't know the new boards come on a lazy susan. Mine is one I've had for years and the Scrabble game is from a yard sale. Funny thing is long before DH and I started playing Scrabble I only had my parents old well-used set. I wanted to do crafts with the tiles but wanted to keep their set 'for posterity' so watched for them at yard sales. Never saw even one for a couple of years then all at once found about 4 sets for $2 or less each. So I've used one for a craft, then we started to play and now keep one in the RV and one in the house. Thanks Kathleen! Frou, most of my 'play' settings are practical as are my company settings. I've spent my lifetime being practical and likely will never change! I do enjoy looking at the really fancy ones but doubt I could do one.

When I did a hang out room for the kids years ago I did it with the thoughts that all tops needed to be nearly bullet proof, the sofa had to be leather so I could clean it, I would revamp used things so I would not worry about things getting destroyed and the room had to be suitable for adults as well. I do not have a picture of the sofa area on the other side because that area is now an office but the sofa was leather and matched the drapes (and hit dirt). Those bar tables on each back corner were rusty and used so I painted the base stalk to match the used bar stool bases and added glass mosaics to the bottom and painted the tops adding several coats of poly. The picture frame came from a thrift store and I added my own mixed media art on top of an old painting I also painted the other picture. The room would only take a small pool table, I bought it used for $150 and had it re-felted. The coffee table near the sofa came from a garage sale and I added a bullet proof granite top. On top of the coffee table was a very cool antique brass chess set (from a garage sale). I also had two ottomans near the sofa and coffee table in reds, raisin , purple and teal tapestry fabric for extra seating and also because it would not hamper the pool playing in limited space. From that area (sofa) you could view a wall mounted TV for sports. So, even though the room was not large I still had areas, areas for game playing and TV watching, areas for snacks, and the center for pool playing.

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